How to give the students skills and means on their way to the European labour market Erasmus Project

Project Title

How to give the students skills and means on their way to the European labour market

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

GISWELM Project was motivated by the necesity to solve the actual labour situation in some countries participant in the Project, the high figures of unemployement. The coordinator, IES VAlle de Elda, after a long number of european proyects believed that this type of proyect is an important tool to improve the Young people unemployement in our closest área. We chose the partners carefully, two institution from Germany and Denmark where the Young unemployment barely exists, the Chamber of Comerce of Alicante, am important body between education and labour market and the italian partner, an important Company with a wide experience in the fields of international education projects. The objective was to learn from the northen countries and to copy some measures that will help our Young people in the future. The Chamber of comerce will help to implement the measures with the support of the italian Company that has been designed to develop an intelectual output (not included in the budget).The results of this proyect are being helpfull to our comunity, students, teachers and employers. We have designed the lines to move forward in the same directions, form our students following the instructions of the employers according to the requested skills.We also want to motivate our students to the option of entrepreneur. The families of our institutions, commerce and marketing, and sociocultural services are áreas where huge investments are not needed to créate a Company, so it’s an important option for our students.
The axes of the project are around:1. Technical Skills (ICT, languages, profesional skills …)2. Social Skills for employment 3. Entrepreneurship.
The Phases
:First Meeting in Spain organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Alicante where the practical aspects of the project were designed. The time of delivery of tasks was perfectly marked.Development of activities for several months (about the first axis “technical skills”:Analysis of the employment situation in the areas of the participating countries. (Questionnaire companies), Analysis of the technical skills of students and teachers. (Questionnaire to students and teachers), Completion of questionnaires, tables, graphs and presentation of results produced by the students of each country using ICTs
Meeting in Hoxter in February 2017 to present results obtained during these months. The students were responsible to show them. We participated in roundtables, lectures, visits to significant companies.
In June 2017, We met in Cento, Italy for an intermediate meeting to supervise the project, to sumary conclusions of the first part of the project (Technical skills) and to take the opportunity to receive a course for trainers. Two teachers from each country and 1 person from the Chamber of Comerce attended this meeting. After that, we started to develop activities for several months (about the second axis “social skills”):Dynamics of coaching, conflict resolution in companies, etc
We met in Denmark in October 2017 to show the conclusions drawn with previous dynamics. We asisted to conference methodology Richard Gesteland. Visited to significant companies and associations. We took conclusions and sumary of this second part of the project (Social skills)We started with the third and last axes of the project (Entrepreneurship) analysing the qualitys, the risks, the challenges to start a new business
Final meeting in Spain in February 2018 to expose conclusions about entrepreneurship. We visited the Chamber of Commerce and received a lecture from an expert in entrepreneurship, a representative of. Eures in Alicante and other companies .
We realized the final evaluation of the project with a period to elaborate the outputs and to continue realizing activities related with the axes of the project to guarantee its sosnenibility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88185 Eur

Project Coordinator

CIPFP VALLE DE ELDA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CAMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA , SERVICIOS Y NAVEGACION DE ALICANTE
• EUC Nord
• Berufskolleg Kreis Höxter
• CENTOFORM SRL