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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
Homepage > Training > Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
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
In Belgium for instance, the first platforms allowing the general audience to invest in companies appeared in 2012. Currently, there are still few of them and they are little used for projects with an educational aspect.
In Italy, there are few initiatives in the education area and they tend to concern the funding of underprivileged students’ studies or school infrastructures.
In France, crowdfunding is sometimes used by school teams to fund their mini-companies but they are one-off initiatives and there is no study or research on the subject.
In Spain, collective microfinance initiatives or crowdfunding are used almost only in the area of cultural productions: edition and publication of magazines and books, demo recording for albums of young bands, music videos and films.
Yet, some platforms are entirely dedicated to education, as it is mentioned in the French magazine “Sydologie” (educational innovation magazine):
- Cinq plateformes de crowdfunding en faveur de l’éducationFrench article presenting the five following crowdfunding platforms dedicated to education.
- EduklabThis platform (France) helps students collect the necessary money to fund their project or studies, soliciting their social network or internet users’ generosity. Like on other crowdfunding platforms, students who need funding present their project and set compensations to thank contributors. They set a fundraising objective and a campaign deadline. If the objective is not achieved, the contributors are reimbursed. Since its launch in 2013, the platform has received 1,056 project requests and funded projects for a total amount of € 128,825.
- PigLtThis platform (USA) is open to everybody, in particular those who want to fund their own studies, organisations or associations with an education related-project. To be referenced on PigLt, you need first to create a video describing the fundraising campaign. The website works using the “dreamers” principle (who submit a project) and “believers” (who agree to fund it). The platform has been active since 2012.
- IncitEDThis platform (USA) is dedicated to funding educational projects, which can concern: Extracurricular activities; School support; Developing education-related technologies; School supplies purchase; Educational; humanitarian programmes. The platform has been active since 2013.
- Adopt a Classroom USAThis platform (USA) is addressed to parents. It helps them fun their children’s school supplies. The projects are presented by teachers or headteachers. The website has two benefits: • It cooperates with many stores to propose the best price and a varied array of products, from a mere pen to a digital tablet • Donations are 100 % deductible This platform created in 1998 has a huge success in the United States. So far, 24 million dollars have been collected, for more than 5,200,000 students.
- WishboneWishbone teams identify and contact students who are “incredible, with limited income but passionate about their studies”. Donators choose the student they want to support. They then receive a regular feedback about how the studies are going on! Created in 2012, this platform has already helped 235 students and collected over 545,000 dollars.
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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...
