Ready,steady,work! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ready,steady,work!

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The name of our project was Ready,steady,work! and it addressed secondary school students aged 15-18 from the following countries:Croatia,Greece,Luxembourg,Poland and Spain.The main objective of our project was to create a handbook called ‘Employability Skills Schoolkit’ and to try it out in order to offer it to other European schools to develop students’ employability skills(personal,people and workplace skills) through workshops and teaching activities because these skills are neglected in formal education and to make a bridge between educational system and world of work.The project consisted of two transnational project meetings( at the beginning and end of the project),one short-term joint staff training event and three short-term student exchanges.Through local activities and during short-term exchanges teachers and students created and tried out the produced materials.At the teachers’ mobility teachers got familiar with teaching of Employability skills in the Luxembourg partner school and they created materials for future student exchanges.At each student exchange a workshop was held with students on a given subtopic (the mobility subtopics were Leadership,Teamwork,Communication skills).Throughout the project teachers from different partner countries created 13 lesson plans on a given subtopic and other partner countries taught these subtopics in their countries(Employability skills in general, Problem-solving,Initiative,Planning and organising,Presentation skills,Decision-making,Creativity,Time management, Negotiating, Confidence,
Flexibility/Adaptability,Integrity and Risk-taking).After each lesson and after each workshop in a host country students (after coming back home)organised lessons and workshops for other students of their school and tried to share their newly-acquired knowledge with others(peer learning).During each mobility and during local activities students visited a firm or an institution to explore how important employability skills are in real life surroundings(interviews with employers, round tables with employees and employers,doing research etc.). At each student exchange students created a brochure of the project subtopic to show what they have learned.Also, throughout the project students engaged in practical activities in order to practice what they have learned in theory about employability skills(e.g.role-plays,initiating school projects,organising fairs,volunteering…)The tangible results of the project are the following: project website, 13 lesson plans and 3 workshops on different subtopics, which were compiled in Employability Skills Schoolkit at the end of the project,three brochures on main subtopics ,students’ presentations,project timelines,general project posters and brochures,evaluation reports, project logo,eTwinning page…The project made an impact on participating schools, teachers’ methodology competences,ICT and foreign languages skills and students’ future careers and their competences needed for future work life.New forms of work were started not only in partner schools but in other schools too. The project also developed students’ global skills since it was carried out in a multinational surroundings and it enabled them to work in multinational environments in the future. Other European schools will benefit from our final and main result,namely ‘Emloyability Skills Schoolkit’ since employability skills aren’t taught in a systematic way in almost any of the European countries and on the other hand are highly appreciated by future employers.This way European schools are now able to use our kit to teach these skills and enable their students ,as future employees, to successfully participate in the global labour market.Other European schools can find our Emloyability Skills Schoolkit on our eTwinning page and Erasmus+ Dissemination platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109070 Eur

Project Coordinator

I Gimnazija Osijek & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Nr 2 im. ks. prof. J. Tischnera
• 4th Geniko Lykeio Zografou
• IES LOS MOLINOS
• St.George’s International School