This project has been developed by five secondary schools from France, Romania,Spain, Turkey and Germany and it was designed to meet the objectives of the European Commission.Taking into account the different rates of youth unemployment in the countries participating in this project (ES: 49.2%; FR: 23.5 %; RO: 23.3 %; TR: 18.6 %; DE: 7.1 %) the need to develop something innovative is felt necessary. In the context of increasing unemployment rates nowadays, the above results come from the difficulty of graduates to find jobs in accordance with their interests, abilities, skills or personality traits. Therefore, this project is intended to meet the needs of young European citizens in secondary schools to be guided to choose a suitable career path and make the right career choices being fully aware of their potential and having access to information regarding the general economic environment of the European labour market. The project is established around the central concept of exchange of experience and good practices. Participants will benefit from the expertise of professionals, of the beneficiaries’ associated partners who will assist students in transferring the information and applying it to a modern and dynamic school environment. The project focuses on the development of students’ entrepreneurial skills and offers them opportunities to connect to the labour market, local/regional/European institutions or private companies with the same scope. Students will develop their adaptability to the labour markets at local, national and EU level. The project will last for two years and there will be two Transnational meetings at the beginning and closure of the project and four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. There will be workshops during the student exchanges and observation and experience of the good practices in the German school (Good Practice 1: The developed connection between school and Labour Market in Germany) and Romanian school (Good Practice 2: Creating the training firms as real firms - Mock Companies). Those practical and useful applications will be integrated into the project activities and in the second year all the partners will apply these two actions. In every exchange there will be organized seminars given by professionals from the labour market in order to easily achieve the transition from school to work and reduction of the labour market segmentation.The purpose of the project is international. It will create a strong synergy among the partner schools and it will provide inspiration for pupils to develop their future career path. The project includes 3300 participants in a direct and indirect manner.Pupils: All the project activities at local and international level will involve students as beneficiaries directly and indirectly. Approximately 1200 students/teenagers will indirectly be affected. Teachers: Teachers will be involved both as instructors and beneficiaries by observing other schools and their education system). There will be teams of 5 teachers in each partner organization so 25 in total will take part actively in the project activities. Approximately 150 teachers/adults will indirectly be affected.Administrative staff: They will tackle the running of the legal issues of the project, observing other school education systems and transferring good practices into the school curriculum. Approximately 36 administrative staff will be indirectly affected.Graduated students: Questionnaires will be applied on minimum 100 students and this evaluation will offer the state of their professional working life. 500 students will be involved in total.Parents: The number of the family members will be 300 in total and they will contribute to introducing the host country culture and tradition. Approximately 480 family members will be indirectly involved in the project.Labour Market members: Minimum 15 members from the labour market will be involved in the project in every school. Local community: Local community members such as university lecturers, local press, municipality, directorate of national education and PTA will help to disseminate the project to a wider community. Approximately 800 people from local community will be indirectly involved. A positive direct effect is expected on a rate of 30% from our pupils and target groups by:- gaining basic skills in term of entrepreneurship; - reducing labour market segmentation;- offering pupils opportunities to connect to the labour market through local/regional/European institutions or private companies; - leading students to analyze their own marketability;- increasing student flexibility and align to the concept of continuous learning and flexible career options;- adapting to labour markets in local, national and EU level;- providing a unique opportunity for students to acquire knowledge and deeper understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the European community
This project was created after observing the job market of our respective countries France, Germany, Romaia, Spain and Turkey. This s a very well planned project with all activities, timing, actors and partner organisations so we should think the project as a whole. All activties were related to another so each activity had to be done successfully and all partners worked hard and did their best to implement this project in the best way. Like all other partners', the project wouldn't be successful without our particpaton or the activities we implemented. WORK PROGRAMME / SUB-TOPICS / DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS WHICH ALL THE PARTNERS HAVE COMPLETED A1- (All)-Collecting and analyzing the data A2- (All) Organzing actvtes n school open to everyone on the topic according to stages A3- (All) Choosing the students who joined the exchange meetings A4- Partcpating in the Learning/Teaching/Training Activities A5- (All) Carriyng dsseminaton activities in school after every visit A6-(All)-Putting the relevant data on the project webste A7) (All)-Travel manuals A8- (All)-Durable works by students A9- (All) – Evaluating the stages by using instruments A10- (All)- Artcles in local newspapers after meetings, conferences in local community at the end of each year A11- Sharing practces on Twin space/E-Twinning STAGE 1 A12 – (Sep.2016) (All) Project teams were created in each school / Erasmus+ corners were prepared / Digital montor were placed A13- (Sep.2016) (All) Posters and brochures were designed / students contacted each other; distributing leaflets/ brochures to the local authorities and schools in the region A14- (Sep.2016) (All) The Project was presented to the beneficiaries / Mini-conferences for stakeholders A15- (Sep.2016) (All) Preparing the initial questonnaire, check lists for stages, evaluating documents A16- (Oct.2016) (All) Applying inital questonnaire STAGE 2 TM1: France A17-Educaton Opportunities n VET n Europe A18- Setting the website of the project A19- Evaluation forms, intiial and final questonnaire, check lists STAGE 3 C1. Germany A20-Challenges and Opportunities n Today’s World of Work A21-Labour Market links in Secondary Schools A22-Intervews with labour market members A23-Desgning a book including all the project outcomes STAGE 4 C2. Romani aA 24- Establishing training firms A25-European instruments like Europass, ECVET, Youthpass, ECTS etc. A26-Interviews wth labour market members A27-Designing a bookleti ncluding all the project outcomes STAGE 5 A28-Evaluating the frst year, preparing the reports, creating the progress report and sending it to the French National Agency STAGE 6 C3. Spain A29-Occupatons Today and Needed Qualifcatons A30-Applying two good practices transferred from Germany and Romania A31-Intervews with labour market members A32-Regular interchange of informaton A33-Photo book, calendars of 2017 STAGE 7 C4: Turkey A34- Entrepreneural skills / E-trade A35-Intervews with labour market members A36- Multi Language Dictonary A37- DVDs A38-Photo book, calendars of 2018 STAGE 8 A39-Ending the project, designing evaluaton reports, uploading data n the EU platform, completing disseminaton activities A40-Preparing the final report STAGE 9 A41-(April 2017) (All) Setting up the teams for long lasting dissemination. Partners and coordinator in the project were in charge of searching and collecting data about the sub-topics of each meeting, making presentations of our school, city, country and educational system,i nterviewing wtih labor market members, writng intermim and final reports. Like all other partners and we completed all these tasks on time. We were indvdually cheching that all tasks were performed on time by partners . For example, the Turkish team was in charge of creating a mult language dictonary, collecting all project data in a DVD, creatng a photo book and calendar of 2018 and they completed them as planned. As responsible partners, they were always effective in communcation and helped other partners by answering their questons. Our contribution to the project as a whole was essental and mportant to our partnersand that is why we could complete the project successfully.