Global Skills Through Experience in Peace and Solidarity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Global Skills Through Experience in Peace and Solidarity

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

* Context
To cope with current challenges (climate change, water shortages, loss of biodiversity, economic, political and social crises, etc.), adaptation processes and innovation are becoming more dynamic and complex. This brings new challenges for the job market: to succeed professionally, economic actors will have to solve problems that we can not foresee today. They must be leaders of cooperative work, work on innovative projects to meet the challenges of our society and at the same time, they must be in a proactive, critical and creative attitude of “classic” economic models.
Therefore, the recruitment of employees able to adapt to change become harder. Organisations such as the OECD, the European Commission, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) and the US National Research Council are working on “21st century skills”, which are now widely accepted. Many of these skills are part of the European key skills. Yet, it is notable that few employers, employees or jobseekers use these eight European skills. This highly relevant tool for skills requires concrete applications, for example through the valorization of experiences of global citizenship. Indeed, informal learning and experiential learning, which embrace all aspects of life, play an important role in 21st century skills development. And it is known today that the skills related with local, global, and digital citizenship enhance the ability to act constructively in changing or challenging circumstances.

* Goals
The Global STEPS project aimed to improve the use of key competences by enabling citizens to identify the skills acquired in a global citizenship experience ; and enabling employers to assess these skills against their needs. The objectives are:
– Proving the added value of global citizenship in the development of key competences
– Promoting the recognition of key European competences by linking them to the skills of the 21st century
– Facilitating access to quality jobs by rising awareness and evaluation of these skills

* Typology of participating organizations
Each person involved in an action of global citizenship, looking for a job or a reconversion.
Employers networks and actors of professional insertion, networks of entrepreneurs

* Activities implemented
– Definition of global citizenship and 7 key skills to define it: creativity, decision making, problem solving, collaboration, responsibility, flexibility, autonomy. These skills are directly linked to the European key skills.
– Creation of an online tool with a questionnaire, available to people who wish to self-evaluate the impact of international experiences.
– Creation of a methodological guide to allow the actors of integration, youth, mobility, citizen engagement to use it with their public.

* The results achieved:
– A common definition of Global citizenship
– A skills framework for the online tool
– A certificate, generated by the online tool, to recognize skills acquired during a global citizenship experience
– An online platform available to many people to assess their global citizenship skills against the competency framework, get their results and suggestions to improve themselves.
– A user guide and a methodological guide
The online tool reveals the skills acquired during a global citizenship experience, which can be directly assessed by employers : users answer a test and then generate a certificate that helps them to value their skills. They are thus able to explain them to an employer using examples from their own experience.

* Medium / long term benefit impacts:
In the medium term, users gain self-confidence and are able to value more informal experiences. They can get to grips with the key skills and present concrete examples of them to employers.
In the long term, users can progress on key skills and improve their profile. They are encouraged to take part in Global citizenship experiences. Employers and professional inclusion stakeholders are able to identify precisely the skills to cope with current global challenges in a changing intercultural context.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184145,65 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cap Solidarités & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSITE
• Welsh Centre for International Affairs
• 11.11.11
• Stichting Nationale Commissie voor Internationale Samenwerking en Duurzame Ontwikkeling