The competences for the educational GUIDANCE and the professional career management, a challenge for School Education. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The competences for the educational GUIDANCE and the professional career management, a challenge for School Education.

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Research and innovation; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The EDU.GUIDANCE project is a multilateral Strategic Partnership between 5 European countries (Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Portugal and Greece) whose goal, in addition to the specific objectives of the project, is to innovate, internationalize and make educational guidance more effective, by integrating it into the didactics and creating awareness of the different agents that influence the choice processes of young people.
Following the Europe 2020 Strategy towards a more intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth of the economy and society, we want to take a step towards flexible and high quality education and training systems that respond to current and future needs. Our objectives will be: to enhance the digitalization of educational guidance through specific and useful tools at European level; to promote the exchange of best practices in order to provide concrete solutions in the implementation of a quality and collaborative educational guidance system; to limit early school leaving due to inadequate choices; to provide continuous strategic communication on the prospects for results at the decision-making level in educational authorities and public institutions.

The direct participants of the project will be about 1200 among high school students, teachers, guidance counsellors and school directors, trainers; while indirectly more than 8000 people will benefit, including also education and training policy makers, parents and adult learners’ reference persons, other stakeholders, new students and young people, decision makers and policy initiatives.

The main activities of the project will be:

1) Research of the main existing methods and exchange of best practices, with proposals for new techniques and strategies to guide the choice of higher education studies or future work.
2) Creation, experimentation and adaptation of two intellectual outputs, very useful at educational level: two innovative and specific digital tools for student guidance and for training motivated and well prepared young people to face the challenges and demands of the labour market. The O1 “FutureCareer” is a pedagogical platform with online guidance value to support students in identifying the different representations of the main aspects and knowledge of the different professions.The O2 “PRO.Guiding” is a web portal of educational itineraries carried out with the methodology of educational guidance didactics diversified by disciplines in order to share trajectories of excellence and good pedagogical practices that serve as an example and help in daily practice.
3) Three Transnational Meetings, two Short Training Events for staff, teachers and guidance counsellors and one Final Joint Mobility with 30 European students.
4) Important phase of dissemination and sustainability of the materials and intellectual results of the project, with several local events and concrete activities that will culminate in a Final Multiplier Event in Madrid.

A participatory methodology will be used, aimed at the active contribution of all the partners and subjects involved, the valorization of the good practices of each country and the innovation of the intellectual results.
Our project will have a real outcome and impact on the educational community at European level: teachers and guidance counsellors will obtain new competences and strategies in an educational and vocational training context; students will learn about professional and educational careers, which greatly supports students’ participation, retention, commitment to learning, performance and progression to the next level or to work, and thus they will be able to compete in the labour market as future professionals. The partner schools and institutions will create a strong link and continue to cooperate when the project is completed. The long-term benefits will be seen as an improvement in the quality of education and training in the partner institutions and in European education policies.

Based on these considerations, after the end of the project, each organization will become a national reference for the different products developed in order to ensure the continuity of all actions, their visibility and accessibility. The digital tools created will be in constant renovation of information, the material will be freely accessible and downloadable. The multiplication of the availability of the results in different countries will guarantee the continuity of the main idea of the project benefiting different educational communities, responsible for educational policies, in the theme of educational and vocational orientation which means a better support and understanding towards this theme.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134335 Eur

Project Coordinator

MAD for Europe & Country: ES

Project Partners

• EPROMAT – Escola Profissional de Matosinhos, lda
• I.E.S. PEDRO SALINAS
• Italy for EU, Lifelong Learning & Mobility
• GoINNO Inštitut
• Platon M.E.P.E.