The specific objective (purpose) of the partnership is to improve personnel development, employability and preparation of the students for integration into the Labour Market.
In order to reach the purpose of the project, three results have to be achieved: to improve motivation and involvement of the pupils in guidance and training; to improve skills/tools/materials of the trainers for a better guidance; to improve gender equity in guidance.
The achievement of the objectives and results of the project leads, as general objectives, to the improvement of the involvement in training of the students and to the improved quality of the school environment of teaching.
The main aim of training students with special need is to increase their ability to complete their activities with the minimum help of the staff and to work as part of a team for their integration.
Short term impact:
The project wants to have a direct impact on the participants involved in the partnership and an indirect impact over the local communities, trainers, families and students not involved in the partnership's activities.
The schools involved in the partnership gained the following direct benefits:
- innovation in the guidance practices;
- improving the school climate;
- raising the number of students;
- increasing popularity in the local community and strengthening the school image;
- increasing the number of partnerships at local, regional, national and international level;
- raising the continue need to upgrade the quality of education and training;
- improving the European dimension of the school;
- increase interest for combating poverty an social exclusion;
- increase interest to promote creativity.
The partners shared the tools/instruments/methods of guidance among themselves. The guidance operators and the trainers improved their skills and find different materials/methods to use for a better guidance of the pupils.
The benefits of the guidance operators and trainers can be described as follow:
- readiness to work in interdisciplinary teams;
- improving the motivation towards the work of the guidance operator/trainer;
- improve the knowledge in the professional guidance domain;
- exchange of good practices;
- analysis of bad practices with a critical approach;
- acquire knowledge about school education in different European countries;
- continue training for guidance operators and trainers involved;
- increase interest for combating poverty an social exclusion;
- increase interest to stimulate students' creativity;
- to reduce the inadequacy between pupils' job's representation and the reality
Furthermore, the partners exchanged the education and guidance knowledge and experience with their European colleagues. The definition of a common tool/instrument to be used in guidance enhances the benefits of the students and the guidance operators involved in the project.
The students improved their personality, motivation and preparation for their integration into the Labour Market due to the participative approach used to involve them in the project activities. The strategies developed by the project improved their involvement in guidance and training in the following dimensions:
- increasing the passion for the job;
- learning to learn;
- improving sense of initiative;
- raising cultural awareness and expression;
- raising motivation for learning;
- upgrading of skills;
- knowledge and awareness of different cultures;
- improve intercultural awareness;
- deal with diversity;
- enhancement of interest in foreign languages;
- improving language proficiency in English;
- improving knowledge about European Union;
- raising self-confidence;
- increase the social competencies;
- improve the knowledge about the characteristic of each job described by the project;
- increase interest for combating poverty an social exclusion;
- improve creativity.
Mid term impact
If the objectives of the project will be achieved, it will be possible to submit similar small projects to Local Authorities (Municipalities, Provinces, Regions) requiring funds from their turnover to spread the results on different beneficiaries on their territories. (From small project to small projects).
Long term impact
On the base of the results achieved by the project, it will be possible to keep on promoting the innovative approach of guidance developed by the partnership. Actually, Public Authorities responsible for setting up programmes of intervention in the guidance field should be interested in promoting the approach at an upper level, by transforming the innovative tool experimented in the project into an “ordinary tool”, available for other users, implementers, operators and everybody interested in. (From project to programme).
