Soft skills Archives

21AprApril 21, 2021

Bridging Soft Skills: Filling the missing basics. Beziers, France, 2021

In April 2021, Logos was leading the course “𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬" in France

. It was held from 12th till 21st April 2021 with participants from 5 different countries! We were happy to work during these hard times and have an opportunity to develop.

During the whole week, participants got familiar with the current concept of soft skills, different groups of soft skills, and their importance in personal and career development. Participants analyzed deeper the problems with the soft skills they face personally and in their work, developed and improved specific soft skills.

We gave the participants the space to share their experience and best practice on development as well as improvement of soft skills, and realize their personal needs and the possible contribution of each partner.

The most 5 top skills that participants worked over were:

- Personal/interpersonal skills,

- Communication skills,

- Creative and critical thinking,

- Presentation skills,

- Leadership skills;

The outcomes of the project were the creation of the projects for future collaboration. Participants created 6 local projects they want to work on in their home countries. Great ideas and worthy applying ones. Let's wish good luck to those who applied them this year and we will provide support if needed in the future.

We are grateful to the hosting organisation Amitie Franco Russe Languedoc and the financial support provided by Erasmus+

Check the video about the project

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13JanJanuary 13, 2020

This is the future: ideas in mind! Poznan, Poland, 2020

"This is the future: ideas in mind!" was a training course that took place in Poznan, Poland on 4-12 of January, 2020. This project was developed by Centrum financni gramotnosti and Logos and hosted by Logos Polska. The training course was made within Erasmus+ programme and funded by the Polish national agency.

Project aim:

Aim of the project was to empower people to expand job opportunities in their communities through transforming skills they improve during the TC.

Objectives:

To explain the sustainability and independence of social enterprises on real examples.
Implement creating a social enterprise as an alternative to NGO.
Transfer entrepreneurial skills such as budgeting, digital tools for promotion, business plan creation.
Make sure participants are able to transfer the skills to young people through various interactive methods.

Issues addressed:

Lack of professionalism /competencies in Social Entrepreneurship.
Unemployment
Slow (or non-existent) inclusion of people with fewer opportunities.
Social exclusion
Lack of youthworkers' skills like budgeting, fundraising and promoting via digital tools

Project results

During the project a ToolBox with business ideas for social entrepreneurship was developed and it is available below

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13AugAugust 13, 2019

Spaceship to a creative Europe. Orvelte, Netherlands, 2019

About the project

Spaceship to a creative Europe was a Youth exchange that was held in Orvelte, The Netherlands on 5-12 of August 2019. This project was devoted to the development of creative thinking and was hosted by CAAT projects and created by a group of partners including Logos.

Objectives

Raise self, cultural and ethnic awareness through non-formal educational methods and peer education
Develop the key competencies and skills of self-reflection among the participants
Boost creativity skill and encourage its usage in everyday situations, as well as in solving common and global problems
Optimize the effectiveness and creativeness using a competency-based approach
Reinforce understanding and interest in other cultures and their views, concepts and peculiarities through intercultural learning
Promote positive and respectful attitudes toward various cultures, people and their uniqueness

Below you can see how the project happened

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13JanJanuary 13, 2019

Soft skills for group leaders. Poznan, Poland, 2019

About the project

Soft skills for group leaders was a training course held in Poznan, Poland between 4th and 12th of January 2019. This training course was hosted by Logos Polska, which created it together with TURKIYE AVRUPA VAKFI.

Soft skills enable people to effectively navigate their environment and at the same time work well with others. They help to perform well and achieve their goals with complementing hard skills. However, traditionally, people don't receive adequate soft skills training - either during vocational instruction or as part of on- the- job training. Ironically, for many people, the so-called soft skills are often some of the hardest skills to develop. Like hard skills, soft skills require a lot of practice to make a person really skilled at using them. Unlike hard skills, there are no exams to prove that you can do them. It is measured personally by how well a person manages the relationships with those around him/her.

Objectives:

To get participants familiar with the current concept of soft skills, different groups of soft skills, and their importance in personal and career development
To develop and improve specific soft skills
To inspire the participants to promote soft skills development among their colleagues, youth target groups and other youth NGOs

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10NovNovember 10, 2018

Creative spaceship. Ceuta, Spain, 2018

Creativity is one the most valued and essential skills in the modern world. This Youth Exchange was for youngsters who have interest in creative process, spirit of curiosity and desire to explore. For many people learning creativity can be very challenging.

The project aimed to create comfortable conditions where everybody will have an opportunity to develop their creativity. To achieve this, from the very beginning all the participants were involved in a project-long role play where everybody is a crew member of a spaceship.

The project took place in Ceuta, Spain between 2nd and 9th of November 2018.

Project objectives:

Implement a number of studies and join training to assist local authorities on matters of public interest
To develop solidarity and promote tolerance among public
To encourage public participation and strengthening links between local groups, schools, businesses and municipal authorities,
To ensure including, accepting and encouraging environment for youth with disabilities.
To counteract negative social phenomena, spreading in a youth environment, such as crime, aggression, addiction, prostitution, xenophobia and others
To work for action and measures to restore and improve the quality of the environment.