The CONNECT! Higher Education Course for students
This training course is the result of the intellectual output 3 of the Erasmus+ project CONNECT!. All the partners contributed to its development that had its intensive germination phase from October 2020 to May 2021.
The development of this training course for higher education is based on the results of the national and cross-national reports delivered in the intellectual outputs O1 and O2. For an extensive evaluation, we refer the readers to the entire documents (Project Outcomes – CONNECT! (connect-erasmus.eu)). Here we wish to remind three key drivers that guided us in the curriculum development: the need of supporting the reciprocal knowledge and cooperation between career counselors and HR professionals, an increasing attention toward vulnerable groups of workers, and make the organization more ready to meet 21st century challenges.
This training course is aimed at students who have basic knowledge in work and organizational psychology and in career guidance and counseling. It could be of interest for all the courses that aim to provide knowledge and competences about the links between the two fields in the context of small and medium enterprises.
The training course structure: course consists of 5 units, Each unit includes 3 learning sessions for a total of 15 sessions.
Typically, in each unit, the first session describes theoretical approaches and synthesizing the literature, the second one introduces methods and tools, and the third one focuses on practice.
Each learning session will last 90 minutes, that is 4 hours and 30 minutes for each unit and a total of 22.5 hours.
In this methodological guide the readers find four main sections. In the first section a description of the structure and the content of the training course is provided. In the second section the pedagogical approach is presented with suggestions on how to use provided teaching and learning materials. In the third section after the definition of innovation, we describe how each course unit is innovative and meets the sustainable developmental goals of the 2030 UN Agenda. Finally for each unit a detailed description of the goal and the learning plan and the list of teaching and learning materials are provided.