Youth Employment at the WORk Life THrough Long-Term Employability Skillls Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Employment at the WORk Life THrough Long-Term Employability Skillls

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Employability skills are the “key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate and thrive in the new world of work.” They are necessary skills for getting, keeping and being successful in a job. These competences have large impacts on access to the labor market. All these skills are also called transferable skills because they can be transferred between different job and various employment sectors. It is an undeniable fact that having work-related skills is necessary but not enough. The main objective of this project is to determine the long-term employability skills of youth, reveal the training strategies and to create a training methodology for youth trainers. Other important objective is to increase an awereness between youth about the most important employability skills. These skills increase job retention time and reduce the time to leave work early.

TURKONFED is the applicant organisation. Other partners are İSEM (Govermental Organization), GLOBEST (NGO), JA Turkey (NGO works for Youth), IED (entrepreneurial organization),ITPIO (Continious training center),MC 2020 (Training Center), TDM 2000 /(Youth Organization). Worth project developed four important intellectual outputs which are as follows: IO1: Assesment of the long-term employability and transferable skills of youth in Europe: Partners developed a need analysis to find out the current situation with regards to the long-term employability skills that are required and that are considered to be necessary for youth to enter the labour market in their countries. IO2: Provide a Compilation of Success Stories for the Promotion of the Use of Employability Skills in Youth Employment: Many good practicies in the field of entrepreneurship was searched and a general report was developed by the partner countries.IO3. Creation of Training Contents on Long-Term Employability Skills:Based on the desk research and IO1 project partners developed a cirriculum consist of nine modules which will help youth to be employed. The modules are:Leasership,Taking a risk, Decision Making,Planning and Priotizing,Self Confidence,Communication,Business Writting and Presentation,Foreign Language,ICT Skills. Tese modules were developed and seminars were provided to the youth.IO4. An Online Learning Environment: The last IO is the open resource platform for youth. Youth can take the training based on their needs in this platform (http://elearning.worthproject.org). As a result worth project developed a country report which contains the current situation and needs for employability in english and in partner languages. Good practicies report was developed in English and in Partner languaces which navigate youth for employment. This curriculum conmtains nine modules for youth to identify, develop and enhance their long-term employability skills was developen in English and in partner languages. It is available in project e-learning platform accessible in lik http://elearning.worthproject.org. All project outputs can be found in the project web site http://worthproject.org. Worth project partners organized two dissemination activities to increase awearenes for long termm employability skills between yout in their countries and a big valorization seminar was organized in Turkey.

Unemployment rates in Europe have been increasing rapidly over the past few years. With the financial crisis hitting young men and women hard it is nearly impossible for the European society to see any chance of a bright future. At least not for the next few years. Things are not very clear. Some say that the situation is getting better. Others say that things are deteriorating faster than before.Long term employability is very important topic in all over the world. We are expecting that via e-learning platform many peer will get training and realise their needs and update them for long term employability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 263180,15 Eur

Project Coordinator

Turk Girisim ve Is Dunyasi Konfederasyonu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• TDM 2000
• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• GENC BASARI EGITIM VAKFI
• Global Egitim Kultur ve Iletisim Dernegi
• MEDIA CREATIVA 2020, S.L.
• INSTITUT ZA PODGOTOVKA NA SLUJITELIV MEJDUNARODNI ORGANIZACII ZDRUZHENIE
• ISTANBUL VALILIGI