Collaborative Steps into Employment

The ‘Collaborative Steps into Employment’ project is a multi-European collaboration and partnership to provide professional updating and sharing of issues, ideas and experienced in Finland, the Czech Republic, Italy and the UK. The main focus of the project is to develop clear strategies to reduce the difficulties experienced by I-VET learners with learning difficulties and disabilities into the labour market beyond their educational experience. The project aims to enable professionals to clearly address these issues and to resolve and share ideas on how to maximise the progression into different forms of employment by creating a toolkit of shared resources. Through a range of innovative and dynamic workshops to clearly understand the issues and to seek resolutions through a multi-European partnership the team will also provide opportunities for I-VET learners with difficulties and disabilities to raise their aspirations and to gain short-term employment experience of different European models of access into employment routes and to build this experience in to the Curriculum Vitae. The results of the project will provide tangible outcomes to create a shared vision in the reduction of youth unemployment through the identification of a range of barriers which reduce life outcomes in the emerging European arena. The project outcomes are to raise the aspirations of I-VET learners and professionals by gaining an insight into a range of different approaches. The project envisages that the benefits of young people moving into the labour force and to highlight the positive impact this has on the economy, the health and wellbeing of the individual and the local community. It is expected that the final outcome “CTEP in reality” will inspire and motivate all participants, professionals and young people to have ambitious expectations and to develop a more productive economy within their locale.