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Employability and Entrepreneurship in Hospitality and IT Industry
Start date: Oct 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
A successful labour market integration and more mobility of young people are key to unleashing all young people’s potential and achieving the objective of the 75% employment target for the population (20-64 years) sets by the Europe 2020 strategy.Being located in the rural area which has a touristic potential but also a lack of competitive knowledge in IT, Professional Foundation initiated an activity of mobility in the Hospitality Industry and IT domain. The project aims at increasing the employability and entrepreneurship of 30 VET students (some might be under 18 years old, so they need an accompaning teacher on each flow) and VET newly-graduates who have more difficulties in finding a job, through an experience abroad that will enrich them with new working skills, together with a cultural heritage that they will gain through living and working in a foreign country. The training for each participant will be strictly related to his/her profile and needs.This will be determined at different stages: participants will be individually interviewed at the promoting organisation, and there will be more encounters in order to understand thoroughly the participant’s needs and expectations. Participants will also be contacted by the receiving organisation before their departure, in order to discuss about the training. Following that the participants and the receiving organisation will agree on the work placement.The training content will be approximately as follows:
Week 1: Departure of the participants, meet and greet at the airport by the receiving organisation, welcoming of the participants, induction, and intensive language course (The language course will continue , but only in the evenings or week ends, as the participants will be occupied with their work placements).
Week 1-2: Induction in the host organisation. Meeting with the tutor and staff of the organisation. Overview of the organisation and all its departments; Reading all the relevant documents, included those related to health and safety regulations; general assistance; office support. The trainee will be assigned basic tasks in order to get familiar with the activities carried out in the organisation.
Weeks 2-3: The trainee will be fully integrated in the organisation. He/she will have gained confidence and some autonomy, he will be assigned tasks that he/she will be able to carry out independently, obviously under the supervision of own tutor. Depending on the size of the organisation, he/she will be probably assigned to one specific department, depending on his/her skills and training needs.
Week 4: The trainee will be involved in more and more challenging tasks and his/her level of autonomy will be increased.
The trainee will finish any remaining projects or Prepare a Work-In-Progress document for all unfinished and continuing projects for takeover purposes. The trainee will also prepare a feedback document on his/her experience to give to the intermediary organisation for monitoring purposes. The host organisation will prepare a reference letter for the trainee, while the receiving organisation will prepare all the necessary documents . At the end of the 4th week the trainees will leave their accommodation and they will be taken to the airport where they will take their flight back to Romania.The Mutual Trust agreement called Memorandum of Understanding signed, which recognises each other as competent authority to provide evaluation of Units of Learning Outcomes and states the quality standards for the evaluation will assume the recognition by the sending institution of the evaluation done in the host country by assessing : the Learning Agreement, the Personal Transcript and the Learning Units.Finally, the knowledge, skills and competence acquired during the stay abroad will be recognized in the home country by officially attesting achieved knowledge, skills and competence and, if appropriate, by awarding the respective amount of ECVET points to the mobile learner. The employers will employ someone that has had the chance to gain practical experience in the field, and a person who has been trained in a multicultural environment, thus gaining practical experience in intercultural communication. Nowadays this is a matter of great importance, given the multiculturality of many cities. Getting the transversal and so called soft skills the participants' opportunities when back to Romania, for being employed are increased.Promoting the benefits of living in the EU to our participants, broadening their horizons, within a safe environment and encouraging them to look at their future careers and studies with confidence will be an important outcome.At the end of the experience all the participants will have dedicated time and commitment to the re-elaboration of their Curriculum Vitae; this will allow them to describe the experience, listing even the technical, professional and competences acquired.