The main objective of the project is to enhance the counselling competence of the coaches from Slovenia, Romania and Hungary in the Maturing Model (MM) and Individual Placement and Support (IPS) methodology and using it in combination with the Education Youth Technology Platform (EYTP), in a way that will increase the number of NEETs in vocational training, education and employment compared to the present situation. The two target groups of the project are coaches providing counselling and the NEETs themselves.
The project aims to focus on two fund support areas:
1) Innovation and exploration
The innovative part is the development of the web based comprehensive EYTP platform. This will be
an important resource site and a tool in the counselling work. All platform materials like E-learning
and project website supporting the MM and IPS, will be available in all partner languages.
2) Transfer of know-how and good practice
This part aims at transferring expert knowledge in the use of MM and IPS from Norway and introduce and implement this methodology in the beneficiary countries. IPS is a systematic approach helping NEETs to achieve permanent employment. IPS is based on a Supported Employment philosophy and offers systematic follow-up. MM implies providing NEETs with an individual period of time which will be used for motivation and to get ready for the more formal counselling work using the IPS model.
The combination of MM and IPS methodology will represent a two-step counselling methodology in the work with work practice and vocational rehabilitation for NEETs. The implementation of this two step methodology and the use of EYTP will hopefully be adopted by other organisation than the project partners, and thus be sustainable and have an impact after the timeframe of the project.
Duration: 1.9.2018 – 31.8.2021, 36 month
Meeting
Kickoff Meeting for our project IPS4NEETS took place from 24th to 26th of October at Public University of Ptuj, Slovenia. Partners of the project, Public University Ptuj (Slovenia), Asociatia EIVA (Romania) and Interregio Forum Association (Hungary) and Tesla Technologies & Software S.L (Spain), have reviewed the project activities and jointly planned the work and objectives of the project.
Training
Beneficiary partners, Public University Ptuj (Slovenia), Asociatia EIVA (Romania) and Interregio Forum Association (Hungary), have enabled 20 counselors from each country (60 counselors all together) to participate in two days training in Norway for the use of the Norwegian counseling method "Individual Placement and Support for NEETs« organized by the expertise partner Fønix AS.
Meeting
Meeting for our project IPS4NEETS took place from 12h to 13th of March at Public University of Ptuj, Slovenia. Partners of the project, Public University Ptuj (Slovenia), Asociatia EIVA (Romania) and Interregio Forum Association (Hungary) and Tesla Technologies & Software S.L (Spain), have reviewed the project activities, deliverables, and planned the work and objectives for next 6 months.
Training
Seven trainers from Norway are right now training Slovenian counsellors at Public University of Ptuj for the use of the Norwegian IPS method counseling method.