Youth on the Empowerment-YOTE
Our main objective consists on developing an innovative methodology which will improve vocational training students capabilities and qualities: The expert selected by each paretner country from some previous researchs, some documents of European Commision and European Council, their own experience, and literature…will develop a methodology structured as “Units of Competence” follow the EFVET Guidelines fo have the possibility to recognize the learning outcomes.The Methodology will be adapted as a “digital tool” and hosted in the project website , and it will be transfered to the vocational students as a “training course”.
Now a days a lot ot theory about different subjects is being taught at vocational centres, but there is a very important part that is left behind that is the necessity to teach or show the students how to deal with, and enhance aspects like leadership, self-abuse, non-violence behaviour, self-steem, integration and cooperation among others.
The innovative methodological guide will be given to diferent Vocational Training teachers so they can introduce it in their work plan and test it to their vocational training students linking all these activities to fit the students’ psychological maturity which will help them to develop another set of skills and capabilities that provide a better social integration or employability according to the Strategy 20/20 and related to the rationale of the project.
Finally, besides the new methodology guide, and the piloting experimentation for students, a compromise by all afiliations of the different partners will be taking into account in order to give our project the maximum results. We will invite them to actively participate in our WEB created to provide information about the project and news of its activities and results, linked to other websites in complementary fields, and promoting the site in the blogosphere as well as priming the web to make it more visible to search engines.
Total duration of the project
Start date: 1.11.2013 End date: 31.10.2015
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Our main objective consists on developing an innovative methodology which will improve vocational training students capabilities and qualities. Nowadays a lot of theory about different subjects is being taught at vocational centres, but there is a very important part that is left behind that is the necessity to teach or show the students how to deal with and enhance aspects like leadership, self-stem, integration and cooperation among others. The acquisition and self-awareness of those factors are considered to improve qualities that the students need in order to succeed in their studies and life. Our main goal which is to encourage entrepreneurship and private initiative for the Europe of Knowledge. In short: on the move to youth empowerment.
The innovative methodological guide will be given to diferent Vocational Training teachers so they can introduce it in their work plan and test it to their vocational training students linking all these activities to fit the students’ psychological maturity which will help them to develop another set of skills and capabilities that provide a better social integration or employability according to the Strategy 20/20 and related to the rationale of the project.
Affiliations of the different partners will be taking into account in order to give our project the maximum results. We will invite them to actively participate in our WEB created to provide information about the project and news of its activities and results, linked to other websites in complementary fields, and promoting the site in the blogosphere.
European dimension will be enhanced by developing all produced material both in English and other languages of the participating partners.
Our final objective is that our product can be adapted to other contexts typical of any kind of training to try to improve transferable skills. We will seek a commitment to all our partners, not just at Vocational Training Level, but other levels of education and other institutions all partners work with, working in both formal and non formal education.
We aim at developing and testing this new methodology to forecast skills needs, with the participation of companies in which students are making their vocational training compulsory practices, companies affiliated to the different partners, and from which we have received feedback of this lack of basic characteristics in vocational training students in order to develop a job.
Our project will help to changing mentalities and prepare vocational training students to the new knowledge wave. A project that identifies new methodologies to tackle the problem will be of a great help for schools, providing them possible solution without force them to invest financial resources.
Being methodologies, solutions and tools identified at European level they will be enriched by experiences carried on in different countries and therefore will benefit from experience of very different partners.