The project aims to advocates a shift from traditional professional development to lifelong learning & strengthen organizational and human capacity of Higher Education Institutions of Vietnam and Cambodian Universities in terms of:
- successful career planning services for students;
- policy recommendations on employability;
- tools and mechanism for employment;
- guidance in adaptation to the trends of local and international labour market.
The project is focused on a new way of conceptualising the professional development. According to the new paradigm of lifelong career building, careers are constructed rather than chosen and this process of building is, at least in part, a process of learning and personal development. This approach better reflects the dynamic world we live in, in which new jobs are being continually created and individuals must be proactive and responsive to new opportunities.
The project is going to support students to navigate themselves through unfamiliar contexts: help to self-identify development needs in key competences for lifelong learning (8 Key competences for lifelong learning) and take responsibility for assuring acquisition of them; empower students to take responsibility for their personal development needs and to make the relevant choices for obtaining them.
The project intends to apply a cross-curricular digital workspace (a continuous learning space where formal, non-formal and informal learning opportunities are identified and their outcomes recognized), to encourage students’ reflexivity by accompanying them continuously in the different phases of lifelong learning. The student-owned dynamic digital workspaces, wherein students can capture their learning and their ideas, access their collections of work, reflect on their learning, share it, set goals, seek feedback and showcase their key competences, will be additionally enriched in the project by micro-credentials.
