Designing a multimodal approach to career guidance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Designing a multimodal approach to career guidance

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

Ongoing changes in the world of work and the growing demand for career guidance are leading funders and stakeholders to rethink the “traditional” modes of delivery. While new technologies are often seen as an essential factor for optimizing and improving access to career guidance services, experiences show questionable efficiency of algorithmic and self-service approaches to e-guidance. At the same time, the lack of evidence-based research limits the development of innovative and effective blended counseling solutions (see “Overview of Key Developments in the Use of ICT in Lifelong Guidance”, Vuorinen R., Kettunen J. , 2017). Moreover, the current models of services encounter limits in terms of personalization of service (structured diagnosis of the situation of the beneficiaries and definition of learning objectives of guidance), identification and recognition of informal learning, transversal skills and soft skills (particularly with regard to increasingly irregular career paths) and support for entrepreneurship (in its “human capital” dimension).
The purpose of the project is to reinforce, in an innovative and practical way, the power to act of individuals by acting on two levers: autonomy and valorization. Autonomy of a person is linked to the work on career management skills, including within the context of a career goal that includes entrepreneurship. The valorization (open badge) is done by taking into account of the informal and transversal socio-emotional competences (soft skills).

The project aims to create the tools and methods of a career guidance acting on these two levers by integrating digital into a systemic multimodal (blended) approach based on the principles of flipped learning.
Methodologically, the project will meet this objective by producing the following intellectual outputs:
O1 – State of the art: Comparative study of digital practices in career guidance and perception of users (typology and mapping of existing tools and resources, conditions for success)
O2 – Methodology for co-constructing of a personalized guidance pathway based on career management skills (research report, set of indicators and method for situation analysis and co-definition of learning objectives of guidance)
O3- Handbook to support the “human capital” dimension of entrepreneurship career goal (indicators of entrepreneurial skills, method of diagnosis and blending career guidance with technico-economic advising)
O4 – Elaboration of a career guidance guide for the design of a “multimodal (blended) learning path” (pedagogical tools, technical and content specifications)
O5 – Collection of pedagogical content, tools and techniques of multimodal professional guidance
O6- Elaboration of a certification soft skills and informal learning (based on open badges approach)
07 – Implementation / test kit for the prototype version of the multimodal career guidance model
O8 – Consolidated model of multimodal career guidance
The consortium is composed of 5 partners: 2 national networks (National Federation of CIBC – France, ZKPRK – Association for Career Guidance and Career Development – SK), one European network (European Federation of Centres of Career Guidance and Bilan de Compétences) and 2 centers of bilan de compétences/skills audit (CIOFS – IT, LEA – BE). LEA is also a research laboratory in Applied Ergology and will provide a scientific perspective to the developments of outputs.
Deliverables will be developed based on research and European good practices in the use of ICT in career guidance (O1), career management skills (O2), entrepreneurial skills (O3) and soft skills (O6), in order to design tools that are easily integrable into existing guidance practices. From these elements, a multimodal educational path will be developed (O4), implemented (O5) and tested (O7, O8) by 24 consultants with 330 beneficiaries in 4 countries. An impact study is planned during the test phase to validate the prototype model and provide the guidance community with evidence for further development of blended delivery of career guidance.
The deliverables will be developed with the aim of a quick and easy integrability by the consultants and the centers (instructions for use, tutorials …). Resources will be freely available on the open licensed project website as specified. Through dissemination activities, these tools will be presented to stakeholders in partner countries and in Europe with the desired effect of taking into account the current issues of career guidance and further stimulate innovative practices.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257682 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fédération Nationale des CIBC & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CENTRO ITALIANO OPERE FEMMINILI SALESIANE – FORMAZIONE PROFESSIONALE PIEMONTE CIOFS – FP PIEMONTE
• Zdruzenie pre karierove poradenstvo a rozvoj kariery
• Fédération Européenne des Centres de Bilans et d’Orientation Professionnelle
• Laboratoire d’Ergologie appliquée