Resource- and solution-oriented consulting strategy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Resource- and solution-oriented consulting strategy

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Regional dimension and cooperation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Despite falling unemployment rates, however, the labor market integration of formally low-skilled workers is still a problem in Germany, Slowakia, Bulgaria or Sweden. Unemployment, drop-outs, as well as absenteeism and impaired performance through illnesses are problems we as education providers have to face and to find solutions. We realised that existing regional instruments of counseling and employment promotion by job centers, public administration offices with mostly practiced deficit-centered approaches are not sufficient and do not solve problems. Regional employers also confirm, that initiated mesures are mostly poorly fitting. Common to all these strategies is that they tend to be more mechanistic, often subject to sanctioning power, and often focused on weaknesses and problems that people should get rid of. It can be far more purposeful to explore and promote one’s own strengths and resources. For the low-skilled with experience of failure solidifies, risks of permanently precarious life situations become permanent . Particularly affected are disadvantaged target groups with low education, poor language skills, mental or physical disabilities, long-term sick leave or regions with a stagnating job market. Young people, migrants, older people in many cases do not understand the different responsibilities and do not know who they can turn to and what the suitable offers are for them. As a result, for many years there has been a plethora of different offerings confusing and non-transparent for the targeted groups.

On the otherside many formally low-skilled have already non-formally or informally acquired professional skills. After all, it is not the case that the formally low-skilled have not acquired any professional knowledge throughout thier life. It can therefore be far more purposeful to explore and promote one’s own existing strengths and resources.

A good practice case is the biologdesigner method of our Swedish partner Ibility, whose application in one year of youth unemployment in the municipality Laholm Sweden decreased from almost 17% to 9%. With our teachers (3 each per partner) we will organize a short-term training action and workshops (10-15 persons) with our local strategic partners for colloboration and exchange.

Together with our partners from Germany, Slovakia and Bulgaria, we want to get to know the “biologdesigner” method of IBILITY (Schweden) and exchange ideas on how this concept could be transferred or adapted for our clientele and in our regions. We will learn about the learning processes and strategies discuss how and which resources contribute to the ability to work and against disadvantage, and how work, education, family and society are multifaceted dynamic complementarities that influence each other.

Another benefit will be the empowerment of municipalities; pooling of VET- and guidance services through systematic coordination on cooperation and support structures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57653 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPAISCHES BILDUNGSWERK FUR BERUF UND GESELLSCHAFT (EBG) GGMBH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Euro – Projektservis, s.r.o.
• Darzhavno predpriyatie “Bulgaro-germanski centur za profesionalno obuchenie”
• Ibility Stockholm KB