Project Description

Even if today’s labour market is directed towards a skill-based approach for employment, the usual way that universities and enterprises collaborate is through the use of qualification degrees. This can create problems since employers do not have information about what the degree stands for. The aim of this project is to promote the skills-based approach through the use of an online “matching skills” tool, which will be used by companies to describe their job positions in terms of skills and universities to describe their qualifications in terms of skills.

In addition to this tool (the main outcome of the project), two other web tools (an elearning platform and a collaborative tool for publication of joint activities) will be developed as supportive tools. A partner network will be developed in order to bring the stakeholders of the project together, foster their cooperation and ensure the sustainability of the results of the project. The products will be developed on the basis of an initial study, developed earlier in order to identify the exact needs of the target groups. The target groups are universities, enterprises, students/graduates and their associations (together with the employment agencies in the long term).

The consortium of the project is made of 9 partners from 6 countries (Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Romania and the United Kingdom). Partners include four universities, an SME, an SME association, an employers’ association, as well as two universityenterprise training partnerships. The envisaged impact is improved transparency of the skills of university graduates, which will lead to the improvement of their employability as well as improving the chances of companies to find appropriate employees. Furthermore, in this way, the skills gaps between the skills offered by universities and those needed by enterprises can easily be detected and corrective action taken.