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Prepare for future career

2018-1-LT01-KA229-0469552018School Exchange PartnershipsfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LT|IT|TR|RO|PL · Grant: €123,771.84
Inclusion - equityEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationInternational cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project summary

The partnership has been created with the full agreement of and by the five partners coming from LT, IT, PL, RO, TR and it is expected to reach the objectives of the EU Commission. These rates of youth unemployment are vivid facts of the struggles the young graduates have when comes to finding a suitable work place in conjunction with their abilities, skills and interests. In this regard our partnership aims to assist students into the activity of evaluating their own abilities and interests for the long run and to help them choose a safe, correct and suitable direction to a successful career, to help them make suitable career choices. The project centers around the advancement of students' entrepreneurial aptitudes and offers them chances to interface with neighborhood/local/European foundations or privately owned businesses inside the general, public European labour force. The students will study their own marketability to potential employers or clients (marketability), improve their adaptability and adjust to the idea of continuous and consistent learning and adaptable vocation alternatives, build up their versatility to work markets not only at local, but also at national and European level. The partnership will give students a chance to improve their knowledge and to gain a more profound comprehension of the social and linguistic variety of the European people group. Subsequently, the project provides a significant setting for them to build up their interpersonal, relational and communicational abilities in foreign languages, both amid up close and face to face meetings/visits and also by utilizing a wide range of media tools for online correspond-ence and for the creation of a site that will advertise the projects’ results. The period of implementation will be of 2 years and during this we will organize two short term exchange of teachers, at the beginning and at the end of the implementation, and 4 short term exchange of students meetings. Before each LTTA meeting with students, practical activities will be run in the local schools by all the partners and during each LTTA the host school will organize workshops to analyze the general economical situation of Europe, identify positive and negative aspects. Each LTTA meeting will deal with a specific subtopic and 2 different specific topics for workshops, and all the practical activities and workshops organized during the meeting will be connected to the subtopic and have the purpose to help reaching the objectives. From the activities run during the meeting 1 good practice will be selected as final result, which will then be further transferred to other educational institutions; the same, from the activities organized from before the LTTA exchanges, each partner school will chose a best practice and present it during the meeting. The project has an international aim: to prepare, train and assist students in choosing their future career, to make them aware of the different fields of labour, aware of the skills and training they need to have in order to occupy a good position in the workplace; to familiarize them with the criteria required for getting a job and to boost their positiveness towards living through working. A total number of 2650 of direct and indirect participants will be influenced by the partnership: Students: the participating students are between 15-18 years old (total number of about 1200). Teachers: teachers will be instructors and beneficiaries as by getting involved in the implementation they will be able to directly learn about different educational systems through Europe A total number of about 25 teachers in total will be involved in an active way in the activi-ties. Approximately 160 teachers will indirectly be affected. Administrative staff: will supervise good development of the initial plan and will ensure the insertion of the good practices into the school curriculum (around 34 individuals). Parents: a number of about 300 family members will help advertising local and national customs and traditions. About 460 family members will indirectly be involved in the implementation. Work field members: each participating school will involve a approximately 15 work field members in the project. Local community: an approximate number of 400 people: faculty lecturers, members of local press, municipality, PTAs, directorate of national education etc. will be affected in an indirect way. It is expected that about 50% of the target group will: - improve their business and entrepreneurial basic skills; - learn about opportunities to get in touch with different companies from different work fields from local/national/international level; - boost their adaptability to changes and realize the importance of continuous learning and the importance of having flexible vocation choices; - build up their versatility towards the labor market in nearby, national and EU level.

Final report summary

Five partners encountered one common problem in each country and decided to try change the situation. Partners come from LT, IT, PL, RO, TR and the common issue is the rates of youth unemployment (IT-38,9%, RO-23,1%, PL-19,1%, TR-18,7%, LT-18.3%) were vivid facts of the struggles the young graduates had when it came to finding a suitable work place in conjunction with their abilities, skills and interests. In this regard, our partnership main aim was to assist students into the activity of evaluating their own abilities and interests for the long run and to help them choose a safe, correct and suitable direction to a successful career, to help them make suitable career choices. The project is about the advancement of students' entrepreneurial aptitudes and offered them chances to interface with neighbourhood/local/European foundations or privately owned businesses inside the general, public European labour force. The students studied their own marketability to potential employers or clients (marketability), improved their adaptability and adjusted to the idea of continuous and consistent learning and adaptable vocation alternatives, built up their versatility to work markets not only at local, but also at national, international and European level. The partnership gave students a chance to improve their knowledge and gain a more profound comprehension of the social and linguistic variety of the European people group. Subsequently, the project provided a significant setting for them to build up their interpersonal, relational and communicational skills in foreign languages, both aim close and face-to-face meetings/visits and also by utilizing a wide range of media tools for online correspondence and for the creation of website that could advertise the projects’ results. The period of implementation is 28 months and during this short-term exchange of teachers was hosted, 3 short-term exchange of students and 1 virtual mobility hosted by Poland team, because of the Covid-19 it couldn't be done physically. Before each LTTA meeting with students, teachers had many practical activities at their local schools. During each LTTA the host school organized workshops to analyse the general economic situation of their position in Europe, identifying positive and negative aspects. Each LTTA meeting dealt with a specific subtopic and 2 different specific topics for workshops. Practical activities and workshops organized during the meetings were connected to the subtopic and had the purpose to help reaching the objectives. From the activities run during the meeting 1 good practice was selected as final result, which was further transferred to other educational institutions; the same, from the activities organized from before the LTTA exchanges, each partner school had chosen the best practice and presented it during the following meeting. The project had an international aim: to prepare. That is to train and assist students in choosing their future career, to make them aware of the different fields of labour, aware of the skills and training they need in order to occupy a good position in the workplace; to familiarize them with the criteria required for getting a job and to boost their positiveness towards living through working. A total number of 1624 of direct and indirect participants were influenced by the partnership. Students: the participating students were between 15-18 years old (total number of about 790). Teachers: teachers as instructors and beneficiaries were involved in the implementation of the project activities. They directly learnt about different educational systems through Europe. A total number of about 25 teachers in total directly involved in activities. Approximately 160 teachers indirectly were affected. Administrative staff: supervised good development of the initial plan and ensured the insertion of the good practices into the school curriculum (around 34 individuals) and school workers who helped to prepare for and during the LTTA activities. Parents: a number of about 300 family members helped advertising local and national customs and traditions, indirectly involved in the implementation. They also participated in the project disseminations events. Local community: an approximate number of 300 people: faculty lecturers, members of local press, municipality, PTAs, directorate of national education etc. affected in an indirect way through various forms of dissemination. It is expected that more than 50% of the target group: - improves their business and entrepreneurial basic skills; - learns about opportunities to get in touch with different companies from different work fields from local/national/international levels; - boosts their adaptability to changes and realize the importance of continuous learning and the importance of having flexible vocation choices; - builds up their versatility towards the labour market in nearby, national, international and EU level.

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