Smart Aspirations Future Employment+ Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart Aspirations Future Employment+

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Access for disadvantaged; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project Smart Aspirations Future Employment+ (SAFE+) is a partnership between 6 organisations from UK, Turkey, Romania, Germany , Netherlands and Austria, who have the same institutional needs; youth inclusion for a better life opportunities. It is estimated that about 90% of jobs will require some kind of digital skills in the future (EU2020) making it necessary for education and training institutions to offer training which supports the development of such skills. SMART+ project looks to foster the provision and assessment of digital competences by supporting personalised learning approaches, collaborative learning and strategic use of ICT.

The central focus is to raise recognition that Smart City’ vision of the future world by reviewing topics like the Technology and curriclum, Employment skills of the future, Migration, Inclusion in 2030 and beyond. By this year the technological revolution will be promoting artificial intelligence, virtual reality, increase web traffic, introducing hybrid generation, robots etc. Smart City’ vision is shaped by providers of big technology, who are not attuned to bottom-up innovation.

For organisations internationalisation, digitalisation, modernisation can be very difficult, as inexperienced organisations, to get the big picture and apply them to work effectively. It can prove challenging to an organisation whose staff have limited opportunity to gain even the most basic skills necessary to operate effectively into the field of international cooperation (e.g. emailing etiquette or networking basics) to break through. Or for a organisation who has no specialised ICT staff (and that is the case as many organisations don’t even have an ICT technician), to implement digitalisation and creativity.

The aim of this project is to share best practice amongst organisations working with limited opportunities, marginalised youth, long-term unemployed from urban and rural areas, young people from migrants and refugee families. SMART+ Partners selected this theme for the topic using the following methods SWOT analysis and in country research from this it was determined that this project can develop our work for our common needs. Also, we understood that the exclusion of youth from central societal sectors generates tremendous social and economic costs to the society and may even lead to social and political unrest, and our institutions curriculum must have a real development of skills and pedagogical approaches, who are key vehicles for developing the all educational process.

It was our intention to have 5 transnational meetings organised every 4 months. This included a kickoff and a closing
meeting. The partners meet to ensure smooth & continuous communication and delivery on projects objectives. At these meetings we would time to reflect discusss key topics meetings, build on previous meeting outputs and prepare the next
steps and activities. prior to the pandemic we had 3 face to face meetings and 2 virtual meetings (due to lockdown) plus 4 in between meetings over the project timeline. From our research in country we have better awareness and understanding of the future jobs and skills landscape and where each country it at, including government plans from our observations there is more to do on this topic.

Access and training is the factor that will allow more young people to become aware of the possibliites for future employment we determined we could build on the project by creating KA2 around ICT specfic jobs and entreprenuership, gender and inclusion. Future jobs are coming and in some cases already here UK gave examples of supermarkets and digital shopping devices

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 38735 Eur

Project Coordinator

Global Entrepreneurs UK & Country: UK

Project Partners

• shelter international e.V.
• Kleinon SRL
• LYKIA IZCILIK VE DOGA SPORLARI KULUBU DERNEGI
• INTERNATIONALE ARBEIDSVERENIGING
• VIENNA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION VOLUNTEERS