Pump Your Employability
Summary of the project
Pump your employability is an international training course, which will gather 25 youth workers and NGO representatives coming from 10 countries: Cyprus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Malta, Italy Lithuania, Croatia, Romania and Germany. The main aim of the training course is to provide the participants with essential competencies in the field of project management in order to enable them to build sustainable social initiatives and in this way foster their employability. Through the supporting learning process, this training course aims to enhance the personal and professional development of the participants, so that they act as multipliers of the gained knowledge within their organizations and their local communities.
Aims and objectives
The 6-day-lasting international training course “Pump your employability” aimed at providing current and future leaders of civil society with tools and competences in the area of management of sustainable social initiatives, in order to support their employability in the spirit of participation of young people, solidarity and active citizenship. Transversal aspects of the training course were the professional and personal development of the learners, as well as the fostering of new partnerships and projects as development at an organizational level.
Core Objectives:
1. Building up competencies of participants in relevant areas of project management such as:
- Exploring different project management tools
- Project management practice
- Exchange of project ideas and building up future projects and partnerships
2. Supporting process and development the organizational level
- Exploring the concept of employability through youth work or “How to become a multiplier?”
- Ensuring creativity
- Ensuring quality impact and sustainability of their initiatives
- Exchange of good practices
3. Action planning for further development:
Elaboration of Action Plan
Lateral Objectives of the project were:
- To create a respectful atmosphere, which allows a maximum of exchange and learning;
- To provide coached opportunities on a group and individual level for reflection, assessment and evaluation;
- In order to promote European cooperation in the youth field, to strengthen the networking among the partners involved in the project;
- To provide structured space and time for the exchange of experiences, points of view and opinions, and the exchange of best practices, building new partnerships for creating sustainable future projects and initiatives
- To provide high sustainability, transfer of competences, and motivation, so that the participants start to act as multipliers when they return back home and run several follow-up activities.
- This training course aimed at building competencies of the participants in the management of sustainable social initiatives and in this way to increase the employability of the young people in the spirit of active citizenship and participation. Special focus was given on how to act as multipliers of the shared practices in local contexts and communities.
- To raise the awareness for cultural-sensitive issues, and to give an idea of the different realities that the young people are part of;
- To promote international and intercultural understanding and to contribute to fighting against racism and xenophobia;
- To contribute in raising the employability of the young people on the labor market, especially through their active involvement in society and youth work.
