An international mobility experience is the best way to grow personally and professionally.
In fact, volunteering or work experience abroad has benefits, as it takes place in a different cultural context, pushing the participants against their boundaries and limits and allowing them to understand how to overcome those obstacles and to empower their abilities.
In order to get a better sense of how the labour market values these skills developed outside of the formal learning environment/during an international mobility, PC IMPRESS project partners – Association pour le Développement des Initiatives Citoyennes et Européennes (ADICE), Stichting Kenniscentrum Pro Work, Fundacja VCC, Stage Within European Programmes S.L., CESIE – carried out the survey among 100 employers from 5 countries (France, Spain, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands) from October 2015 to January 2016.
The main aim of the survey was to understand the expectations and needs of employers in the term of transversal skills for young people who have completed an international mobility.
The questionnaire was based in 8 European key competences:
- communication in the mother tongue,
- communication in foreign languages,
- mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology,
- digital competence,
- learning to learn,
- social and civic competences,
- sense of initiative and entrepreneurship,
- cultural awareness and expression.
Each of the competence categories was further divided into practical examples, which were ranked from most to least important.
The data collected within the conducted survey was compared and analysed to find similarities and differences in the views of different countries. At the end of each competence categories, there are questions for reflection for the future employees to think about their own attitude in work environment.
This study regarding European key competences and the labour market is carried out in the framework of Erasmus+ PC IMPRESS project.
If you want to read the results of the survey, download the output in the PC IMPRESS digital platform. Here it is possible to find also the other project outputs and other useful tools for any project managers or participant of mobility projects!
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