"<< Objectives >>The more students live in virtual worlds, the more critical the real thing becomes. This is particularly true for developing personal skills and potential as a basis for future education, career and life paths.Offering students real insight into dynamic working and professional worlds is crucial for this.In too many areas of school education, this is not sufficiently possible. We want to achieve this with ""Reality Check"" by developing innovative offers and making them effective.<< Implementation >>""Reality Check"" develops, tests and evaluates innovative offers for real experiences for students - ""RealityChecks"" - in the working and professional world, where it has not been possible so far.Regional networks are being established, as this can only succeed in cooperation between schools, companies, the economy and stakeholders.Integrating these actors into regional networks is a core element of the project, with a specific focus on students with particular challenges.<< Results >>The results are innovative ways of opening the real world of work and careers to students where this was not previously possible.In regional networks, the conditions for successful communication, cooperation, coordination between stakeholders from schools, companies, and the region have been identified and described.The decisive result is the benefit for students on their education and training path. The handbook and training courses help teachers and trainers to support that."

"The project ""Multiprofessional teams in all-day schools"" aims to strengthen the possibilities of multi-professional cooperation in schools and to initiate processes for multi-professional team development by improving communication, cooperation and coordination. The all-day offer makes school a place of learning and living, which makes continuous and individual support of the children possible. The result is a learning culture that takes into account the different prerequisites and needs of the children and enables a diverse everyday school life. Cooperation and knowledge transfer in multi-professional teams are indispensable for this. However, there are still significant difficulties in this area in schools. What are the implementation problems: the professional self-conception of the actors, structural, personnel or factual obstacles, lack of space or time resources? Without well-developed multi-professional teams, it will be challenging to design a school as a place to learn and live.The partners in this project bring experiences from three European countries with different framework conditions to the design of teaching, learning and educational processes in schools. The central aim is to network and exchange information on the critical questions concerning requirements for the design of learning and living spaces in all-day schools, success factors and barriers for effective communication, cooperation and coordination processes in multi-professional teams, structural and institutional framework conditions, different pedagogical roles and mentoring opportunities.In the exchange and work process, the results are documented with an inventory of the structural and institutional framework conditions, a collection of good practice and possible options for action for multi-professional team development at all-day schools. These will be published in a bilingual short booklet (DE/EN).A team of 5 organisations (school authorities, school and school partners) have joined forces for this project in order to exchange ideas on a strategic-conceptual level. They will form a joint project group consisting of management and pedagogical specialists from education providers, school authorities, school management, teachers and education coordinators. At three transnational project meetings, the partners will dedicate their efforts to these focal points with instructive inputs, school/project visits (including expert talks) and result-oriented workshops: Inventory of multi-professional teams in all-day schools, structural and institutional framework conditions, communication - cooperation - coordination, understanding of roles and different pedagogical working methods, multi-professional team development. In this way, different working approaches, good practice, conditions for success and challenges can be worked out.This project will deepen existing structures between school authorities, schools and educational partners at a local/regional level. New relations at the European level will be created. The partnership will use shared experiences after the end of the project. The aim is also to explore possibilities for a more far-reaching innovation project jointly. We want to lay the foundations for the subsequent development of methods, instruments and qualification concepts that support sustainable multi-professional team development in all-day schools."

"The project ""Guidance - Networking - Dialogue: Strategies for the transition from day-care to school"" has dealt with current challenges in this crucial developmental step. The partners in the three participating metropolitan regions of Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen investigated tested and new approaches for networking during this first transition in a child's educational biography.During the project's 16-month duration, the partners (organisations and authorities in the fields of early childhood education, school supervision, language mediation, social pedagogy and youth work) have devoted themselves to the topic on a strategic and conceptual level. The transnational project group and three regional working groups carried out status descriptions and the status-quo of the success factors at the transition from day-care to school.In three transnational project meetings, good practice, success factors and options for action were elaborated in working groups (comparison and discussion of different working approaches) and through practice input (school and day-care centre visits; exchange with relevant actors).Exchange of experience on preconditions for success and obstacles in the way of developing a connected transition phase led to the identification of four topics focused on during the project: the child, cooperation, educational documentation and participation.We have also prepared good practice from Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen, which can either be integrated into the respective educational system contexts or adapted to existing concepts for early childhood education and the school entry phase."

"We have to prevent losing youth. Especially in times of crisis. Covid-19 affects young people's chances not only in education and social environments, but especially in the transition from school to training to work. Data and facts across Europe indicate that young people in particular are hit by the crisis when they enter the training and professional world. There are many indications that this is not a short-term effect.The strategic partnership “Simply Digi” is addressing this challenge. Against the background of difficult access for young people from school to training and companies, due to restrictions on opportunities to real contact with the world of work, innovative approaches, methods and procedures are developed, piloted and implemented that enable the possibility of realistic, practice-oriented experience with professional world of work even under restricted conditions. This can only succeed with innovative, flexible use of digital, virtual instruments. In order to achieve results in time, this project does not focus on the development of large new technical system solutions, but on the simplest possible, but innovative, integrated, intelligent use of digital instruments in combined, blended, hybrid methods and processes. “Simply” does not mean “simple”, but “simply effective” at the best.The project pursues these goals in particular:• To enable young people to gain insight into occupations and the world of work using digital tools, even under restricted distance conditions• To develop, test and use innovative approaches to virtual and distance contacts between young people, consultants, companies, trainers, parents and teachers• Create ""bridges"" between schools and companies that enable young people and companies to articulate and present one another in an authentic digital and personal mannerTo achieve these goals, partners from Austria, Germany and Italy come together to jointly develop solutions that can be also implemented in other European countries under different conditions.A decisive experience from Covid-19 measures is that real experiences of young people in the world of work are much more difficult and sometimes impossible under recent conditions. However, these represent a central element of any goal-oriented preparation for vocational training and working life.The innovative developments in the “Simply Digi” project are therefore aimed to create as realistic experiences as possible for young people at the transition from school to vocational training and world of work, even under difficult conditions, using digital and virtual, also combined and hybrid innovative methods and processes.This requires the involvement of all stakeholders in these processes, in addition to the young people, teachers, educational and career counsellors, pedagogues and trainers in companies.This is done in several ways during the phases of the project:First, a short phase of survey concerning status quo in the countries, with regard to digitization and career transition, based on the preparatory research;In the second phase, existing real and digital methods are new and innovatively combined, adapted to the several different conditions, and new approaches are developed where they are missing;In the third phase, manuals for the methods and procedures and their use and implementation are developed under different framework conditions, together with teachers in school, with trainers and responsible persons in companies;In the fourth phase, a modular training concept for teachers in schools as well as for trainers and responsible persons in companies will be created and implemented.Results and effects are expected from this in several ways:Improved opportunities for a successful transition from school to training and world of work, even under difficult conditions, using digital and virtual opportunities for real work experiencesSupport of school and teachers in the preparation and transition of students from school to vocational training in companies and world of workSupport of companies in contacting and addressing young people who might be interested in training in companies,Avoidance of economic and social problems caused by unsuccessful transition processes from school to vocational training and world of work for young people, companies and society.Even if the “Simply Digi” project is being applied in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, its perspective extends far beyond that. The project concept is based on the assumption that many of the experiences that are gained in terms of health, economy, education, social and digital aspects during the pandemic crisis can be used effectively and beneficially in the long term beyond.""Simply Digi"" wants to contribute to this."