Project Description

Project is about giving young people a real opportunity to increase their

employability with a view to sustainable labor market integration, thus boosting

overall youth employment rates.

That’s why projects assume close cooperation with youth representatives,

youth workers and employers in partners’ countries to define common but more

important effective tools in digital skills.

The problem that has been defined by the project partners during their

daily activities was lack of interdisciplinary skills related with management –

taking into account the professional and also private life. It is caused by lack

proper education (early school leavers) lack of motivation and vocational

guidance. To prove the necessity of the project’s aim all partners prepared the

research – by contacting the youth groups from the local area.

The defined by the consortium set of skills will help the young people to

manage their career effectively – despite of the sector and occupation. The

international character of the project activities will improve the national

experiences and existing practices and will be the first step to the closer

international cooperation.

General aim of the project is to create opportunities of cooperation aiming

youth trainers, VET providers and employers in order to define 3 aspects of the

digital competences in security:

Assessment tool for youngsters – which can be used as a self-assessment

for young people or assessment tool for trainers or future employers.

Basic training program and supporting materials for youth

workers/trainers – with the introduction of innovative system of recognition and

validation of learning outcomes. (VCC system).

Apprenticeship model in digital competences – defined together with

representatives of employers that will assure link from self-assessment via

training model towards apprenticeship and employment.

What is more project is based on 1 of the key competences identified in

the framework of lifelong learning – such as entrepreneurship.

The Target group includes:

- Youth, especially at risk of social exclusion and unemployed.

- Youth workers, trainers

- Employers

Project Objectives

– support professional development of youth workers to cope with youth

unemployment;

– develop innovative methods of youth work and language of learning

outcomes

– increase the capacities, attractiveness and international dimension of

participating organizations so that they are able to offer activities and

programs that better respond to the needs of individual youths;

– reinforce synergy between non-formal education, employment and

entrepreneurship

– strengthen cooperation among youth, youth workers and employers.

Project Activities

1. Assessment tool for youth skills in management

2. Guidance for youth workers – how create future managers?

3. VCC apprenticeship model for young managers

4. YMEC platform

5. One Multiplier Event “ Youth skills on labour market – recognition,

validation and certification of learning outcomes based on training and

work based learning activities” in Poland

6. Short-term joint staff training event in Poland

7. Three transnational meetings

Project Website

At the beginning of the project, of our focuses was on developing the

project’s website where we would share the activities carried out throughout the

project, promote the project, share photos and assure the project’s visibility.

Thus, with the contribution of all partners, we have created the project’s

website which can be accessed using this link:

http://ymec.eu/

All the content, information and graphics, were created with contributions

from all the involved partners.

First Transnational Project Meeting

Between 25 -26 January 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria, was held the first

transnational meeting on the project 2016-2-BG01-KA205-023931 - „Young

managers of the effective career development ".

The responsible for organization of the meeting was TEZA Ltd. - project

coordinator. There were 4 partner organizations from four countries: Active

Youth- Lithuania; CENTER OF STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT-

Romania; Fundacja VCC- Poland; EDUFORMA SRL - Italy.

The main objective of the project is development, testing, validation and

dissemination of these innovative products:

- Assessment tool for youngsters - which can be used as a self-assessment

for young people or assessment tool for trainers or future

employers.

- Basic training programme and supporting materials for youth

workers/trainers - with the introduction of innovative system of

recognition and validation of learning outcomes. (VCC system).

- Apprenticeship model in digital competences - defined together with

representatives of employers that will assure link from self-

assessment via training model towards apprenticeship and

employment.

- Online platform - Integrated module for exchange of information among

target groups-young people, youth workers and employers.

Participants in the meeting were acquainted with main activities of their

organizations, discussed key points in the project over the next two years.

Methods of management, communication, monitoring and evaluation, risk

management, dissemination and exploitation of results were discussed and

adopted.

The core team for implementation of the project was determinate and

details about the work stages and specific tasks of any organization were

considered. Deadlines and milestones were set up in the implementation of

actions to help implement effective and sustainable realization of the project,

defined as activities and expected results for the period until the next

international meeting on the project during the month of October 2017 in

Lithuania.

The meeting has placed a very good start of successful working

partnership.

http://ymec.eu/2017/04/04/first-project-meeting/

Second Transnational Project Meeting

The second international meeting under project 2016-2-BG01-KA205-

023931 – “Young managers of effective career development” took place in

Vilnius, Lithuania from 12 to 13 October 2017.

The organizer of the meeting was Active Youth – Lithuania. Five partner

organizations from 5 countries participated: CENTER OF STRATEGIES FOR

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT – Romania; Fundacja VCC – Poland; EDUFORMA SRL –

Italy, Teza Ltd. – Bulgaria and the organizers from Active Youth – Lithuania.

The main objective of the meeting was to trace the progress of the project,

the developed intellectual products, their possible improvements, the upcoming

activities and events, responsibilities and distribution of the next tasks.

The meeting put the already developed first intellectual product –

Assessment tool for youngsters – which can be used as a self-assessment for

young people or assessment tool for trainers or future employers. The results

and possibilities for improving the tool were discussed.

The second international meeting was a key moment for the

implementation of future project actions. The deadlines for drawing up a

dissemination plan, materials development in relation to the second intellectual

product “Training Program and materials for youth workers” and dates for the

Joint Training in 2018 in Poland were discussed and adopted.

The activities and expected results for the period until the next

international project meeting in March 2017 in Italy were defined.

Good communication and leadership on the pre-developed and adopted

program by the partners allowed for a fruitful working environment that

discussed all the important moments and milestones of the successful

implementation of the next steps of the project implementation.

http://ymec.eu/2017/10/20/second-project-meeting/

TEZA OOD Bulgaria

Lead Organization

TEZA is a company oriented to the latest technologies and means for lifelong learning, especially in the youth field. We are constantly expanding the palette of services offered in the field of education, professional development and management of the organizational talent.

TEZA’s activity is focused in the field of traditional and electronic educational services and technologies. TEZA constantly improves the quality of the offered products and services. In 2006, we created a fully equipped computer training center, and in 2007 we received ISO 9001:2000 certification for performance of services in the field of professional trainings and supply and installation of specialized applications that we maintain and improve successfully to this day. During the last five years we built a capacity to work on large and complex projects in the field of the specialized and professional trainings for private and public organizations.

The ambition of TEZA to constantly evolve and adapt by offering services of outstanding quality is supported by the numerous certificates acquired under the international quality standards as follows: ∙ ISO 9001:2008; ∙ ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005; ∙ ISO/IEC 27001:2005; ∙ ISO 14001:2004;∙ BS OHSAS 18001:2007.

TEZA is a partner and representative for Bulgaria of “SumTotal Systems” Inc – the world leader in corporate solutions for staff training and management. SOLUTIONS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION FOR YOUTH

TEZA’s team believes that learning is an integral process that is part of the successful career of each young person. That’s why we provide a complete service that helps young people to develop their skills and that includes assistance related to the analysis of the needs for training, for creating training programs and courses, planning, delivery and management of training, as well as assessment of the final results and efficiency analysis.

TEZA strives to comply with and adapt to the ever-increasing criteria of its customers, which are an expression of the constant introduction and use of new technologies on the market that require new knowledge. In order to meet the current requirements, the company offers training solutions taking into account multiple criteria – life cycle of the technologies, status of the employees, time for training, degree of familiarization with the products etc.

The training solutions are designed to satisfy the needs of young people who has the need to improve their skills and to be competitive on the labor market. Guarantee for the high quality of the solutions are the many successfully completed projects, the many years of experience and the certified teachers and programs. Training provides a source of resources, knowledge and practical experience that give an opportunity for: – Increase of the productivity and efficiency of the employees and synchronization of their skills with the objectives of the organization; – Obtaining measurable return of the investment in training; – Strategic planning of the training; – Development of the organizational capacity and increase of the productivity and quality.

TEZA’s main goal is to develop highly effective approach to youth for the purpose of providing job opportunities to youngsters, through trainings to increase their personal and professionals’ skills.

Depending on the needs of young people, the training can be conducted by an instructor, it can be a virtual training with or without a teacher, it can include individual consulting, seminars, online courses and training practice. Additional tools, which are included in the trainings, are multimedia materials, interactive electronic reference books, online discussions and all other additional training resources. e-Learning

TEZA Ltd. implements eLearning systems and systems for management of the entire learning process. We have over five-year experience with the implementation of different platforms. Our clients are many private companies, state organizations, schools and universities.

Every organization has individual strategic objectives and respectively specific training needs of the youngsters. In order to meet these needs, TEZA Ltd. offers training designed especially for the young people – tailored to the specific needs and based on certified courses prepared by highly qualified specialists. The e-learning programs are especially designed to the young people. They provide educational materials in interesting and different way, trough multimedia, video and interactive platform. Contacts: Website: www.teza.bg E-mail: office@teza.bg Telephone: +359 (0) 2 9 691 598

Asociacija “Aktyvus jaunimas” Lithuania

Partner organization

Active Youth” Association (Asociacija “Aktyvus jaunimas”) is a non-profit organization based

in Kaunas that unites young leaders from Lithuania willing to work on a voluntary basis to facilitate

an intercultural dialogue and enhance competence of the European youth. We cooperate with

organizations of similar profile from all over Europe (more than 50 partnerships) to organize events

and trainings using non-formal education as a powerful instrument to encourage youth to take an

active part in a society. By doing this we help young people to improve their skills and social

awareness, share experiences and ideas, integrate them within the multinational environment of

the EU, facilitate cooperation, create new joint initiatives, increase their social awareness, and

promote healthy lifestyle. In particular, we concentrate on youth (18-30 years old) that have fewer

opportunities and/or disadvantaged backgrounds.

Generally, our aims are to: (1) enhance entrepreneurial, social, leadership, communication

skills, self-esteem, as well as multilingualism of youth through non-formal education; (2) help youth

increase their social awareness, be tolerant towards others, be aware of the persisting social and

environmental problems and help solve them; (3) educate youth workers and youth on how to join

volunteering initiatives, cooperate with each other, and get employed more easily; (4) organize

joint campaigns, projects and activities, where young people and youth workers can get involved in

an intercultural dialogue, be a part of the decision making process, develop the spirit of

volunteerism, facilitate youth cooperation and social values; (5) raise awareness about EU

citizenship among young people, educate about social responsibility and work towards reducing

youth unemployment in the EU; (6) organize youth seminars, exchanges, trainings for youth

workers, conferences and discussions on relevant social topics, promote healthy, active, and

ecologically friendly lifestyle in order to increase the well-being of youth. Inform about similar

actions organized by others in Europe; (7) defend and promote human rights, universal values of

tolerance, active citizenship, democracy, equal opportunities and work towards the elimination of

discrimination in order to build a better integrated society; (8) organise Erasmus+ projects and

spread information about the opportunities that lie behind it in order to further facilitate youth

development.

Apart from other activities, we have also hosted Erasmus+ youth exchanges and youth

worker mobility in Lithuania addressing key social topics for youth. Firstly, we organised a youth

exchange on tolerance for minorities (“Let’s Turn Discrimination into Tolerance”), where young

people gathered to help the minorities across Europe integrate easier to the society and get better

opportunities both in social and work life. Secondly, we have organised both youth worker mobility

and a youth exchange on the topic of Social Entrepreneurship (“More than Money: Social

Entrepreneurship Heroes”). Here youth workers have shared their experiences, learned about social

entrepreneurship and the ways to teach it to young people; whereas, unemployed have gained

important knowledge on the topic and increased their chances of getting employed or create their

own social enterprises. Since then we have hosted 6 more Erasmus+ projects (as of April 2016).

Contacts: Wesite: www.activeyouth.lt Email: info@activeyouth.lt Telephone: +37064331871

Center of Strategies for Youth Development Romania

Partner organization

Center of Strategies for Youth Development is an association actively involved in project

development and implementation in the local, national and international non-formal education

sphere, that directly aims at personal and professional youth development.

The Center of Strategies for Youth Development’s vision is of a world in which formal

education additionally soaks with the non-formal and informal education methods to contribute to

the development and accountability processes of the youth. We believe that the vision is achievable

only through designing and implementing strategies meant to develop the personal and

professional abilities of the youth, both in a formal, academic environment and in a non-formal one.

Our mission is to continuously transform the community through the development of young,

responsible leaders and a mentality oriented towards proactivity, involvement and action.

The programs and activities organized by the Center of Strategies for Youth Development

range from human rights education, youth policy development, cultural activities, personal and

professional development of youth, leadership programs.

Our wide range of partners makes us the perfect solution for implementing international

projects and also for collaborating with other international organizations helping them implement

their own initiatives.

In order to achieve the Center of Strategies for Youth Development’s goal, we propose a

series of activities and objectives:

– implementing educational programs for youths;

– developing volunteering projects for youths;

– forming local, national and international partnerships meant to cooperate to achieve experience

exchanges meant to contribute to the personal and professional development of the youths

involved;

– holding international exchanges of youths;

– providing consultancy to the youths which wish to conceive projects which have common goals

with CSYD;

– organizing both national and international youth camps;

– developing educational resources which can be used as teaching materials in youth development

processes;

– organizing activities which aim to increase youth chances of being employed;

– implementing projects which aim to educate and train adults;

– promoting and involving in cultural activities which aim to promote local, national and European

patrimony;

– organizing cultural and artistic events;

– supporting intercultural events through youth involvement in such initiatives;

– organizing projects and lectures which aim to develop organizational capacities of youth

associations;

– holding charitable events;

– involvement in volunteering activities with social purposes

We try to build complex personal, professional and social development opportunities for

youth; promote social, cultural, educational and economical youth interests; promote civic

responsibility and social awareness; volunteer locally and internationally; develop leadership skills;

network with service-minded people worldwide and provide training courses, seminars,

conferences, public debates, and camps for young people.

Contacts:

Website: www.csdt.ro Email: programe.csdt@outlook.com Telephone: +40751221926

EDUFORMA SRL Italy

Partner organization

Eduforma is a VET. Founded in 2003, was born as a company that has for object the drafting,

marketing, organization and delivery of training interventions, information and professional guidance. The structure has always favored the monitoring of human resources in companies, starting with an analysis of employees, instead of the organization, and was one of the first in Veneto to introduce skills assessment logic and rewarding systems. Eduforma offers training and management consulting services; it is specialized in the development of human resources, increasing people’s skills to face professional problems concerning their specific competences in the company where they work. Concentrating on the continuous improvement of business organization, Eduforma helps the management making strategic choices, from the analysis of needs to the intervention planning, from their accomplishment to the analysis of the results. Eduforma pursues its missions supporting organizations in increasing their manager’s decision-making skills, responsibility, ability to manage emergencies and the development of teamwork. Eduforma is also involved in the production, import and marketing of software and ICT solutions. Coherently with its values, Eduforma has adopted the quality management system in compliance with the regulation ISO 9001:2008. The achievement of this Certification is for Eduforma an essential instrument to head, control and manage the company. Part of the consolidation and development philosophy, whose primary essence is customer satisfaction, is planning the path leading to a complete quality and share it with the whole company team. Eduforma supports companies to comply with the rules of the Italian Legislative Decree n. 231/2001 “Corporate social responsibility” through the adoption of a corporate Organizational Model which ensures to the business customers through: the monitoring of the activities, the mapping of business areas at risk of committing corporate crimes, the processing behavioral models, the establishment of a supervisory body in charge of monitoring the functioning and observance of the models.

Currently Eduforma, accredited by the Veneto Region for Lifelong Learning interventions, as well as for Guidance Services and Labour, has an important and prestigious portfolio of clients and a significant presence in various locations nationwide. Our team is specialized in the drafting and management of projects financed by the ESF and the EU. We are specialized in corporate restructuring and corporate training, adult and youth training, HR and employment services. We are an active member of CONFLAVORO PMI ITALIA, the association of Italian SMEs. Eduforma offers to SMEs and Social Enterprise the following services:

MANAGERIAL CONSULTANCY: HR Outsourcing, Organizational analysis, Project Management, Business strategy & development, Business model, Business planning, Temporary management;

PERSONAL & CORPORATE COACHING: Goal definition, Priority, time, stress and change management, Getting out damaging habits, Motivation strengthening, Overcoming limiting convincement, Mood and emotion supervision, Communication improvement;

CORPORATE TRAINING: Analysis of the training needs, Annual Training Plan, Planning of aimed training actions, Identification of financing for training, Final control and assessment of the action effectiveness.

Eduforma is a VET accredited by Veneto Region as provider of Lifelong Learning and VET interventions, as well as for Guidance Labour Services. It drafts, coordinates and manages training projects funded by the Veneto Region (through the ESF and the ERDF), and also targeted to youth; In the last year, Eduforma was accredited as “Youth Corner” to implement the European Plan “Youth Guarantee”. From 2014 to the beginning of 2016, Eduforma has implemented 35 Youth Guarantee projects involving almost 350 young NEETs, hence the possibility of direct access to target group in the region. Youth Guarantee interventions, among other actions, also promote self-employment and entrepreneurship. Eduforma has many management and entrepreneurial training experiences; is implementing 3 projects on “self-employment” financed by the Veneto region ESF. Contacts: Website: www.eduforma.it E-mail: europrogettazione@eduforma.it Telephone: +39 049 8935833

VCC Foundation Poland

Partner organization

VCC Foundation undertakes and conducts research and development activities within

vocational education as well as transferring knowledge and innovation by using intellectual capital

resources. Activity of VCC Foundation focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of

continuing vocational education as well as certifying professional qualifications, especially in the

informal and non-formal systems.

The VCC Foundation monitors, compares, and analyses data from the labour market,

updates the needs of the individual regions in Europe, and indicates employment possibilities based

on individual competences.

The complex monitoring of the changes within the European labour market, as conducted

by the VCC Foundation, analyses data about the types of employment on the labour market of

individual European Union countries, and their neighbouring countries. Data comes from many

different sources, including public employment institutions, job agencies, portals, governmental

administration offices, independent studies, national statistic offices, companies’ needs analyses

and other research.

Thanks to the VCC Foundation’s research, a training profile which matches employers’

requirements and the requirements of people interested in gaining new abilities has been created.

The certification system takes into account modern market trends as well as the requirements of

particular trades, and focuses on vocational competences, trade language, computer competences,

and psychological competences.

A uniform and consistent system of certifying professional qualifications, i.e. a VCC

certification system, results from Foundation’s work. VCC Foundation is a promoter of lifelong

learning, continuing education and occupational mobility of employees. By organizing consultations,

conferences or social debates, it directly develops, promotes and popularizes them.

The main tasks of VCC Foundation:

- monitoring needs of the global labour market,

- monitoring the demand for new professions and competences,

- specifying professional competences for new professions,

- testing and implementing new solutions implemented within vocational education,

- indicating directions for and methods of vocational education,

- certifying professional competences in a uniform way compliant with national and European

directives within this scope.

The VCC Foundation prepares also a training courses and educational materials supporting the

area of professional advisory and career guidance. The organisation has an experience in certifying

advisors who work with pupils, students, unemployed people and youngsters. The Foundation

participates also in a national project concerning preparation of tools for professional advisors to

support they work with students.

The system is divided into 3 areas:

- Prepare for a new profession – New Competences

- Supplement or update competencies – Select Competences

- External certification of competences is not included in these two areas.

The developed system has been operating since 2007, since that time issued more than 7 000

certificates in the area of vocational training, which were released after the completion of more

than 250 000 hours of training.

Examinations are performed using the platform of the examination – in addition to the

functionality of the implementation of the exams it has the features and capabilities of delivering

training in the form of eLearning.

The VCC portfolio of products includes over 80 courses developed areas comprehensively, such

as: training programs, educational materials, syllabi, exams and certificates.

The VCC Foundation Experience:

- 80 developed complete learning paths in 80 vocations,

- 7000 completed exams and certificates issued,

- As part of an ongoing project,

- the development of the 194 videos demonstrating professional activities in line with the

classification of occupations by the National Ministry of Education.

– Development and implementation of a CRM system VCC, implementing communication in a

network of over 50 partners VCC Foundation. The system meets the need not only communication

but also a tool that supports the process of procurement and implementation services.

Contacts:

Website: www.vccsystem.eu E-mail: info@vccsystem.eu Telephone: + 48 81 527 01 00