Context In the context of today’s alarmingly high unemployment rates, partly resulting from the difficulty of graduates to find workplaces in accordance with their interests, abilities, skills or personality traits, this project aims to cater for needs of young European citizens in secondary schools to find a suitable career path and make the right career choices in full self-awareness and having access to information regarding the general economic environment of the European labor market. The project also targets the development of students’ entrepreneurial skills and offers them opportunities to connect to universities, local/regional/European institutions or private companies with the same scope. The project plans to develop students’ adaptability to the European labor market, who will analyze their own marketability, increase their flexibility and align to the concept of lifelong learning and flexible career options. Objectives Students will: 1. develop communication, interpersonal, planning and problem-solving, ICT, investigation and data manipulation skills;; 2. use various tools increasing their employability and create strategies to apply in meetings and interviews; 3. identify gaps and business opportunities in the European market and develop entrepreneurial initiative; 4. align themselves to the provisions of international business etiquette; 5. develop joint business plans that will promote transnational cooperation; 6. use a wide range of ICT tools. Other project-related objectives refer to the promotion of the rights and the values that come with the European Citizenship and to providing the opportunity for students to acquire knowledge and a deeper understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity characteristic of the European community. Number and profile of participants: Our project allows students from 4 schools from 4 different European Countries to come together to establish linguistic and intercultural understanding. There will be 4 project meeting with the participation of 60 teachers and 64 pupils+16 teachers mobility with PUPILS EXCHANGE. More than 1200 beneficiaries will be impacted at the end. The project aims to involve students coming from socially and financially challenged backgrounds in equal proportion with students coming from average-income families. Also, there will be a number of 8 SEN students directly involved and numerous others who will indirectly benefit from the partnership. Methodology: PREPARATION - Project teams are created / Erasmus+ corners are prepares / Digital monitor are placed / Posters and brochures are designed / Students contact each other / Project is presented to beneficiaries / Conferences for stakeholders / Applying initial questionnaire and evaluation form IMPLEMENTATION - description of activities: Transnational meetings – only for teachers - to plan the project schedule in detail, to prepare and assess activities and to apply the evaluation tools and offer feedback on the project. The teachers who have the duties for intellectual output also discuss their working plan and implementation according to the frame established in the application form. - 4 planned coordinator meetings: M1 - at the beginning of Year 1 (to plan the activities for the first year); M2 - at the end of Year 1 (to evaluate the project activities and their impact); M3 - at the beginning of Year 2 (to plan the activities for the second year); M4 - at the end of Year 2 (to evaluate the project activities and their impact, to write the final report). - 2 student exchanges: C1 – Romania (Year 1) C2 – Slovakia (Year 2) FOLLOW-UP The project will be evaluated at the start, during and at the end of the project using various specific tools – questionnaires, feedback forms, observation, surveys etc. and will be disseminated at the local, regional, national and international level in the mass-media, on the internet and during offline encounters with representatives of local communities. Impact Young people will develop the basic life-skills and competencies such as teamwork, adaptability and entrepreneurship necessary for their personal and social development, for their future and for becoming active European citizens. The exchange of good practices will enable students and teachers to develop learning/teaching strategies. The schools will become visible in their communities and set examples for other schools to follow. The project activities will be embedded in each school's curriculum through the teaching of entrepreneurial education, career counselling and foreign languages. Long-term benefits Students will improve their career prospects and will make adequate choices in full self-awareness. They will be able to identify gaps in the local economy to develop new businesses and projects which will lead to the social and economic development of their communities. They will become more responisble European citizens embracing values such as tolerance, respect, solidarity.