MyFuture – Improving digital skills for career guidance at school Erasmus Project

Project Title

MyFuture – Improving digital skills for career guidance at school

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

According to the European Lifelong Guidance Policies, career guidance should be based on the European framework of the Career Management Skills (CMS) because it represents the set of competences and skills each person needs to take strategic e suitable decisions about the own future. MY FUTURE project stressed the main findings of a previous project (Learning and decision making resources Project Number 2014-1-IT02-KA200-004105) to improve and develop innovative practices and career learning tools for school systems in Europe. Learning Career Management Skills is pivotal for the implementation of the European Lifelong Guidance policy and for reaching the goals of the Education and Employment strategies.
Furthermore, the growing of the information and communication technologies in the field of lifelong guidance opened new opportunities to integrate theoretical and participatory research findings with digital technologies that enable teachers and practitioners to get a concrete impact in the development of the career management skills of youth and youngers.
Main objectives of MYFUTURE were:
1- Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving
2 – Developing assessment and evaluation methods and practices to improve the quality of Career Guidance at school, involving the local career guidance systems and the main stakeholders;
3 – Strengthening the capability of schools to cooperate and share open web resources with Municipalities, Local Authorities, Public Employment Services and Universities.
4 – Identifying and developing innovative teaching and learning approaches, methods and ICT resources that effectively support the development of Career Guidance activities at school;
5 – Sharing and spreading the European concept and framework of Career Management Skills, as transversal key competences for managing lifelong study and work transitions;
6 – Providing coherent and “user friendly” tools and learning materials for students, teachers and school counsellors, in different languages.
The partnership was a balanced mix of competences and knowledge made by academic institutions, with experts and researchers, and public and private providers of career guidance at school:
1-The University of Camerino (Italy): Lead partner
2- Regione Marche (Italy)
3- Centre Studi Pluriversum (Italy)
4-The University of Derby (United Kingdom)
5-Hertfordshire County Council (United Kingdom)
6-UU-Lillebælt (Denmark)
7-University of Malta (Malta)
8-CMBRAE Bucuresti (Romania)
The methodological approach of the project was based on the participatory action research, with direct involvement of students, teachers and career practitioners to set out priorities and to share best practices and resources.
Main activities implemented were:
-Organization of focus groups with students and teachers in each partner countries;
-Construction and sharing of questionnaires to collect data on needs, practices and tools;
-Analysis of data and production of relevant knowledge in the field of career guidance practices;
– Setting out and sharing guidelines for using the tools and to design guidance activities;
-Development of open educational resources available on-line freely;
-Development of ICT tools for teachers and students;
-Dissemination of the project activities in events at national and international level;
-Organization of conference seminars and training activities for teacher and career guidance practitioners.
During the implementation of these activities were involved 174 students and practitioners for the field research, more than 205 questionnaires were administrated, 1152 among students and practitioners took part to the pilot actions, 121 participants attended the multiplier events,333 people subscribed the website, more than 1000 practitioners were reach with the social network and on line articles, 369 users download document from the platform.
The intellectual outputs produced were:
IO1-Developing career education. Publication.
IO2-The potential of e-portfolios in career guidance. An innovative web site.
IO3-Enhancing the quality of career guidance. The handbook for schools, with the on line check list to self evalutate quality standards.
IO4-The map of career guidance.
IO5-Career guidance App. A new tool for mobile phones.
IO6-E-learning platform for teachers and practitioners
The products were designed for students services that reach ever-increasing numbers of young people in a cost effective and efficient way. The e-learning platform and the open education resources guarantee an increasing impact on the regional systems in each partner country. All the partner are implementing activities and planning new programmes based on the evidences of MYFUTURE project. The contacts achieved during the dissemination are creating new partnership and enlarging the communities of teachers an practitioners interesting in the development of digital resources and tools for career guidance at school.
info on www.myfutureproject

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAMERINO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• STICHTING LANDSTEDE
• UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
• CENTRO STUDI PLURIVERSUM SRL
• Centrul Municipiului Bucuresti de Resurse si Asistenta Educationala
• UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
• REGIONE MARCHE
• HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL