Projects

Training and acquisition of professional experience for graduates of VTC, EPAS and EPAL

The project concerns the development of an incentive scheme addressed to the graduates of the Vocational Education-Training centres (more specifically the Institutes of Vocational Training-IEK, the Professional Schools-EPA.S, Professional Lyceums-EPA.L), helping them to gain professional experience by positioning them in various enterprises. This professional experience will help them claim better jobs since they will be featuring upgraded competencies and skills

The project is divided in two distinct but inter-connected phases. The first phase concerns the attendance in the training programmes (duration: 80 hours) in the following modules:

1. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2. New technologies
3. Conflict management and Communication
4. Administrative and Organisational skills.

The second phase starts right after the completion of the training programmes and concerns the 6-month apprenticeship in enterprises. There is a scholarship for the participants, to cover the expenses for their attendance in the training programmes and their professional experience acquisition.

The project aims at increasing the youth employment rates, upgrading their vocational and horizontal skills (communication, team work etc.) and familiarising them with real workplaces. The part of the project pertaining to the vocational training is conducted in the Regions of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, Epirus, Western Greece, Thessaly, Peloponnese, Crete, Ionian Islands and Northern Aegean, while the part pertaining to the professional experience is conducted nationwide.