Tomorrow comes today Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tomorrow comes today

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

In 2018, the unemployment rate in the European Union reached 7.3% and 18 million people were looking for a job. Employment is one of the main priorities of the European Union, which has set a target of 75% of people in employment by 2020. The provision of training for jobseekers is one of the key solutions to reach these targets. Keeping jobseekers in training has several positive effects:

– Learning a new trade and starting a new career
– Staying competitive in the labour market
– Acquiring new or improved job skills.

What makes a training course successful?

A training course for jobseekers is considered successful if the trainee has access to a job after the training period. But training in itself is not enough to guarantee a job, and training providers need to consider the following points:

– Offering the right training to the right trainee: does the candidate have all the prerequisites to succeed in the training? All these parameters must be carefully analysed during the positioning and recruitment of each candidate in order to avoid drop-out during the training or a negative exit.

-The training evaluation process: how to ensure that all the skills of the training are fully acquired by each trainee? What are the internal processes in case of readjustments?

Most training courses for jobseekers include periods of work experience, but does each training organisation have a network of host companies? If so, are they interested in training and recruiting new employees, or are they just waiting for free labour?

10% of jobseekers have access to training in the EU and about 50% of them get a job as a result of this training. The labour market is increasingly open to private actors and training organisations can offer a new, innovative and free service to their learners and to companies. They need to work closely with companies to generate a sustainable partnership with them. They need to develop and expand their network of companies and offer them reliable and well-trained trainees. On the other hand, they should provide their trainees with the most appropriate company to put into practice the skills and knowledge acquired during the training. If both the trainee and the company are satisfied with the overall partnership, we increase the chances of future employment and collaboration.

The objectives of the Tomorrow Comes Today (TCT) project were
– To facilitate the professional integration of jobseekers after training.
– To facilitate access to training for jobseekers and make it more effective according to their profile.
– To involve companies and tutors more in the evaluation process.
– Developing partnerships between training organisations and companies

This project aimed to develop a free web platform for training organisations that offer training to jobseekers. It consists of 4 parts:

1: Positioning and recruitment: The user can apply for a training session and access all the information needed to submit an application.

2: Assessments: If the applicant is accepted, following the recruitment tests specific to each training organisation, to join the training course. During the course, he/she will have access to all his/her assessments: recruitment to the training action, positioning test, assessments during the training, assessments during the work placement period, final assessment (certificate, diploma, etc.).

3: E-learning material on job search, in-company tutoring and entrepreneurship.

4: Trainee database: Each user has the choice at any time whether or not to appear in this database or to be removed from it at any time. Companies, if they register, have access to the database of trainees of training organisations and can consult their profiles and evaluations. They can thus get in touch with profiles that have undergone training related to their activity and that have been accompanied by educational teams.

To create this platform, we carried out the following activities:

1: Surveys of 273 potential users (trainees, training organisations, companies) in France, Poland, the Netherlands and Slovakia to determine the platform’s specifications.

2: IT development of the platform.

3: 2 phases of testing the platform with 511 participants (trainees, training organisations, companies) in 4 countries (France, Poland, the Netherlands and Slovakia) to test and correct bugs in the platform.

Project results :

– A web platform for training organisations to follow up on their trainees’ progress available in 5 languages: English, French, Dutch, Polish and Slovak.

– The adaptation and creation of 3 digital training courses on entrepreneurship, job search techniques and in-company tutoring in 5 languages: English, French, Dutch, Polish and Slovak.

– A complete project guide, available online on the project website, including the methodology and results of the various project studies (platform specification studies, testing phases).

– Dissemination tools: website, videos and social networks.

We used the NPS (Net Promoter Score) method to evaluate and measure the feedback from the 2 test phases of the platform. We obtained an NPS of 17 for trainees, 44 for training organisations and 6 for companies. A positive Net Promoter Score (>0) indicates good user satisfaction. A score of 50 or above is considered extremely positive.

Project Website

https://tct-project.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159318 Eur

Project Coordinator

Leno Consulting & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LDNR
• Endurance Partners in Hospitality
• Spolupracou pre lepsiu buducnost – Velky Meder
• ORANGE HILL Sp. z o.o.