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project info
Start date: 1 September 2019
End date: 31 August 2021
funding
Fund: European Social Fund (ESF)
Total budget: 832 936,00 €
EU contribution: 312 352,50 € (37,5%)
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programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Programme: Sustainable growth and jobs - FI - ERDF/ESF
Managing authority: työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, yritys- ja alueosaston rakennerahastot ja koheesiopolitiikka -ryhmä
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theme
Educational and vocational training
intervention field
Enhancing equal access to lifelong learning for all age groups in formal, non-formal and informal settings, upgrading the knowledge, skills and competences of the workforce, and promoting flexible learning pathways including through career guidance and validation of acquired competences
beneficiary
Kaakkois-Suomen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Guidance for the work of the future

Universities of Applied Sciences train workers to meet the needs of working life, which may not even exist yet, or at least are unaware of them. This is why the development of management methods and methods to become more future-oriented is justified. The new value of the project is the change in steering thinking and culture, which is based on identifying future-oriented scenarios for working life, developing future-oriented career guidance and career guidance pedagogy, and utilising artificial intelligence and learning analytics in the development of guidance work. The aim of the project “Guidance to work for the future” project in the EU is to model future-oriented career guidance and career guidance pedagogy to strengthen student career planning and integration into working life and/or postgraduate studies in higher education students as part of higher education cooperation2.Strengthen future orientation of teaching and guidance staff and career guidance pedagogy3.Promote a stronger culture of guidance throughout the higher education field4.Confirm future orientation of teaching and guidance staff3. career guidance in university structures at regional and national level5. Explores the potential of AI in the career guidance process and generates information on this. The project is implemented by six universities of applied sciences, which form a national cooperation network.The project is implemented by six universities of applied sciences, which form a national cooperation network. The project consists of three themes working as a university cooperation. The themes are: 1) Structures and models for guiding the work of the future: strengthening models and structures of career guidance in higher education institutions, 2) Directing the work of the future: strengthening career guidance skills in higher education institutions, and (3) coordinating and strengthening cooperation within the university network, compiling good practices for sub-projects and disseminating results at national level. The concrete core of the work is the pilots of the themes 1-2. Each higher education partner in the project participates in regional and national development cooperation. The pilots carried out in universities aim to achieve the sub-objectives of a larger whole, the theme. The pilots will be evaluated and the necessary changes will be made and the development work will continue. Working on the themes of the project continuously provides information on good practices related to career guidance and future work that have emerged from university cooperation. The interaction between the project’s national cooperation and thematic coordination is continuous and reciprocal. One of the key actions of the theme is:- Develop and model career guidance processes and structures in universities- Explores the possibilities of AI-assisted guidance in the career guidance process and utilises knowledge in the development and further development of a career guidance model- Developing community-based working methods based on future working methods, such as peer mentoring cooperation models in working life and education- Career guidance — Modelling the processes of guidance to meet the needs of tomorrow’s working life — Developing a future-oriented career guidance model for teachersTeering two key measures are:- Identify what kind of experiences university students have gained from their guidance, and how to strengthen the teaching and guidance measures of the polytechnics — the career-orientated teaching and guidance needs of the teaching schools are focused on future work. —Respond to the coordination of the project -Responding to the collection and dissemination of the good practices developed in the project -Responding to the general communication of the project The project results in modelling a future-oriented career guidance model and career guidance pedagogy, and strengthening structures and competences from a career guidance perspective in higher education institutions. The future-oriented career guidance of students has established itself as a high-quality entity that strengthens students’ resilience on the higher education field. The future-oriented career guidance skills of the teaching and guidance staff and those involved in the guidance of working life have strengthened. However, the most important result of all is that higher education students are responsible for:

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