On the way to the European job market – a chance and challenge for young Europeans Erasmus Project

Project Title

On the way to the European job market – a chance and challenge for young Europeans

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Our project “On the way to the European job market – a chance and challenge for young Europeans’ develops creative learning opportunities through the use of careers education and work related learning. It focuses on foreign language learning (English) as a means of entering the European world of work in 21st century and integrate the innovative use of ICT to promote interest, engagement and challenge.

The background of the project is the need to give the young people a possibility to enter the European job market . They need support in job orienteering as well as learn social responsibility and self-initiative and improve their English to get a better chance entering the European job market.

One important objective of the project is to promote learning through the exploration of careers and work related opportunities within a variety of geographically scaled and culturally diverse environments. Students and teachers investigate local, regional, national and European employment challenges and prospects, as they were enthused to view the European workplace and the increasingly globalised economy in which it participates.

Also the development and improvement of cultural awareness is an objective to be reached. Students open their minds to new cultures and experiences and begin to recognize the similarities in their counterparts rather than perceive cultural barriers that have made them seem so distant and distinct from each other previously.

Another important objective is that the students develop a greater sense of their linguistic competences and potential and grow to place greater value in these key competences, as they find themselves in situations which can only be enhanced by their use.

The ability and improvement of the students’ ICT skills is another objective reached in the project. The students gain the skills and tools for presenting themselves in front of employers and teachers. Companies nowadays expect students and employees to be able to work with the ICT skills, because they exchange and deepen their knowledge especially when meeting their European partners.

During teamwork and negotiation students are involved in the extra curricular project group growing in confidence, maturity and independence and so the intellectual outcome of the project is to gain a greater understanding of their own strengths and weakness.

Teaching staff is challenged to engage with an area of education that is significant and enriches their teaching competences. This fits into their normal teaching routines and gives them the opportunity to try out different ways of teaching. Thus they have encountered a physical output with a wealth of new material and an intellectual output with the improvement of the use of CLIL and ICT.

The four participating organisations are: the Grotius College (Netherlands), IIS Eschilo (Italy), Gimnazjum nr11 w Olsztynie (Poland) and the Oberschule am Waller Ring (Germany) as coordinator of the project. All of them are schools of the secondary level in general education. The schools face many students from families with low incomes. The schools’ societies profit from a big diversity of cultural and religious backgrounds. All the schools have experience in the use of CLIL, ICT and job orienteering. There are around ten teachers participating in the project. They cover the whole range of different subjects that are needed to carry out the project successfully. There are 80-100 students involved in the project. The boys and girls are about 14-15 years old and are taught on different levels of education, which means their qualifications differ from low level to a higher degree.

There are activities carried out to work on products like the slogan/logo, interviews, VOKI, glogsters, commercial articles, PPP,and videos to prepare them for a European job life. They are trained through CLIL and ICT methods as well as interdisciplinary lessons.

The expected result is to enable students find their ideal job on the European job market. They recognize their personal skills, social competences, likes and dislikes about jobs and work. They find out about job fields and their concrete requirements. The two of them makes the result of their ideal job research: personality and job requirements.
The other expected result is to improve language and intercultural competence. The students are encouraged to use the target language in their learning process.
A longer potential term benefit of the project is to inspire the students’ desire to travel, whether to study, work or for leisure in Europe and undoubtedly sees the start of potentially lifelong friendships and collaborative approaches to learning. So the companies benefit from the students that are well prepared, motivated and educated for the job market.
There is a large dissemination of the projects’ results by different schools so they become part of the schools’ curricula and teachers training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96620 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oberschule am Waller Ring & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 11 w Olsztynie
• IIS ESCHILO
• St. Openbaar Voortgezet Onderwijs Delft