The labour market is constantly evolving. Skills, competences, and qualifications that people need change over time. To deal with these changes people need to be equipped with a variety of basic skills, including literacy, numeracy, foreign languages , science and digital skills.Transversal skills, such as the ability to learn and initiative-taking, will help people deal with today's varied and unpredictable career paths. Entrepreneurial skills will help contribute to employability of young people in particular, as well as supporting new business creation.'Our project BEES aims to develop these skills of teachers and pupils, too, in an innovative way.Based on a number of surveys on the skills required by graduates undertaken by Microsoft, Target Jobs, the BBC and other big labour market organizations , a top employability skills list was made: 1- Verbal Communication Skills, 2-Teamwork Skills, 3-Writtten Communication Skills, 4-Planning and Designing Skills, 5-Flexibility Skills, 6-Leadership Skills, 7-Time Management Skills, 8-Global Skills, 9-Numeracy Skills, 10-Computing Skills, 11-Self awareness, 12-Personal Impact-confidence, 13-Creativity, 14-Independence, 15-Decision Making 16-Commercial awareness. When we consider these skills, we see that most of these skills should be acquired at a young age, particularly at primary schools or at pre-primary level.In order to make the pupils acquire these skills, teachers in all schools should have the skills of teaching these above mentioned employability skills.Also, schools should have an appropriate curriculum to teach these employability skills to young pupils at primary level. We will focus on these top skills mentioned on the website of KENT UNIVERSITY: http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/top-ten-skills.htm and try to make our pupils acquire the competences they mentioned while defining all skills above.BEES aims to develop compences of school staff in teaching computing skills,numeracy,communication skills,entrepreneurship and other basic skills in an innovative way and in European dimension. BEES aims to provide revised curricula for all schools equipped with good practices to teach these skills better. BEES aims to provide pupils with opportunities and conditions to acquire basic skills, entrepreneurship and other top employability skills at a young age. In the world entrepreneurship and employability skills are usually taught at secondary or high schools. BEES will be innovative as it claims these basic skills and top employability skills must be acquired at a young age at primary schools. A minimum 50 school staff will participate in the teaching ,training activities and at least 5000 pupils in total are expected to get benefit of the project activities; around 50000 direct or indirect participants will be affected by the results and outcomes of the project.Our target group is teachers at primary schools and indirectly, the pupils at primary schools.The project proposes:- 6 teaching and training activities in which theachers will be trained to teach basic skills and entrepreneurship in an innovative way and they will also develop their digital , communication and language skills;-2 transnational meetings in which we will prepare, monitor, assess and evaluate the activities of the project;-common events and activities both with teachers and pupils such as project introduction conference, erasmus + wall,website ,logo ,blogs ,skype meetings and e-mail exchange of pupils ,pupils' introduction clips or presentations ,global classrooms ,culture shows, language sessions ,digital diaries ,drama days ,talent shows ,toys land,shadow visits ,job fair ,market day ,school trip or picnic ,e-book,art day ,photo hunting and filming ,photo puzzles ,design your own christmas postcard and exchange,funny math,designing a playground ,open-door trainings and trailer of the project.In most of the activities drama,cooperative teaching and learning, digital learning and games will be used as methods. In the long term, BEES aims to bring up pupils well-equipped with basic,employability and entrepreneurship skills , decrese youth unemployability rate with revised curricula and have European citizens equipped with basic skills. BEES is expected to create very young entrepreneurs in 8 different EU countries with the help of school staff and pupils that will work like BEES throughout the project carrying out many activities. Schools will incorporate good practices, new methods and new learnings into their curricula. With the new curricula schools will educate young entrepreneurs and competent pupils with employability skills. Teachers of our schools will consolidated their teaching competences, will be more flexible, creative and open to innovation, they will be more emphatic to students needs reporting to a new society expectations. Our project it is a device for gaining more authonomy and independence in daily life of our teachers, students and parents.
This project was centered around teaching basic employability and entrepreneurship skills (BEES) required by employers in an constantly evolving labor market. As identified in the summary above, the skills identified, such as communication, teamwork, flexibility, planning and design, etc., are transferable across markets, countries and technological advancements. This project educated young children, at primary level, in these skills, and facilitated teachers’ training in being able to teach these skills in an innovative way. This programe of education has been integrated with the existing educational curricula across seven European schools. The project incorporated several thousand participants at a variety of levels spanning pupils, teachers, parents and wider communities in each school area. The project consisted of six Learner Teacher Training Activities. These addressed the teaching of the ‘BEES’ skills in a thematic or subject specific manner. The first of which focused on Drama and Cooperative Learning strategies in Ireland. The other LTTA mobilities took the following topics as their center point: Communication through Visual Art in Poland, Web2Tools and ICT skills in Italy, Numeracy training in Scotland,Commercial Awareness in Spain, Entrepreneurship, Planning and Design in Italy. The two Transnational Meetings which took place at the beginning and end of each project were used to plan, monitor and evaluate previous, ongoing and upcoming project activities. Planning meetings were also held during each mobility to assist in the management and implementation of the project. During each mobility, apart from the subject specific BEES theme workshops, each school also engaged in Global classrooms, Language sessions, and Cultural displays. Aside from the mobilities in the form of LTTAs and TPMs, this project consisted of a wide variety of activities which each partner participated in a local school level. The results of these ongoing activities were also shared among participants through the BEES website and social media. The agenda of these activities is set out in a detailed manner in the project application. This section of the application served as a To Do list to plan and monitor activities. Such activities included a Logo Competition, Skype meetings with pupils, Blogs, Card / Letter exchanges, Video clip presentations, Drama & Art days, Talent Shows, Market Day, Job Fair, Photo hunting, creating a Trailer, Funny Maths events, and Playground designs. Job Shadowing was one of the very successful initiatives implemented as part of this project.