Here we are! The project’s website is finally online: here you will find all the news related to the project, practical info to get in touch with the partnership and discover all the resources and materials created during the project.
About the Project
Master the Act design, develops and tests a teaching and learning for the education and lifelong learning of EU professionals that blends face-to-face theatre-based labs with flexible digital learning. It aims to improve a complex skillset that includes digital skills, emotional intelligence, creative thinking, interpersonal and communication skills, leadership and teamwork, along with global competence needed to thrive in a changing labour market. It supports the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth); likewise, it raises awareness about opportunities offered to Europeans looking for a job and funds dedicated to SMEs and helping them hire European professionals.
The project aims at upskilling and broadening working methods of two target groups:
– job facilitators and enablers (HR managers, recruitment specialists, head hunters, career counsellors, public and private employment agencies);
– theatre managers, trainers and professionals.
How the project was conceived
Master the Act builds on the Fake It Till You Make It action (2017) aimed at providing unemployed people belonging to social groups at risk or facing discrimination in finding work, with soft skills for employability. The 2-year initiative has proven to be truly impactful and its outreach has attracted an interesting number of vulnerable jobseekers, especially in Spain, among younger and older workers, women and migrants, people with disabilities, and others. Likewise, in Italy all the trained people have started up an entrepreneurial initiative. Its innovative teaching and learning methodology has drawn from theatre practice and has built on the “Spot-on” method, developing a novel hands-on approach that has been tested and validated. It can be experienced by candidates taking part in drama workshops where they create theatre productions and perform them for public audiences. Through this process they are expected to demonstrate their skills and abilities much needed for employment (such as teamwork, leadership, communication and entrepreneurial skills, among others).
Objectives
By acknowledging results of the project Fake It Till You Make It, Master the Act also acknowledges the emerging need for trainers and adopters of the improved methodology, so as to increase the amount of jobseekers supported in their empowerment process. After the end of the project, partners will test the deployment of a monitoring and tracking system, comparable to a self-assessment tool, suitable for capturing progression in employability skills of both a) trainers/adopters of the novel methodology, among job facilitators, Public Employment Services’ staff and theatre professionals, and b) jobseekers, among young and adult people trained and empowered by the former categories, so as to test effectiveness and consistency of the method on target groups and beneficiaries. The ultimate goal is keeping on feeding contacts within the community created by the means of the project.
Master the Act builds on a partnership that purposefully includes VET providers, Public Employment Services and players from theatre and CCIs, so as to enhance opportunities for wider acceptance and mainstreaming of the practice proposed, while improving responsiveness of VET to the labour market.
