What is Reality Check?
Reality Check is an exciting European project funded under the Erasmus+ program. The goal of “Reality Check” is to provide students with practical insights into the real world of work and professions, preparing them as best as possible for their educational and career paths.
About Us
Reality Check runs from October 2022 to September 2025.
Our project involves four partners from Austria, Germany, Italy, and Sweden: Steirische Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft in Graz (AT), gss Schulpartner in Berlin (DE), Eurocultura in Vicenza (IT), and Urkraft in Skellefteå (SE).
Our mission is to develop innovative methods and procedures that promote close collaboration between schools and the working world. We aim to support students in their individual development and open new perspectives for them through real-world experiences.
Partners
Schulpartner is a non-profit education and social service provider based in Berlin, working in collaboration with schools to develop and implement modern teaching and learning concepts. The organisation is dedicated to empowering all students to discover, practise, and enhance their skills and talents. With a multi-professional team, Schulpartner supports schools as a reliable partner and is an active part of a professional network of social service providers.
STVG – Styrian Association for Education and Economics – is a Not-for-Profit NGO in Styria, Austria, working at interfaces between education systems and world of work. Main task is bringing together young people in school with enterprises to support successful transition processes from initial education to further pathways in education, training and professional life. Main regional scope is the province Styria, but additional with strong cooperation and activities at national, European and international level.
Eurocultura is a non-profit organisation set up in 1993 and based in Vicenza, Italy. The organisation’s core activities are European mobility programmes, international research and cooperation projects, and career counselling. Eurocultura supports people’s growth by promoting the acquisition and updating of skills through international mobility experiences. All our projects, activities and services are aimed at improving employability, in the conviction that the achievement of this goal can be facilitated by qualified study, training and work experiences abroad, starting from a European dimension and with a global horizon.
Urkraft is a work-integrating social enterprise, run according to cooperative principles, with the overall goal is to integrate people who have great difficulty getting and/or keeping a job, into working life and society. With a current workforce of 16 staff, including social workers, teachers and counsellors, we provide personally tailored Vocational Education and Training (VET) to disadvantaged target groups. We believe that it is the variety of different backgrounds and experiences that makes Urkraft inclusive, creative and competent.
