The Government Office for Békés County implemented the project entitled ’VET to Job – Promoting Employment through VET’ in a consortium with the cooperation of a Finnish vocational education and training school, a Cypriot and British non-profit counselling and adult education and training institution, a Spanish training and counselling organisation and an Austrian employment service. The general aim of the project was to search – through European cooperation – for appropriate solutions to enhance the employment and social integration of people either without any qualifications or with qualifications not demanded by the labour-market, and so help prevent them becoming unemployment. There was a need at every partner organisation to train the leaders and professionals working in the field of career guidance and VET and to improve their professional competences.The basics of the partnership came from the fact that the integration of people either with no or outdated qualification into the labour-market was a problem across partner organisations’ countries. At the same time every partner applies good practices for handling the problem, which can be adapted into the partner countries. Therefore learning from each other helps accomplishing the project aims. To ensure the successful implementation of the project, the partners organised international meetings in every participating country, during which – as well as introducing the organisations themselves – the methods and best practices applied at the partner organisations for improving the employment situation of people with no or outdated qualifications were presented.The most important result of the common work for the Hungarian, Austrian, British, Cypriot, Finnish and Spanish partnership is the Brochure of Best Practices. 2 best practices or labour-market programmes per country were presented, each of which contribute to raising the learning motivation of job-seekers to acquire new qualifications and/or employment. The Brochure of Best Practices was created in English and Hungarian. Every partner individually created a brief guide in English and their own national languages, which provided some guiding instructions on what methods and best practices professionals should apply in order to realise the project’s aim. The guide contains brief recommendations for 3 target groups: counsellors; institutions offering training and VET and professionals working at employment services; teachers working in VET and are interested in reducing the number of drop-outs.The most important results of the project are widely spread and disseminated during and even after the project, on the partner organisations’ websites, at professional forums, meetings, they are available for everybody interested, in each partner country. The organisations will use the acquired knowledge in creating partnerships linking the actors of employment and training, the system to be established in such a way will contribute to operating methods helping job-seekers having outdated skills or any skills to find employment through VET and motivate students finishing formal education in choosing VET.

There is an old story about the three stonecutters. Once upon a time, a traveler came across them and asked what they were doing. The first replied sadly saying that he has the hardest job in the world. He said he was cutting a stone. The second one said his job was very hard but at least could earn the money to feed his family. He said he was building a stone wall. When the traveler met the third stonecutter, the man was covered with dust but looking happy and cutting a stone with a smile on his face. The traveler asked him the same question: What are you doing? The stonecutter simply answered with shining eyes: I am building a Cathedral.Exactly two years ago the Prometheus partners posted their first publication on the Peer Network and started this outstanding project together with the words: “We come from six different European countries – Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Italy and the UK. We put expertise, perseverance and heart in what we do, we are friends and allies, we are the stonecutters that build cathedrals. This time we invite you to join us in building the Temple of the nowadays Prometheuses – the career counsellors and guidance practitioners.”Two years later the project has been successfully implemented in the partners’ countries and has attracted interest and achieved impact beyond their borders.The partners named the project Prometheus after the Greek god that gave fire to the people and whose name in Greek means forethought. He stands as a symbol of the human progress and the gift of fire and hope and is the best metaphor one can find for the nowadays career practitioners. The project team includes 6 partners: BFE (BG), CIAPE (IT), BEST (AT), IED (GR), Aspire-igen (UK) and CIT (IR). They are all committed to adding value to people’s realization and actively working for their enhanced employability. The team launched and maintained the Prometheus Platform – PROMETHEUS-EU.NET - a One Stop Virtual Space for Career Counselling and Guidance Services. As a result of the team joint efforts 5 more intellectual outputs have been produced and uploaded on the Platform - Career Pathways Research and Analysis Report, 100+ Enlightenment Best Practices e-Book, Peer Network and Empower Talk Movies, Online Career Counselling Guide and Toolkit with 5 career mobile apps. All the intellectual outputs have been elaborated, validated and finalized in English, Bulgarian, German, Greek and Italian languages. They will be available for free of charge use at least until the end of 2021.The intellectual outputs have been presented through different publications, seminars, meetings, multiplier events and the Final Prometheus Conference that took place in June, 2016 in Sofia, Bulgaria.The outputs elaborated and outcomes achieved are directly addressing the strategic partnership priority for re-skilling and up-skilling of adults through increasing incentives for adult learning, information on access to lifelong learning services such as career guidance and by offering tailored learning opportunities to individual learners. They facilitate the enhanced participation in learning as well as the employability by developing quality career guidance, counselling and support services.The project team also took into account the Erasmus+ Program priorities for innovating and increasing the quality and range of initial and continuing training, including new pedagogies, ICT-based methodologies and use of open educational resources as well as the production and adoption of open education resources in diverse European.The impact on the partners’ organizations and the other participants in the project activities is significant and the career practitioners are now equipped with professionally elaborated theoretical and practical solutions to their main challenges and needs related to high quality provision of career services with large variety of approaches and types of activities. These benefits contribute to the improved performance in their role on the labour market as the meeting and matching point between the market requirements and the employability of their clients. The impact for another one of the main target groups - the young adults is the enhanced potential for their employability as a result the project’s activities and results. They are better informed about the benefits of a constant development and the participation in lifelong learning possibilities for better personal and professional realisation and 10 of them shared own experience through the Empower Talks.The whole society including the stakeholders, employers, individuals, etc. as indirect target group of the Prometheus project benefit and will benefit in the long-term from the innovative and practical solutions to some of the most challenging nowadays problems. The main impact of the successful implementation of the project for the society is the reinforced interaction between practice, research and policy seen in the Peer Network.