OVPELO News
The end of the project - results
Project developments
The partnership of 7 European organizations working in the field of youth and EVS has been working for the past 2 years on the development of approaches on how to respond to the urging need to better valorize the competences of young people and especially EVS volunteers, and support their employability. As a result of the project, several results has been acheived:
- Research - the partnership started the project with the literature review and own research on employability skills to learn what are the important competences that the employers are considering while hiring a new person.
- Portfolio en employability skills - a tool created based on the new competence framework developed by the partnership. From the research and literature review it was analyzed what are the current skills needed to improve employability of young people. Then these competences where further analyzed and decomposed to create sets of learning objectives, realistic to achieve, that guide young people how they should keep developing in order to meet the expectations of the employers. We have found out that they are looking for the young people with ability to take initiative, leadership and teamwork competence, able to learn and solve the problems, and with something that we called the self-management skill.
- Interactive platform - where you can find all the project results as well as different tools submited by other stakeholders.
The tool has been creaeted to respond to the need of recognition of learning within the EVS (European Voluntary Service), and this is the main target group. With the testing phase we have observed that much bigger target group can use it, and we recommend it to all young people, who want to develop their competences, and to the youth workers to enable them to better support young people with whom they work.
The portfolio together with the model of the recommendation letter for the EVS volunteers, and many other materials you can find on the official platform of the project: http://www.volunteersemployability.info/
About the platform
The platform that we have created aims to facilitate the knowledge and innovation developed within the project to the different stakeholders. We have created the section for the different beneficiaries - young people who would like to improve their competences, youth organization to offer the tools to better support young people, and employers, VET instotutions etc. that can better get to know the field of non formla education and mobility projects.
In the platform you will find:
tools developed by the partnership - portfolio with the information how to use it, and reference letter
collection of the different tools for recognition that has been already developed on the European Level
possibility to add yout own tool
forum - where you can exchange information, ask the question and start discussion on the topic
- and all the infromation about the project.
We hope you will find it usefull.
Dissemination events
In Spain
The biggest success of this activity was to bring together all the stakeholders from the city of Lorca and the Region of Murcia who are directly involved in the support of young people, and we have considered to create the platform to exchange experiences and learn from each other what kind of offer for young people there is. As a result participants agreed that this kind of meetings needs to be continued and there are plans to include more stakeholders to the round table of youth guarantee in the region.
All stakeholders received the copy of the employability skills portfolio and there is a interest in using it in the direct work with young people. The idea of the portfolio was evaluated in the very positive way and was promised to be further used by participants.
The afternoon was fully dedicated to the portfolio on employability skills. We have implemented workshop on how to use the portfolio and we have invited young people and youth workers. For young people we have offered as well separate space with the information about EVS.
Dissemination event - France
Dissemination event - France
Dissemination event - France
Dissemination event - Poland
Dissemination event - Poland
Dissemination event - Poland
OVPELO project
- Younet (Italy)
- Asociación Cazalla Intercultural (Spain)
- Semper Avanti (Poland)
- Koinoniki Anaptyksi Neon / Social Youth Development (Greece)
- Asociatia Nevo Parudimos (Romania)
- Pistes Solidaires (France)
- Association Focus-European center for development (Bulgaria)
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