Core Skills for 21st Century Professionals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Core Skills for 21st Century Professionals

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Project results map can be obtained from http://www.softskills.upv.es/coski21/results/RD.6.pdf (the results code have a link to the corresponding evidence). Name of the Project: Core Skills for 21st Century Professionals Project Coordinator: Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Type of Project: ERASMUS+ (Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Project Lifetime: 2nd of October 2017 until 1st October of 2019 (24 months) Partners: P1 – Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) P2 – Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd TUAS (Finland) P3 – Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal) P4 – Hogeschool Utrecht (Netherlands) P5 – Wissenschaftsinitiative Niederösterreich – WIN (Austria) P6 – Integra Institute, Institut za razvoj clovekovih potentialov (Slovenia) Priorities: Higher Education: Enhancing the quality and relevance of student’s knowledge and skills Supporting innovation and creativity, through partnerships and inter-and transdisciplinary approaches and strategies Horizontal: Achievement of relevant and high-quality skills and competences Aims and Objectives: The first intellectual output is the development of a common framework (including a method do detect) Core Personal Skills required by companies. The creation of skills maps, both in universities and in companies, are important to adapt the core skills selected to labour reality adapted to the socio-economic environment. The second intellectual output closely linked with the common framework, designated by Core Skills Assessments set for the level of proficiency considers and valorizes the experience of the person, such as learning process and personal growth, especially in the acquisition and strengthening of those core skills. The development of an assessment tool valid for both students and organizations is essential on the Project. The third intellectual output of the project is an E-Platform will serve as the concrete bridge between Higher Education Institutions and companies. This IO produced for members of the Project, based on universities and companies survey and further research, prepared in a form adjusted to active methods of learning. The fourth intellectual output devotes attention to the promotion and self-promotion to consolidate and give visibility to the student’s core skills, properly evaluated, through instruments of empowerment by encouraging the search for a job suitable to their own profile. The Promotion and Self-Promotion Tool will provide a detailed description of the intervention in all its phases and activities. The fifth intellectual output aims to provide improvements to the CoSki21 Project, through suggestions coming directly from the end-users and through the implementation among trainers in soft skills training measure during the testing period.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164485 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Stichting Hogeschool Utrecht
• INTEGRA INSTITUT INSTITUT ZA RAZVOJ CLOVEKOVIH POTENCIALOV VELENJE
• TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
• Wissenschaftsinitiative Niederösterreich (WIN)