About the project

Young people, in the opinion of employers, are not enough prepared to the labour market. Not every graduate is able to find a job and even if he/she finds it, not everybody is able to meet expectations of the employer.

Young people during their studies often do not take the additional activity associated with involvement into student's unions or NGOs.

Most of them do not take additional internships and practices in line with their profession.

Their skills, competences and expectations often fail to match what is expected from them at the labour market.

The Strategic Partnership we establish aims to diagnose the problem and to reply to it effectively through cooperation, experience and information exchange, development of didactic materials (lesson and workshops scenarios for youth organizations, schools and universities), development of the audiovisual didactic materials.

Moreover we will also conduct info campaign, which will inform young people how to get prepared to the requirements of the modern labor market.

The Strategic Partnership involves the cooperation of Polish Slovak, Italian and Maltese institutions at the regional level and includes: NGOs, youth organizations, trade unions and production company.

The project is innovative, as it presupposes comprehensive measures to support both young people and people who work with them.

In addition, the outputs developed under the project activities are based on results of the research about level of competences of young people and direct opinions and expectations of employers in 4 countries of the European Union.

An important element of the project is also to promote active citizenship of young people, to show that social skills can be purchased not only in the workshops and interpersonal trainings, but may be acquired mainly by acting in youth organizations, pursuing own local or international projects, co-organizing the activities of NGOs, taking an active part in student life, as well as conscious selection of internships and apprenticeships.

As a result of project activities educational audiovisual materials (genre scenes, video and picture for measuring social competence) will be developed.

Teaching and training materials will be developed in the form of scenarios for lessons / workshops, so that they can be easily applied in high school, at the universities (eg. In the workshops as part of career days) and youth organizations during the various forms of non-formal education.

An important element of the project is an attitude towards concentric model of teaching: to create a curriculum, remaining in close connection with the real needs and problems of the recipients, encourage and support individual work on solving problems, using a variety of contexts and perspectives, basing teaching on the resources, experience, and pedagogical practice.

Main aims of the project

The main objectives of the project are:

• Raising the level of social and interpersonal of young people from Poland, Malta, Slovakia and Italy, and preparing them to enter the labor market;
• Develop a training program and materials for social skills training, which may be used in organizations, in schools, universities, and youth organizations;
• Increasing the competence of people working with young people, in the field of preparation of young people in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and Italy to enter the labor market, equipping them with tools to assist
• Promotion of active citizenship, student and professional (internships, practice) as the natural environment to acquire social skills needed in the labor market.

Main activities

Main activities of the project include:

• Diagnose of level of skills and competences possessed by young people at schools and universities, as well as gaining information about which competences employers expect from their future employees
• Best practice sharing and exchange of information and expertise of all stakeholders involved in the project
• Development of didactic materials - lesson's and workshops scenarios, which will be adapted to the school programmes and NGO programmes (lessons of entrepreneurship, non-formal education workshops, workshops during career days at universities)
• Development of didactic audiovisual materials - to work with youth in the sphere of development of their social and personal competences and preparing them to the labour market
• Information broschure - which promotes active citizenship, young's people involvement into students’ and youth organization
• Staff trainings - trainings for youth workers and teachers at schools in order to adapt developed didactic materials into school and NGO educational programmes
• Local 1-day testing seminars for youth - testing of didactic materials developed during the project
• Final conference in Warsaw promoting and disseminating results of the project.

Target group

The main target group are young people, pupils from last grade of high school (16-18 years) and students / young graduates of universities in Poland, Malta, Slovakia and Italy. To representatives of this group, the main activities of the project are targeted. Also main project results are dedicated for them - teaching materials, audiovisual materials, and brochure. They will also actively participate in the research planned under the project. Activation of this group in the countries participating in the project will be a key challenge.

Project activities will also be targeted to youth workers, teachers, guidance counselors, staff of office careers in their respective countries. They will be provided with didactic materials to work with youth, so that to make their job more effective.

An indirect target group will also be the employers. They will be active participants in the study (in-depth interviews), on the other hand, indirectly and in the long termthey will benefit from the fact that more and more young people raises and develops their social skills.