The CALLING project is planned as a new voice to listen to: that of students and their dreams, talents, attitudes and vocations, in order to accompany them in a process of orientation aimed at self-training and full self-accomplishment. Orientation (Guidance) is a process associated with the growth of the person as a whole, considered in their identity, in their relationships with theirselves, with work, with the others and with their own aspirations and wishes: "To Orientate an individual means making him/her acquire self-guidance skills, aimed at improving the self-perception, making her/him capable of making decisions and choices consistent with one's wishes». The project “CALLING - An Innovative Approach in School Guidance and Vocational Orientation” fits perfectly into the picture just outlined, and intends to support and accompany teachers towards a paradigm shift: the student is a "complex system" beyond the school aspects and, as such, the student must be considered in the new perspective of his/her dream to be made true. Teachers, starting from the student's aspirations, attitudes and interests, should help him build his life project in terms of self-evaluation, self-guidance and self-accomplishment. The CALLING project refers to 3 main priorities of the Erasmus Plus Program: 1) SE - Strenghening the profiles of the teaching professions; 2) H - Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences; 3) H - Social Inclusion. In this perspective, the project will transfer an innovative Orientation and Skill Mapping method to the teachers, target group of the project, and will provide them with a Suite of Tool including a training module in preparation to the testing. Also, a final Charter will include all the project tools and contributions, in order to be used in the classroom. The CALLING method and tools will facilitate the teachers to build an orientation and mapping path and will support them to help the potential ESL students (final beneficiaries) to counter the risks that make them so. The project partnership has an extensive experience in: 1) European project’s design / management, 2) building educational, training and professional Guidance paths, 3) skill assessment. The CALLING project partners are: Eulab Consulting (IT), Coordination and Administration manager and IO2's leading partner; Skill Up (IT) responsible for Impact and Dissemination and leading partner of IO4; Consorcio Educacio Barcelona (ES), project quality manager and IO1 leading partner; Akademie Klausenhof (DE) in charge of internal product evaluation and IO3 leading partner; GEMS (UK) responsible for Communication and Sustainability and support partner for IO1 and IO4; Orte’s Comprehensive School (IT) responsible for internal product evaluation and IO3 support partner. The tools produced by the partnership, outlined in 4 IOs, will offer to recipients and beneficiaries: a comparative report containing the results of the analysis conducted in the partner countries on various models of orientation and skill mapping (IO1); the digital platform to monitor the orientation path (IO2) for teachers; an integrated package of innovative tools (Suite of Tools - planned using the comparative analysis’ results) and a preparatory training module (IO3); the CALLING Charter, that will systematise all the work done, enhance both the philosophy and the products, emphasise how the chosen methodology is able to guarantee an added value to the target group-teachers and significant positive effects for the final and potential beneficiaries. Finally, a relevant operational segment of the process will be the dissemination and sustainability of the results. With the explicit intent to involve the largest possible number of potential users of the Suite of Tools and the CALLING approach, many different forms of external communication will be used to increase the impact, not only among the partners’ territories, but also on a national and European level. The goal is to translate the project outputs in the 4 languages of the partnership and to make them interesting for a large number of people for being innovative, free of charge, European-minded and immediately usable.
The final objective of the project was to support teachers, and indirectly also the students' families, in the path of development and construction of the cognitive and planning components, and for the overall development of the person. The orientation activities aimed at reconstructing a map of the skills developed by the subject in order to bring to light what each person has within him/herself, making young people aware of their aptitudes and potential, interests and motivations necessary to consciously face the transition from high school to the world of work or university. The CALLING project has succeeded in its objective of creating a set of products with a high level of spendability and transferability throughout the European context, starting from the choice of criteria to be adopted, such as the reference methodologies, the indicators to be used, and the tools to be experimented according to the CALLING Charter. A further guarantee of the transferability of the products is the innovative and "universally" sharable approach of the project because considering the person-student as a whole, the cultural aspects, while remaining important, are not the central ones.
The CALLING project - "An Innovative Approach in School Guidance and Vocational Orientation" was created to listen to a new voice: that of the students, regarding their dreams, talents, aptitudes and vocations, to accompany them in a process of orientation aimed at self-education and self-fulfillment, making them acquire skills of self-orientation, aimed at improving their perception of themselves, to make them able to make informed decisions about the world around them and choices consistent with their values. The project has supported and accompanied teachers who have been adequately trained and have helped students in building their life project, in terms of self-evaluation, self-orientation and full self-realization. It was intended to transfer to teachers a new and innovative method of orientation, based on science, and mapping of skills, and in addition, counteract the factors of ESL. The CALLING project has referred to 3 main priorities of the Program: 1) SE - Strenghthening the profiles of the teaching professions; 2) H - Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competencies; 3) H - Social Inclusion.