ABOUT THE PROJECT

New technologies are an emerging industry creating employment opportunities and entrepreneurial possibilities. According to projections set out by the European Commission, market demands for qualified information and communications technology (ICT) specialists will not be met, seeing a shortfall of up to 500,000 ICT professionals in 2020. Virtual and augmented reality products are amongst those with some of the highest market demand in the ICT sector.

It is in this context that we launched the Jobs4tech project which has providing vocational training in the relevant skills for employment and entrepreneurship with these technologies.

The general objective of JOBS4TECH has been to align Vocational Training (VET) with the needs of the labour market in the new technologies sector, and specifically in virtual and augmented reality, to improve the employability of its students.

In the life of the project, 11 VET professors from the technological area and their 140 students have experienced an integrated itinerary in the field of virtual and augmented reality, which contemplates in a coordinated way both the teaching of technical skills and the necessary competencies for work as an employee or self in this sector.

This project has been led by Acción contra el Hambre (Spain), and Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, as partner countries of the project.

WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVEDG?

THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

• An integrated itinerary with technical and transversal competences in the augmented and virtual reality sector.

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• A competences evaluation tool in the technological sector.

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• Training of VET trainers in the integrated itinerary.

• Pilot experience in each of the participating countries.

HERE YOU CAN ACCESS TO THE INTEGRATED ITINERARY

Existing vocational training programmes in all the project countries were assessed in terms of how they incorporate virtual and augmented reality technology and how they include training to develop employability and entrepreneurial skills into their courses. In addition to this, a skill set list for careers in this sector have been compiled for the project.

See the results of this study HERE.

On the basis of these findings, a integrated itinerary combining technical skills with skills for employment and entrepreneurship was created. This document guides teachers on how to introduce the teaching of these skills into the classroom in an integrated way. Teaching staff were trained prior to pilot it with the students.

A video was elaborated about this integrated itinerary in the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Estonian and Lithuanian.

Download the integrated itinerary HERE.

HERE YOU CAN ACCESS TO THE EVALUATION TOOL

The evaluation tool responds to the challenge of assessing students’ soft skills development with the aim to measure the impact the training has had on them.

The tool uses EntreComp as a baseline and gives feedback about 8 skills that have been agreed on being the most important ones regarding employment in the IT Sector.

Spotting oportunities
Creativity
Vision
Motivation and Persistance
Mobilising others
Taking the initiative
Planning and management
Working with others

The tool recognises 4 different roles with different possibilities:

1. Administrator

Has all permits and can take all possible actions in the platform such as creating and erasing countries, users, questionnaires… And also access to all reports

2. Centers:

They can visualize all information linked to their Center

3. Trainers:

Has the permits to manage the evaluation of his/Her class or group such as importing users, creating groups, creating and matching questionnaires, assess students or access to individual reports.

4. Students:
- Fill in the assigned questionnaires
- Access to their personal reports

WHAT CAN WE GET FROM THIS TOOL?

An assessment of students’ soft skills level through comparing different evaluations.
Gatheting teachers’ evaluation about students’ soft skills
An individual report with each students’ performance
A group report with the average competence of a group/class

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