International mobility projects are considered all over Europe as a non-formal education opportunity for people to acquire new personal and professional skills. It is an important non-formal education experience for participants, and especially for people with fewer opportunities, to promote their social and professional career. At the same time, the labour market is more and more difficult to integrate and it is important for unemployed people to get knowledge about how to access it, how to capitalize their competences and their experiences and how to promote this in front of employers. Moreover, relying on their experience, the partners of the project notice that a majority of unemployed people going on a mobility project, are not registered at the unemployment office, at they do not get benefits and they do not perceive the added-value of such a registration. Because of this, they do not get any advice and careeer guidance, and they need to be followed by the sending organisations, which can take into consideration their mobility experience and which know them because of the whole pedagogical process they have followed. The objective of the Competences + project is to help participants to mobility projects access to the labour market at their return to continue the pedagogical process they have before departure. This implies to create attractive tools for participants and to promote the added-value of mobility projects towards employers. The partners want thus to build their project on four outputs, all related one to each other, thus created an integrated training and support for mobility participants to access the labour market. What will be innovative will also be the development of a phone application, as it is a very practical way of recording and capitalizing on a mobility project. The four outputs will be: - a study towards employers to analyse deeply which competences they expect the participants to value, promote and develop. - a phone app to keep track of the mobility experience through photo, story and analysis of the competences, that could then printed into a logbook to promote the project towards employers - an online training that will collect all the opportunities in each partner country and which will provide training on CV and cover letter writing - the content for a two-day training, similar to the pre-departure training but done upon return, to analyse the competences acquired, train to job-interview and inform about labour market opportunities, self-entrepreneurship and return to training. The innovation is to propose a whole integrated pathway, from infoday at the beginning to return to employment and to collect the advice and opinions of employers to make sure participants will make the most of their experience to get access to the labour market. Each output will be prepared by the partners, implemented and tested on 30 beneficiaries which will provide feedbacks and adjustments so that the partners can make sure the outputs fit the needs and expectations of the participants to mobility projetcs. The expected impact is to propose a better integration to the labour market for participants back from a mobility project, who require support to capitalize and evaluate their competences and who need to be trained on how to prepare their return and their future professional projects.
The "Competences+" project consisted in helping participants in mobility projects to access the labour market upon their return. The objective was to create innovative tools that would allow participants to promote the added value of their mobility projects to employers. Indeed, project managers in organisations active in the field of mobility must be able to support and monitor young people with fewer opportunities before, during and after their mobility experience, using tools (such as guides, booklets, training, etc.). The innovation of this project is to provide a fully integrated process, from the initial collective information meeting to the resumption of employment and to gather the opinions and opinions of employers to ensure that participants will make the most of their experience to access the labour market. To this end, ADICE has decided to work with three European partners from different geographical areas in order to share the different practices, tools and points of view that are necessary to create tools that enhance mobility projects. Cooperation with these various partners has resulted in the creation of 4 intellectual productions: - A study of 100 employers to thoroughly analyze the competences they expect from participants to value, promote and develop. - An online training that brings together all the opportunities in each partner country and provides training on CVs and cover letters. - A telephone application to track the mobility experience through photography, history and skills analysis, which can be printed in a logbook to promote the project to employers - A two-day training course, similar to the pre-departure training but carried out on return, to analyse the competences acquired, train for the job interview and provide information on labour market opportunities, self-employment and the return to training. At the end of the project, which ended on 31 October 2019, all intellectual productions were successfully completed. The online platform, the results of the employer expectations survey and the telephone application have been put online. The collective assessment upon return has been set up and continues to be applied in the support of participants by project managers. The dissemination to the project was carried out as the project progressed. At regional and local level, the tools created were shared with partners and target audience through numerous newsletters and events organised by the partners (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom). Finally, at national and European level, the public in the various countries was informed through the Internet (partners' websites), social networks, international meetings with partners external to the project, etc. The project partners have produced four intellectual productions: - IO1: A survey of expectations from 100 employers in partner countries. It is an innovative survey that presents the skills and qualities that employers expect from candidates for the position in order to help everyone to value, promote and develop their experience, knowledge and skills. The results of the study show that the most sought-after skills in France, for example, are technical skills followed by social, personal and professional skills, past experience, education and finally knowledge and level in foreign languages. The report of this study is available on the various websites of the programme partners. It can be downloaded for free. - IO2: An online training course giving access to participants and anyone wishing to obtain advice on opportunities in future scenarios for those concerned (finding a job, returning to school, becoming an entrepreneur, returning to mobility) and which also provides training on CV writing, the cover letter, the elements to be taken into account, highlighting during interviews and the skills to be developed. It is also on this platform that there is a self-assessment of the data subject's skills. This platform has been translated into four languages: German, English, French and Italian. It is a complementary tool to the results of the study carried out in IO1 of the project. This training is available at: www.competenceplus.eu - IO3: A telephone application to track the participant's mobility experience. The purpose of this tool is to allow the participant or any other user to evaluate their skills according to each of the experiences described, a testimony of their mobility or professional experience as well as the promotion of their mobility project to employers by the possibility of exporting a dynamic CV, a summary of their experiences and a skills portfolio. This digital tool has been created in addition to other tools for identifying, defining and enhancing skills. It also includes fact sheets containing information and advice from organizations according to future scenarios and in the different languages of partner countries. A user guide in English and French was also produced to make it easier for users to familiarize themselves with the application. Training was also given to participants before their departure on mobility. This application is available on all Android and IPhone. - IO4: A two-day training course, similar to pre-departure training but conducted upon return, to analyse the skills acquired, train for job interviews and provide information on labour market opportunities, self-employment and return to training. The objective is to provide participants, who have just returned from mobility, with reflections on the post-mobility period, on the construction of their project, and on the enhancement of their personal and professional mobility experience. Indeed, the reflection on its future scenario can sometimes be more complicated for people returning from mobility. This is why several parts of the training are devoted to supporting young people and guiding them in their reflection and the enhancement of their skills and experience. This training is now embedded in the daily work of the project managers of the various partners.