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This module focuses on how schools can motivate students to complete their school path in order to be ready for the job market through the exploitation of opportunities to study, carry out voluntary service and work experience abroad making use of mobility funding and cooperation initiatives.

Mobility to Learn and Work

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Chapter 4 – Mobility opportunities to work
4.5 The Europass Curriculum vitae
A curriculum vitae is an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job applications. Employers generally spend less than one minute reading a CV before deciding to reject it. In order to avoid this, the CV must be instantly understandable and the person reading it should be able to find out the right information quickly and easily.

This is also the reason why the European Union (Directorate General for Education and Culture) developed and maintains the Europass portal. Europass is an EU initiative and it aims to increase transparency of qualification and mobility of citizens in Europe. The five Europass documents are the Curriculum Vitae (CV), Language Passport, Europass Mobility, Certificate Supplement, and Diploma Supplement.

The Europass CV foresees the following sections:
  • Personal information
  • Work experience
  • Education and training
  • Personal Skills:
  • Languages
  • Communication skills
  • Organisational /managerial skills
  • Job-related skills
  • Digital competences
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Date: 2016.09.13

Posted by Aneta - Lithuania

The E- learning package provides effective methodology on how to deal with students at risk of early school leaving and motivate them to continue their educational path.

Date: 2016.09.05

Posted by Christine CLOES - Belgique

In Belgium a group of secondary schools is involved in a pilot project supported by the European Social Fund. The “Accrojump” project is a cooperation project between eight technical and vocational schools located in the same region. This original project lets students at risk of early school leaving carry out traineeships in a partner school that offers other options better fitting to their personal project.
It is an innovative concept of “mobility” that can be applied inside a country or region. Thanks to this project the traditional competitive relationship between schools turns into complicity and solidarity.

Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by A. Navas - Spain

Good overview of all the chances to study or work abroad.

Date: 2016.07.10

Posted by P.B. - Italy

For teachers the section of the portal is useful because it offers a series of tests to know and exalt the pupils’ potentialities. Teachers can also inform pupils about the concrete possibilities of working and living abroad.
The contents of the package are undoubtedly very useful, because they permit the deep knowledge of all the possibilities offered by the labour market.
In particular the Mobility section offers an exhaustive explanation of how many possibilities are now offered by the European Union for those who want to start relationships with foreign countries. Finally it stresses the importance and the opportunity to start entrepreneurship at school, so students can start to think about this possibility since they are attending their schools.

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Panunzio Laurent - France

The module is interesting because they bring light on some subjects and give advice.

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Didier Cahour - France

All modules are well written, especially the fifth one on “Mobility to learn and work”. It gives ideas about apprenticeship and I think in our society, it’s a good alternative for young students to enter the job market. It would be interesting for every European country to develop this kind of training.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Gherca Iulian - Romania

This module focuses on how schools can motivate students to complete their school path and accelerate their preparation for the job market through voluntary service and work experience abroad making use of mobility funding and cooperation initiatives. The module deals with general information about mobility, some statistics and European policies, goals and benchmarks, its impact on social life, necessary intercultural understanding and transversal skills and practical tips on application forms and procedures to be respected. The theoretical issues are supported by a collection of students’ success mobility stories.

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