Ready for my Future Job Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ready for my Future Job

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The project was led with a main group of 71 Erasmus+ pupils (24 from France, 25 from Italy and 22 from Slovakia). It involved them in a process of:
-DISCOVERY of THEMSELVES through several profile and interest tests led by guidance counselors/career advisers and expert guidance cabinets.
-DISCOVERY of DIFFERENT BRANCHES, TRADES and JOBS and the EUDUCATION /VOCATIONAL PATH leading to these JOBS, with the help of their teachers, associations linked to job guidance, companies/firms/farms (so professionals, craftsmen, artists from the actual working world).

This practical introduction to THEMSELVES on one hand, and to THE REAL WORK MARKET on the other, allowed them to

– Identify their qualities, competences/skills and interests.
– Develop these skills and competences.
-Acquire new ones that would be useful in their future job.
– Discover different trades and jobs they didn’t really know.
– Make practical experiences in the real work market through the workshops with professionals.
– Choose a future career plan according to their intellectual possibilities, skills and interest.
– Experience, with a European mate, the real working world in the sector of their choice, in a farm/firm/company, in their own country and abroad, under the supervision of a professional, during the internships.
-Be guided in the writing of an internship report.
– Understand which education path is the most appropriate to lead them to the job they hope to do.
– Be acquainted with today’s working world on a European level, by comparing the requirements of the jobs, and education paths leading to this job, in our 3 countries.
– Validate their experience with the Europass documents: (Europass Mobilities, Europass Language Passports and Europass CV)
This was reached through:

– Researches about the different sectors of activity that we chose according to the results of the profile and interest tests.
– Project based learning and different activities related to the sectors/branches/jobs: gathering of information, classification, selection, creation, presentation, exchange and comparison of information.
-National and transnational team learning and training activities.
-Visits/excursions, workshops in farms/ firms/ industries/ factories/ offices, in relation with the sectors and trades chosen.
– Practical experience with periods of internship.

The results of these activities were:

-Individual profile and interest diagrams
– ILLUSTRATED JOB CARDS with the KNOWLEDGE, the SKILLS AND COMPTENCES, the QUALITIES/ABILITIES needed to do the jobs; and the EDUCATION/VOCATIONAL PATH leading to these jobs.
-INTERNSHIP REPORTS
-Travel diaries
-Evaluation sheets

These results had impacts on about 375 pupils from the 3 countries:

– The JOB CARDS were and will be used for PEER-LEARNING/TEACHING with the youngest pupils (inside and outside our schools); and constitute a useful tool for a funny INTRODUCTION TO JOB GUIDANCE at a very early stage in education.
– This process of passing on of information to the youngest, through peer-teaching and fun adapted material will ensure the SUSTAINABILITY of the results of the project (as it will continue next year after the end of the project, in several different primary schools)

Some of the partner organizations such as guidance cabinets, firms/companies may easily renew their cooperation with our schools for future workshops and discovery of the working world.

The project and the results will live long after the end of the project thanks to our large DISSEMINATION of the outcomes on local/regional/national /European levels via the media (TV, press), regular exhibitions of activities and results, our common website and Facebook page.

Primary schools, willing to continue using the JOB CARDS may also help ensuring the sustainability of the results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87820 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC La Providence (Collège) & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Istituto comprensivo statale di scuola dell’Infanzia, Primaria e Secondaria di I grado “Giovanni XXIII”
• Zakladna skola Partizanske