By Silvia Marchionne, UNIMED Project Manager & Khalil Abboud, Director of the Career Centre, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon

1. A platform of dialogue among HEIs, enterprises and policy
makers to foster entrepreneurship and employability: the
RESUME network experience
Silvia Marchionne, UNIMED Project Manager
&
Khalil Abboud, Director of the Career Centre
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon

3. The role of Universities
towards Employability
New and Different
set of skills
Globalized Labor
Market
Supply a talent pool
of well-trained
professionals to meet
the knowledge based
economies need.
S I T U A T I O N A C T I O N

4. RESUME in a nutshell
« Good practices » are shared between
the partners throughout a cycle of 7
thematic conferences that have been and
are implemented on an institutional,
national and regional levels.

5. IDENTIFICATION & SELECTION OF
GOOD PRACTICES
good practices
identified by the
Project till date
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7

6. 3 PILOT PROJECTS
• Development of an entrepreneurship course
for last year students of the HEI partners
PILOT
PROJECT 1
• Creation/ reinforcement of a « Career
Center » within each HEI
PILOT
PROJECT 2
• Dynamization of incubators: « Subnetwork
of mediterranean incubators »and a creation
of a competition model.
PILOT
PROJECT 3

8. FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF

9. CAPABILITIES
REINFORCED

10. Capacity building of USEK
Career Center improved to
1 Provide better
services for students
2 Improving existing
services

11. Field Observation visits for
different career centers
1
2
3
4

12. Our international network
– cooperation scope –
as Career Services
has been enlarged

13. Dealing with national and
international partners
DIVERSITY

14. Educational systems
diversity experience
CULTURE

15. Tools improved for a more
efficient measurable outcomes
1 First Destination
Survey (FDS)
2 Good practices
3 Improved database
of enterprises
4 Signing internships
MOU with 20
stakeholders

16. New Approaches
Student Career Guidance
Services
Means to network with
universities platform

17. FUTURE
PROJECTION
A Subnetwork on Employability
has been launched!
RESUME II ?

18. Thank you for your attention!
Silvia Marchionne, UNIMED Project Manager
s.marchionne@uni-med.net
Khalil Abboud, Director of Career Center at USEK
khalilabboud@usek.edu.lb