Our project is the res­ult of a re­flec­tion in which sev­en dif­fer­ent schools from dif­fer­ent coun­tries agreed on something: em­ploy­ab­il­ity is an es­sen­tial skill to be worked on and de­veloped throughout the com­puls­ory edu­ca­tion. We found it dif­fi­cult to work on it in the way the vo­ca­tion­al train­ing can do it, but we con­cluded that we can also provide our stu­dents with ex­per­i­ences in which they should de­vel­op dif­fer­ent key skills ne­ces­sary to find, main­tain and im­prove a job in the fu­ture.

To get to this con­clu­sion, the sev­en schools have re­flec­ted in sev­er­al staff meet­ings about what our pit­falls are and what areas we should fo­cus on to im­prove.

We con­sidered the four ob­ject­ives that the European Uni­on has defined as the stra­tegic frame­work for edu­ca­tion and train­ing:

• Mak­ing lifelong learn­ing and mo­bil­ity a real­ity;
• Im­prov­ing the qual­ity and ef­fi­ciency  of edu­ca­tion and train­ing;
• Pro­mot­ing equity, so­cial co­he­sion, and act­ive cit­izen­ship;
• En­han­cing cre­ativ­ity and in­nov­a­tion, in­clud­ing en­tre­pren­eur­ship.

The sixth of us agreed on em­ploy­ab­il­ity and en­ter­pren­eur­ship is something that is not really worked in primary schools con­sciously, so we de­cided to fo­cus on that. We con­sider that re­ceiv­ing some spe­cif­ic train­ing and work­ing co­ordin­ately with teach­ers from oth­er European schools will en­rich the ex­per­i­ence, while pu­pils will use the for­eign lan­guage in a mean­ing­ful way, as they will need to use it in a fu­ture job.

There­fore, we defined six main skills to work on with our stu­dents, the ones they will need in the fu­ture la­bour mar­ket:

1. Cre­ativ­ity: be­ing ori­gin­al, not feel­ing fear for think­ing dif­fer­ently. To en­gage in ana­lys­is and to make judg­ments, know­ing when it is ap­pro­pri­ate to take in­tel­lec­tu­al risks, hav­ing ana­lyt­ic­al mind.
2. Prob­lem solv­ing and crit­ic­al think­ing: be­ing aware of the situ­ation, ana­lyz­ing how to cope with it in a bet­ter way, con­sid­er­ing pos­sible han­di­caps and or­gan­ising their thoughts.
3. Emo­tion­al in­tel­li­gence: be­ing aware of what they feel, what makes them feel that and how to ex­press it. But also, the abil­ity to un­der­stand, in­ter­pret, and re­spond to the emo­tions of oth­ers.
4. Or­gan­isa­tion skills: re­flect­ing on healthy habits at the same time, they will have to plan as a team how to ar­rive  at a fi­nal set point.
5. Re­spect  for the dif­fer­ences: while think­ing about per­son­al well be­ing and the ad­vant­ages of do­ing sports, our pu­pils will learn from oth­er coun­tries something, learn­ing also to re­spect and value the dif­fer­ences.
6. Com­mu­nic­a­tion: be­ing able to con­vey in­form­a­tion cor­rectly.

The um­brella skills which per­meate through all tasks are col­lab­or­a­tion and team­work.

Ac­cord­ing to this, the aims pur­sued are:

The six tasks de­signed to be de­veloped termly are go­ing to be in­cluded in every year plan­ning of the part­ner schools, get­ting our les­sons dir­ectly linked with the project. They are planned to in­volve not only the for­eign lan­guage area, but also the areas which work on moth­er tongue, art, mu­sic, phys­ic­al edu­ca­tion, sci­ence and maths. Each task will work one of the six skills planned, set­ting a mean­ing­ful ex­per­i­ence in which stu­dents will de­vel­op it. We have de­signed the six tasks to be worked, with min­im­um ad­apt­a­tion, in the whole school, not only with a par­tic­u­lar group of stu­dents

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