Start up Your Career Successfully! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Start up Your Career Successfully!

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The notion of living and personal fulfilment in a European context is becoming more and more important among young people. Such important issues like enhancing their employability, their social, educational and professional development are gaining European dimension. Implementing the idea among young people to think about Europe as a united multicultural territory, in which inclusion, diversity and equality are tolerated, is extremely important for the future of the European Community. Contemporary schooling is providing young people with a high academic background, but it is still not doing enough in the field of successful future career development in European context. Our project “Start up Your Career Successfully!” comes as an answer to these needs.
The main goal of the project is to raise students’ preparedness for quick and flexible social fulfilment in an environment of increasing mobility of work force.
Sub goals:
• Raising students’ awareness of the European labour market and the role of career mobility for dealing with unemployment and building sustainable economy.
• Orientating for appropriate employment and choice of development path.
• Development of transferable career skills (individual productivity, taking initiative, employment in multicultural context etc.) and preparedness for career mobility (flexibility, self-sufficiency, self-confidence etc.)
The project will be implemented from October 2017 – April 2018 as a partnership between four European schools: Saint Paisiy Hilendarski Secondary School, Zlatitsa, Bulgaria; The Professional School of Montijo, Montijo, Portugal; “Anghel Saligny” Technical College, Rosiorii de Vede, Romania; Balaguer Vedruna School, Balaguer, Spain;
The initiative for implementing the activities is a result of expressed interest in the topics of the project by the partner schools after a discussion on eTwinning. 18 students at the age of 15-17 years old and 6 teachers from each partner school will take part in the project. Four short-term exchanges are planned (December 2017 in Portugal, April 2018 in Romania, October 2018 in Spain and April 2019 in Bulgaria), as well as common on-line activities through eTwinning within the duration of the project: online modular course in Business English; researches on three issues (European labour market and career mobility; current requirements for the work force; new professions in 21st century); preparation of presentation materials; case studies.
Activities during the short-term exchanges: presentation and discussions; visits to selected companies and participating in a real working process as assistants; self-discovery trainings; practical trainings; simulations; training videos and business games, aimed at assessing one’s own competitiveness and development of transferable career skills.
Most of the activities will be integrated into the partner schools’ curricular and will be carried on by teachers. In others representative of local businesses and career counsellors are involved.
Important part of the plan are the activities which are aimed at active social and cultural exchange: presenting the education system of partner countries; debates on topics of common European significance; friendship evenings; visits to significant for the national identities sites. All the project activities are carefully selected to complement the opportunities of formal education with opportunities for acquiring key competences by young people. Educational effect of the activities is achieved through various methods of informal education: discussions, case studies, simulations, role plays, workshops, practical trainings etc. Introducing young people to the labour market, the development of the profession in 21st century and the current requirements for the work force will raise their competences for career choice, will develop their skills for searching and finding chances for future employment and will enhance their skills for assessing their own competitiveness. Through “learning by doing” students will develop transferable career skills (individual productivity, taking initiatives, employment in a multicultural environment etc.) and will enhance their preparedness for quick and flexible personal fulfilment in European Union. Successful implementation of the project activities will encourage participants to perceive the European area as a united multicultural territory.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88220 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sredno uchilishte “Sveti Paisiy Hilendarski” & Country: BG

Project Partners

• ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DO MONTIJO -Associação para a Formação Profissional e Desenvolvimento do Montijo
• Fundació Vedruna Catalunya Educació
• Liceul Tehnologic “Anghel Saligny”