Mobilise YOUrself – studying and working in the EU Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mobilise YOUrself – studying and working in the EU

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“Mobilise YOURself – studying and working in the EU“ is the title of our project through which we want to make a contribution to the agenda “Europe 2020“ in the context of a three years strategic school partnership.
Young people are the unexplored resources of Europe, however their situation is worrisome in many places because of rising poverty and social problems and high rates of unemployment on the one hand. On the other hand, apprenticeship training positions often stay vacant and universities complain about incapable students or too many university dropouts due to the lack of qualifications, motivation or simply lacking awareness of what their profession should look like in the future.
We are absolutely convinced that only we as Europeans can face and solve this entire set of problems together and that it is the task of our schools to prepare young people, as best as we possibly can, for the manifold challenges of today’s working environment and professional world. Wanting to contribute exactly to the aspects mentioned above, we wanted to focus on the topic “Europe-wide study and profession orientation” and especially to reflect on effective, sustainable and successful transitions of young people from primary school to the working environment in a critical way and to examine those transitions together with young people all over Europe. Furthermore, we primarily wanted to point out and strengthen the connection between general and professional education and the working environment and, what is more, higher educational institutions, to support key skills in terms of entrepreneurship, teamwork, digital knowledge and foreign language acquisition, to raise efficiency and motivation for learning in general and to work on reasons and opportunities of early school dropout prevention in this context.
Our strategic project team consisted of seven partner schools altogether, which were secondary schools from different geographical regions in Europe with different economical, historical, political and social backgrounds and which came from the following countries: Germany as coordinating country, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia and Poland. Besides the choice of partners from old and new EU member states we had inexperienced as well as well-experienced schools regarding European school partnerships in our team in order to set new impulses as well as to bring in experiences from earlier Comenius or Erasmus+ projects. The target group for our project topic and for the participation in mobilities were 14-18 years old students at the partner schools.
During the course of the project two transnational project meetings were held at the beginning and in the middle of the project – the last one in Germany had to be cancelled due to Coronavirus.
Furthermore, we conducted four learning, teaching and training activities, during which workshops regarding the topics application training, human resources management, mechanisms of the European labour market and the economy, healthy way of life, job profiles and expectations regarding your own future career and finally job training and study possibilities in the EU took place.
During the three-year project time all participants involved – particularly students, but also teachers – worked on different kinds of activities with regard to the topic “Study and profession orientation” such as preparing information booklets, preparing and carrying out video presentations and power point presentations, organising poster exhibitions, making and analysing surveys, assessing statistical tests regarding job orientation, planning and carrying out a job fair and finally, visiting job training companies, universities and other institutions.
Finally, through the intense work on our project topic and its activities we feel to have planted a long-lasting and diverse increase in competence for all participants and organisations involved. Primarily, intercultural competences and a better understanding of European values and a (re-)construction and development of a positive attitude towards the European idea could be strengthened and extended. Furthermore, IT and language skills as well as teamwork skills were trained and especially the expression of creativity, decision-making and conflict resolution were strongly emphasized in participants.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181210,34 Eur

Project Coordinator

Galilei-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• I.I.S.S. CANUDO
• Daugavpils Valsts gimnazija
• Zespol Szkol w Iwoniczu
• elliniki scholi OLYMPION
• 9 Gymnasium of Heraklion Crete
• Athénée royal de Ganshoren