Strategic Partnership Project GRADual

The objective of the Project Strategic Partnership “GRADual: Increasing Students/Graduates Employment Readiness” is to maximaze organisations’ impact in terms of speed, quality and innovative services provided to universities and business for improving employment readiness (students and graduates internships schemes and other measures). The Strategic Partnership that brings together partners from EU-15 having solid experience in promoting university and business cooperation/entrepreneurial education and EU-25 that were “breaking ice” in the same areas only for a couple of years and ensures well calibrated geographic balance (Spain, UK (Scotland) and Lithuania) will employ in-house knowledge and skills to achieve the articulated objective.

The partners engaged were previously cooperating in bilateral formats.

The Strategic Partnership will be established between:

3 intermediary organisations (Fundación Universidad-Empresa-FUE (Madrid), Saltire Foundation (Glsgow) and LPK/Partners 4 Value (Vilnius) being prominent actors in promoting business and universities cooperation, early investment in human capital for business leadership in their respective countries,
Universities (the Spanish university that has a solid experience in developing academic modules for graduate internship programme jointly delivered with FUE and 5 lead Lithuanian universities willing to learn from good practices on how to prepare Curriculum for graduate programmes to be delivered jointly with Partners 4 Value under the financing instruments programmed at national level);
Global Lithuanian Leaders – the NGO willing to learn and share on how to best engage professionals from diaspora to investing in young talents (placements/mentoring services).

Main planned activities entail:

Preparation of peer learning methods;
Delivery of 2 Joint Staff Training Events/Study Visits and the Intensive training Programme for participating Lithuanian universities’ teaching staff;
Development of Guidelines on Establishing and Effectively Running Students/Graduates Internship Programmes;
Multiplier Event in Brussels aimed at presenting intellectual outputs developed to prompt expansion of effective practices while bringing together potential promoters of similar initiatives, representatives from lead business associations, EU policy makers;
Identification of Lithuanian Business needs for graduates skills;
Preparation of Curriculum as an integral part of graduate internship programme to be commenced in Lithuania.

This projects is supported by the Erasmus+ programme that is executed in Lithuania by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation.