The aim of the Follow App project – which Innoquality Systems is a proud member of – is to set-up and test a graduate tracking method supported by digital tools designed to track employment and career progression of apprentices in DUAL VET programmes, addressed to VET teachers, counsellors, in-company trainers and learners, improving the responsiveness of VET to the changing demands in the labour market and strengthening the Quality Assurance in VET.
The project features a fantastic consortium, with partners from Instituto para el fomento del desarrollo y la formación (Spain), as well as Centro Servizi Formazione (Italy), DIMITRA EDUCATION & CONSULTING (Greece), AssForSEO (Italy), AIN – Asociación Industria Navarra (Spain), Avrupa Birliği ve Dış İlişkiler Bürosu (Turkey).
As work continues as part of the project , some of the following are existing resources which have been identified in research conducted as part of the project and output development.
One such project is the project “Developing a Graduate Employability Skills App”
The aim of the GES App project was to encourage students to maximize their potential in terms of employability by providing them with an app to encourage them to start thinking about developing their graduate employability skills (GESs) at an early stage in their university journey. By providing them with a digital platform on which they can track and evidence their progress in the acquisition of GESs we aimed to increase their employment readiness and confidence. The increase in use and availability of mobile technology over the past two decades has meant that most students now have access to a mobile devices and can download apps. We proposed that an app which can be used on a personal device, and which can incorporate active, situated, problem based, and interactive learning in line with modern theories of affective learning, would be an ideal way to engage students who are digital natives to engage with the process of developing their GEs. This need to increase the employability of undergraduates entering the graduate job marketplace was what the project addressed.
You can learn more about the project at https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2019-1-UK01-KA203-062146
For more on the Follow App project, please see the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/FollowApp.Project