Making career paths barrier-free

This project is funded by the European Social Fund as part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The research project works with methods from creative technology to close the gap between the multitude of school and extracurricular career guidance programmes and the people who get lost on the way to finding their own career path. These are often girls and women as well as young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and with educationally disadvantaged parents, but also those who do not choose mainstream training and career entry routes.

A prototypical career guidance tool is being developed in three stages, which is intended to break down the recognised barriers in the career guidance process for girls, women and young people in Burgenland. After analysing international and national fundamentals on current trends in career guidance, two workshop phases with different target groups will follow. Workshop phase 1 is aimed at experts and uses the holistic pattern mining method to ask them about their ideas, patterns and experiences in career guidance work with the target group. Workshop phase 2 is aimed at young people, with whom work is carried out in design thinking workshops on their ideas of supportive career guidance.

In this way, the relevant stakeholders will be involved in the course of the project and their knowledge and experience will flow into the development of the prototype careers guidance tool as a transfer of knowledge.