Fitting VET-business for the future employment of all

The world of work is evolving at a brisk pace. Changing and increasing skills demands, coupled with economic, demographic and technological developments are posing considerable challenges as well ...

With a view to the above-mentioned challenges, JOBS4ALL partners recognised the need to upskilling their VET professionals and provided a cutting-edge methodology for fitting VET business for the future employment of all. The project's objectives were: 1.Suppling VET providers with a bespoke employer engagement methodology for shaping VET-business cooperation and fostering its sustainability. 2.Involving and upskilling VET professionals in effective employer engagement that has the required impacts, through a blended CPD course and practical resources toolkit. 3.Providing a set of video case studies emerging from the piloting trials, aiming to raise awareness and reflection among VET professionals on common challenges. 4.Engaging associated partners and key stakeholders in development, validation, dissemination and exploitation actions, through the local experts’ groups, community of practice and multiplier events. 5.Boosting the excellence, attractiveness and inclusiveness of VET and WBL.

In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives, JOBS4ALL partners: 1.Upskilled 64 VET professionals in effective employer engagement through online training sessions. 2.Organised local expert groups with 40 members representing VET managers and professionals, employers, associated partners and relevant experts/stakeholders, to gather their advice and expertise in the project results' development. 3.Promoted a Community of Practice in order to engage at least 160 participants, to be kept alive during the project life-cycle and after its end. 4.Interviewed 32 VET professionals, VET managers, VET learners, and employers, to case study their WBL experiences in video. 5.Involved 16 associated partners and over 800 stakeholders in project implementation and promotion.

The expected results and other outcomes of the JOBS4ALL project were: 1.Knowledge acquirement on efficient employer engagement pathways by partners’ organisations and other VET providers involved in the project. 2.Gaining of Skills on employer engagement by VET professionals involved in the project. 3.Increased use of the JOBS4ALL learning portal and community of practice. 4.Raising awareness and reflection on common challenges in employer engagement. 5.Reinforceing of links, synergies and cooperation among partners’ organisations but also other VET providers and their network of employers, social partners and stakeholders. 6.Boosting of acknowledge of VET and WBL as an attractive and inclusive way of education and employability. 7.Enhancing capacity of VET providers and professionals to proactively engage with employers. 8.Creation of a deep strategic partnership with local, national and international employers of every size to work in designing and delivering inclusive VET solutions that met their current and specific skills demands, whilst planning for those of the future. 9.Increasing of appropriation, transferability and scalability of the project and its outputs (available as OER in German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek and Polish) by VET providers and professionals, but also by other educational players, such as AE and HE in other European countries. 10.Expanding of acknowledgment of VET and WBL as an attractive and inclusive way of education and employability, across Europe.