The aim of the project is to offer diverse practical and operational solutions for instructors who wish to receive training and extra tools for: - making interns aware and sensitive to cross-disciplinary skills, in particular how to behave in professional situations (through personal interviews, awareness modules, etc.)- communicating the importance of behavioural skills (video clips, interactive presentations, etc.)- and the implementation of educational activities relating to follow-up, development and remediation (a community of practice for technical and non-technical instructors). Particular attention will be given to digitalising the tools which have previously been developed by the OPC-SFC Leonardo Project, so as to make their use more easy and less time-consuming, as well as to operationalising remote training modules intended to reach and make aware a young audience, specifically affected by unemployment in each of the partner countries.During the entire implementation of the project, we will invite the stakeholders concerned by the work on behavioural skills to become part of a community of practice which fosters exchange and the sharing of ideas and best practices. As guarantors of the smooth functioning and dynamism of the community, we will draw conclusions on the levers and constraints of this kind of tool.Finally, we will give particular attention to the visibility of the project and the implementation of the practices amongst all the stakeholders, through their involvement in the training plans, and through a feasibility study regarding awareness of behavioural skills, taking into account the ethical aspect.The behavioural skills are recognised as being cross-disciplinary, even universal, skills, throughout all activity sectors and countries. It is therefore advantageous, even necessary, to position the exchange of best practices and the development of tools at a transnational level, and to extend it to a joint training-business partnership. The sector-wide approach will be ensured by the involvement of businesses in educational thinking, and the Portuguese partner will provide an intergenerational dimension and knowledge of small and medium-sized businesses, which will reinforce this comprehensive and complementary approach.This project follows the implementation of training courses by instructors into the programmes of partners who criticize the lack of educational tools which enable them to work and develop the behavioural skills with their students.The idea of the project therefore, based on the OPC-SFC methodology and made up of 4 stages, is to develop educational activities. It reinforces and operationalises stage 4 of the latter, hence the title.The project will be undertaken in collaboration with instructors and basic training centres and professionals with links to work and/or training situations falling within the scope of the following horizontal priorities:- Improve the acquisition of relevant basic and general, but also high-level skills, in the context of lifelong learning.- Transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and worker mobility.and the following professional training priority:- Improve access to training and qualifications for all through EFPC The activities related to the project concern the development, testing, adaptation, adoption and implementation of:- new learning methodologies (based on the OPC-SFC methodology: www.opc-sfc.eu)- tools and techniques for the professionalisation and professional development of instructors:- levers to facilitate the recognition of skills (behavioural skills in our case), by orienting our thinking to the possible links with existing certification at the technical skills level.
The European “Step4-SFC” project: A methodology and tools for developing behavioural know-how (SFC) All business areas and countries agree that soft skills are essential and complementary to technical skills, but they often highlight difficulties addressing this. It is in this transnational context that it appeared to us necessary to pool our exchanges, our practices and to develop tools related to awareness, observation, training and the evaluation of behavioural know-how (SFC) in a professional context. This SFC terminology has its meaning in the idea of considering the SFC as a behavioural resource to be mobilised along with know-how and knowledge in keeping with professional skills. The project and all contributions from partners are based on a 4-stage co-construction method and associated key tools. The methodology structures the thinking on the SFCs in an adherence process marked by the profession’s references. The tools allow agreement on essential professional SFCs; defining them and identifying the contextualised observable indicators. To meet the needs of users of the methodology, the project has developed different specific and practical tools accessible on the site: https://step4-sfc.eu/Productions-du-projet: - a Mooc (Massively Open Online Course) (https://mooc-forem-sfc.eu/), a massively open participatory learning community and federative device particularly well adapted to the cooperation objective in terms of innovation and the exchange of good practices; - An IT application: the Visi-sfc allowing the automated observation and evaluation of SFCs in a context of formative evaluation (accessible at https://step4-sfc.eu/Titre-de-votre-application-a-changer; - Face-to-face training sessions, educational resources meeting awareness, guidance and training targets of learners and trainers accessible in PDF and integrated in the Mooc; - An individual SFC remedial tool selection guide https://step4-sfc.eu/IMG/pdf/br-brochure_opcsfc_a5-2019.pdf. This tool selection guide has allowed the creation of a register of all the tools developed to guide the user to select the appropriate tool. This structure has been integrated in the Step4-sfc site to allow any user to find the specific tool based on the objective set; - A methodological guide for integrating the SFC work into the activities identified in the training and evaluation references https://step4sfc.eu/IMG/pdf/io6_guide_integration_referentiels_vf_fr.pdf . This guide meets a SFC identification need that must be developed and observed in training in line with training standards. It complements Visio4 SFC and allows the completion of the performance criteria and commonly observable indicators to facilitate dialogue between its users; - A SFC recognition feasibility study. This study proposes actions and opportunities for recognition and ethical validation of behavioural know-how https://step4-sfc.eu/IMG/pdf/io7_vf.pdf; - A community of practice on EPALE (www.epale.eu); - The project site https://step4-sfc.eu/ where all the project information can be found. - A FB page https://www.facebook.com/Step4SFC/, a community of 215 subscribers in which various project release events are reported as they progress, monitoring articles, exchanges and user feedback in the form of photos, videos, messages, notifications, etc.