Guidance for Individual Vocations in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Guidance for Individual Vocations in Europe

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

GIVE – Guidance for Individual Vocations in Europe

CONTEXT
Boundaryless careers (working simultaneously for multiple employers in multiple projects in a short sequence) in digitalised labor markets, the rise of the platform economy as digital matchmakers, boosts a trend towards (enforced) self-reliance and growing pressure on self-optimisation of modern employees.
Persons performing these new forms of labor are coined “ENTREPLOYEES” (Pongraz 2003). Today, entrepreneurial labor is most easily to depict in forms of labor such as crowd workers and on-demand workers of the platform economy as well as solo self-employed. These new forms of labor involve opportunities such as career entry points and flexible working conditions, but also challenges of self-control and self-marketing.
Reduced regulations and job security makes them risky for persons with few resources and low qualification leading to the establishment of a disadvantaged sub-group of entreployees, the “SELF-ENTREPRENEURIAL DAY LABORERS” (Voß 2003) a new group of working poor.
Entreployees feature a new form of vocational identity, an “INDIVIDUAL VOCATION” (Voß 2003): a personalized model of specific competence and experience, integrated in a rationalized, though individual, way of life.

The spread of new forms of labor and vocational identities are a challenge for guidance. It is not enough anymore to support clients in choosing and starting their career and in switching jobs. Guidance has to empower the new, very diverse client group of entreployees to perform their individual vocation/boundaryless careers and support risk groups among them to move on to more stable and secure forms of work.

OBJECTIVE
Addressing this challenge, the project GIVE aims at fostering an up to date offer of educational guidance by
– raising awareness about the rise of new forms of labour, the resulting transformation of the concept of vocation and the impact of these developments on guidance,
– defining a typology of new guidance target groups with special needs of orientation
– providing tools and strategies for addressing this challenge at the levels of governance, offer and practice with a special focus on new disadvantaged groups and therewith
– contribute to increasing the demand and take-up of adult education through effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies.

PARTICIPANTS
Direct target groups are guidance practitioners and policy makers, who will be supported to adapt their policy, offer and practice to these new client groups. At least 80 will be actively involved in the project, many more reached by dissemination activities.
Indirect target groups are entreployees and especially the disadvantaged sub group of entreployees, the “self-entrepreneurial day laborers”, who will benefit from tailor-made guidance offers for their special needs. A typology of entreployess will help to address the diversity of these clients.

ACTIVITIES
GIVE supports GUIDANCE PRACTITIONERS to better understand a fast-changing sector of the labour market and in catering new emerging guidance user groups by offering a TEXTBOOK (IO 1) and a CURRICULUM/E-TRAINING MODULE (IO 2) for upskilling.
GIVE therewith contributes to an improved access to adult education and to extending the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners.

Recommendations and awareness raising activities will support POLICY MAKERS in the field of guidance and adult learning to shape inclusive guidance and education policies, responding to current labor market transformations and the resulting needs of the new target groups. The project offer includes a POLICY PAPER (IO 3) and Multiplier Events.

METHODS
GIVE will use result-oriented methods of project management and output development such as Mutual Learning Seminars for transnat. collaboration, typology approaches, policy analysis, peer reviews and pre-tests for quality assurance as well as stakeholder analysis for dissemination.

LONG TERM BENEFITS
GIVE will
– increase the competences of GUIDANCE PRACTITIONERS in catering new guidance users and their special needs for orientation
– help POLICY MAKERS to address new guidance challenges deriving from the current labor market transitions at strategical and structural level
– indirectly support GUIDANCE USERS to size the opportunities of an individualised, flexible labour market and to adapt their competences to the challenges of this form of labor as well as help risk groups among them to move on to more stable and secure forms of work. Therwith, the project will boost access to education opportunities for a growing group of people, lacking the support of companies in their skills development.

By increasing demand and take-up of adult education through effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies (sectoral priority of E+), GIVE will answer to the ET2020/European Agenda for Adult Learning priorities and the Council Recommendation on Upskilling Pathways.

Project Website

https://oesb-sb.at/research-guidance/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153862,53 Eur

Project Coordinator

ÖSB Social Innovation gemeinnützige GmbH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• bbb Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung R. Klein & Partner GbR
• Vyzkumny ustav prace a socialnich veci
• i-smARt Trust reg.