Linkyou – cooperation beween Latin America and Europe to employability Erasmus Project

Project Title

Linkyou – cooperation beween Latin America and Europe to employability

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

By developing this project, the consortium aims to contribute for the resolution of several challenges, such as unemployment among young graduates; difficulties to attract private funds to research; the academics’ needs for constant pedagogical skills update; difficulties to promote the transference of knowledge; the difficulty to attract students from social disadvantaged classes and mantain them; the need to promote entrepreneur minds to contribute to decrease economic and social crisis; the use of crowdsourcing as a tool to create a network; the difficulty of attracting users from different regions and finally, the need to improve students’ career guidance.In order to achieve the purposed goals, were defined three core activities: the platform development, where different stakeholders will be connected; the platform room to promote its use; and the entrepreneurship, crowdsourcing and employability stakeholders’ training to help them to improve these skills and create opportunities through the use of the platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 943518 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISCTE – INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA & Country: PT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD ESAN
• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL
• CORPORACION INTERUNIVERSITARIA DE SERVICIOS CIS
• UNIVERSIDAD DE PIURA
• UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
• FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESA
• LIPOMIZE SRL