About the project

"Empower for Employability" is a project of four European schools from Germany, Greece, Italy and Romania. They teamed up together in order to use their different strengths for helping their students to enhance their chances for working life.  

The four partner schools will develop a programme that leads to developing personal competences in
the students. Participants will be given the CPC to use for their applications in order to enhance their
chances on the labour market.

The certificate will focus on 4 aspects which teachers have identified as the most problematic areas: time management, reflecting yourself, lifelong learning and project management. All areas are seen as vital in the European and national discussion on qualifications for young people before they start working life.

In the area of time management we would like to enable our students to diagnose the use of their time and how this is connected to their academic achievements. This part of the CPC focuses on raising awareness on the value time has and how to use it to achieve their goals taking their age into consideration.

Being able to reflect yourself (strenghts, weaknesses, character) is an important competence for a human being to lead and independent and meaningful life - here we will also focus on the link of strenghts and weaknesses to the decision of finding a job and/or course that fits the profile of the students.
Lifelong learning is widely recognised as one of the most important requirements in today's students, if they fail to succeed in their current courses being led through the process by teachers, how will they cope in the future? The project team believes that enhancing lifelong learning and giving students strategies will be a good investment in their future.

The area of project management will enable students to develop their own plans for life so that they learn how to plan their actions regarding their academic and professional development. They will also learn how to monitor and evaluate their actions.

Our programme of developing a CPC that can be used by other schools can be seen as a
contribution to personal development in the area of academic and professional achievement. The
four areas chosen by the project team are relevant for students and teachers have observed that
many pupils at their school are faced with difficulties in achieving their potential because of lack of
competencies in these areas. Developing the four modules of the CPC will give teachers a set of
tools to use for many students to develop their personalities during their time at the particpating schools.