The “CUVID – Curriculum Video” project aims at giving an answer to the urgent need to tackle youth unemployment. The goal is to develop an interactive online CV and application platform based on videos for young people to directly link them to potential employers. The CUVID platform will enable young people to create videos for self-presentation that will be linked to their digitalized CVs. Young people are more likely to convince potential employers with their personality captured in a creative video rather than with written CVs, as they often cannot yet show a long impressive biography list. The platform will counteract this disadvantage by opening up a way of addressing employers in a more direct and individual way that emphasizes the impact of charisma and personality. This will raise young people’s chances of making an impression on the employer and will therefore increase their prospects of being hired. Furthermore, the CUVID outcomes aim at training VET teachers and students in ICT relevant skills to be able to produce, edit and publish videos online. The CUVID project is focused on the development of a new tool meant to facilitate the matching of job demand and offer for VET students. The consortium involves 5 organisations from different fields that complement one another. COORDINATOR / VET TRAINING CENTRE:P1 (AT) bit schulungscenter: The coordinator was the initiator of the project idea. It has extensive experience in the field of educating young adults in employment measures and different VET professions. ICT EXPERT: P2 (PT) FUTURE BALLOONS: In order to provide a user-friendly and multi-functional interactive web-platform we need an expert for platform and online teaching material development. P2 (PT) suits best our expectations to fulfil the tasks for CUVID. This SME is specialized on technology & ICT based learning. It has plenty of experience in carrying out transnational and EU projects. It has expertise in programming multifunctional online platforms and in creating interactive teaching tools (smart shows and CUVID tutorials). SCIENTIFIC EXPERT:P3 (HR) University of Osijek: Scientific backing of the project activities is crucial if a project strives for high-quality standards. This can be provided and guaranteed by involving a scientific institution like a university. P3 (HR) is the Faculty of Economics (EFOS) of the University of Osijek and is not only a scientific institution with an excellent reputation, but with special knowhow on special needs of young citizens and employability measures. The University of Osijek holds the UNESCO chair for entrepreneurship education and has great understanding of the scientific perspective on VET education and youth employability. VET SCHOOLS: The VET schools will pilot test the tutorials, create video CVs, train their teachers for assisting their pupils with establishing a video CV and give feedback to improve CUVID products. Furthermore they will be trained as first users and multipliers of the CUVID products and platform and will disseminate the project results in their own national and transnational networks even beyond official CUVID dissemination and multiplier activities. P4 (AT) LBS Bad Gleichenberg: The vocational school for tourism has been training students for more than 60 years. Every year about 1500 apprentices attend our school and participate in the dual system. The school has also participated in creating the ECVET-TCNET for the tourism trade. P5 (CZ) OA Písek: VET school with about 240 students and 21 teachers. Specialisation in training students in subjects of accounting, economy, languages (English, German) and IT technology. CORE OUTCOMES OF CUVID – CURRICULUM VITAE:• O1 CV Quality Standards Analysis & Requirements Engineering• O2 Online Tutorials & Example Videos for Video-Based CVs & Applications• O3 CUVID Online-Platform• O4 VET Teacher Instruction & Training Manual with Learning Objectives CUVID will develop, pilot test and implement innovative practices related to new job-application strategies, learning materials for video-CV creation and tools. Tutorials and the application platform will meet European standards, correspond to specific needs of the target groups and all intellectual outputs will be openly accessible via the project website and the CUVID application platform. In accordance with the Erasmus+ programme, CUVID will contribute to:• Strengthening links between the VET area and the labour market• Promote young people’s social inclusion and well-being by tackling the issue of youth unemployment• Developing tools aimed at combating social exclusion• Strategic networking and cooperation with organisations in education and training fields and in the job market• Strategic cooperation with local and regional public authorities.
The CUVID (Curriculum Video) project was initiated to tackle youth unemployment with an innovative application platform based on videos for young people to directly link them to potential employers. After completion of the project it is clear that CUVID went far beyond the project goals. The CUVID platform not only offers a new way of application management by emphasizing the impact of charisma and personality but it also hits the nail on its head regarding alternative ways of applications in the world of digitalization. The project team developed a state of the art tool that aims at combating social exclusion by offering a new approach of self-presentation. bit Schulungscenter P1 (AT) acting as coordinator was the initiator of the project idea. It has extensive experience in the field of educating young adults in employment measures and different VET professions. bit schulungscenter is also the driving institution in the progression of the CUVID platform after the project-end. Future Balloons P2 (PT) was our ICT Expert. In order to provide a user-friendly and multi-functional interactive web-platform we cooperated with an expert for platform and online teaching material development. It turned out that P2 (PT) suited best for our expectations to fulfil the tasks for CUVID. This SME brought in the right ICT skills. The university of Osijek, P3 (HR) (Scientific Expert) turned out to be a great partner choice as they are having a profound scientific background for project activities which was crucial to our high-quality standards. P3 (HR) was the Faculty of Economics (EFOS) of the University of Osijek and it is not only a scientific institution with an excellent reputation, but with special knowhow on special needs of young citizens and employability measures. Having vet schools (LBS Bad Gleichenberg - P4(AT) and OA Pisek-P5(CZ)) on board was also an extremely important fact when it came to the pilot tests with tutorials, video CV creation, and also platform testing. Furthermore the young vet students were trained as first users and multipliers of the CUVID products and platform and were disseminating the project results in their own national and transnational networks in and beyond the official CUVID dissemination and multiplier activities. 15 people were involved in the expert interviews carried out at the beginning of the project. 60 VET Students were participating in the Action Research Seminars, 20 from each AT, HR and CZ. The CUVID platform pilot testing counted 25 participants (young people, HR representatives). 30 VET teachers did not only take part in the pilot testing of the trainer manual but they act also as first ambassadors on the trainer level. International roadshows were implemented in the four partner countries and reached 430 people with direct contact. The CUVID project ended with an impressive 2-day final conference with more than 100 international students (AT, SI, HR) in Bad Gleichenberg. After a profound preparation phase the scientific basis for the project was built in IO1 via qualitative expert interviews. With the analysis of the conducted interviews the project team identified the requirements for a state of the art video platform. With the information gained in IO1 we involved our main target group into the project by conducting action research workshops in order to find out ideas of how young people would present themselves in applications. Based on these insights we developed multimedia tutorials which help young people even with no multimedia background to set up their own CV videos. In the next phase of the project (IO3) the platform itself was developed. Soon it turned out that the development and implementation of a completely new software tool will take more time than calculated. After several internal and external feedback rounds the platform was launched and ready for usage and open for potential job seekers and employers. In the last contextual phase (IO4) of the project the training manual for trainers was produced. This toolkit assists trainers and teachers when they are working with young vet students to create their own CV videos. The CUVID project brought up not only an innovative, ready-to-market application platform but it will serve as the number one alternative application tool for young vet students and beyond that for all job seekers in Europe.