PROJECT TITLE: “PREVIEW Promoting Resilience and Employability in uniVersity students through Internship for futurE Work”

Scientific manager: Tommasina Pianese

Project manager: Daniela De Gregorio

PARTNER:

8 partners, including Universities, research centers, devolpmental agencies:

1. CNR (ITALIA)
2. UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SASSARI (ITALY)
3. ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCURESTI (ROMANIA)
4. UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA (SPAINA)
5. NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY (TURKEY)
6. Mediterranean Pearls APS (ITALY)
7. Asociatia de Dezvoltare Intercomunitara Harghita (ROMANIA)
8. AlterContacts (HOLLAND )

FUNDING: ERASMUS+ Call 2022 Round 1 KA2 KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education Totale: 400.000 euro

DURATION: 36 Months (September 2022/August 2025)

ABSTRACT

The PREVIEW project “Promoting Resilience and Employability in university students through Internships for futurE Work” aims to promote innovative online learning and teaching practices to train students and graduates with the skills needed to address the work and social challenges arising from the digital age. To this end, curricula are student-centered to reduce the mismatch between the supply and demand of skills required in the new remote work environments.

The project envisages the design, development and testing of an innovative university course which, through remote internships and other e-Learning by doing activities, will enable students and graduates to develop the employability competences required by the remote working scenario.

Students and graduates will be trained – through e-learning activities – with competences to address the challenges of distance and effectively work in remote working context: e.g. how to use different technologies, how to work and collaborate in virtual teams, how to re-organize work activities using new digital and connectivity tools. Subsequently, they will have the opportunity to applicate these competences during remote internships, and verify to what extent they are able to work in a remote context, and effectively interact and collaborate with distant colleagues.

OBJECTIVES

– TRAINING university students and graduates that have not already entered the labour market to increase their employability skills.

– DESIGN OF AN INNOVATIVE STUDENT-CENTERED UNIVERSITY COURSE. Co-creation of a university course involving students and graduates to identify the key competencies to meet the challenges arising from the digital age. Promotion of innovative online learning practices and teaching through remote internships.

– COMPETENCES ENHANCEMENT. Training on digital skills (e.g. information and data literacy, digital contents, cybersecurity) and non-digital skills essential for the future labour market; on cognitive and non-cognitive skills including self-management and remote collaboration skills.

– INCLUSION. Participation of students and graduates based in disadvantaged rural and urban areas of countries with different TRL Technology Readiness Level.

KEYWORDS

Digital transition, smart working, remote working, digital skills, education