How to plan your future: a guide to a successful career Erasmus Project

Project Title

How to plan your future: a guide to a successful career

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

All together for inclusion our project wanted to foster young people´s competences and skills through a linguistic, methodical and educational path that aimed at enhancing knowledge of students about their possibilities in planning their professional career, about the different ways to step into the world of work and to be able to evaluate their chances on the European job market.The need to discover for teachers new approaches and procedures lead the exchange of best practises and methods each partner uses to prepare students to the world of work.The project contributed the achievement of language, character, computer skills.
The project aimed to increase the self- awarness of students, to aquire and improve linguistic English skills, self- confidence, skills in self- organizing and life skills they need for their later career.
The concrete main objectives oft he project were
*provide professional guidance and counseling for students, enhance career and educational support services;
*show teachers and other staff different methods of teaching; give them a chance to adopt new approaches, techniques and good practice;
The partnership was made of six partners from 5 countries: Turkey, Spain, Romania, England and Germany. All had different experiences in preparing their students for their later professional way in life. Each had experience with inclusion problems, too. The way partners organize the preparation of students is as different as the ways students start a successful career. Germany is on a special position, because it is the only partner, where the students are trained for the jobs in a theoretical and practical way.Depending on it the methods and practises at school are different from the others, too. Some of them had previous experiences in participating on European projects and on eTwinning projects. Each school had a specific task: The German school- the coordinator- monitoring the information flow, draw up the final roduct, gadgets; the Turkish school from Corum introduction poster; the Turkish school from Ankara the homepage;the Romanian school the survey; the Spanish school facebookpage;the English school booklet about participating countries and partners.
The undertaken activities have been made with the purpose of developing skills and knowledge of students, teachers and community about the different ways students follow in each country and to adapt them in their curricular. Some had been done the same in each partner- country ( Career Day, Career Booklet, seminars with employers, students, stuff and community) Some have been done in a different way at each partner, because of the different ways of preparing fort he world of work.( Germany: introducing the main employer of the region, the way students can get an apprenticeship there, the basics, needs and conditions you have to fulfil, introducing the procedure students have to pass before they gat an apprenticeship// Spain: Career Fair// England: introducing the different colleges students can attend and the change in education now)
The students’ involvement in activities have been active and in presence and have been based on co-operative learning, peer-to-peer collaboration, use of I.C.T. tools.
The partnership has realized the web- site and facebook- site, videos and presentations for/ after each mobility, Erasmus- corners at each school, initial survey, project logo, recource book, handouts, articals on local newspapers, leaflets, seminar, gadgets (banners, keychains, caps, rucksacks…)
The results and impacts were in three different levels: schools, teachers, students.
At a school level:
strengthen partnerships and develop them focussing on supporting opportunities for students to engage in active learning in a practical European context.
increase in students’ involvement in the European citizenship, whereby, in contributing their views, time and talents, bring positive change in the school and the community.
better reputation and acknowledgement on a local, national and European level.

At a teachers level:
new pedagogical approaches
motivating students to participate actively in school, out-of-school or extracurricular activities.
At a students level:
experience an improvement of their life skills and competences needed as future active and critical citizens by linking current learning to future real life situations, especially in their choice of career
strengthen their self-awareness, self-confidence, responsibility, knowledge, capabilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 73230 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ganztagsschule “Werner Seelenbinder” & Country: DE

Project Partners

• YENIMAHALLE ATATURK ORTAOKULU
• Compañia de Maria de Granada
• The King’s School Pontefract
• mehmetçik anadolu lisesi
• Scoala Gimnaziala Valisoara