Handmade jewelery for job opportunity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Handmade jewelery for job opportunity

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

“Handmade jewelery for job opportunity” was 18 months Erasmus+ strategic partnership project KA 2 VET focused on EXCHANGES of PRACTICES. The consortium was a mix of appropriate complementary 7 institutions with the necessary profile, experiences and expertise to deliver all aspects of the project, coming from different fields of educations and trainings including newcomers to this action: EE (NGO-vet profile), FR (NGO-art profile, newcomer), GR (jewelery school+ business), RO (vocational technical school), PT (business) and two from PL (2 NGOs -vet profile, one is newcomer). Newcomers haven’t participated in European projects, but they had vocational experiences in jewelery sector. The project was designed to share experiences and best practices in vocational education and to create innovative methods through training courses based on European cooperation, handmade jewelery creation and production. The project was the answer on local demands of all partners who comes from the regions of high unemployment from 11%-30% and participants were looking for alternative way for vocational trainings to work in creative sector and open micro-enterprises in future. The general objective of the project was to develop partnerships between educational organizations and employment and short-cycle post-secondary qualifications with focus on potential growth area such as handmade jewelery.The specific objectives of the project were:1) to build synergy between vocational schools, private and non-governmental sectors and work world;2) to develop strategic partnership and intercultural dialogue; 3) to support professional education for staff members and learners;4) to learn traditional handmade jewelery techniques in own and other European countries;5) to learn new types of handmade jewelery, new techniques, materials, methods and skills from partners; 6) to create own handmade jewelery samples using personal and experts’ knowledge and skills and share them with partners;7) to learn etrepreneurship issues from partners in order to open own micro-enterprise;8) to strengthen dignity of own culture and European cultures, the dignity to be European citizen; 9) to motivate learners and staff to learn foreign languages and improve ICT skills; 10) to make learners feel self confident through project activities.
At the end of the project participants had skills and practical experience to make handmade jewelery, to use ICT working on project results, to communicate better in English. They became more aware about own national culture and other European cultures. Learners found a job as handmade jewelery assistants, started to cooperate with locals galleries and workshops. Project main target groups were staff members and learners/ students from different age groups, mostly unemployed, women and people from undeveloped EU regions. More than 200 people were involved directly in this project and more than 1000 during dissemination activities.
During the project were organized handmade jewelry courses, workshops, e-learning, theoretical seminars about jewelry, entrepreneurship education, intercultural dialogue during visits to partners’ institutions. There was 1 training course for staff (GR) and 3 international project meetings (PL, FR, PT) that included also trainings in making jewelry. Project Facebook page was created, partners exchanged good practice and shared the experiences. Partners organized dissemination activities, with the involvement of local stakeholders, other vocational institutions, NGOs to make project’s impact more sustainable. Partners applied the best methods in handmade jewelery production in own countries and in Europe. The main methods were learning by doing, learning together, with each other and by each other.The main output was an E-Book as a tutorial with the description of jewellery techniques by each institution. It was pedagogical and methodical material for dissemination in own and other organizations, in local communities, on national, European and international levels. There were also Power-Point Presentation about best practice,12 videos about jewellery techniques step by step from every partner organization, account in PINTEREST, ECVET. The impact of the project was seen on project participants who gained new competencies and became able to compete on the labour market with professionals. Partners’ organizations created strong partnership and will continue to cooperate when project finished. The potential long term benefits will be seen as improvement of the quality of vocational education and training in the partners’ organizations. It will emerge as improvement of the situation on the labour market when learners / students will share own experience and newly gained skills with future learners professional level and start to work as jewelry designers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 69615 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie “VESUVIO” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• COLEGIUL TEHNIC GHEORGHE CARTIANU
• SCHOLES TECHNIS MOKUME I.K.E.
• MITRA FRANCE
• Fundacja CREATOR
• Mittetulundusühing MITRA
• COMPETIR Formação e Serviços S.A.