The Project:
In the European Union, demand for tech skilled individuals is expected to grow until 2025. However, the workforce’s future supply of tech skills is forecasted to be substantially less than what the market demands. This is due primarily to the fact that interest in undertaking tech studies is falling in many EU member states.
Our project addresses both the supply of tech skilled labor issue and the root cause of the lack of curiosity for technological occupations and studies.
We will attempt to address the employability of future generations by providing youth with opportunities to engage with future technological occupations whilst grasping their main features, ambitions, and technicalities. We also wish to challenge the lack of interest in tech studies by introducing young individuals to a maker approach to learning.
The main elements of this project are:
– Development of educational resources relating to some of the most rapidly growing occupations in the tech sector
The consortium aims to produce educational resources targeting youth, adolescents, and young adults, to increase their curiosity and interest in tech professions. These resources will be modulable in that youth will choose different topics within the same employment area. For example, as far as design jobs are concerned, we will produce separate and independent activities spanning from graphic design to urban planning, which youth will be able to choose selectively.
– Three job shadowing activities
Groups of youth will participate in three job shadowing activities scheduled to take place at Digital Fabbrichetta -an Italian business focussing on digital fabrication and rapid prototyping services-, Medusa Digital – a French company specializing in digital advertising-, and Wolfhouse Productions – a Romanian company working on architecture, urban planning and design.
– A mentoring program
Individuals who will have participated in the job shadowing activities will be accompanied by mentors affiliated with our business partners. The program’s purpose is to allow youth to capitalize on the learnings they have acquired during the job shadowing activities. Mentors will guide youngsters in deepening their favorite topics; they will assist them in improving their competence in those areas.
The primary impact on young people consists of enabling them to pursue their own goals, notably in education and work. Indeed, the project aims to create a series of learning outcomes among young people directly involved in the project, as they will consolidate their ICT skills, notably in the following domains: browsing, searching, filtering information; evaluating information; sorting and retrieving information; interacting through technologies; sharing information and content; engaging in online citizenship; collaborating through digital channels; managing digital identity; developing content; integrating and re-elaborating; copyright and licenses; programming; solving technical problems; identifying needs and technological responses; innovating and creatively using technologies; identifying digital competence gaps.
Moreover, youth are expected to develop their entrepreneurial spirit, increase their curiosity for studies and careers in tech and science, increase their ability to set up their own businesses.
Participating organizations working in the youth sector will grow more aware of the possibilities to cooperate with the business sector, whereas our tech partners will increase their ability to set up opportunities for youth such as internships, jobs shadowing and the like.
The project will impact multiple stakeholders, including instructional environments, educational institutions and the non-formal education sector in the participating countries.
Partnership: DIGIJEUNES, Digital Fabbrichetta srl, SC Wolfhouse Productions SRL, C.I.P. CITIZENS IN POWER, Jelgavas Valsts gimnazija, JOSE ANTONIO NERI QUIROZ
Website: www.jobsofthefuture.eu
Duration: Feb 01, 2021 – Mar 31, 2023 (26 months)
Project Number: 2020-3-FR02-KA205-018455
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