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Soft Skills

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-FR01-KA202-047925
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 360,550 EUR

Soft Skills

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"The Erasmus+ Soft skills project is part of an approach that facilitates access to soft skills for people with low levels of qualification in order to accelerate their professional integration. Indeed, mastering a professional activity does not only suppose the implementation of technical skills specific to the job (hard skills), it also relies on the mobilization of soft skills. To this end, the partnership has developed a method as well as pedagogical tools for the training and the evaluation of soft skills. The European Commission works with EU countries to strengthen the common framework of key competences, in other words knowledges, skills and behaviours that will help the learners in their personal fulfilment and, later, in their job search and participation in civil society. These key competences consist of ‘traditional’ and ‘horizontal’ skills. At a time when the world of work is changing profoundly and the global economy is not creating a sufficient number of jobs, there is a growing emphasis on those ‘horizontal’ skills. Indeed, employers want their new employees to have both good interpersonal and technical skills. Those “soft” skills are human skills, personality traits and know-how-to-be. In this context, the development of ""soft skills"" is particularly important to enable people with low qualifications or disabilities to meet future challenges. In its current form, vocational training, based on a formal organization, does not meet the expectations of people with low levels of qualification who often do not have access to formal training. It is therefore essential to develop a new vision of training and to add the acquisition of ""soft skills"". This is the goal we had when developing this Erasmus + Soft skills project. Our main objectives were the followed one- to associate soft skills and appropriate pedagogical approaches of alternative education and personal development, - to create pedagogical tools for technical supervisors and people with low qualifications or in a handicap situation - work on soft skills evaluation methods9 European partners active in the field of vocational training and coming from France, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Slovenia wanted to respond to these objectives and together they co-constructed innovative solutions to make soft skills accessible to people with a low level of qualification and/or in a situation of disability. For example, the following were created- The European catalog of soft skills references which gives an overview of the soft skills approach followed by the project: it contains the list of soft skills defined within the framework of the project, the levels of acquisition and their definitions as well as a description of the process of acquisition of soft skills and of the positioning and evaluation which are linked to it- The training kit enables the preparation and implementation of soft skills training in any organization and with any learner. It describes the training method and program in detail and provides training summary sheets by level. It also provides suggestions on the pedagogical tools to use at each stage of the training or the posture to adopt as a trainer. - The Soft skills pedagogical toolbox presents a collection of more than 80 tools that can be used to train in soft skills. The tools are based on the experience of the project partners. The training kit suggests their use.- The soft skills positioning and evaluation protocol provides all the keys to evaluate and certify the acquisition of soft skills. It describes the different moments and methods of training and gives tools to evaluate correctly; All our tools have been tested with our target audiences, i.e. trainers and people who are far from employment or in a handicap situation. Thus, a first virtual mobility allowed us to train in English 14 trainers coming from the respective structures of each partner in the use of the Soft skills tools. The 14 trainers indicated that they wanted to integrate the Soft skills tools in their daily work. In a second step, these same trainers were able to test the training in their respective structures. Thus, 98 people who are far from employment or in a handicap situation were able to follow at least one soft skills training. 70 of them could be evaluated and 62 validated the level of soft skills they were trained to. Our tools have been made available to everyone free of charge on our digital educational platform www.softskills-project.eu and have been disseminated on our social networks, our web pages and during our dissemination events."

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