Say no to NEET! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Say no to NEET!

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The aim of the project was to find a way on the one hand how to support schools to avoid early school leaving (ESL) and on the other hand to give students tools how to prevent their unemployment.Therefore the focus on the high rate of “Youth Unemployment” in the EU countries. The partner countries of the project “Say no to NEET!” Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Poland showed possible ways how pupils were advised about their future careers. In this project we improved students’ knowledge about the diversity of their European cultures and to help pupils acquire the basic life-skills and competences for personal development, future careers and an active European citizenship. We integrated students that had lower possibilities and to encourage greater cooperation among partners, and promoting the advantages of mobility in the EU. Pupils developed a positive attitude towards lifelong learning, developed key social skills, improved English language and used ICT to find or exchange information and to communicate with the partners. Students recognized their skills and qualifications to facilitate learning and employability.
Finally, we aimed to cooperate with institutions and the local and wider European communities.Pupils worked on the following topics:
– Educational training system- reasons of unemployment and preventing
– get to know different jobs (gender job, future green jobs, jobs in the EU)
– Europass- self management skills
– EU opportunities
First: Teachers attended a transnational project meeting in November 2016 in Kohfidisch, Austria where they prepared all the activities and evaluation sheets for the first year of the project. Main focus in this meeting was on comparing the career guidance curricula of each country and draw conclusions. The aim at the end of the project was to implement and publish the curricula for at least the schools of the project.In the first learning teaching activity pupils make contact with different European cultures, getting to know each other in order to establish a cultural dialogue. They also analyzed the educational system of their own countries, sharing information and comparing results. A week-long exchange of pupils and teachers took place in Begues, Spain, in April 2017. Pupils presented their countries and their educational systems. They found out the differences and they come to conclusions. Futher more students contacted to people who were in working life. By making an interview students got to know details about various jobs. Students attended the second learning teaching activity which took place in Lodz, Poland, in November 2017. Over the coming year pupils answered questionnaires on “how to find the right carrer path”. Again students got this time in contact with Polish employees to find about different job possibilities. Results were compiled and compared across all partner countries. Information about careers was researched and compared in the partnership considering the education requirements needs for each career. Students started on their personal “Career portfolio” and also on the Europass. In March 2018, the third learning teaching activity took place in Campobello di Licata, Italy. In each partner school a “Talent Show” was held. In this show students focused on their own strengths and find their specific skills which would help them in the future. There they presented the talent shows of their countries with the help of ICT tools. Another task was to show students the studying and working possibilities within the EU. Also in Italy students got the possibility to learn about different jobs from Italian employees to find about different job possibilities. The second transnational project meeting was held in Alpiarça, Portugal in June 2018, where all the products of the project were compiled and evaluated. In order to further disseminate the outcomes of the project, several websites, platform www.lms.at and blogs were used and continuously updated throughout the project. Different channels of media (print, online, radio, TV) ensured a broader distribution of project results. After the final meeting each partner was going to present the project results to the local authorities and the curricula of career guidance was presented to the school authorities in each partner countries.Further more the project was available on the eTwinning platform so that also other partners can join this project allover Europe after finished the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 73390 Eur

Project Coordinator

Neue Mittelschule Kohfidisch & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Sant Lluís Bosch
• Agrupamento de Escolas de José Relvas Alpiarça
• Istituto Comprensivo S.G.Bosco
• Publiczne Gimnazjum Nr 1 im. Krola Boleslawa Chrobrego w Lodzi