After 13 years of Jaume I University (UJI) experience on international mobility programmes (Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus Placements, Socially-oriented internships in impoverished countries), more than 500 university students have benefited from them. The project coordination corresponds to the Careers Services (OIPEP), in consultation with a system of coordinators and tutors. As a result of this coordinated work, the quality of this project has been recognised several times by the Autonomous Organization of European Educational Programmes (AOEEP), bounded up with the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, Jaume I University (UJI) relies on a set of services implied on diversity such as the Support Educational Unity and the Careers Services, both of them linked to Vice-Rector for Students, Employment and Educational Innovation. Especially, the Diversity Attention Programme (DAP, 2015), implemented from the UJI's origination, is a model for the rest of the Spanish universities. As a matter of fact, UJI is nowadays in charge of coordinating the network of Service of Assistance to Disabled People (SADP). The Assistance Diversity Programme (DAP) pretends to give academic support to this university community which requires a specific educational need (SEN) and its teachers.Inside this context of international and diversity internships, we set the present paper, submitting a pioneering experience in Spain. Concretely, between the years 2013 and 2014 through Leonardo's programme (People in the Labour Market) we implemented an international internship with a graduated disabled students, sponsored by the AOEEP. The complexity of this international internship implied the creation of an ad-hoc group with professors and professional workers in the required areas for the good development of this task. The results were important, not only for our university, but for future and similar experiences in other universities.
Following CEDEFOP [1] the employability is "the combination of factors which enable individuals to progress towards or get into employment, to stay in employment and to progress during their career." Also, theories of employability have become increasingly complex and multi-dimensional in the last decades. [2]. Employability depends on the knowledge, skills and attitudes, how the graduate use those assets, and how the graduates present them to employers. Moreover, there is an amount of work developed by Careers Services and faculties enhancing employabiity of our students through diferent initiatives and programmes (placements, workshops, career guidance, traning for job search, and so forth). Also University Jaume I has developed an educational model, in which their 10 principles we find "promotion of employability and the smart entrepreneurial spirit". However, from the vicerectorate for Students, Employment and Educational Innovation we want to go a step forward to enhance employability of our graduates launching a formal document that will be an edge in their curriculum. The main aim of this system is to show a potential employer evidences of high impact employability soft and hard competences, achieved by graduates and undergraduates during their studies. This competences have been developed by the students through active participation in both extracurricular and curricular training, increasing of sensitivity and experience (skills acquired by practice) activities organised both by the University or other organisations, and recognised by an expert committee. The aim of this communication is to explain the features of the system: background, requeriments for each activity, administrative procedure, and results. Also we will comment on progress and future challenges of the system.
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