Influence of Social SKills in the Orientation towards higher Education// Influence des compétences sociales dans l’orientation vers l’enseignement supérieur. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Influence of Social SKills in the Orientation towards higher Education// Influence des compétences sociales dans l’orientation vers l’enseignement supérieur.

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Gender equality / equal opportunities; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The ISSKO project was set against a backdrop of failures in higher education, disaffection for certain scientific fields, lack of recognition, at least in France and Poland, of social skills in the construction of a post-bac orientation process. To build a strategic partnership project was to set ambitious objectives around this problem, objectives achieved for all or part of it.
First objective: give students tools to think about the choice of their post-bac studies, tools based on social skills.
Second objective: to facilitate and promote studies in a European context.
Third Objective: Work on the referral process to reduce failure at the University and open the field of possibilities.
Fourth objective: promote inter-cycle links to develop national and international cooperation.

The three partners contributed to this project both their expertise and their practices. Finland has brought its mastery of taking into account the social skills of students throughout the school and university. Poland has shown its know-how in the construction of innovative pedagogical sequences. France has put in place tools for the evaluation and monitoring of this project. The complementarity of the three partners has borne fruit in the exchange of practices in particular. We will also note the considerable contribution of the university research laboratory TALENT CAMPUS of DIJON, expert in social skills, GIP-FTLV of DIJON for the monitoring and evaluation of the project, the universities of TURKU (Finland), KIELCE and LODZ ( Poland) for the provision of innovative practices.

We wanted to vary the activities and especially to highlight the target group of thirty young people in post-high school posture. The entire program was designed, negotiated, reworked sometimes and finalized during the steering group meetings but after the target group’s opinions and proposals in the training and learning seminar.
The reflection was carried by many activities: documentary research, surveys of professionals, individual and group work. The supports were just as numerous: powerpoint, writings, videos. The channels of communication were essential vectors of the information: internal site, t blogs, mails. The partnership work resulted in the complete realization of a fiction film “ERASMUS MURDER”, from script writing to dubbing dialogues with professional cinematographic quality. Several videos of the three training and learning seminars will be found on the project site.

It is difficult to measure all the impacts, especially in the long run, and the subject still deserves to be worked on. It should be noted, however, that there is a profound change in the apprehension of European citizenship in the target group. Behaviors have changed. Let us quote these young French people who went to work for a summer in Finland, these French and Polish who met at RADOMSKO in summer.
Similarly, the term “social skills” is no longer taboo or foreign. He makes his way in the orientation process. Attempts have been made to introduce this notion into the evaluation of pupils in certain classes in France.
It is also noteworthy that two countries have once again committed themselves to European projects. Finland and France in a school exchange partnership with Cyprus and Croatia. The theme of social competences joins that of linguistic competences with a public in need of recognition and little European.
France has also embarked on two other projects: one with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education and another as part of an academic consortium of several institutions.

We hope for a long-term benefit on the consideration of social skills in the post-bac orientation, as part of the reform of high school in France for example. Training courses have been set up in Poland and France for professionals wishing to continue the work involved. The information flows well.

In conclusion, it was a great project, and we were not expecting such a success. The European symposium, which closed the project on January 15 and 16, 2019, highlighted the interest of the subject, who still deserves much study and exchange of practice.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130517,87 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE STEPHEN LIEGEARD & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Paimion lukio Paimion kaupunki
• II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. K. K. Baczynskiego w Radomsku
• PRES Bourgogne Franche Comté ESTH Innovation université