LLP-LdV/TOI/2010/RO/023

 

 

The general aim of the Back to Work project is to develop the validation and recognition of competences practice as part of the counseling services offered by the local employment offices with the view of improving their counseling services for unemployed and increasing the chances of efficient matching on the labor market.

 

Several objectives fall under this aim:

- to raise awareness on the importance of validation and recognition of competences practice in the context of promoting efficient matching between needs and skills/ competences on the labor market;

- to develop useful and easy-to-use counseling instruments that facilitate validation of prior learning outcomes and their match with job opportunities on the current labor market;

- to enable employment offices' counselors, NGO representatives and assessors in assessment centers to use these instruments;

- to permit exchange of best practices in the field of validation of prior learning outcomes and counseling services for unemployed between the partner countries.

 

The project will build on the expertise of the partner organizations, ensuring their active involvement throughout the project. The partnership consists of 7 organizations from 6 different countries, representing a mix of Northern and Southern, Eastern and Western EU Member States, old Members and newcomers, some with consistent experience in competence assessment, others having recently started. The background of the organizations themselves is also varied covering both the public and private sector; some have a wide range of experiences in international cooperation, others are novice in the field.

 

The main outcomes of the project are: a survey report, the training concept, a counseling instrument for validating the competences of unemployed and migrants.

 

Most of the unemployed people and returning migrants are people with low level of qualification (and thus they were the first ones to be left away in the time of economic compression), so, the validation process that will be adapted and further developed within the “Back to work” project will be relevant for this wider target group, and even for countries like DK, with low level of migration and unemployment.

 

More information on www.backwork.eu