Project goals: The aim of the project is to foster the education competences of the involved project partners as well as teachers/principals in the matter of an early professional career orientation and guidance for pupils/students of public schools, schools with gymnasium upper level, special education schools and high schools. Project duration: 10/2017 – 09/2019, 24 months Lead partner:  CENTRUM FUR INNOVATION UND TECHNOLOGIE GMBH Spreewald, Germany

Project partners:

• Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Dahme-Spreewald mbH, Wildau, Germany
• AKMI Educational Organisation SA, Athen, Greece
• Fundacion Laboral del Metal, Santander, Spain
• Latvijas Eiropas Kopienas Studiju Asociacija, Riga, Latvia
• DEMOSTENE Centro Studi, Latiano, Italy

Problems identified by the partners:

• A declining/stagnating number of pupils/students, as well as retirement waves of ageing workforces in the participating regions will lead to an increased need for skilled workers;
• On the one hand, young people suffering high unemployment rates hand in some European countries, on the other skill shortages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupation are to face.

Project activities:

• 6 learning and experience exchanges between the project partners and through the implementation of 5 day on-site visits (so-called mobility) with the aim of acquiring ideas and getting to know good practices and methods, develop and strengthen networks and to gather experiences of the transnational collaboration.

Main goals:

• Getting competences/knowledge of the EU key competences
  Learning to learn, Social and civic competences, Communication in
  foreign languages, Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
• Getting an practical inside into new innovative approaches in
  Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy and Latvia;
• Better understanding of interconnections between formal, non-
  formal education, VET, other forms of learning and labour market
  respectively.

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