Overview of the Erasmus+ project Core Skills for 21th Century Professionals (CoSki21, 2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589) The project focusses on the study of the gap between the organizations and universities in the field of Soft Skills, and to detect the Core Skills that can be taught in order to empower the students.

1. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
CoSki21
Core Skills for 21st Century
Professionals
Project overview

2. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Why this project? CEO / Manager
/ RecruitersRecruiters and CEOs/ Managers from
companies know the products or services
they provide
Consequently, they know the tasks to do,
and the Hards Skills that employees need
Recruiters and CEOs/ Managers also
know the company’s vision,
mission, and values.
Vision, mission, and values can be
related with some Soft SkillsHard
Skill
Hard
Skill ··· Hard
Skill
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill ··· Soft
Skill
Some Hard Skills, and some tasks, and
are also related with some Soft Skills
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill ··· Soft
Skill
Are companies aware of
their Soft Skills needs?
Question
Project
Overview

3. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Why this project? Teachers /
Students
Teachers from universities know the
contents, competencies that students need,
Consequently, they know how to teach the
Hards Skills that students need learn.
Universities know the company’s
vision, mission, and values?
Vision, mission, and values can be
related with some Soft SkillsHard
Skill
Hard
Skill ··· Hard
Skill
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill ··· Soft
Skill
Some teaching methods, are also related
with some Soft Skills
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill ··· Soft
Skill
Are teachers aware of
their students Soft
Skills needs?
Question
Project
Overview

4. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
The skills that a person needs,
depends on the project, the
product, the team, the
characteristics of the company,
and so on.
Hard
Skill
Hard
Skill
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill
Project
Overview
Why this project?
Question
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill
Soft
Skill
Hard
Skill
Hard
Skill
Hard
Skill
Soft
Skill
Project
···
Product Team Company
Is it possible to
determine the Core
Skills in each context?

5. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Our targets
Project
Overview
To answer these questions contextualized to the Higher Education,
it is necessary to show the path followed by a student... and ask
questions...
Student Graduated Employee
Timeline
Teacher CEO / ManagerRecruiter/HR
Can a student know the Soft Skills he/she has and need improve?
Can a student know the Soft Skills
he/she need to be hired by the
company he/she wants?
Can a student demonstrate the Soft Skills he/she has
acquired throughout their studies?
Teachers know how to teach the Soft Skills?
Teachers know how to assess the Soft Skills?
Teacher
···
Can companies know the Soft
Skills they need to develop
efficiently their projects?
Can Recruiters/HR companies staff know how
to match the Soft Skills between Graduates
and Companies needs?
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question
Question

6. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Our targets
Project
Overview
It is possible to define some areas to study...
Student Graduated Employee
Timeline
Teacher CEO / ManagerRecruiter/HRTeacher
···
Know the Soft Skills that
companies need, based on
their products, projects,
tasks,... values.
Know how
universities can
teach and assess
Know how to
empower students
to match their Soft
Skills with the
companies needs.
2
1
4
to
Disseminate in
students, teachers,,
companies the
need of Soft Skills 3
to Validate all
process in the
socio-economic
environment
and
5
and

7. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Our targets
Project
Overview
Convert the areas to study in Intellectual outputs.
Know the Soft Skills that
companies need, based on
their products, projects,
tasks,... values.
Know how
universities can
teach and assess
Know how to
empower students
to match their Soft
Skills with the
companies needs.
Disseminate in
students, teachers,,
companies the
need of Soft Skills
Validate all
process in the
socio-economic
environment
1
Trans-European Framework
for Core personal Skills
2
4 5
Intellectual
OutputIntellectual
Output
Core Skills assessments
set for level of proficiency
e-Platform
3
Intellectual
Output
Intellectual
Output
Empowerment &
Self-improvement plan
Intellectual
Output
Validation and
Implementation report

8. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Our team
Project
Overview
Specialized and experimented organizations in each topic
1
Trans-European Framework
for Core personal Skills
2
4 5
Intellectual
OutputIntellectual
Output
Core Skills assessments
set for level of proficiency
e-Platform
3
Intellectual
Output
Empowerment &
Self-improvement plan
Intellectual
Output
Validation and
Implementation report
Intellectual
Output

9. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
The plan
Project
Overview
● Intellectual outputs
● Meetings
● Events

10. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Tools
Project
Overview
To obtain data and study the framework
Student Graduated Employee
Timeline
Teacher CEO / ManagerRecruiter/HR
Detecting
Skills
Acquire and
improve Empowerment Match
Necessary
skills for the
company
Student
Questionnaire
Company
Questionnaire
Teaching
method
CV and
Portfolio
(O1)(O1-O2) (O1-O2) (O4)
Assessing
Evolution of
the skills
Assess
method
(O2-O3)
e-platform (O3) (O5) Validation

11. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Desired/Foreseen Results
Project
Overview
Produce graduates and professionals equipped with personal
competence and skills needed in the 21th century.
Student Graduated Employee
Timeline
Teacher CEO / ManagerRecruiter/HR
Main goal: enable the higher education institutes to produce graduates and
professionals equipped with personal competence and skills needed in the 21.
century....
● Establishing a skills framework for particular fields, valid on transeuropean
level
● Raising the awareness of ‘T-type’ and the significance of core personal skills
among students and other interest groups through events throughout Europe
● Provide an international e-platform piloting learning and self-improvement in
order to state a validated tool for students and employees

12. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Some future projects...
Project
Overview
Student Graduated Employee
Timeline
Teacher CEO / Manager
Recruiter/HR
Facilitate the knowledge of their own skills, in order to improve them. In this way, students
will be able to better understand their own potential, and can use their skills to self
empower and obtain a more efficient professional career.
Know what’s the best skills
and how these skills
change according to the
vision of the company.
Provide teaching
methods aligned with
Soft Skills that allow the
evaluation.
Provide the recruiter the
best way to know the skills
that university provides and
how to adapt them to the
company needs.
To Universities: provide support to design
the competency-based curriculum.
To companies: provide a method to
Efficiently match the competencies of
the work teams with the objectives and
values of the company.

13. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Follow and know more about the project
Project
Overview
To keep informed
(Social Media)
https://www.facebook.com/CoSki21/
To know more about the project
(Web page)
http://www.skills-4u.eu/

14. Core Skills for 21st
Century
Professionals
CoSki21
2017-1- ES01-KA203- 038589
Contact and know more about the partners
Project
Overview
Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan (jopolu@upv.es)
Susana Bastos (susanass@iscap.ipp.pt)
Kai Schleutker (kai.schleutker@turkuamk.fi)
Kim Van der Heijden (kim.vanderheijden@hu.nl)
Wolfgang Eisenreich (office@wissenschaftsinitiative.at)
Sonja Bercko (sonja.bercko@eu-integra.eu)