The Skills for Life Toolbox is jointly developed by all project partners who pilot it with approximately 500 educators and 10,000 students in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Romania. It is composed of:
- An on-line self-evaluation tool to help students discover their strengths, weaknesses, priorities, interests and personality types, as well as to start considering how these may relate to different professional profiles;
- A board game, available both offline and on-line, to help students match their own characteristics and those of different job profiles and economic sectors in a playful way;
- A series of teaching modules that educators can easily implement in their respective teaching environment, enhancing the awareness and skills of the students; A half-day training to teach educators to deliver these activities, also available as on-line training modules;
- A user-friendly Impact Assessment Methodology that will enable educators to measure the impact and efficacy of their interventions.
All of the project tools will be freely accessible on-line in five languages: Dutch, English, German, Italian and Romanian, and will be designed for easy usage beyond language and cultural barriers. Important experiences and insights from piloting the Toolbox will be channelled to policy-makers when seen feasible by the project consortium, thereby highlighting actions and policies that support effective early-stage career orientation and Life Design Skills for young people.
The Toolbox will be jointly implemented by all project partners who will use the Toolbox as part of their regular activities and promote its use by local stakeholders. Furthermore, there will be dissemination activities aimed at school directors, educators, counsellors, local authorities, Chambers of Commerce and other stakeholders concerned with youth employment.