OnBoard – Supporting European SMEs improving onboarding procedures to defeat turnover and become more resilient
Project purpose
OnBoard helps European SMEs improve employee onboarding, reduce turnover, and strengthen productivity and workplace wellbeing. It bridges vocational education and training, HR professionals and small business leaders.
Objectives and key activities
The partners will prepare a transnational study of onboarding practices, develop and pilot the OnBoard programme, and support it with learning resources, digital tools, workshops and webinars. The solutions will be co-created with small businesses, VET providers and business support organisations.
Role of ISSBS
ISSBS leads the Knowledge Acquisition work package (WP2) and the transnational Research Report (PR1). It coordinates research into good practices, interviews and surveys with SMEs and job seekers, contributes to curriculum development, and leads an international webinar presenting the research findings.
Expected results
- a transnational research report on employee onboarding practices;
- the OnBoard training programme and related MOOC;
- an open manual for VET providers and a digital self-assessment toolkit for SMEs.
Partner institutions
- Exeo Lab Srl, Italy – coordinator;
- Mednarodna fakulteta za družbene in poslovne študije, Slovenia;
- We Are Entrepreneurs ApS, Denmark;
- Gestión Estratégica e Innovación SL, Spain;
- Agency for Regional and Economic Development – ARED, Bulgaria.