DIGITAL COMPETENCES FOR NEW JOBS: YOUNG PEOPLE (WITH FEWER OPPORTUNITIES) FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT– DC4JOBS Erasmus Project

Project Title

DIGITAL COMPETENCES FOR NEW JOBS: YOUNG PEOPLE (WITH FEWER OPPORTUNITIES) FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT– DC4JOBS

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 youth

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; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“I cannot and will not accept that Europe is and remains the continent of youth unemployment. I cannot and will not accept that the millennials, Generation Y, might be the first generation in 70 years to be poorer than their parents.” (Junker Speech at State of the Union, Sept. 2016) ‘Europe’s future depends on its YOUTH’.

The main objective of this project is to promote digital literacy, while fighting skills mismatches and young unemployment in Germany, Cyprus, Netherlands, Latvia, Spain and Romania. This objective was reached through a multi-assessed e-tool (https://dc4jobs.tucampusdeformacion.com), based on an interactive and dynamic platform which we developed, for young people with fewer opportunities in order to up-grade, up-skill or re-skill their digital competences to meet the needs of the labor market. Until 30.10.2019, we have received 160 unique id in the e-learning platforms, which used our platform and helped us to improve the quality of the materials used.

In order to support young people in their search for employment, the aim of this project was reached by equipping them with employability skills (Pilot testing) and by building bridges with the labour market through the creation of the on-line and in-house “DC4JOBS – One-Stop-Support-Centre’ which offers services developed in the project: i.e. DC4JOBS SKILLS AUDIT, professional ICT training for re-skilling and up-skilling of digital skills and career guidance integrated in the existing organisational infrastructure.

To set up the DC4JOBS NETWORK where various organisations, stakeholders, agencies, public services etc. offer guidance and advice for future employment, by using various materials developed throughout the project. The direct target group is YOUNG PEOPLE between 16 to 24 years old, with a specific focus on young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs, young people at risk of marginalisation and young people with a migrant background, including newly arrived immigrants and young refugees, early school leavers etc.) who will acquire or upgrade their digital skills related to employability, whereas the indirect target group is the labour market, who will benefit from digitally literate young people, as well as the various organisations whose members will be educated and well equipped to fight unemployment.

Through these intellectual Outputs we have achieved:
1. Implementation of the Professional upskilling Programme for young people and utilize, test and revise all products.
2. All partners have organized ICT training (face-to-face) as needed to support young people’ digital acquisition and employability skills.
3. All partners have organized and set monitoring and assessment guidelines to collect feedback, views, case studies, observations etc., both on-line and on-paper.
4. Designed and produced a short GUIDEBOOK for participants with all relevant information about the project and its implementation.

The teaching materials developed within this project have been tested and piloted with on-site piloting courses in each partner country, where we tested the benefits and effects of the materials, to improve the modules by each partner organization. The materials also contain various non-formal educational methods and tools that would further improve the quality of the youth work in Europe, and beyond.
After the project ending, DC4JOBS SKILLS AUDIT needs to be more capitalised in each partner countries through continuous skills development and personnel of each organisation will be fully utilised. We hope that products developed from this project will be further used to improve the work of the organizations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 205070 Eur

Project Coordinator

Culture Goes Europe (CGE) – Soziokulturelle Initiative Erfurt e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Arbeitskreis Ostviertel e.V.
• Ogre Municipality
• Clictic S.L.
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd
• FUNDATIA EUROED
• Breakthrough Foundation