This challenge highlights the urgent need to seek a different approach to VET, which focuses on the development of students' and teachers' skills and bridging the gap between VET and the modern labour market.
- Discover career paths based on their interests Get inspired by meeting successful professionals
- Get inspired by meeting successful professionals
- Build their self-confidence through the development of skills
- Prepare for the modern labour market
- Are trained in the importance of questions in the development of three soft skills.
- Are empowered and enhance their role as educators through the integration of modern digital media in the educational process.
Groups of students attending the first and second grades of Vocational High Schools participate in a series of activities during the programme. Participants hold live group sessions with mentors who are professionals working in sectors corresponding to the specialisations they have chosen or are interested in pursuing, and receive useful information about their career prospects and current working conditions.
Furthermore, by participating in an educational workshop, they are informed about the importance of asking targeted questions nowadays, and learn how through this process they will be able to develop three soft skills: critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. At the same time, moving from theory to practice, they are introduced into how to ask better questions with the help of technology, and through experiential activities they discover good practices related to their entry into the modern labour market.
Educators who undertake the implementation of the programme in their school participate in online training on all of the above in order to be able to support their students.
Student and Educator Testimonials
Bodossaki Foundation is a public benefit organization founded in 1972 with the aim of continuing the contribution of its founder, Prodromos Bodossakis Athanassiades, to the Greek society. Its vision is a society of equal opportunities and prospects for all.
To promote its vision, the Foundation funds, plans and implements, in full alignment with the principles of transparency, accountability and integrity, actions and programmes of relevance to its four strategic action pillars: promoting education, improving healthcare, protecting the environment and empowering the Civil Society.
From its establishment to this day, the Foundation has made available over €450 million for promoting its purposes.
