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The Project
The connection and transition from school to labour market constitute a crucial element to reach the goal of the inclusion of young people in productive contexts which are able to answer to requests of the enterprise system, constituted mainly by SMEs, and to providing them with a more complete professionality that meets the requirements of the labour market in consequence of the ongoing changes and innovation levels. In the whole of Europe, there is evidence of the skill gap problems of young people who completed their training.
Project SWORD’s focus is on the transition from school and training pathways – particularly technical ones – and the labour market, in order to get school and training systems to guide their activity and to provide an adequate response to the demand of professionalism expressed by the economic and productive world and to the strategies and perspectives of local development.
An essential reference at a European level for the school to labour market transition is represented by the Dual Learning System: Because of this many countries are rethinking/reorganising their school and training pathways in the perspective of the Dual Learning and of the gradual acquisition of elements of this system.
SWORD project starts from the observation that in countries where the Dual Leraning model is not yet developed, the school and training system is not taking so much care about the transition of young people from school to labour market, or, when it is, it doesn’t manage to obtain significant results.
At the same time, SWORD project starts as well from the fact that even in the countries where there is a working Dual Learning System there are some critical issues, particularly in the relationship between the school-training system and school-to-labour market processes (often not adequately connected).
In this respect, it is important to gain an insight into the role played by the vocational training school in the preparation and management of the school-to-labour-market transition and at the same time in connection with the involvement of the school system in this activity avoiding risks about outsourcing the process of this transition, which could put this phase out of control of the school system.
SWORD Project aims at carrying out a careful analysis of the Dual Learning Model and at reaching a new, shared European approach to Dual Learning, which can allow the countries already using it to cope with existing critical issues and the countries willing to adopt it to be able to do so.
Furthermore the project aims at identifying a Dual Learning model in which the school-to-labour-market transition can happen in an international context, promoting international mobility processes which can strengthen the school-to-labour-market transition.
