The project is focused on improving Vocational Education and Training System in partner’s regions. The main aim of the project through international cooperation is to map the situation in the field of Vocational Education and Training with the help of questionnaires distributed to vocational school students in order to determine their job requirements, satisfaction, future plans and motivation. Research on Regional and International level will be a source of information for the actors of Labour Market (educational institutions, students, teachers, counsellors and employers). They can be starting materials for improving VET System, to establish a high quality Pedagogical/Methodological Framework. By exchange of information and experiences on international level, partner institutions can use the materials for professional consulting services, mainly in preventive counselling and career guidance. The results of Regional and International research, and all the project activities and products are aimed to improve the quality and skills levels of young people on the Labour Market. Number of methods and suggestions will be recommended for the primary target group in order to support and help them in School-to work transition. The dissemination of the project results will be ensured by – active involvement of the target group into project activities, articles about the project, website in five languages, brochure, leaflet, DVD. The sustainability of the results will be maintained by all the partners after the end of the project by implementing innovative methods into their daily practice. Conclusions and recommendations developed by project partners at the end of the project will serve as the basis for improving VET System.

Project SAGA for VETBased on analyses of unoccupied work positions for particular professions, of registered unemployed suitable for requalification in these professions, of the opportunities for VET in these professions, the partners selected 6 educational programs relevant for this project.Since these educational programs are well covered in AT and DE, the main aim of the SAGA for VET project, was to transfer the elements of dual education from AT and DE to SK, within selected programs.During the project the Comparative analysis of the selected programs in AT, DE and SK was made. By such analysis we defined the differences in selected programs and in approach to educational process for requalification in particular countries (AT, DE and SK). Such analysis was crucial for decision of interested partners on which elements of programs were about to be transferred from AT and which from DE.We planned the trainers training for particular programs, by which the candidates for guarantees and teachers from SK were trained in partners facilities in AT and DE. By such trainings these trainers gathered relevant knowledge for relevant selection of the elements of dual VET, and their successful transfer to SK, by incorporating them to Slovak educational programs.After the trainers’ trainings, the SK partners created particular courses and relevant documents necessary for successful accreditation of the educational programs, focusing on local requirements and legislation.After successful accreditation, the SK partners prepared the Comparative analyses of established programs, which outlined the innovations in educational programs compared to AT and DE programs, and these innovations have been transferred back to AT and DE educational environments, and used by AT and DE partners.After selections of candidates for pilot testing of the programs (from registered unemployed) and suitable region for pilot testing (concerning the actual needs of local employers for particular professions), the SK partners ran pilot education for each program.Based on gathered knowledge and experiences regarding the transfer of the elements of dual education, accreditation process and pilot testing, the partners issued the Best practice methodology, which could be used by third parties in similar processes in the future.Concerning the actuality of theme of dual VET, and the innovations in approach in particular programs, which can be multiplied for other programs in future, and concerning the opportunity of further effect of these new dual educational programs within the key actions on labor market, and the commercial potential of the innovative outcomes of the project, the partners issued the recommendations for local authorities, which can incorporate the project outcomes to their policies in fields of vocal education and trainings and employment affairs.Project SAGA for VET was focused on professions and areas, which notwithstanding the reform of vocal education system, which has been in progress in Slovakia, are underestimated and are not covered by the education system, our project brought solutions how to conquer these challenges in short term period.The indirect beneficiaries of the project outcomes were all registered unemployed, who attended the requalification courses through the key actions on the labor market, as well as the SME and enterprise, who benefited from the qualified labor force suitable for their needs available on the labor market.The partnership of partners, who were leading subjects in their particular fields of engagement within the project, and principal representatives of the project and following activities in their home countries, guaranteed the relevant qualification for successful implementation of the project, for achievement of the project goals and objectives in relevant quality, as well as for successful dissemination of the project outcomes to reach the target group of dissemination in best possible way.The participants in the trainers’ trainings were Slovak leading experts in particular fields, who expanded their professional knowledge and experience, to provide the added value for the project activities, and to guarantee the expertise in the process of transfer of the elements of dual VET.The participants of the pilot testing, as well as the future participants in new educational programs, as the registered unemployed, were facing the economic objectives, for their voluntary participation in such programs. From the long term perspective, these participant benefited from the projects outcomes in same way as unemployed did in AT and DE in the past, when similar programs were established there, and the unemployment itself can be reduced.Since the activities within the project are multipliable for significant target group, and can be used also after the end of financing from the Erasmus+ grant.

There are eternal truths. One of them is “The human being wants to belong to someone.” The yearning of people with disabilities for belonging to someone cannot be put into words. Therefore, inclusion is a key task of our time that gets more and more important due to the challenges the European community needs to face and due to the demographic change all Europe is affected by. However, inclusion does not succeed by itself; it can also not be ordered top-down. Only an entire systematic approach in inclusion policy makes it possible to promote the potential of people with different disabilities in a targeted way and to strengthen the social cohesion in Europe this way. For this reason, it is at first about developing a common understanding of inclusion, about decreasing prejudices, about sensitising for solidarity and about making it clear that our living together is enriched and more human by tolerance, openness and cultural diversity. However, this should be followed by actions enabling people with disabilities to actively participate in social life. “Compass Inclusive!” wants to contribute to that concretely.Persons with disabilities are the most concerned or threatened by unemployment in all European countries. Even in the partner countries, where in the last years enormous efforts have been undertaken in the frame of inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market and immense funding has been invested, most of the integration tries lead in protected workshops. Employment of the target groups at the first labour market is still an exception from the rule; many entrepreneurs or employers prefer to pay the legal compensation or to buy products from protected workshops instead of establishing work placements accessible for people with disabilities. And all this happens, although enterprises with a certain number of employees in all partner countries are obliged by law to provide work placements for people with disabilities, although the state finances partly the staff costs and social service fees and although the enterprise can claim tax reductions. We are far away from the objectives of the European Strategy for the benefit of people with disabilities 2010 – 2020, e.g. the promotion of inclusive education and lifelong learning for pupils and students with disabilities, equal access to high-quality education and lifelong learning in order to improve their unlimited participation in social life and of their life quality as well as extension of the participation of people with disabilities in the labour market on which they are underrepresented right now. This is proven by valid figures: in the EU average, 10 per cent of people without disabilities are unemployed. Compared to that, 17 per cent of people with disabilities are unemployed (Source: European Disability Forum). In the partner countries of the project, the unemployment rate of people with disabilities is in average twice as high as the rate of people without disabilities (Sources: State Offices for Statistics).Through the implementation of “Compass Inclusive!” by partners from Slovakia, France, Germany and Hungary, the French Model of Competence Balance shall be utilised for the promotion of professional orientation, career planning and the increasing of the employability of people with disabilities and build up the pre-conditions for its sustainable use.