Youth new personal & employable skills development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth new personal & employable skills development

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Through this project we intend to provide critical skills of using Internet and other skills that are nowadays compulsory for an active and responsible digital citizen. Such skills will be useful not for a short period, but also for lifelong learning and employability, as all of them are listed among the required skills the employers are looking for even after 2020. (World Economic Forum (The Future of Jobs, 2018, Report), Eures (The top ICT skills in demand by companies today, 2019) etc.)

Through YNSPEED (Youth new personal & employable skills development) project we will address 3 hot topic of the nowadays digital era such us: fake news, artificial intelligence and education for a sustainable development + a continuous interesting & useful topic as learning English, this time by using technologies. Through the project will be implemented a MOOC platform for courses addressing (critical) digital & media literacy (Fake News), Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development and Learning English with Technology.

Thus, 250 youth workers & youth aged 16-35 that are willing to develop & improve such skills skills could attend MOOCs that are addressing hot topics for the nowadays digital society. By finalizing such courses they can obtain diplomas that are nowadays already informally recognized by some employers (another long-term aim of the project is to make efforts for validating such kind of informally acquired competencies) fostering youths’ employability, too. Thus, the YNSPEED project addresses open&innovative practices for informal learning using digital platforms, tools&materials.

Aims and objectives
The YNSPEED project aims to address open and innovative practices for informal learning through which the young people from 5 partner countries in the project are aware of the learning process and develop specific skills that will improve their employment skills such as: critical thinking about fake news, approach and education for sustainable development using digital platforms, tools and materials.
The specific objectives of the project that are planned to be achieved over a period of 2 years are:
– to equip the youth workers and the disadvantaged youth from the 5 communities involved in the project with knowledge relevant to their professional and personal life and to improve their employable skills, over a period of 24 months
– to prepare the young people from the 5 communities of the project consortium for lifelong learning, involving them in a process of operationalizing the critical thinking skills regarding fake news, addressing artificial intelligence and education for sustainable development in the a digital company for a period of 24 months
-to design and validate training tools and materials that promote innovation in learning (ie LET course) with flexible approaches (ie MOOC) that will be used within the partnership for direct target groups – youth workers and youth in disadvantaged areas from those 5 communities involved in the project, over a period of 24 months.
Therefore, youth workers will be prepared to increase the level of self-empowerment or self-development and, more importantly, develop the level of adjustment to new social and economic context.
How will we measure the degree of attainment of these objectives:
-we will develop new tools to be used for the development and support of the critical thinking
– we will centralize the reactions direct and indirect will have towards these tools
– we will measure the degree of interest for the project coming from the stakeholders in the filed

As concrete results, through this project we will produce:
– An online platform suitable for running MOOC courses + 4 MOOC courses (developed under CC licences, using partially OER resources that could be easily transfer and adapt to other users/learners)
– 5 Multiplier dissemination events/conferences
– 2 short training courses for youth’s workers + a youth’s learning strategy
– national policy recommendation for validation of informally acquired competencies through MOOC courses

The consortium’s transnational nature with different types of organizations allows to assess different EU situations; to bring and share multiple learning experiences and scenarios. This multinational teamwork draws a more comprehensive approach to the needs and solutions, bringing the projects’ benefits in the different stages of implementation in terms of interventions & results’ quality.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 210377 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institutul Roman de Educatie a Adultilor & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ANOIKTO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU (OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS)
• BALKAN DISTANCE EDUCATION NETWORK BADEN, CACAK SERBIA
• FUNDACIO EURECAT
• REGIONALNE CENTRUM WOLONTARIATU