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Last 28^th February, the Trans-national Round Table of Keystone project took place in Miranda do Corvo (Portugal). The project is financed by the European Commission through the programme Erasmus`, and finalizes in January 2020.

During the event, the main obtained results and the work packages were described. The session aimed to attract potential users and support the project transferability and replication strategy.

The conference started with a brief introduction of the project by the coordinator, Joe Cullen, from Arcola Research. After this first talk, each partner described the work carried out during the last two years and the obtained results in their areas. Being UNIR responsible for the technical aspect, the main features of the two developed tools (KEY tool and gamified experience) were described in detail.

The attendees came mainly from youth organizations, solidarity institutions, and NGOs, among others. The event finalized with an interesting debate during which the participants expressed their interest in the project and in the difficulties suffered in each of the four countries where the pilots were implemented.

In July, the 26th, 2018, the online session “How does a recruitment process work in Adecco?” took place. Experts from the company gave the key to increase the employability in the youngsters. The meeting was organized by Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED) at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) in the framework of the project Virtual Tours for Business Culture (Erasmus+). Iria Vázquez Palacios, Director of Service & Quality Department in Adecco Group, and Desirée Montiel, HR Consultant in the company, were invited to the session.

During the event, Vázquez-Palacios described the Adecco Group programmes focused on young people employability like “Redgeneración”, “Factoría de Talento” and “CEO for one month”. As the expert explained, in Spain –where the unemployement rate under 25 exceeds 30%–, there is a big gap between education and what companies demand. In this context, initiatives like Virtual Tours are key to help young people to develop the competences required for the labour market, since finishing higher education is a complex moment where everybody needs orientation, inspiration and self-confidence.

Adecco Group also gave some clues to complete a recruitment process successfully

As Montiel pointed out, among these competences, those known as soft skills are the ones standing out, as they are more related to the personal abilities and to what can be offered to the company than with previous professional experience. The most demanded soft skills are management, work team, adaptation to changes, communication, leadership, flexibility or resilience. The HR expert also gave the attendees some tips to complete a recruitment process successfully, from the composition of a CV to the guidance through every step in a job seek.

In the framework of the V-Tors project, funded by Erasmus+ Programme of European Union, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) among other European institutions, have organized various online sessions to enhance the dialogue opportunities between Universities, enterprises and students. In addition to the virtual visits, the consortium has developed an online course (Open Educational Resource) about business culture where students can get first-hand knowledge of the company’s organization.

– Eva Ferreras

Keystone Project comes to an end: final conference in Portugal

UNIR iTED and Adecco Group analyse how to fill the gap between education and enterprises