Open-source plaform for Skills Integration in a Learning, Knowledge and Career PATHway Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open-source plaform for Skills Integration in a Learning, Knowledge and Career PATHway

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Facing the challenges of the general economic recession since 2008, the EU policies towards matching skills and needs of the labour market is a priority to increase the employment rate of European workers. The CEDEFOP has launched in this context a large EU Skills & Jobs survey to assess the needs and the requirements of VET and adult education, with the ambition of analysing and researching solutions to the current competencies’ situation faced by European citizens i.e. mismatching between demand and offer in terms of skills and employment opportunities. From this large study, the CEDEFOP highlights that 45% of adult workers think that their skills can be better developed and used at work thanks to better skills anticipation. In addition, 30% of the responders realised that their qualifications are different than the one required for their job position, and 44% have lower skills than needed. On a different level, a part of the workers’ skills assessed through the analysis of CEDEFOP show that they have all the competencies required for a specific job position, however they cannot value them in terms of the appropriate level of qualification. This is strongly linked to a recurrent question in European policies on the best practices to value skills acquired by experience and informal practices.

In that context, SILKC PATH aims at delivering a platform for personalised guidance and skills matching between workers, learning institutions and the labour market, is completely in line with the current priorities: 1) matching supply and skills, 2) helping stakeholders to measure and adjust their offer and 3) to enable building and sustaining strong competencies at European level including informal and soft skills.

To achieve this goal, SILKC PATH will implement a breakthrough methodology and solution based on:
(1) An in-depth assessment of the end-user’s requirements and needs, to enable promoting social and living data on the platform to provide the target audience with automatic accurate advices for developing their career and learning pathways,
(2) The creation of a large database gathering training opportunities and outcomes in terms of job position in Europe,
(3) The release of a breakthrough open access platform integrating an advice algorithm that will use the data collected to provide recommendations in both formal and informal skills and opportunities,
(4) A gamified approach to reach the commitment of the users, promoting non-traditional skills through open badges,
(5) A complete assessment of the platform, and a replication plan towards institutions, citizens and learning organisations

SILKC PATH will be coordinated by Haikara, a digital agency based in France that will bring to the project its expertise acquired through the Mylk project funded by the Erasmus + programme. In addition, Haikara will be supported by 3 renown partners:
(1) BEEZNEST, a digital Belgium company developing the open source LMS Chamilo, first LMS in Europe, with a large community of users,
(2) UNIVPM, strong research player in the field of artificial intelligence in Italy,
(3) OIC Poland, a famous institution in Poland, targeting the prevention of unemployment and fostering economic development by implementation of the educational and counselling programme

Thanks to these activities, SILKC PATH will have significant impacts on the improvement of employability in Europe by i) a better recognition of the competences acquired during their whole life including identification of informal skills and competences, ii) better access to accurate and personalised learning pathways merging formal and social information and iii) better understanding of the skills requirements for a position. In the other way, as they will be able to value soft skills, they will have more power to negotiate position within companies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 356450 Eur

Project Coordinator

haikara & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Polska Fundacja Osrodkow Wspomagania Rozwoju Gospodarczego OIC POLAND z siedziba w Lublinie
• BEEZNEST BELGIUM
• UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE