Website: freref.eu/acrojump
My eProfile Web Tool: acrojump.innovate4future.eu/eProfile

AcroJump produces a tool (“my e-profile”) which is a first step towards the professional social networks for target audiences who are at the moment excluded from them, and produces also an accompanying process in the appropriation and exploitation of this tool in order to secure, valorise and develop the autonomy of the young adults in capitalizing upon their formal and less formal experiences. This favours their insertion in a more sustainable employment – training-evolution process.

This way, AcroJump allows Young Adults who pile up situations of idleness, loosely targeted trainings, non steady employments, etc., to build for themselves a profile of experience (“my e-profile”) as an interactive web-based tool. This “e-profile” becomes the support of a positive self-esteem; of a reflection in the construction of professional objectives in a lucid and coherent way; of mediation in the relationship with the different actors able to accompany them; more generally, the support of fruitful and positive exchanges with the world of employment and training.

This tool will then accompany them in their professional life in the further transitions steps between jobs and/or between training, qualifications and jobs.

This way, AcroJump contributes to enable and facilitate the personal blooming and the capability to find a job, and the recognition of un-formal and non-formal learning.

By recommending a further use during the different transitions, including a return to Education, AcroJump also contributes to the development of innovative practices in LLL, to the promotion of cooperation between LLL and the working world.

The innovation in AcroJump lies before all in the fact that it changes the stance of actors from a system which closes up on failure towards a system which valorises the accomplishments and the experiences, and which supports a positive positioning in a social, educative and professional process.

Then, the method aims at a better understanding of all of the components of the situation, and thus at sustaining the young adult in defining a project altogether personal, ambitious, targeted and realistic.

The project relies upon an set of field based pilot-actions in the different territories. These actions support individual reports together with a cross analysis of practices, to end up with a set of recommendations towards policy and decision makers at European, national and regional level.

The project also produces a set of “Lessons learned” from the implementation of the “my e-profile” tool and accompanying process, and from the mutualisation and capitalization of practices on different territories and different situations.

The multi-regional dimension ensures

• the relevance of the developments (method, tool, accompanying process), because they are validated by a sufficient number of audiences with various cultural and geographical background;
• the relevance of the recommendations produced by the project towards policy and decision makers in order to sustain and deploy the project findings and results;
• the efficiency of the dissemination of the findings and results.

Furthermore, the trans-regional partnership allows considering including mobility experiences in the professional paths of the young adults in further steps of developments and after the end of the project. The Region or its equivalent in different countries (municipality, district, etc.) is the privileged actor in Education and an efficient actor to support the networking with companies and employments.