This project (PERSON) aims to promote employability, retraining and the social skills of NEETs and inactive young individuals to meet sustainable and qualified labor force and improve the competitiveness of Turkey and Europe. The Project will provide innovative training curriculum and methodologies to meet the needs for young individuals not only in the work life but also in their social life. Therefore, threefold objectives are focused. First is the need to understand young individuals in detail during their transitions from being NEETs or inactives to work. The others are, the need for a data collection and sharing tool/platform, an education plan for attracting and retraining more inactive young individuals and the need to bridge in communication and joint work that often exists between universities, staff, senior management and students in internationalization efforts and activities. There has been seven intellectual outputs such as: O1 Sate of the Art and Panacea for NEETs, O2 Training Module for Technological Illiterates and MOOC Design; O3 Training Module for Technological Literates and MOOC Design; O4 Training Module for Advanced Technology Users and MOOC Design, O5 Pilot Training, O6 a Comprehensive Guidebook of PERSON, O7 Set-up MOOC Design. All partners will take active responsibility for the development of the outputs. Within the project a short term training activity will be held in Turkey. This training activity will provide the consortium the opportunity to monitor the project activities and evaluate the issues regarding the project management. The trainers and the task education system will be determined for each different level of training modules. It will be take 5 days and will be 6 hours in a day. 20 hours of it will be related to content of the trainings while 10 hours will be related to introducing the MOOC system. Totally 18 (3 trainers from each country) trainers will be trained. Seven multiplier events will take place and six of them will be National Conferences. A total of 240 national multipliers will be invited, some of them among stakeholders and national advisory groups identified in the preparation phase of the project. One International Conference will be held in Turkey. A total of 40 national and 10 international participants will be invited, some of them among stakeholders and national advisory groups identified in the preparation phase of the project. Besides, four transnational project meetings are planned to achieve basic goals. The first meeting “Kick off Meeting” will be held in Istanbul at the second month of the project. This meeting will refine the project work plan and the presentation of the O1. The second meeting “Planning” Meeting will be held in Spain at the 7th month of the project. The consolidated output will be presented, the output O2, O3 and O4 will be discussed and each partner countries role at the project will be covered. The third meeting “Progress Meeting” will be held in Greece, at the 12th month of the project. The revision of the output O2, O3 and O4 will also be given. The methodology of O5 and the planning of C1 will be discussed in this meeting. The fourth meeting “Final Meeting” will be held in United Kingdom at the 24th month of the project. The revision of O6 and the obtained results of the pilot training will be discussed. Every partner will reach their HLFS. This makes a panel data set for 10 years and 6 countries. Every partner will reach NEETs for surveys. This makes 1200 inactive by taking into account the leading partner’s sample NEETs young individuals’ detailed surveys. In total, total dataset will be 1200. Each partner, will make a focus meeting with totally 90 individuals. From every partner at least 3 trainers will directly join the meetings. Totally, the number of trainers will be at least 18 who will also join the workshops/meetings and kick-off with the organization of leading partner. These trainers will organize pilot trainings in their own country. Every partner will reach at least 15 young inactives/NEETs. However, leading partner will do it with at least for 30 young NEETs. In total, the number of people who get training or mentorship will be 105. These mentors, trainers will organize seminars to other trainers in their own country. Each seminar at least 15 trainers, mentors will be there. Totally, each country will give seminars to trainers 45. Total number of trained trainers will be at least 360. Finally, organizations being on the demand side of labor market and NGO’s seminar, conference will be organized. At least 50 guests from business life selected from dominant companies in their market, 15 NGO and 4 policy makers will be invited. All these outputs, research outputs, reports and online learning lectures will be on the websites of the partners. Regarding the number of the visitors of the partners, 100.000 people is aimed to reach by actively using social media, NGO’s websites, mailings, corporate’s website.
This project (PERSON) aimed to promote employability, retraining and the social skills of NEETs and inactive young individuals to meet sustainable and qualified labor force and improve the competitiveness of Turkey and Europe. The Project provided innovative training curriculum and methodologies to meet the needs for young individuals not only in the work life but also in their social life. Therefore, threefold objectives were focused. First was the need to understand young individuals in detail during their transitions from being NEETs or inactives to work. The others were, the need for a data collection and sharing tool/platform, an education plan for attracting and retraining more inactive young individuals and the need to bridge in communication and joint work that often exists between universities, staff, senior management and students in internationalization efforts and activities. There were seven intellectual outputs such as: O1 Sate of the Art and Panacea for NEETs, O2 Training Module for Technological Illiterates and MOOC Design; O3 Training Module for Technological Literates and MOOC Design; O4 Training Module for Advanced Technology Users and MOOC Design, O5 Pilot Training, O6 a Comprehensive Guidebook of PERSON, O7 Set-up MOOC Design. All partners took to active responsibility for the development of the outputs (Except Opportunity Global).Besides, four transnational project meetings were planned to achieve basic goals. However, 3 of them was done due the fact that OP did not do. The first meeting “Kick off Meeting” were held in Istanbul. The second meeting “Planning” Meeting were held in Spain. The third meeting “Progress Meeting” were held in Greece. And C1 meeting (training of trainers) were held in Istanbul. Within the project a short term training activity were held in Turkey. Training for MOOC was done. MOOC System was introduced to the partners. Division of the courses among partners and the lecturers done. Demo of a course had been done by a youth worker from AU (Shaheen Eied Alkadri). Preparation of the outline of the comprehensive guide book for MOOC system had been done and the division of the work had been also done. Generally, numbers of participants were higher than the expectation. There were 554 participants in the introductory meetings and local workshops (National Conferences). DTH, MC, IED and TDM2000 prepared National conferences (local workshops) at their countries. Since none of the partners were able to have a connection with Opportunity Global (OP), nothing were done by OP. In addition to that, there were 1310 participants in surveys and focus groups. There were 674 feedbacks including the students from Altınbaş University. Individuals watched courses many times (2337 times). Looking at these numbers, it can be said that Person Project reached the numbers which was proposed. Note that, most of these numbers are more than it was proposed. Total number of certificates prepared for the participants were 802. Besides the meeting for kick-off, planning, progress and C1 meetings, there were dissemination seminars and national conferences were hold. Since none of the partners were able to have a connection with Opportunity Global (OP), nothing were done by OP. Therefore, final meeting were not done. At the online international conference, there were 49 participants. This conference was online due to the Covid Pandemics. Every partner tried to reach NEETs for surveys. Again, this was very difficult to gather these surveys since there was no budget. Most of the surveys were gathered by AU. Totally, there were 1184 NEETs in these surveys. For the case of the focus meetings, there were 61 participants. C1-activity, there were 12 trainers due to the covid. Pilot trainings, there were 520 participants. There were 554 participants in the introductory meetings and local workshops. There were 674 feedbacks including the students from Altınbaş University. Individuals watched courses many times (2337 times).