The project will support universities in their efforts to improve the quality of education by adapting curricula to the soft-skill demands of the labour market and, as a result, leverage HEIs’ impact on the employability situation of future graduates. In other words, the project will strengthen HEI`s capacity to assess whether and to what extent their programs match the soft-skills that are particularly valued in the labour market.
The project’s overall objectives and expected results are:
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- Help universities to be more successful in providing graduates with the appropriate soft skills
- Support the designing and updating of curricula to improve employability and acquisition of relevant skills
- Embed soft skills instruction and assessment across the curriculum of universities
- Establish alignment protocols and tools for linking assessments to standards and curricula
- Gain a more detailed understanding of soft skills and their impact on employment
- Improve skills matching to support competitiveness and innovation at local, regional and national level, and to resolve skills shortages
- Raise awareness about the importance of soft skills in the modern workplace
- Integration of skills needs of the labour market into higher education.
- Facilitate the transition of graduates to the labour market