Construire ensemble de la connaissance pour mieux appréhender l’entreprise dans son écosystème afin de favoriser l’accès des jeunes à l’emploi Erasmus Project

Project Title

Construire ensemble de la connaissance pour mieux appréhender l’entreprise dans son écosystème afin de favoriser l’accès des jeunes à l’emploi

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Building bridges between the worlds of education and business is a priority for Europe. While teachers are not sufficiently “equipped” regarding their knowledge of the economic, financial and organizational issues that structure companies and their role in economic development, these actors often have a biased representation of the school institution and its operation.
The objective of Cokleeco is to promote a better mutual understanding between these two spheres, to update their mutual representation and to develop cooperation through the development of a training program corresponding to the realities of different organizations in the territories of project partners.
9 partners, from 5 countries, from both the world of education and the company were involved in this project:
Freref, a European network active on the issues of lifelong learning, based in France, managed it.
In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), the project was carried by the regional MEDEF and the rectorate of the academy of Grenoble.
In Emilia-Romagna (Italy), the project involved the Regional Confindustria and the University of Modena-Reggio (Unimore).
In French-speaking Belgium, the Foundation for Education (FPE) for the promotion of the school-companies relationship as well as the General Directorate of Compulsory Education (DGEO) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation contributed with their respective expertise.
In Catalonia (Spain), the education department of the Regional Government of Catalonia participated in the project.
Finally, in Poland, the MCDN, a continuing training center for teachers in the province of Malopolska (Krakow) gave their inputs on the question of the school-enterprise relationship.
The Cokleeco project was dedicated to 3 categories of target audience.
-The world of education with teachers, but also the actors of guidance and school heads;
-The economic world with entrepreneurs, HR managers, business tutors …;
– young people in school (high school students, middle school students, apprentices, students …).

As a first step, the project collected innovative practices existing in the territories. These practices were then clustered with the aim of constructing a prototype of a training pathway using a decontextualization / recontextualization approach.
On the basis of this prototype, the partners have developed pathways for each of their territory, in order to meet the expectations of local stakeholders. These courses were tested locally and during a week of mobility in Italy, the participants were able to share the comments and suggestions obtained in order to build a European training pathway. This pathway, common to the “business” and “education” people was then tested during a second mobility that took place in Grenoble (France) during which about thirty European participants from the world of education and companies were able to deconstruct their a-priori during exchange sessions and a day of immersion. The participants were then accompanied to build new actions, in a transnational way so that this better knowledge of the respective environments will benefit the final target audience: the students.
This step was carried out during pilot actions involving the different target groups of the project, which made it possible to obtain the opinion of external participants and different audiences.
Project partners have formulated lessons learned and recommendations so that they can share their experience with new actors wishing to become involved in this process.
The impacts obtained by the Cokleeco project are numerous:
In Spain, Italy and France the partners involved in the project are planning to renew the European training course on their territory with for example a “teacher summer camp” initiated in Italy in September 2019, which should take place in 2020.
In Poland, some training content has been incorporated into MCDN teacher training.
In Catalonia, the project was presented within the entrepreneurship network of the Ministry of Education of Catalonia with the aim of implementing the training pathway for VET teachers.
In Belgium, the results of the project have been integrated in the reflections around the realization of the Pact4Youth currently led by the government of the Federation Wallonia Brussels.
In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the project has made it possible to identify previously isolated practices and to recruit new players for future initiatives.
At least 5 new European projects have sprouted through the Cokleeco project, one of these being already funded by the Italian Erasmus+ agency.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 363768,62 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDATION DES REGIONS EUROPEENNES POUR LA RECHERCHE EN EDUCATION ET ENFORMATION & Country: BE

Project Partners

• DEPARTAMENT D’ENSENYAMENT- GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
• INTERPROFESSIONNELLE RHONE ALPES
• Centre de Coordination et de Gestion des Programmes Européens-DGEO
• ACADEMIE DE GRENOBLE RECTORAT
• CONFINDUSTRIA EMILIA-ROMAGNA
• Fondation pour l’Enseignement
• Malopolskie Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli