CAREER BASED OPPORTUNITIES Erasmus Project

Project Title

CAREER BASED OPPORTUNITIES

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

This project has been developed by five secondary schools from Poland, Romania,Italy, Turkey and Bulgaria and it was designed to meet the objectives of the European Commission.

Taking into account the different rates of youth unemployment in the countries participating in this project (Poland: 26.5 %; Italy: 40.1 %; Romania: 23.3 %, Turkey: 23,2 %) there is a great need for innovation in this matter.
In the context of increasing unemployment rates nowadays, the above results come from the difficulty of graduates to find jobs in accordance with their interests, abilities, skills or personality traits. Therefore, this project is intended to meet the needs of young European citizens in secondary schools and allow them to choose a suitable career path and make the right career choices. Young people should also befully aware of their potential and have access to information regarding the general economic environment of the European labour market.

The project is established around the central concept of exchange of experience and good practices. Participants will benefit from the expertise of professionals and the beneficiaries’ associated partners. They will assist students in transferring the information and applying it to a modern and dynamic school environment.

The project focuses on the development of students’ entrepreneurial skills and offers them opportunities to connect to the labour market, local/regional/European institutions or private companies with the same scope. It will allow students to develop a genuine adaptability to the market at a local, national and EU level.

The project will last for two years and there will be two Transnational meetings at the beginning and closure of the project and four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. There will be workshops during student exchanges and observation good practices in the Italian school (Good Practice 1: The developed connection between school and Labour Market in Italy) and Romanian school (Good Practice 2: Creating the training firms as real firms – Mock Companies). Those practical and useful applications will be integrated into the project activities and in the second year all the partners will apply the two actions. During each exchange seminars will be given by professionals from the labour market in order to easily achieve the transition from school to work and reduce the labour market segmentation.

The purpose of the project is international. It will create a strong synergy among partner schools and it will provide inspiration for students to develop their future career path.

The project includes 2630 participants in a direct and indirect manner.
Pupils: All the project activities at local and international level will involve students as beneficiaries directly and indirectly. Approximately 1200 students/teenagers will indirectly be affected.
Teachers: Teachers will be involved both as instructors and beneficiaries by observing other schools and their education system). There will be teams of 5 teachers in each partner organization so 25 in total will take part actively in the project activities. Approximately 150 teachers/adults will indirectly be affected.
Administrative staff: They will tackle the running of the legal issues of the project, observing other school education systems and transferring good practices into the school curriculum. Approximately 36 administrative staff will be indirectly affected.
Graduated students: Questionnaires will be applied on minimum 100 students and this evaluation will offer the state of their professional working life. 500 students will be involved in total.
Parents: The number of the family members will be 300 in total and they will contribute to introducing the host country culture and tradition. Approximately 480 family members will be indirectly involved in the project.
Labour Market members: Minimum 15 members from the labour market will be involved in the project in every school.
Local community: Local community members such as university lecturers, local press, municipality, directorate of national education and PTA will help to disseminate the project to a wider community. Approximately 300 people from local community will be indirectly involved.

A positive direct effect is expected at a rate of 30% from our pupils and target groups by:
– gaining basic skills in term of entrepreneurship;
– reducing labour market segmentation;
– offering pupils opportunities to connect to the labour market through local/regional/European institutions or private companies;
– leading students to analyze their own marketability;
– increasing student flexibility and align to the concept of continuous learning and flexible career options;
– adapting to labour markets in local, national and EU level;
– providing a unique opportunity for students to acquire knowledge and deeper understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the European community

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119250 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Oglnoksztalcacych & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Colegiul National “Zinca Golescu”
• Sredno uchilishte “Petko R. Slaveykov”
• ITC PACLE MORANTE LIMBIATE
• Emirdag Aziziye Anadolu Lisesi