6.+Credograf

=//__Introduction__//= = = Based on the experience of the virtual firm we believe and want to develop an approach to students aimed at creating an effective ground for development at work. This is how we get in contact with the Credograf method. Here you have a short description given by the method founder who will explain it better than us.

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1. Head of bridge 2. Credograf in education 3. Credograf in the labour market 4. Credograf in organisations

1. "Head of bridge" In April IES Zubiri-Manteo hosted the visit of Arne Andersson and Professor Per Sigud Agrell to San Sebastian. They showed us the method and we had the chance to test it ourselves, taking part as participants in the pre-study with Estia (France) and Malmö University (Sweden). The result of the pre-study is shown in the document below.

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2. Credograf in education
 * SWEDEN
 * Malmö Hogskola

Institute of Professional Competence Vilnius LT-08303 Vilnius
 * LITHUANIA
 * Vilnius Pedagogical University; [|www.vpu.lt]
 * Mykolas Romeris University, [|www.mruni.eu]

20013 Donostia - San Sebastian
 * SPAIN
 * IES Zubiri-Manteo; [|www.zubirimanteo.com]
 * RUSSIA
 * Tyumen State University

4000 Roskilde
 * DENMARK
 * The Danish Meat Trade College; [|www.srts.dk]

3. Credograf in the labour market; employment efforts through youth projects The unemployment in the European Union is expected to decrease during 2008 to the lowest level since the middle of 1980. At the same time unemployment among youth and the insufficient efforts on education is alarming. However, first of all it is a question of improving the efforts to be able to react efficiently on the challenges which globalization and the aging population brings with it, among all through more and more goal-oriented attempts on life-long learning. Even if the labor-market trend in Europe is optimistic, there are groups that not in the same degree benefit by the positive trend. Unqualified work-force, disabled, youth and immigrants still have problems getting a job. Still, the unemployment among youth, on average 17,4 %, is a great problem in many member-states. The total unemployment among youth decreased last year, but it was mainly because of improvements in a few member-states. In several other member-states the youth-unemployment has in fact increased since 2004 and totally seen young people run twice as much risk to get unemployed compared to the work-force as a whole. It is a common opinion within the European Union that different strategies aimed at creating a balance between flexibility and securities on the labor-market have to be developed. The different methods brought forward in order to create so called flexicurity have not yet been especially successful. Neither has the participation in life-long learning increased during the last years, in fact, even decreased in half of the member-states. There are substantial needs for investments in human capital which are better suited to the demands on the labour-market, in order to decrease the productivity-gap between the European Union and its main competitors on the international market. Learning has to start early, and continue through the rest of the life, and competence gained in working-life has to be acknowledged in the European Union as a whole. Because of bottle-necks sometimes occurring on the labour-market because of lack of work-force and competence in certain sectors, the future needs should be foreseen and dealt with in a better way. Europe has to improve its regional and national mobility for young people, and pronounce a clear and regulated immigrant-policy, that should be combined with efforts to improve the social and economic situation for the immigrants. Purpose The purpose of the project is to develop improved efforts in order to support young people who are out of job in the participating countries. The result aims at developing efficient efforts (methods, strategies, education) for youth in order to improve their possibilities on the labour-market.

After taking part in the research study in San Sebastian, we went to Sweden. Once there we took part in the application of the Credograf in Helsingborg municipalitie, where they are using the Credograf method to help young unemployed people to enter the labour market. The method was applicated on the person in charge of the unemployed and who supervises the youth education. After that we could work with four people chosen by the superviser with the Credograf. The four of them were very different, in fact they where chosen to see how it works on different kind of people.
 * __Helsinborg Municipalitie__

4. Credograf in organisations

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