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EU employment skills
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project "EU employment skills" was founded after teachers in partner’s schools realized the need for their students to be better equipped with the skills necessary to attain employment once they leave school. The free movement of employees within the EU enables those, with the correct skills, to find work around Europe. This opportunity also brings obstacles for those students wishing to find a job in Europe not only related to the basic elements of relocalisation but linked to working culture, attitudes, discernible skills, attainable requirements, country specific employment requirements and human interaction skills that are needed to obtain a job in the EU. The project will be undertaken for 3 years on a broad EU labour field market with the 6 partner countries (Finland, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Germany and France) and will include 2 mobilities per year including 4 students and 2 teachers for each. They will collaborate to analyze what are those specific requirements and skills in order to share them with our students. The 6 partner schools are all vocational schools, thus, we can say that students are close to professional labour market because of their various training periods in several companies. The study of the 6 different business systems will provide a true EU overview of the subject and will lead to the creation of an "EU Job skills guide". To this end, each school will pick a local "parent company" to work with for the duration of the project. This company will also be part of the transnational meetings that will take place and will form the main information source for the guide. During each mobility, we will follow a common structure of activities such as icebreaker, company tour, workshop day at school and we will also focus on one specific topic in each country. The objectives of the projects are mainly : - to talk with people from companies to find out what personal qualifications and skills are needed thanks to a 10 question survey and company tours - to identify the main methods for the transference of skills within the EU with the writing of Europass CVs, cover letters and international mock interviews in another language. - to increase students entrepreneurship capabilities by providing them the experience of visiting and working with companies The role of ICT will also be an essential element both in the integration of the project themes into everyday teaching practices and also to provide students and teachers the opportunity to learn how to work in an online transnational project. Google education apps will be used by all partners schools and students as this provide an effective online space for students and teachers to learn and share their work. There will be a network of schools blogs, Youtube channel and Google groups established to aid in the flow of information and learning materials. For videos, we will establish a network of school Vlogs where students will tell about their experiences and impressions in short sequences. The learning and teaching working methods used during all the project will be innovative, attractive and adapted to the students of nowadays and from everywhere because of the use of ICT. As the project will involve a number of business visits and regular interaction with EU businesses, we felt that it will provide the students with the maximum exposure to actual and practical working conditions. It will, thus, increase their chances to obtain work in other EU countries and procure them the most up to date skills and requirements. This project will help the students to obtain relevant information and practical experience that will aid in the procurement of work in the EU in later life. It will also increase their entrepreneurship by providing them the experience of visiting and working with companies, consequently to be aware of the skills and requirements needed not only in their country but everywhere in Europe. Moreover, as all the work will be done in English, it will give them the opportunity to develop their abilities in speaking this language which is the most important tool to apply for a job in the EU We also hope that our "EU Job skills guide" as well as the testimony of our students will be used by others students who will be encouraged to follow their lead.

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