Category: Project Updates

Tell your story at a glance

We just published our first News Update from our Tell Your Story Project.
Please click here to read it!

What is Tell Your Story?

Tell Your Story aims at exploring the use of digital storytelling and story mapping in education to combat early school leaving. It also aims to motivate early school leavers to re-enter lifelong learning, thus preventing young people at risk from prematurely dropping out of school or vocational education.
Well-told stories are very powerful artefacts. Digital stories are often presented in compelling, interactive and emotionally engaging formats.
Digital storytelling is therefore a suitable and effective means for young people to communicate their experiences. Storytelling is defined as a short form of digital media production, which allows people to share particular aspects of their lives. “Media” may include full-motion videos with sound, animation, stills, audio, etc., which individuals can use to tell a story or present an idea.

Languages, employability and entrepreneurship.
Successful CES&L conference at Trinity College Dublin

At venerable Trinity College in Dublin the CES& project had its well-attended final conference, which at the same time was the launching event of the project’s training module to improve language students’ employability potential.

Entrepreneurship competence is part of the module, and I had the pleasure to introduce this key element in a workshop with career counsellors and academic higher education staff. Hopefully the workshop demonstrated that entrepreneurship is a topic that can be easily integrated in languages and career counselling and, above all that it can be fun, too!

The complete CES&L training module, with learning materials, facilitator notes and accompanying e-elearning content can be accessed very soon at: https://languages4work.eu

ENTRE-YOU in Practice

With the end of the project ENTRE-YOU (Entrepreneurial Mindset for Young disadvantaged Jobseekers) the publication ENTRE-YOU in Practice is now available! It includes a description of the elaborated training programm and gives an overview about the lessons learnt during the piloting experiences in the partner countries.

All project results and products can shortly be found on the project website: entreyou.eu

Janus+: Soft Skills as an important factor for work place success

Everyone is talking about soft skills, but what exactly is meant by them and why are they so important?
To help the labor force to understand the concept of soft transversal skills, short examples from different perspectives will be delivered to illustrate their relevance. Based on recommendations of the European Commission, the Janus+ project consortium defined the three most important competence categories – from the perspective of trainees, apprentices, employees and job seekers:

Janus+ Soft Skills Folder

Janus+ Information Sheet

We are project partner in the EU-Project Janus+ which aims at learning, teaching and assessing soft skills in work-linked trainings. Find more information in the leaflet!

The Silver Age Silver Sage Initiative

The Silver Age Silver Sage Initiative (SASSI for short) is a European-wide project tasked with developing an innovative, age-sensitive approach to Continuous Professional Development within organisations and in Vocational Education. Trainers, HR managers and employers can find all SASSI products developed and materials compiled to support the ageing workforce on the SASSI hub, the virtual meeting point of the project. This video summarizes the purpose of the project and serves as a guide for joining the SASSI hub.

For more information please visit the project website: sassi-project.eu.

Conference:
Crafting Employability Strategies for HE Students of Languages in Europe

There are a wide range of employment opportunities for languages graduates.

The international conference Crafting Employability Strategies for HE Students of Languages in Europe in Dublin on 7 September 2017 is an opportunity for careers professionals, employers, academic staff and teaching assistants of languages to explore how careers workshops could help third level students reach their career potential during and after university.

The Erasmus+ funded project CES&L adapted an existing Irish module for students of languages based on a needs analysis of employers of language graduates in Europe.

Workshops have been adapted by academic staff and career professionals in Europe for students of languages to assist them in their career decision making, exploring the future of work, the job search and making job applications. For more details, please see the brochure and agenda.

If you or your colleagues would like to attend this event, please register here.

Please email Elaine Browne at University College Cork if you have any further queries.

Tell your story: Storytelling, a milestone for preventing early school leaving

The second transnational meeting of the project Tell your story took place in Vienna on 14– 15 June 2017. The project consortium consisting of Pistes Solidaires (Project Coordinator, France), RIS Dvorec Rakičan (Slovenia), Rinova Limited (United Kingdom), EUROGEO VZW (Belgium) and CESIE (Italy) used the meeting to update each other on the project´s first results and reiterate the importance of storytelling in the fight against early school leaving.

Specifically, the scientific study “Telling digital stories to fight against early-school leaving” (which is our first project output) has been finalised. It summarizes the present state of research on the potential for story-telling and digital story mapping to engage young people at risk of drop out. It is available here.

Furthermore, the partnership carefully went through the next activities to be implemented, specifically regarding the development of the two learning modules (How to tell a life story & Media production skills).

Tell your story is a 2 years project co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme, Key action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for adult education.

For further information on the project please visit tellyourstorymap.eu!