Project "VIRTUAL JOB"
Project Title
Virtual Job
Abstract
VIRTUAL JOB aims to support the digital upskilling of Europe’s guidance practitioners (employment counsellors, careers counsellors, job brokers) who are working in adult education and with job seekers of all ages to access employment and educational pathways. Specifically, the project focuses on the evolving use of digital diagnostic, screening and matching functionalities and virtual job and careers fairs by companies and education authorities for preboarding, onboarding and mobility.
Implemented by a new consortium involving 6 partners from 6 countries, VIRTUAL JOB designs and tests a new human- centred learning and upskilling C-VET programme for Guidance Practitioners. Its contents focus on cutting edge uses of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) matching environments and Artificial Intelligence-based interfaces in this field. It is operationalised via action learning and masterclasses at both transnational (online and co-creation workshops in person) and national levels.
VIRTUAL JOB creates a new European Cooperation Partnership network, representing ‘incoming’ and ‘outgoing’ net levels of migrating job seekers. Via its online, transnational practice community, the staging of participatory, in person European co-creation and action learning and national engagement showcasing events, it will directly engage a minimum of 150 guidance practitioners as well as producing new methods-based eLearning material and policy recommendations for stakeholders.
Project Management
Karin Steiner (Austria)
Project Team
Max Nemeth
Project Start
11/2025
Project End
10/2027
Initiator/Sponsorship/Grants
ERASMUS +