Show Your Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Show Your Skills

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The project “Show your skills” is a 24-month strategic partnership that aims at supporting adults looking for jobs to acquire, develop, recognize and value the skills and abilities obtained throughout their lives to improve their employability and contribute to its full development. In addition, it will allow the transition between unemployment and employment, facilitate professional reorientation, and improve the transition between different jobs.
One of the products that we intend to create is a digital platform where beneficiaries can recognize, value and validate the skills acquired in different contexts and educational fields that are not only formal. This will make it possible to match between job offers and the demands of unemployed people in a way based on skills and not on professional experiences, which in the long term will lower the unemployment rate among job seekers, as well as help companies who struggle to recruit.
This project is motivated by an observation and a concern shared between 3 Mediterranean countries with similar realities concerning the problems experienced by vulnerable populations, with regard to their legitimate needs for social and professional integration. Indeed, since the crisis began to hit the labor markets in 2008, 5.6M jobs have been destroyed in Europe. The so-called vulnerable populations are the groups, which have suffered the most severely from the effects of this crisis.
However, 12 years later, the crisis continues to affect a large number of people. In 2019, even if the unemployment rate in Europe has fallen, that of the 3 partner countries, Spain 13.6%, Italy 9.7% and France 8.1%, remains among the highest in Europe; the euro area average is 7.9%.
The objectives of the project are:
– Identify, analyze and exchange good practices in terms of recognition and development of skills, for vulnerable groups
– Create new tools to facilitate job search based on skills rather than formal experiences
– Strengthen the capacities of actors in the fields of recruitment and support towards employment to define the different alternatives for the recognition of key skills.
– Create a network of organizations working on the recognition of key skills, in order to promote a sustainable transnational approach to support beneficiaries from different countries.
– Provide a digital platform to offer personalized, flexible, rewarding recruitment or training solutions that promote skills rather than formal experiences.
The project “Show Your Skills” will work on three groups of participants.
1. Learners who are at risk of social exclusion (unemployed, seniors, NEETs, people looking for a professional reorientation …)
2. Professionals responsible for supporting vulnerable groups (orientation counselors, advisers in skill assessments, professional coaches, social workers, etc.)
3. Recruiters (recruitment agency, companies, etc.)
These groups will carry out various activities, such as:
– Work on a common method for skills assessment
– 3 transnational meetings and 1 training
– Experiencing the common tools developed with the learners
– Design, create and launch the digital platform and integration of the tools developed:
o Training tools for actors in the employment fields to define the different skills recognition alternatives
o Support tools for beneficiaries at risk of social exclusion to strengthen and enhance their skills
o Help in writing CVs that highlight skills rather than formal experiences
o Job offers from recruiting firms involved in the project (June 2022)
– Dissemination of results, visibility and sustainability of the project
The project “Show Your Skills” will have an impact that goes beyond the participants and partner organizations, at a local, regional, national and European level.
Our beneficiaries, will acquire new skills which they can exploit and use thereafter to improve the quality of their work, and launch activities where the key skills of adults are recognized, valued and validated and thus improve the socio-economic situation of their communities and lower the unemployment rate.
The creation of a network of contacts, the analysis of needs, obtaining new knowledge, the exchange of good practices, the new tools created, will make it possible, thanks to a crossed look on different parameters, to enrich knowledge, understanding and capacity building of actors who work in favor of targeted vulnerable groups.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53940 Eur

Project Coordinator

Développement Méditerranée (DEVMED) & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION INICIATIVA INTERNACIONAL JOVEN
• Travelogue Associazione di promozione sociale