The European Job Market of the Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

The European Job Market of the Youth

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The aim was to implement innovative policy and strategies in order to enhance the integration of young people into the job market and to promote the mobility of youngsters to live a labour experience in another European country.
The partners organised workshops and meetings on the topic of becoming an attractive future employee. W managed the job interview with professional HR for the students in companies which we already cooperated with, and which declared further cooperation. We also cooperated with local entrepreneurs, job centres and HR specialists within Comenius project, and we continued the cooperation to help students face with real problems people have while looking for job.
Consequently, schools improved their qualities in many fields, like cooperation with companies and social skills, team working, management, leadership, foreign and national languages skills. Changes for better included e.g. emboding more emphasis on creativity and entrepreneurship to school policy, introducing new topic to obligatory school curriculums (e.g. body language and non-verbal communication, effective speaking, coaching, negotiations, assertiveness and solving problems and others). Schools’ environmen became more transnational and helped participants develop their international potential. Smarter students had more chances to develop and weaker students found motivation and ways to get a job.
Students’ basic competences – writing, speaking and ICT skills developed .
A great advantage of the project was also be the way the schools cooperated- As most of the schools knew one another quite well from a previous project, we knew and concentrated on the positive and negative facts we noticed while comparing the schools for this project. As the result, we based the project on mutual learning and teaching, e.g. German school had been excellent at cooperation with companies, so offered experience and skills to share with the other schools.
We took advantage of the resources we have at schools, meaning teachers, advisers, parents, graduates companies and institutions representatives (e.g. job centre, HR), who had declared free help and consulting in the project.
The project’s goal was to improve students’ abilities and skills needed to find their place on the job market. We succeeded in helping them to be profession – oriented, resourceful, follow ICT trends, aware of the necessity of long – life learning,
The horizon goals included: ICT skills development, entrepreneurship, multilinguistic, concentration on real life teaching results.
The priorities were supporting and developing profession – orientation, basic competences development, learning motivation.
E-twinning was used as a way of long – distance communication and working and it is planned to be a continuation after the project is over.
A webpage with project products will be used as a free source of information available to everybody, not only those involved directly in the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ahnatalschule Vellmar & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Debreceni Szakkepzesi Centrum Brassai Samuel Gimnaziuma és Muszaki Szakgimnaziuma
• Donnerska skolan
• II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Zespole Szkol Ogolnoksztalcaco – Technicznych
• Özel Esayan Ermeni Lisesi
• Elektrostrojarska skola