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Skilling You(th) Softly

2020-2-EL02-KA105-0062262020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: EL|ES|PT|SK|IT|PL · Grant: €19,171
Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The main theme of the project was set out from the title of the project: give youth the opportunity to experience the impact of soft skills. The choice of the theme was made after researches and facts emphasizing the gap between the skills that employees possess and the abilities that employers are looking for. After a thorough analysis of the gap, we gathered with our most trusted partners to illustrate how we can foster young people with a set of transversal skills. Non formal education, one of the main assets in Erasmus+ programme, provides the necessary challenging and creative environment together with strong educational activities followed up with reflection. Through this project we tried to get young people understand the difference between hard skills they learn at school, university etc and the soft skills which are not necessarily taught in a specific framework and format but are considered as experiential learning. OBJECTIVES: To foster mutual understanding of soft skills and their role in employability of young people. To give knowledge regarding soft skills and their characteristics. To give opportunity to participants to practically experience soft skills development and understand their relevance in the working environment. To improve the international competences of participants by working in an international context and environment. To boost participant’s personalities with key competences that will help them to work more efficiently. To make them more familiar with transversal skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, leadership, time-management, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Management,Critical thinking, Adaptability. To improve those cross-competences of participants and experience new methods which can be transferral to life. To give the chance to young people to experience a different way of learning, experiential learning where they will take initiatives. Through non formal educational methods we addressed the following issues: Non formal education Experiential Learning Soft skills-Life skills-Key competences Intercultural Dialogue and Mutual Understanding Erasmus+ programme Methods of Organising and Debriefing Certificate of Participation to Erasmus+

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