The University of Padova is coordinating LAB-MOVIE project, an Erasmus+ Capacity Building project in the field of Higher Education, implemented by a consortium including University of Salamanca, University Nova of Lisbon, Steps, Hanoi University, Hanoi University of Industry, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Thai Nguyen University, Hanoi Association of Small & Medium Enterprises.
The LAB-MOVIE Project aims to create a Labour Market Observatory in Vietnam universities in order to analyse and understand the local labour market and acquire information about its demand and offer.
The specific objectives this project sets out to achieve are:
- To monitor the identified economic sectors, providing a brief national overview and a deeper description at local level;
- To understand and describe the enterprise’ structures and organisation;
- To list all the professional roles within the enterprises, and to describe them in detail (tasks, activities, required competencies and skills);
- To find out, together with the entrepreneurs, the training gaps of each professional role;
- To collect feedback and suggestions on the best training offer for young people, who would like to develop their job career;
- To activate a constructive dialogue between the teachers (who need to train students for the work) and enterprises (who create jobs thanks to their activities).
The Labour Market Observatory (LMO) will support universities in adapting their educational offer to the job market needs. University of Padova has activated its own LMO and for more than 20 years it has been studying almost all economic sectors. Through this project, University of Padova and the EU Partners intend to transfer their best practices to Vietnamese Universities in order to help them to implement their own observatory. LMO will collect, analyse and provide useful information to their students in order to guide them in the job search. This will improve the transition from University to the labour market and the employability of the graduates.