ITD Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche - CNR

Research theme:
«Informal and non-formal learning and their connections and potential synergies with formal education»
«Innovation in academic and professional training»
«New skills for the knowledge society»

Project duration: 2013-2015

Project website: http://www.pa.itd.cnr.it/case.html

Staff

Valentina  Dal Grande

Manuel Gentile

Dario La Guardia

Simona Ottaviano

Mario Allegra - Project manager

Framework

Lifelong Learning Program/Grundtvig Sectoral Program/ Grundtvig Learning Partnerships.

Objectives

The project aims are to develop a European collaborative environment, to prepare young adults (18-29 years old) for the professional world, according to their personal skills and aspirations. CASE project wants to contribute to the increasing of educational and professional mobility in Europe and worldwide, supporting unemployed people by means of key factors such as awareness about their abilities, knowledge about the labor market and the development of entrepreneurial mindset. The partnership is made ​​up of 9 organizations from 8 European countries. In the project, the ITD of Palermo is responsible for designing and implementing an e-learning platform to support all phases of the project. In addition, ITD will organize dissemination activities of the project results in schools to promote in young people the entrepreneurial culture and stimulate the entrepreneurial spirit.

Workplan

The CASE main activities are:

• Project launching
• Development of implementation plan
• Selection of target group
• Logo Contest: winning logo will be used on all informative and dissemination project materials.
• Application of questionnaire on young adults’career training needs. It’s based on the common questionnaire applied to all partner organizations.
• Thematic activities
• Accomplishment of digital portfolios production. Individual digital portfolios of presentation, called “This is me – know me in the virtual world”, uploaded in the Online Portfolio Environment, with links to multimedia work samples and video links of reference. 
• Participation in project meetings.
• Employers awareness campaign. It will be realize a campaign called “Give them a chance!” for employers’ sensitizing to recruit personnel amongst disadvantaged groups (inexperienced young people, migrants, Roma, special needs). Portfolio of activity includes materials used, recordings, photographs, media articles.
• Meeting employers,educational institutions,entrepreneurs.
• Monitoring and evaluation of project activities and results. 
• Dissemination activities. the portfolio of dissemination includes: agenda, materials used, recordings, photographs, list of participants. There will be presented project results, impact and experience gained.

Expected results

The project aims to create an European environment of cooperation focused to support young people in the choice of job and guide them in finding employment. Another expected result is the creation of tools and a platform for the promotion of enterprise culture and to stimulate the entrepreneurial spirit in young people.