KA2 Youth EXCH. “WBL”

“Work Based Learning – the entrance to the professional future” aims at facilitating the creation of empowering environment, for enabling young people to undergo international WBL mobility pathways. In addition, by bridging non formal, formal education and labor market sectors, it promotes a holistic approach, contributing to the establishment of a long term multi-level cross-sectorial networking and cooperation, in view of strengthening WBL processes and fostering youth employability around Europe. 

Start: 01/03/2019 End: 31/08/2020
Project reference: 2018-3-BG01-KA205-060977
EU Grant: 98180 €
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for youth

Applicant Organization:

“HorizontProConsult” EOOD [Bulgaria]

Project partners:

• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATIONLTD [Cyprus]
• ASOCIACION MUNDUS – UN MUNDO A TUS PIES [Spain]
• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT [Grecia]
• MINE VAGANTI NGO [Italy]
• REGIONALNE CENTRUM WOLONTARIATU [Poland]
• CENTRUL PENTRU EDUCATIE SI CONSULTANTA INSTRUMENTE STRUCTURALE [Romania]
• VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA PAR [Croatia]

Project TOPICs:

“Work Based learning – the entrance to the professional future” aims at facilitating the creation of empowering environment, for enabling young people to undergo international WBL mobility pathways.

TARGET GROUPs:

Youth with fewer opportunities and NEETs, NGOs and educational institutions. 

APPROACH / METHODOLOGY:

Non Formal Education 

Project activities:

• 2 Short-term joint staff training events 
• 3 Transnational projects meetings 

Project objectives:

• To build up competences of youth workers to become leaders of WBL empowering environment and to create strategies that promote WBL mobility as a complementary educational path in order to boost employability of young people 
• To foster cooperation exchange of knowledge and capacity development in the field of work based mobility between the partner countries 
• To create and reinforce synergies between formal and non formal educational sectors as well as labour market so as to set up a favouring environment for cross-sectorial cooperation in view of enhancing youth employability 
• To provide youth organizations with guidance and tools for bridging sectors in view of creation of empowering setting for work based learning 
• To create conditions and support the development of cross-sectorial networking on EU level thus set up a space for creation of new work based learning mobility opportunities and their accessibility for young people 
• To encourage the development of a multilevel cross-sectorial system that concretely fosters learning through other than formal educational means and especially through direct involvement in working practical assignments and activities 

For more information about the project visit the webpage:

1. The official website of the European Union.
2. The project’s Facebook page.

You can find more information in this PDF and find best practices here.