Career Awareness In Route To Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Career Awareness In Route To Europe

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The subject of the project is the inadequacy of career planning for disadvantaged upper secondary school students between the ages of 15-18. Career planning level questionnaire that we carried out at our school, feedback from graduates, indecisiveness in the selection of school department, have led us to identify low career optimism in our students. Occupational interests during adolescence become apparent during secondary school. So we, for socio-economically oriented low-profile students, aimed at providing an effective guidance for a successful career path, innovative teaching conditions in accordance with the contemporary, European education models.Our participants are from Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and Poland 15-18 aged 80 students, and 10 teachers.

Our project aims primarily for the students to acquire basic knowledge and equipment for preparing themselves for professional life on similar conditions to their peers in EU countries.
We care very much about the career planning in the upper secondary school and we support their involvement in those who love their work within the framework of their interest, curiosity and talents. We aim at our students who are aware of their creative,innovative talents and skills to broaden their professional orientation through intercultural dialogue.

We hope to increase their motivation of learning second and even third foreign languages that the global world needs, so that all the career gateways of information societies can be opened.

We aim our students who are confronted with their unrealistic hidden expectations with the help of right professional preferences to participate consciously in the domestic and EU labor market. By increasing information and communication technologies, media literacy levels of our students, we aim our students to realize the positive contribution of the internet to career development except the use of it for games and conversation. We expect that the students who see the contribution of the career planning process to the personal development within the school will be more likely to have more school achievement and less negative deviations and early school leaving.

At the same time, our project aims our teachers’ reconstruction of their career guidance knowledge and acquire new skills. In addition, parents who are influential in career planning are targeted to raise awareness in this regard.

Our project activities provide a systematic career planning package training program for positive reflection of the target group and stakeholders.Our activities include questionnaires, interviews, conferences,workshops, panels and seminars, film-slide shows for project purposes. In addition, process of career planning and presentation of professions boards, posters, field surveys, learning by doing activities, peer learning workshops and participation in lectures in universities, occupational observation activities will be included. In coordination with our partners, interviews with public and private sector officials, intensive interactive meetings with social media and local media channels, photograph exhibitions, career days activities where academics and business people who have been successful in their careers meet with students will be organized.
We will also use discussion, brainstorming, and observation techniques using measurement tools such as questionnaire for statistical results, including virtual collaborations based on active and interactive learning.

All the activities we will undertake with our partners will provide positive contributions to the academic, social and psychological equipment that will primarily remove the uncertainties in our students’ career planning. These contributions in the short term will bring out their interests, expectations and career values, so they will bring discipline to work towards goals for a more successful future.

Our students who step into the direction of global citizen identity development will feel the need to add overseas experiences in their careers through intercultural interactions thanks to our project.

We are expecting that in the long run it will help employability and reduce young unemployment rates within the EU 2020 targets. We and our partners, who have developed an effective career management understanding, are anticipating that we will accelerate our corporate strategic development by bringing the EU opportunities to low-profile youth with low socio-economic levels so that will provide equal opportunity in education.

Project Website

http://careurope.weebly.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 31494 Eur

Project Coordinator

Turgutlu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol w Zychlinie
• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE PALAZZOLO ACREIDE
• 1er EPAL THESSALONIKIS
• “Stefan Tsanov”