Digital Freelancing for Higher Education students and Recent Graduates (DIFREE)
General Description:
Digital Freelance, a term that has gained special relevance in recent times. Despite being widespread, it still lacks a well-established and agreed definition. According to current forecasts, thousands of our students will decide to start their professional career as Digital Freelance, so our University of Cadiz must be there to support them in the development of their career. This is the aim of the DiFree project, to provide them with tools that allow them to self-assess and prepare themselves, with a mentoring and training programme, with the opening of workspaces, and all of this working in an ecosystem. In this sense, the team of the University of Cadiz will be responsible for developing the work package where a tool will be elaborated to allow self-assessment of knowledge and skills, as well as professional vocation. Undoubtedly, this tool will help students and recent graduates to evaluate themselves and analyze their career possibilities as Digital Freelancers.
| Reference | 2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000032241 |
| Action Type | KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education |
| Project’s Title | Digital Freelancing for Higher Education students and Recent Graduates |
| Acronym | DIFREE |
| Start Date | 01/02/2022 |
| End Date | 31/01/2025 |
| Total Duration | 36 months |
| Coordinator | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA |
| Partners | CRS LAGHI SRL
PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAI POLITIKON EPISTIMON UNIVERSIDAD DE CÁDIZ INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO |
| Web | Not yet available |
| Objetives | Specific objectives:
– Expose HE students and graduates to the freelance career from a practical and realistic perspective – Invite HE students and graduates to reflect on themself and self-assess their soft skills and competencies before they initiate a career – Provide HE students and graduates with guidance and mentoring before, during, and after the choice of a freelancing career – Offer to HE teachers training on the digital labor market and on digital entrepreneurship, subsequent needs in term of the workforce, and required competencies, so that these pieces of information can actually be channeled to a larger number of HE students; – Create innovative, easily accessible and open-source educational material regarding the project topics that will be made available to and disseminated among all interested parties – Create a specialized Freelance Hub, virtual and physical place where the target group can find accurate and reliable information, guidance, mentoring programs, opportunities for life-long training, upskilling and reskilling. It will focus on transversal competencies and soft skills and therein students and graduates can meet, share knowledge, organize gatherings and events, invite personalities from the freelance community, etc. – Offer to HEIs beyond the partnership and to potential freelancers not enrolled to the Partner HEIs with the same opportunities as those offered to the students of the Partner Universities, thanks to a Transferability Manual, made freely available to all those who desire to introduce digital and entrepreneurial skills in their teaching curriculum, regardless of the specific sector. |
| Responsible | Jose Manuel Sánchez Vázquez |
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