INTERAFACE project ended formally in April 2014.

However, activities initiated within the scope of the project are continuing.

The most important information about these activities will bepublished on the INTERFACE website. Detailed information can be found at:

• Center for Career Development and Student Counseling website (career guidance and counseling)
• Alumni database website (alumni organization activities)
• This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The project aimed at achieving the following 5 specific objectives:

•  Enhancing the employability of university graduates;
•  Ensuring LLL and on the job training for academics;
•  Fostering transfer and multiplication of academic knowledge to society;
•  Combating brain drain and
•  Setting up a continuous learning and quality improvement system for universities.

These specific objectives were achieved through the following three major steps:

• The necessary structures and capacities at the PCUs in order to achieve these objectives were identified and developed through knowledge transfer.
• Interface Center (IC) dealing with career counseling, LLL and alumni activities was established.
  The IC at UNS is organized as a virtual one, which coordinates the activities of career guidance, lifelong learning, and alumni, and encourages and promotes cooperation between UNS and other involved stakeholders, but predominantly employers that contribute to prosperous social and economic ambience through supporting various forms of student internships and active employability measures.
• The following pilot projects were implemented:
  - Step By Step for Career – creating career educational materials (the results - 14 workshops held on career skills, research on student needs for education in career topics, and three printed brochures (Active search for a job, Career research and planning, and Career skills))
  - IC pilot for Lifelong Learning at UNS (the results - survey of LLL offered at the UNS and the Catalogue of LLL courses )
  - IC pilot for alumni at UNS (the result - re-established alumni organization at UNS, enlarged alumni membership and software for alumni database)

Creating possibilities for delivering the right skills for the labor market and supporting young people and adults to secure their economic future through both formal and informal education - getting the right assets for their success in the labor market - is another positive effect of this project (enabled through career workshops, internship programs, presentation of companies, selection and recruitment processes, etc).

The INTERFACE project has significantly contributed to positive climate towards a broad scale of university services, including career development and students counseling, formal and informal lifelong learning possibilities, inclusion of alumni organization into quality assurance processes and diversification of university service offer.