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Alpe-Adria Working Mobility – Intercultural Competences in Career Guidance
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Alpe-Adria Working Mobility project is aiming to improve intercultural competences of professionals in career guidance and counselling. The right personal, interpersonal and intercultural competence of career trainers and consequently of job seekers can contribute to reaching the employment goals set in Europe 2020 strategy. The Commission's initiative Agenda for new skills and jobs aims to help the EU reach its employment target for 2020: 75% of the working-age population (20-64 years) in work. According to the latest communication from the Commission (COM (2014) 130 final, from 5.3.2014), unemployment has increased sharply as a result of the crisis, from a rate of 7.1% in 2008 to a peak of 10.9% in 2013, which translates into 23 million people being currently unemployed across the EU. One of the keys which can improve unemployment rates is equipping people with the right skills for the jobs of today and tomorrow and enabling them for the international working mobility. In 2006 European Parliament has issued Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning. Key competences are essential in a knowledge society and guarantee more flexibility in the labour force, allowing it to adapt more quickly to constant changes in an increasingly interconnected world. Among the 8 key competences our project is focusing in particular on those, which involve intercultural understanding and social and civic competences that refer to personal, interpersonal and intercultural competence. These are the competences and skills that equip individuals to participate in an effective and constructive way in social and working life. Project partners are organizations involved in career guidance, education and training of unemployed people. Through our daily work we have identified the need for further vocational development of professionals in career guidance and counselling related to international employment opportunities. In the Alpe-Adria Working Mobility project we will develop a training course for international career coaching. The emphases of the programme will be given to intercultural competences of coaches which will enable them to offer better guidance to job seekers and preparing them for the entrance onto European labour market. The results of the project will be the 1. Training programme for international career coaching 2. Web tools and materials for coaches and job seekers in EN, SI, CRO, IT and DE languages 3. Pilot implementation of training programme with training mobility (practical work of course participants with unemployed persons in other partner countries) 4. ECVET certification. With the development and implementation of such training course we will enable professionals in career guidance to respond to the needs of international labour market. With knowledge and skills gained through the training programme they will able to guide job seekers in their consideration of employment opportunities abroad. In addition the project will contribute to exchange of good practices among project partners and help to better understand the needs of labour market in Alpe-Adria region. Through pilot implementation of the training programme, in which we will include 60 career guidance professionals from Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and Austria, the project results will be beneficial also for improvement of intercultural competences and skills of job seekers in the four participating countries who will be indirectly involved in the project. Although the training programme will cover the cultural specifics of the four participating countries, it could be adapted and transferred to any other European country or region. Publically accessible online materials and tools will be available in national languages of the participating countries but also in English, which will enable any user (career guidance professionals or job seekers) on European or international level to apply them. Furthermore, the developed tools could also be adapted for the needs of any other country or region. The project results will be relevant for any other EU country as they support development of transversal skills and competences, employability and working mobility in the European labour market. By improving intercultural competences of career guidance professionals we can indirectly contribute to the Agenda for new skills and jobs. Properly trained career consultants can adequately prepare and direct present and future job seekers enabling them to find employment in any EU country.
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