Context & Main Aim  

 

 

The main aim of the Technology-Enhanced Career Management Skills / TechCMS project is to develop and deliver an innovative Virtual Career Guidance and Learning Centre and an on-line Self-Assessment Tool, in order to enhance the capacity of careers workers, through training, to provide CMS guidance to individuals and empower the latter’s CMS through the use of technology.

TechCMS develops innovative career guidance services and innovative tools for career management for individuals, through the delivery of an innovative Virtual Career Guidance and Learning Centre and an on-line Self-Assessment Tool, of the TechCMS Catalogue and Learning Model and training material to be utilized in the delivery of capacity-building training for careers professionals and by the provision of career guidance and learning services to individuals. 

The TechCMS project fully addresses the three priorities defined by the New Skills Agenda, in response to the contemporary challenges of improving skills acquisition and development, reducing skills mismatches, and embracing the digital transformation of the economy: 

  1. Improving the quality and relevance of skills formation, through the enhancement of technology-enhanced CMS skills, the quality and relevance of which is widely acknowledged by relevant research and policy in national and EU levels
  2. Making skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, though the development of theTechCMSCatalogue and Learning Model  
  3. Improving skills intelligence and information for better career choices, though the development of theTechCMS Virtual Career Guidance & Learning Centre and the  TechCMS Self-Assessment Tool, the TechCMS Training for professionals, and the TechCMS Guidance & Learning Services Provision for individuals. 

Horizontal priorities

  • Fostering the assessment of transversal skills 
  • Promoting the professional development of staff and youth workers in ICT methodologies 
  • Supporting the production and adoption of Open Educational Resources in diverse European languages 

TechCMS directly fosters the assessment of transversal skills, through the development of the self-assessment tool and training and services provision to enhance CMS. 

TechCMS adopts OER in three EU languages, including English, as all training, guidance and policy material developed in the project will be available in the Virtual Career Guidance and Learning Centre as OER. The Virtual Career Guidance and Learning Centre and an on-line Self-Assessment Tool will also be available in all partnership languages, , including English. 

Sectoral priorities

  • Developing partnerships between education and employment 
  • Contributing to a reduction in the number of low-skilled adults (re-skilling and up-skilling of adults) 

TechCMS develops partnerships between education and employment in terms of consortium, activities, objectives and dissemination involving all relevant stakeholders. 

TechCMS directly contributes to a reduction in the number of low-skilled adults through re-skilling and up-skilling, as it implements activities and delivers results enhancing CMS acquisition, career guidance, access to career guidance and the use of technology in all the aforementioned. 

Τhe TechCMS project will:

  1. Deliver high-quality, in-depth research and analysis products on the current situation in CMS in the participating countries, on good and best practices in the field in the EU and internationally, and on the needs of the target-groups. 
  2. Translate research and analysis findings into concrete practice contributing to national and EU-level policy-making, through the development of the TechCMS Catalogue and Learning Model. 
  3. Develop and deliver an innovative Virtual Career Guidance and Learning Centre and an on-line Self-Assessment Tool, and design and develop innovative training material to be utilized in the delivery of capacity-building training for careers professionals and in the provision of career guidance and learning services to individuals, thus developing innovative career guidance services and innovative tools for career management for individuals.