About Reboot

‘Reboot - Rebooting, Re-rooting and Re-skilling Unemployed and Underemployed Higher Education Graduates for Work 4.0’ is a European project co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Commission. The project aims to increase the employability potential of the unemployed and underemployed Higher Education graduates by upskilling and developing relevant and high-quality skills and competencies for Work 4.0 in 5 future oriented competence clusters, as well as their ability to recognise and demonstrate these skills. Unemployment and underemployment among graduates have increased in the EU during the past decade. Long-term unemployment increases difficulties to return to work, placing the graduates at risk of social exclusion, while on the other hand, “poorer” employment opportunities drive graduates to fragmented and short-term employment, low skilled jobs, and emigration.

It is thus crucial to re-skill unemployed and underemployed graduates in order to be successfully re-integrated in the labour market and respond to the diverse needs, the fluidity and change that characterizes it. The vehicle to facilitate this will be the Reboot online, non-formal training programme with a skill-competence testing tool, especially targeted for unemployed and underemployed Higher Education graduates, which goes beyond discipline-based knowledge and skills, into the acquisition or further development of skills directly related to the so-called non cognitive skills and competencies (e.g. problem solving, creativity, readiness for and adaptation to change, team-work etc.)