In very rapidly changing labour market demand it is very important for a person to have not only professional skills but also as mentioned in Bruges Communiqué to acquire key competences such as innovativeness, entrepreneuraship, creativity and similiar. Vocational education and training plays an important role in today's educational system as the qualitative provider of proffesional skills but not providing enough development of key competences. Career specialists at vocational education and training schools note that even they are not familiar how to wokr with pupils in order to develop their key competences. It is presumed that involvement of labour market representatives together with career specialists and profession teachers in education of key competences could improve this situation. Project “Deco -Key competences for career designing in cooperation with labour market” creates partnership between 4 countries and 8 organizations. Two sectors – vocational education schools and organizations, experienced in career counseling and designing, networking with labour market representatives will cooperate in the project (further – expert organizations). Project partners aim to identify key competences, necessary for the successful integration to the labour market of the VET schools pupils and prepare guidance for VET schools career counselors for these key competences development. Guidance will be based on the key competences development in cooperation with the labour market representatives to ensure that they are tuned to the world of work. Project activities are addressed to solve the problems, actual for the project partners and other similar organization all over the Europe. Project activities and planned output is addressed to the several target groups – VET schools career counselors, practice teachers, managers, stakeholders, VET education related authorities and labour market representatives. Activities implemented during the project will help to reach these objects of the project: To foster career consultants of VET schools professional development; To provide better services for the VET students in key skill development for the successful integration into the labour market; To develop services for the labour market representatives in cooperation with the VET schools and expert organizations; To ensure the need of the labour market for the qualified work force. Project partners identified, that the project goals meets with the priorities of the Erasmus plus programme for vocational education - establishment of partnership between vocational training institutions and businesses. The project also meets the priority themes of Erasmus plus programme for Lithuania - qualification compliance with the needs of labour market, the availability and quality of vocational guidance services, education of key competences (especially creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship) through vocational training. The project is also relevant to the themes of vocational guidance and career education sphere and meets them - education of competences of specialists (that often don't have special education) working in the vocational guidance area and strengthening the preparation system of vocational guidance specialists. Career counselors experience of the participating VET schools shows, that constant development of career counseling and designing services for the students is necessary to ensure that abilities of VET schools graduates responds the needs of the labour market. Project topic formulates objectives, which will ensure, that participation in the project will be advantageous for all the partners of the project. VET schools will get a tool for the qualified career counseling and designing in key competencies development and successful integration into the labour market of the students. Expert organizations will use this guidance for the development of the services for the VET schools and employers to ensure required qualification of the labour.
In very rapidly changing labour market demand it is very important for a person to have not only professional skills but also as mentioned in Bruges Communiqué to acquire key competences such as innovativeness, entrepreneurship, creativity and similar. Vocational education and training plays an important role in today's educational system as the qualitative provider of professional skills but not providing enough development of key competences. The implemented project “Deco -Key competences for career designing in cooperation with labour market” had created partnership between 8 organizations from 4 countries (Bulgaria, Turkey, Spain and Lithuania). Organizations representing two sectors – vocational education schools and organizations, experienced in career counselling and designing, networking with labour market representatives had been cooperating in the implementation of this project. The chosen partnership model ensured the achievement of qualitative project results. During the project implementation period project partners in cooperation with the representatives of labour market had identified key competences (using the results from employers’ online survey in all countries participating in the project (in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain), organizing round table discussions with the representatives of labour market in the countries of project partnership, following the good practices of vocational education and training schools for teaching key competences) which are necessary for the successful integration to the labour market of the VET schools pupils and prepared Guidelines for career coordinators at VET schools for key competences training with cooperation with employers and two additional publications: “Tips for success: Recommendations and Experiences for VET Centres in the Area of Key Competences Development” and “Communication for success: Communicating effectively as key to succeed in labour market”. Prepared publications are auxiliary materials for the career coordinators at VET schools, profession teachers, companies’ employees who works with trainees and other stakeholders who contribute for the education of pupils about key competences. Project activities were addressed to solve the problems, which are actual for the project partners and other similar organizations all over Europe and the intellectual outputs created during the implementation period of the project could be adapted in different type of education institutions and be used for education of key competences and contribute to the successful integration of VET schools pupils into the labour market. Labai greitai besikeičiant darbo rinkos paklausai žmogui yra labai svarbu turėti ne tik profesinius įgūdžius, bet kaip ir paminėta Briugės komunikate, įgyti bendruosius gebėjimus tokius kaip inovatyvumas, verslumas, kūrybiškumas ir panašiai. Profesinis mokymas vaidina svarbų vaidmenį šiandieninėje švietimo sistemoje kaip kokybiškai suteikiantis profesinius įgūdžius, bet nepakankamai ugdantis bendrąsias kompetencijas. Įgyvendintas projektas „DECO – Bendrieji gebėjimai karjeros projektavimui bendradarbiaujant su darbo rinka“ sukūrė partnerystę tarp 8 organizacijų iš 4 šalių (Bulgarijos, Turkijos, Ispanijos ir Lietuvos). Dviejų sričių organizacijos – profesinio mokymo ir organizacijos, turinčios patirties karjeros ugdyme ir projektavime bei glaudžiai bendradarbiaujančios su darbo rinkos atstovais, bendradarbiavo įgyvendinant projektą. Šis pasirinktas partnerystės modelis užtikrino kokybiškų projekto rezultatų pasiekimą. Projekto įgyvendinimo laikotarpiu projekto partneriai, bendradarbiaudami su darbo rinkos atstovais, identifikavo bendrąsias kompetencijas (naudojantis internetiniu darbdavių tyrimo metu gautais rezultatais visose projekte dalyvavusiose šalyse (Lietuvoje, Bulgarijoje, Turkijoje ir Ispanijoje), organizuojant apskrito stalo diskusijas su darbdavių atstovais projekto partnerystės šalyse, remiantis gerąją profesinių mokyklų patirtimi, ugdant bendrąsias kompetencijas) kurios yra būtinos, siekiant užtikrinti sėkmingą profesinių mokyklų mokinių integraciją į darbo rinką, ir parengė „Gaires profesinių mokyklų karjeros konsultantams šių bendrųjų kompetencijų vystymui bendradarbiaujant su darbdaviais bei du papildomus leidinius „Sėkmės patarimai: Rekomendacijos ir patirtys profesinio mokymo institucijoms bendrųjų gebėjimų vystyme“ ir „Sėkmingas bendravimas: veiksmingas bendravimas raktas būti sėkmingam darbo rinkoje“. Parengti leidiniai yra pagalbinės priemonės profesinių mokymo įstaigų karjeros koordinatoriams, profesijos mokytojams, įmonių darbuotojams, kurie dirba su praktikantais ir kitiems suinteresuotiems asmenims, kurie prisideda prie mokinių bendrųjų kompetencijų ugdymo. Projekto veiklos buvo skirtos problemų sprendimui, kurios yra aktualios projekto partneriams bei panašioms organizacijoms visoje Europoje, o projekto metu sukurti intelektiniai produktai gali būti pritaikyti įvairaus pobūdžio švietimo instit