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A collection of tests is available to be used by school counsellors and students to assess aptitudes and skills.
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Abilities Tests
These tests, produced by the project experts, have been designed to unveil students’ abilities.
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Database of Aptitudes Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the aptitude of the students.
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Database of Skills Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the skills of the students
This section offers the access to a collection of tools to guide the students to choose their professional carrier.
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Job Profiles
The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries.
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Skills
The most relevant skills for the labour market in the 6 countries involved have been identified.
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Entrepreneurship
From this section it is possible to access learning objects to promote entrepreneurial spirit among students.
What is the secret of success? This section might offer you an answer
Successful Entrepreneurs
A collection of interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Successful Employees
A collection of interviews with successful employees.
Successful People
A collection of interviews with successful people.Six training modules are available for school teachers and counsellors to provide them with the skills to guide students in their professional carrier.
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1. Understanding Pupils
A module presenting the strategies to understand the pupils' personal aptitudes and characteristics
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2. Capitalise on Pupils Interests and Skills
A module presenting methodologies to build up on the students' interests in order to implement personalised educational paths
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3. World of Work
A module presenting tools and mechanisms available for young people to make a successful transition from school to work
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4. Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
A module presenting initiatives and strategies to foster entrepreneurship among students
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5. Mobility to Learn and Work
A module presenting the opportunities to study, carry out voluntary services and work experiences abroad
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6. Guidance, Counselling and Support Services
A module focusing on how to provide effective guidance, counselling and support to students
Events
The School&Work project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The School&Work project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved.
Press Review
The School&Work project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of education.Network
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the School&Work project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the School&Work Project in the 6 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
This section of the School&Work portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Training
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This module focuses on initiatives and training to stimulate entrepreneurship among students, suggesting ideas to train entrepreneurial teachers, presenting entrepreneurial projects carried out in schools and proposing methods to create a network and to find funds.
Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
What are these transversal skills?
They are non-technical skills, which students can apply in the world of work, but also in all aspects of their life as citizens. Creativity, confidence, perseverance, sense of responsibility, team spirit…
Nine personal skills and attitudes according to the training programme of the Quebec School for secondary education, second cycle:
- Using information
- Solving problems
- Making critical judgements
- Applying one’s creative thinking
- Taking effective working methods
- Using ICT
- Updating one’s potential
- Cooperating
- Communicating in an appropriate way.
Skills than can be put in three categories, according to “Bruxelles Formation”:
Methodological transversal skills
It concerns adaptability and autonomy: making critical judgements, applying one’s creative thinking, solving problems effectively, using information …
Social transversal skills
It concerns sociability: communicating in an appropriate way, managing conflicts and aggressiveness, coordinating one’s activities with the team members, cooperating…
Contribution transversal skills
It concerns responsibility and participation: acting responsibly, making adequate decisions based on one’s ability to act, setting and ordering one’s priorities, suggesting sustainable organisational solutions, creating an intervention network…
A limited series of key competencies identified by the OECD Programme on Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) and sorted in three interrelated categories:
Using tools in an interactive way
- Using language, symbols and texts in an interactive way
- Using knowledge and information in an interactive way
- Using technologies in an interactive way
Interacting with heterogeneous groups
- Establishing good relationships with others
- Cooperating, working in team
- Managing and solving conflicts
Acting autonomously
- Acting in a global context
- Setting up and achieving life projects and personal programmes
- Defending and asserting one’s rights, interests, limitations and needs
Experiment-based learning, project-based work will give students the possibility to apply those competencies and qualifications needed to develop entrepreneurship, i.e. turning ideas into actions.
- Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Fostering creativity, entrepreneurship and mobility in education and training Own-initiative opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, May 2015.
- Definition and Selection of Competencies – Summary OECD Programme on Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo), August 2005.
- Compétences transversales - Chapter 3 Training programme of Quebec schools, secondary education, second grade [in French].
- Cadre de référence – compétences transversales Reference framework for transversal skills, by “Bruxelles Formation”, 2013 [in French].
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Date: 2016.08.03
Posted by S. Cabrerizo - Spain
The e-learning guide is very useful. Module 4, Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools, provides easy examples for teachers.
The negative side is is that there is a lot of information in English, and sometimes it is difficult to follow it if you have an intermediate level of English. Moreover, as a suggestion, I think it could be a good idea to have it in a download version to print the most interesting parts.
Date: 2016.07.07
Posted by Didier Cahour - France
This module is a little bit complex and theoretical. Good practices at the end are relevant.
Date: 2016.07.06
Posted by Gabriela Vrabie - Romania
This module highlights a very important aspect of education: entrepreneurship education in schools, vocational schools and universities, which will definitely have a positive impact on entrepreneurial dynamism in our economies, on young people’s employability.
To this end it not only raises teachers and counsellors’ awareness about the benefits of enterprise projects but also provides them with invaluable tips on how to implement such enterprise projects at their own school. Teachers and counsellors will find practical advice on the necessary steps in creating an enterprise project at school, how an enterprise works or how to search for funds such as crowdfunding. The module also proposes teachers, educators or guidance counsellors a series of best practices to get inspired from.
Date: 2016.07.05
Posted by Martine Prignon (AEDE-EL) - Belgium
The choice of topics and the study of them provide a valuable source of information to teachers, trainers, counselors...
The best practices and online resources add a useful complement to theory, by presenting concrete examples of experiences, projects, exchanges between peers...
