JOBS RESEARCH Evaluation of the Educational Project «JOBS» – Part I

The project ‘JOBS’ in Romania, initiated by the Centre for International Projects in Education (IPE) of
the Zurich University of Teacher Education (henceforth PH Zurich), encompasses the cooperative development
of teaching and learning materials on job orientation and career options for students in their
last year of compulsory education (gymnasium) or at the start of their post-compulsory schooling (technical
colleges). It also encompasses corresponding professional development for teachers who implement
the new cross-curricular lesson sequences for the duration of one scholastic year. The cooperation
in this Swiss-Romanian project involves on the one hand the relevant ministries (the Romanian Ministry
for Education, Research, Youth and Sport in Bucharest, Department Career Training and the directorate
of the Swiss Agency for Development and Research (SDR) of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern) and
on the other hand two development teams (Switzerland, Romania), made up of teachers from all relevant
school levels and types, specialists in school development, members of the Romanian school inspectorate
and designers, illustrators and professionals in the development of teaching and learning materials
for schools. The impact of the project is being continuously evaluated in an accompanying research
project and so a third area of cooperation is taking place in the form of collaboration between university
fellows from both countries.