Inclusion, a step towards youth employment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusion, a step towards youth employment

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Currently, in the European Union, about 20% of a group of pupils leave the school / education system without qualification and / or are discontinuers of the system. According to the 2014 diagnosis report “Partnership assessment of the policy of the fight against school dropout”: “in metropolitan France, approximately 140,000 young people leave each year from the system of initial education without a diploma of upper secondary and 620,000 of young people aged 18 to 24 are outside of any training system and without a high school diploma. ”
At the same time, the PISA surveys, which measure the effectiveness and performance of different education systems, highlight an increasing gap in terms of the chances of success among students according to the category. parents and socio-economic determinants.
To address this problem, and as part of the Europe 2020 strategy for a sustainable, smart and inclusive economy, the EU states have set themselves the ambition of reducing the share of young people to less than 10% of 18-24 years old without any training system and without a high school diploma.
To achieve its objectives, the EU recommends, among other things, to develop new methodologies for assessing and validating skills to be acquired in formalized and non-formalized environments in order to achieve official certification of skills.

To act on this last point we decided to set up this project of exchanges of good practices. It is an extension of other European projects carried out with the project partners. Indeed, since 2016 we have been working together on the social inclusion and support to employment of young NEETs. We wanted to go further and build an educational booklet that can be used, transposed and adapted in any EU country.

Goals :
-Share and pool our knowledge, our experiences and our reflections on the social inclusion and the accompaniment towards the employment of the young people without qualification to widen our educational approaches and requalify our methods and our educational tools.
-To promote the transfer of practices between all participating countries
-Instruct, throughout the exchange, the local partners of the participating countries
-Construct and carry out surveys and interviews with young people without qualifications and local businesses whose jobs are in tension (lack of manpower) to know how they represent the personal and professional skills necessary to have to get a job .
-Construct and carry out explanatory interviews (Cf Pierre Vermersch) with young people without qualifications to help them put into words their experience, reveal it, analyze it and formulate it in terms of skills.
-Building, based on the results of the interviews, a repository of the key competences essential to have to obtain a job (from the point of view of the young person as of the company).
This repository will be constructed with skills descriptors adapted to the level of the European Professional Qualifications Framework (level 1 to 4.) These descriptors will include the knowledge, aptitudes and skills adapted to our audience of young people without qualifications.
-Construct and animate thematic workshops for young people (ex: My representation of the world of work / Do the trades have a sex? / Discrimination in the hiring, what to do? / The tools at the service of my insertion: CV, Europass, Competence Portfolio, etc.).
-Construct a pedagogical booklet to promote good pedagogical practices from the project.
– Make visible and value the work done by collectively organizing the public communication strategy.

Target audiences:
-the actors of the professional insertion, the social workers, the youth animators / educators, the trainers: they will be the beneficiaries of the educational booklet to accompany the young people without qualification towards the employment.
-the young people without qualification: they will benefit from our accompaniment to the formalization and the recognition of their competences (narrative of life and interview of explicitation). They will also live thematic workshops to increase their knowledge and skills in related topics (my work vision, trades have sex, etc.).
-the local businesses: they are the potential employers of young people without qualification. They will be asked to know their expectations in terms of essential skills to have to obtain a position (beyond the technical skills of the trade).

Project Website

https://www.facebook.com/inclusionsteptowardsyouthemployment

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 44930 Eur

Project Coordinator

AUX COULEURS DU DEBA & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAÇÃO NOVO MUNDO AZUL
• POLITISTIKI ANAZITISI LESVOU AMKE