Read Summarise Verify and Publish Erasmus Project

Project Title

Read Summarise Verify and Publish

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Read Summarise Verify and Publish (RSVP) was a strategic partnership in the field of youth between 8 partners with a variety of social missions from 8 countries under the leadership of the VisMedNet Association of Malta.

RSVP built on the success stories of two E+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships for VET VISConti (2014-2016) and UPPScience (2016-2019) that started up a Community of Practice for players in education, training and industry who are not usually engaged in research bringing them into research. The two projects also set up a state of the art digital platform to enable members of the CoP to publish mini research papers after peer review. It is also part of a family that includes 4 other E+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships in VET, HE and Youth that use and have augmented new parts to the same CoP platform making cross project visibility, cooperation and fertilisation ample and wide.

RSVP engaged more 40 different youth leaders, trainers and educators almost all new to the Community of Practice who became active members on its platform engaging in a process that upped their professional profile and social status of their respective organisations. They engaged in research and published mini research papers on the top 10 skills that employers were watching out for when taking on new employees in 2020 as identified by a report of the World Economic Forum called “The Future of Jobs” (January 2016). The vision on these skills was projected to 2025.

The skills were:
1. Complex Problem Solving
2. Critical Thinking
3. Creativity
4. People Management
5. Coordinating with Others
6. Emotional Intelligence
7. Judgement and Decision Making
8. Service Orientation
9. Negotiation
10. Cognitive Flexibility.

The youth leaders and educators:
– read research about one of these 10 skills,
– published a summary of the research they read (to encourage the reading of research through reading with a purpose),
– engaged in field research interacting with stakeholders in education, youth, employment, industry and policy to sustain or gain further insight into the findings of the research they had read and
– published mini research papers on the CoP platform for peer review by at least two other members of the CoP.

Youth leaders participated in training C1 and C2 (C2 was divided into two online rounds due to COVID19 pandemic restrictions on mobilities) in which they received training in research process, referencing and writing to be published to help them structure their research.

This process was monitored and mentored by 8 Ambassadors of Change to support the adoption of the new research culture in the partner organisations.

The research papers are published on the project website and the summaries of the research papers have been combined into one publication “Recommendations for Innovation in Youth, Education and Industry to Synergize with 2025 Employment Trends”.

The impact of RSVP from top down started at European level since it is a concrete step towards a stronger ERA by bringing youth professionals, who are not usually engaged in research, into a Community of Practice set up to foster the research culture in professional development.

At local, regional and national level there was engagement with social players in the discussion on medium term employment trends during the field research carried out by the youth leaders in their RSVP research activities and in three multiplier events.

At organisational level youth organisations sought to up their social status as become playmakers in foresight strategies to ensure that youths of today will not be the unemployed youth of tomorrow due to skills mismatch caused by education and training policies and curricula that are out of date. Interaction between youth, education and industry in fact started during the project in view of the multi sectoral composition of the partnership.

RSVP brought youth leaders and educators into the ERA and ahead of time in the understanding of trends that can affect general economic and social wellbeing for the benefit of youths as ultimate beneficiaries of the RSVP project.

Throughout the project lifetime the partners participated in a process of validation of the learning and growth at individual level and a special monitoring effort of the active engagement of partners with social players in their communities under the leadership of two dedicated partners leading these processes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121089 Eur

Project Coordinator

VisMedNet Association & Country: MT

Project Partners

• Bolu provincial directorate of youth and sports
• YAMBOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
• VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA PAR
• Stowarzyszenie Integracja i Rozwoj
• Associazione ValIda
• ASOCIACION BUILDING BRIDGES
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED