Passport to the Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Passport to the Future

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

This project has involved high school students and staff from 4 small-to-medium sized towns in as many European countries -Greece, Hungary, Italy and Poland- which have identified common interests and issues and have resolved to address those through cooperation. The project creators live and work in secondary schools in a semi-rural context or towns of secondary economic importance. As a consequence, their students have to cope with a challenging economic situation in which high risk of unemployment, social exclusion, and low household incomes are the norm, putting them in a position of clear disadvantage compared to their peers from better-off areas and countries of the European Union.
The main aims of the project were:
– to tackle the school drop-out rate, that have been observed to be significantly high in the towns involved in the project. All the students that took part in the project have decided to continue to study, one of the Italian students – who went to Poland- has chosen to study in Pleven University (Bulgaria). Others have more clear idea about what to do after finishing the secondary education. Some students became aware of job skills which will be necessary to find a good job, and some who had doubts towards a profession got a positive answer for their choice.
– to expand the educational offer in order to provide students with real job skills. The discrepancy between subjects taught and skills that are actually required from students to get into employment is the main reason for students to drop out of education. To make students able to identify and develop the necessary skills and competence to look for or offer a job in an European context constitutes one of the main aims of the project. All the partecipants had the opportunity of improving fluency in English Language and the use of ICT.
-to raise the level of awareness of job opportunities available locally among students, and teach them how to look for jobs and approach employments. They visited some factories during the mobilities to see how they work and they talk about job opportunities in those fields with some experts.
-to increase students’ social responsibility and participation, and help them develop a variety of social skills for the improvement of the global, international and local community. We had a presentation in Rhodes about the future jobs, we have visited the Technology Centre in Kielce and got information about the future work places, and in Italy there was a conference about “21st century skills, the jobs of the future”.
International activities both for teachers and students included seminars about:
– Content of the Job Guide
– Theory of George Pashalidis.
– Studying and working in the EU
– 21st century skills, the jobs of the future
These seminars will be held by professionals and experts.
During the short- term exchanges of groups of pupils the following activities were organized where students worked in teams and took part in different workshops where they could try their skills and abilities:
– Presentation of the school through showing the main profiles of the institutions
– Visiting some lessons with the aim to reach our project goals
– Presentation of an interesting job, this activity took place at a factory or at a company.
– Presentation of analysis of social and economical situation
– Presentation of the map of vocational education of the countries
– Presenting interviews about: “Why students abandon school and university?”
– Opinions of people working abroad through interviews and statistics
– Editing the Job guide
– Presentation of the Job Guide
Our main product is the ‘Job Guide’, a guide book for students which can help them to find the right job. We have prepared many things and activities so far to build up the final product of the project. During the two years we work on details step by step to compile this guide book. Students and teachers of different nations worked together, so we could see the similarities and differences of countries’ school system, social and economic area and job market. These small steps lead us to create our final product and we could learn many new methods, new ways of thinking, good examples during the common work.
This project helped students to develop skills to put their ideas into practice and take initiative to adapt to rapidly changing and challenging a transnational reality. The cooperation of teachers and students belonging to 4 different European institutions has offered them the opportunity to share and experience useful approaches, techniques and tools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Nyíregyházi SZC Széchenyi István Közgazdasági, Informatikai Szakközépiskolája és Kollégiuma & Country: HU

Project Partners

• 1o GYMNASIO RODOY
• Zespol Placowek Oswiatowych Gimnazjum nr 1 w Piekoszowie
• Liceo Scientifico Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori