Coaching Inter-Pairs for employment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Coaching Inter-Pairs for employment

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CONTEXT
The Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise “Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women and young people” so to achieve a benchmark of “75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-35 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work, especially women, the young and low-skilled people and migrants”.

This important goal has important implication for 4 of the 5 benchmarks that have been set for the EU to achieve by the end of 2020 as employment; research and development; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction, is threatened by the economic crisis and the consequent loss of job opportunities that in many countries lead the unemployment rates to achieve “record” percentages starting from 48% Italy up to more than 53% Spain and 56% Portugal in just to quote three important examples.

The use of Social media is widespread among youngsters, who use them to socialize and communicate. However VET students are
not aware of the risks connected to the use of social media. These risks may be particularly relevant for VET students who are searching a job and who may present aspects of them – on the social media – that are not appropriate from the point of view of the companies offering job positions. Social Media and Internet are now very often used by the companies for selecting in an effective way their future employees.

NEEDS
VET students need to know how to create and preserve his digital identity where they could keep on their competences, language knowledge, etc. to become an optimal candidate to be reincorporated in labour market in the most rapid an efficient way.
The project will use Coaching interpairs like a non-formal methodology of shared learning and growth for teaching VET students how to reach a job using social media and ICT.

AIM
The aim of the project is to promote employment for long term unemployed VET students, through an effective use of social media , ICT and through the training of 6 VET students in each participant country that will be called “digital coaches”

ACTIVITIES
-To Enlarge the Learning community. The Coordination Committee will facilitate and dinamize the cooperation of the actors in the learning community.
-Coaching inter-pairs for employment training material
-Workshops will VET teachers and VET trainers
-Training the “Digital coaches”
-Workshops with personal recruitment managers of companies.
-Coaches help desk
-Conference about “Coaching for VET employment”

CONSORTIUM
The project will involve 6 institutions of 5 different European countries.
The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in training VET teachers, VET trainers and VET students and in the development of innovative projects for VET education.

OUTCOMES
“Coaching inter-pairs for employment” training materials. The training materials will contain a collection of video lessons on how to create the digital identity using social media for finding a job in an effective way.
1.The video lessons will address the following topics: how to create your European curriculum,the most demanded professional profiles, how to look for work using European employment portals,how to create personal professional profile, how to monitor and improve personal and professional profile, how to organize personal development plan, tools for creating, controlling, maintaining and improving your own reputation. For creating (select your name, social networks (pages on facebook, twitter, linkedin,foursquare, etc), blogs, youtube, flikr, slideshare etc., for controlling (google alerts, google analytics, Tweetreach, google inside, facebookinside, howsocialble, etc), for improve and maintain (tweetdeck, hootsuite ,etc.) The training materials will contain the videos and other attractive resources (online games, images, documents, links, interviews, etc). Each project partner will train at least 6 VET coaches and 20 VET teachers.
2. Real life case scenarios learning objects.
3.The Video Gallery of Testimonials
-Digital coaches website and social media pages
-Coaches help desk. A mailbox and facebook on the homepage website will be created, where all interested VET students may consult their questions or make an appointment with the social online digital coaches.

IMPACT
People involved in the project.
-60 VET teachers or VET trainers
-240 VET students
-36 digital coaches
-30 professionals in the field of the recruitment of employees
-30 enterprises
-6 public bodies in charge of education
In total the results of the project will arrive to 1300 persons.
-VET teachers, VET trainers and directors of VET schools and VET training institutions.
-Public and private VET training institutions
-NGO
-Local and Regional public authorities in charge of social and educational promotion policies
-Trade unions

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95830 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES DR LLUIS SIMARRO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Associação Empresarial de Penafiel
• IES SANT VICENT FERRER
• Colegiul National Unirea
• Srednja skola Dugo Selo
• ITIS Q. SELLA
• IES ABASTOS