UNIversities for Future wORk Skills 2020 - UNIFORS 2020 brings together a strong partnership (5 universities from Poland, Romania, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and two SMEs one from Spain and one from Greece) aiming to increase students chances for a faster and better insertion on the labor market by improving their soft skills. The project will investigate employers, students and teaching staff perspective on specific soft skills gap and collect existing best practices in the field at EU level. Partners will design a soft skills blended training (5 ECTS) including an innovative on-line course (36 hours). 80 students from the 5 universities will participate in the blended training soft skills course, while half of them will take part in a 5 days international Intensive Study Programme. Over 150 students from partner universities will receive updated information regarding labor market demands and will become aware of the importance of soft skills for their future employment. The project will improve the capacity of universities to deliver soft skills courses by training teaching staff and experts (16 persons) and increase the collaboration between universities and business sector/employers. Over 150 companies will be involved in all project stages from needs analysis to course design, implementation and evaluation. About 2.500 persons from public opinion, 500 students, 500 teachers, 25 other universities, 250 companies and 10 authorities from 5 EU countries will be informed about project results. All partner universities will include the soft skills blended training developed in their facultative /extracurricular curriculum with an expected 300 students trained over a 3 year period, after the project's end.
UNIversities for Future wORk Skills 2020 - UNIFORS 2020 brings together a strong partnership (5 universities from Poland, Romania, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and two SMEs - one from Spain and one from Greece), which aimed to increase the chances of students to enter the labour market faster and better by improving their soft skills. The project explored the perspectives of employers, students and teaching staff in relation to specific soft skills gaps and collected best practices in this field at EU level. The partners developed a blended soft skills training programme including an innovative online course (36 hours). 80 students from 5 universities attended the soft skills course and half of them participated in a 5-day international intensive study program. More than 150 students from the partner universities received updated information on the needs of the labour market and became aware of the importance of soft skills for their future employment. The project increased the university's capacity to deliver soft skills courses by training teaching staff and experts (16 people) and strengthened cooperation between universities and the business sector/employers. Over 150 companies were involved in all stages of the project, from needs analysis to course development, implementation and evaluation. 2,500 members of the public, 500 students, 500 teachers, 25 other universities, 250 companies and 10 authorities from 5 EU countries have been informed about the project results. All partner universities have integrated the developed soft skills training into their curricula for optional/extra-curricular courses, with 300 students expected to be trained within 3 years after the end of the project.