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Centro Studi Pluriversum (CSP) is an Italian organisation with over 20 years of experience in career guidance, education, employability services and entrepreneurship support. CSP develops, both at local and international level (mainly on Erasmus+ projects), innovative methodologies, traditional digital and AI-based solutions to strengthen guidance systems, recognize and validate skills and support their development, prevent early school leaving and improve transitions between education, training and the labour market, with a strong focus on inclusion and lifelong learning. The CSP multidisciplinary team includes over 150 professionals, including trainers, counsellors, researchers and project managers. Accredited as employment agency and training provider by Regione Toscana and ISO 9001 certified, CSP works with public employment services and educational institutions, operating across 50+ employment centres and supporting over 10,000 beneficiaries per year, including students, jobseekers and vulnerable groups.

Recent projects

HITS
Addressed the need to strengthen academic tutoring services in higher
education through the ethical and effective use of artificial intelligence into student support systems, promoting personalised guidance and improving academic success.

Involves partner organisations from Italy, Spain, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovenia, combining expertise in higher education, educational innovation, and student guidance.

Adopted a Participatory Action Research approach, actively involving students, tutors, and higher education institutions in the co-creation and validation of project outputs.

Developed resources including an AI Learning Library, an ethical framework for AI-based tutoring, and an AI-driven chatbot to support students and academic staff.

FLAIR

Addressed the complexity of cities as social and cultural spaces, exploring themes of inclusion, belonging, gentrification, and community engagement in contemporary European urban life, and understanding cities as a “fourth skin” that shapes individual and collective identity.

Involves 4 partner organizations from: Germany, Hungary Italy and North Macedonia.

Brought together students and educators to develop guided city tours of their own cities, explore each other’s urban contexts through transnational workshops and document their experiences through photos, videos and theatre performances.

Grit

Addressed the lack of support for student academic success in developing non-cognitive skills, particularly “grit”, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, through innovative learning approaches linked to civic engagement and social awareness.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia, and an international accreditation body (ACEEU).

Developed a set of structured resources including a theoretical handbook, a digital escape room, and an AI-based system using machine learning and sentiment analysis to help students build non-cognitive skills within the academic context.

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Careers Around me

Addressed the growing need for citizens to manage their own career development in a rapidly changing world, developing a European framework of Career Management Skills (CMS) through a social innovation experiment across multiple European territories.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 6 European countries: Italy, Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and Spain.

Produced a digital CMS framework catalogue, a repository of literature and training materials on career guidance, a collection of digital tools to develop CMS across different target groups and a policy planner toolkit for guidance providers and policymakers.

REGEN

Addressed the need to equip young people from different educational backgrounds, higher education (HE), vocational education and training (VET) and NEETs, with key competencies for entrepreneurship, circular economy and sustainability through solving real life challenges in the circular transition.

Involves partners from 4 European countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Estonia and Spain.

Developed a shortlist of methods to develop green and entrepreneurial competences; a set of educational videos that introduce the core methodologies of the ReGen program; an open-sourced manual for practitioners to replicate the ReGen program; an online course on circular economy and a Hackathon methodology for challenge-based learning.

LMl4Dis_ABLED

Addressed the multidimensional exclusion of people with disabilities from adequate career opportunities and labour market participation, by improving access to quality, accessible labour market information (LMI) and career guidance supporting autonomous career exploration, decision-making and economic independence.

Involved 6 partner organisations from 5 European countries: Spain, Greece, Belgium, Italy and Portugal.

Developed an assistive toolkit providing information on VET and career opportunities for people with disabilities, integrating advanced digital tools, assistive technologies, and ICT services to support full and equal participation in education, employment, and society.

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TENACITY

Addressed the challenge of increasing staff competencies in civic education, public engagement and social inclusion within academic communities, engaging a wide range of societal stakeholders including students, professors, adult citizens, elderly citizens, immigrants, minorities, disadvantaged groups, and public employees.

Involves 9 partner organizations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Sweden and Lithuania.

Developed a set of models, resources and digital tools, including academic deliberative arenas for open science and innovation, and an open-source e-learning platform for academic deliberative practitioners.

ENHANCE


Addressed the need to develop service learning as an innovative teaching approach for building transversal skills and supporting career guidance in higher education grounded in the Career Management Skills framework.

Involved 8 partner organizations from 6 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece and Turkey.
Produced a common international framework for Community Service Learning, a handbook, a virtual support web portal, and an e-learning platform with training modules for tutors, lecturers, and educators in European higher education institutions.

PRIME

Addressed the lack of career-related education in primary schools, supporting pupils in exploring the world of work, connecting with their local community, and challenging career stereotypes from an early age.

Involves partners from Italy, Spain, Greece, and Romania.

Produced a handbook on pedagogical models, training materials for teachers, curriculum-mapped learning units, and educational career games for schools and communities.

INTERACTed

Addressed the need to support primary school teachers in delivering playful social-emotional learning through Interactive Digital Narratives.

Involves partner organisations from 6 European countries: Belgium, Poland, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Greece, and Italy.

Produced a teacher professional development programme, a learning toolkit with classroom scenarios, an online game for socio-emotional learning, and a policy recommendations report.

Pledge

Addressed the need for accessible and engaging career guidance in schools, through developing Career Management Skills for navigating educational and professional transitions throughout life.

Involves 6 partner organisations from 4 European countries: Spain, Italy, Greece and Denmark.

Developed a structured online platform with gamified counselling activities with tools to explore personal competencies, interests, and career options as part of a continuous, life-wide guidance process.

TRANSVAL

Addressed the paradox between the growing importance employers place on transversal skills and their limited visibility in existing validation and guidance processes experimenting with innovative approaches to make the validation of transversal skills acquired through non formal and informal learning (VNFIL) explicit and embedded in policy.

Involves 16 partner organizations from 7 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Italy, France, Poland and Denmark.

Conducted research, developed a training curriculum and toolkit for validation assessors, counsellors and career guidance practitioners, and ran field trials in five pilot countries, producing policy coherence reports and recommendations to strengthen VNFIL systems across Europe.

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Guiding Schools

Addressed the need to improve the quality of career guidance in secondary schools, investigating local needs across European countries to support teachers in designing effective career education programmes and guidance services based on a Career Management Skills framework.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, North Macedonia, Greece and Germany.

Developed a quality handbook for career education in schools, an online self-assessment checklist for schools to identify areas for improvement, an e-learning platform with training modules for teachers and guidance practitioners, and an e-guidance activity to support students in exploring post-secondary education options.

E-TEAMS

Addressed the risk of early school leaving by developing an innovative “digital e-guidance and co-careering” approach based on gamification and peer-to-peer learning, supporting student engagement both in-person and in remote learning contexts.

Involved 8 partner organisations from 5 European countries: Italy, Romania, Portugal, Belgium and Spain.

Developed an open e-learning platform with gamification techniques and digital open badges to reward peer engagement, an education programme for co-careering activities organised by student E-TEAMS, and a web app to access the game and e-tutorship.

STAR.APP

Addressed academic dropout prevention in higher education by combining career guidance, educational sciences, and artificial intelligence to enable early identification and personalised support for students at risk of leaving education.

Involved partners from Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Cyprus, working together in a European consortium focused on AI-based innovation for tutoring and student support services.

Developed a toolkit for tutors and practitioners, innovative training units, an AI-based online risk assessment platform for early detection of dropout risk, and a handbook on the use of machine learning in tutoring and academic guidance services.

TACKLE

Addressed early school leaving and educational disadvantage by strengthening school-based career guidance systems through digital tools, supporting students’ transitions to further education, training, and the labour market.

Involved a European partnership working across Spain, Italy, and Greece, with 5 partner organisations and schools participating in pilot activities and training actions for teachers and guidance practitioners.

Developed a digital guidance toolbox for secondary schools, including a self-evaluation checklist, a guidance action plan and resource creator, and an online training module for educators.

ETAD

Addressed the need to improve the skills of professionals involved in the education and training of low-qualified adults.
Involved partners from Romania, Italy, and Germany, collaborating through the exchange of good practices and experiences.
Developed an innovative training methodology based on field research and the identification of effective approaches for adult education practitioners.

NADINE

Addressed the challenge of migrant integration in Europe by using big data and artificial intelligence to better understand migrants’ needs and support their inclusion in host communities.
Involved a European consortium funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, bringing together organisations working on migration, technology, and social inclusion.
Developed a digital platform using open data to support employability, career guidance, skills matching, and access to social, educational, and cultural services, enabling more personalised support for migrants and public authorities.

SHADOW

Addressed the inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN) in pre-primary and primary education by strengthening cooperation between teachers and support facilitators (“shadows”).

Involved a European partnership coordinated by Romania, with partners from Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Romania, including education authorities, schools, universities, and training organisations.

Developed competence analyses and training programmes for teachers and “shadows”, together with validated training methodologies, international workshops, and practical resources.

HITS

Addressed the need to strengthen academic tutoring services in higher
education through the ethical and effective use of artificial intelligence into student support systems, promoting personalised guidance and improving academic success.

Involves partner organisations from Italy, Spain, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovenia, combining expertise in higher education, educational innovation, and student guidance.

Adopted a Participatory Action Research approach, actively involving students, tutors, and higher education institutions in the co-creation and validation of project outputs.

Developed resources including an AI Learning Library, an ethical framework for AI-based tutoring, and an AI-driven chatbot to support students and academic staff.

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FLAIR

Addressed the complexity of cities as social and cultural spaces, exploring themes of inclusion, belonging, gentrification, and community engagement in contemporary European urban life, and understanding cities as a “fourth skin” that shapes individual and collective identity.

Involves 4 partner organizations from: Germany, Hungary Italy and North Macedonia.

Brought together students and educators to develop guided city tours of their own cities, explore each other’s urban contexts through transnational workshops and document their experiences through photos, videos and theatre performances.

More

Grit

Addressed the lack of support for student academic success in developing non-cognitive skills, particularly “grit”, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, through innovative learning approaches linked to civic engagement and social awareness.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia, and an international accreditation body (ACEEU).

Developed a set of structured resources including a theoretical handbook, a digital escape room, and an AI-based system using machine learning and sentiment analysis to help students build non-cognitive skills within the academic context.

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Careers Around me

Addressed the growing need for citizens to manage their own career development in a rapidly changing world, developing a European framework of Career Management Skills (CMS) through a social innovation experiment across multiple European territories.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 6 European countries: Italy, Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and Spain.

Produced a digital CMS framework catalogue, a repository of literature and training materials on career guidance, a collection of digital tools to develop CMS across different target groups and a policy planner toolkit for guidance providers and policymakers.

More

REGEN

Addressed the need to equip young people from different educational backgrounds, higher education (HE), vocational education and training (VET) and NEETs, with key competencies for entrepreneurship, circular economy and sustainability through solving real life challenges in the circular transition.

Involves partners from 4 European countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Estonia and Spain.

Developed a shortlist of methods to develop green and entrepreneurial competences; a set of educational videos that introduce the core methodologies of the ReGen program; an open-sourced manual for practitioners to replicate the ReGen program; an online course on circular economy and a Hackathon methodology for challenge-based learning.

More

LMl4Dis_ABLED

Addressed the multidimensional exclusion of people with disabilities from adequate career opportunities and labour market participation, by improving access to quality, accessible labour market information (LMI) and career guidance supporting autonomous career exploration, decision-making and economic independence.

Involved 6 partner organisations from 5 European countries: Spain, Greece, Belgium, Italy and Portugal.

Developed an assistive toolkit providing information on VET and career opportunities for people with disabilities, integrating advanced digital tools, assistive technologies, and ICT services to support full and equal participation in education, employment, and society.

Get Started

Preview project

TENACITY

Addressed the challenge of increasing staff competencies in civic education, public engagement and social inclusion within academic communities, engaging a wide range of societal stakeholders including students, professors, adult citizens, elderly citizens, immigrants, minorities, disadvantaged groups, and public employees.

Involves 9 partner organizations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Sweden and Lithuania.

Developed a set of models, resources and digital tools, including academic deliberative arenas for open science and innovation, and an open-source e-learning platform for academic deliberative practitioners.

More

ENHANCE


Addressed the need to develop service learning as an innovative teaching approach for building transversal skills and supporting career guidance in higher education grounded in the Career Management Skills framework.

Involved 8 partner organizations from 6 European countries: Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece and Turkey.
Produced a common international framework for Community Service Learning, a handbook, a virtual support web portal, and an e-learning platform with training modules for tutors, lecturers, and educators in European higher education institutions.

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PRIME

Addressed the lack of career-related education in primary schools, supporting pupils in exploring the world of work, connecting with their local community, and challenging career stereotypes from an early age.

Involves partners from Italy, Spain, Greece, and Romania.

Produced a handbook on pedagogical models, training materials for teachers, curriculum-mapped learning units, and educational career games for schools and communities.

More

INTERACTed

Addressed the need to support primary school teachers in delivering playful social-emotional learning through Interactive Digital Narratives.

Involves partner organisations from 6 European countries: Belgium, Poland, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Greece, and Italy.

Produced a teacher professional development programme, a learning toolkit with classroom scenarios, an online game for socio-emotional learning, and a policy recommendations report.

More

Pledge


Addressed the need for accessible and engaging career guidance in schools, through developing Career Management Skills for navigating educational and professional transitions throughout life.

Involves 6 partner organisations from 4 European countries: Spain, Italy, Greece and Denmark.

Developed a structured online platform with gamified counselling activities with tools to explore personal competencies, interests, and career options as part of a continuous, life-wide guidance process.

Get Started

TRANSVAL

Addressed the paradox between the growing importance employers place on transversal skills and their limited visibility in existing validation and guidance processes experimenting with innovative approaches to make the validation of transversal skills acquired through non formal and informal learning (VNFIL) explicit and embedded in policy.

Involves 16 partner organizations from 7 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Italy, France, Poland and Denmark.

Conducted research, developed a training curriculum and toolkit for validation assessors, counsellors and career guidance practitioners, and ran field trials in five pilot countries, producing policy coherence reports and recommendations to strengthen VNFIL systems across Europe.

Get Started

Preview project

Guiding Schools

Addressed the need to improve the quality of career guidance in secondary schools, investigating local needs across European countries to support teachers in designing effective career education programmes and guidance services based on a Career Management Skills framework.

Involves 8 partner organisations from 7 European countries: Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, North Macedonia, Greece and Germany.

Developed a quality handbook for career education in schools, an online self-assessment checklist for schools to identify areas for improvement, an e-learning platform with training modules for teachers and guidance practitioners, and an e-guidance activity to support students in exploring post-secondary education options.

More

E-TEAMS

Addressed the risk of early school leaving by developing an innovative “digital e-guidance and co-careering” approach based on gamification and peer-to-peer learning, supporting student engagement both in-person and in remote learning contexts.

Involved 8 partner organisations from 5 European countries: Italy, Romania, Portugal, Belgium and Spain.

Developed an open e-learning platform with gamification techniques and digital open badges to reward peer engagement, an education programme for co-careering activities organised by student E-TEAMS, and a web app to access the game and e-tutorship.

More

STAR.APP

Addressed academic dropout prevention in higher education by combining career guidance, educational sciences, and artificial intelligence to enable early identification and personalised support for students at risk of leaving education.

Involved partners from Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Cyprus, working together in a European consortium focused on AI-based innovation for tutoring and student support services.

Developed a toolkit for tutors and practitioners, innovative training units, an AI-based online risk assessment platform for early detection of dropout risk, and a handbook on the use of machine learning in tutoring and academic guidance services.

More

TACKLE

Addressed early school leaving and educational disadvantage by strengthening school-based career guidance systems through digital tools, supporting students’ transitions to further education, training, and the labour market.

Involved a European partnership working across Spain, Italy, and Greece, with 5 partner organisations and schools participating in pilot activities and training actions for teachers and guidance practitioners.

Developed a digital guidance toolbox for secondary schools, including a self-evaluation checklist, a guidance action plan and resource creator, and an online training module for educators.

More

ETAD

Addressed the need to improve the skills of professionals involved in the education and training of low-qualified adults.
Involved partners from Romania, Italy, and Germany, collaborating through the exchange of good practices and experiences.
Developed an innovative training methodology based on field research and the identification of effective approaches for adult education practitioners.

More

NADINE

Addressed the challenge of migrant integration in Europe by using big data and artificial intelligence to better understand migrants’ needs and support their inclusion in host communities.
Involved a European consortium funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, bringing together organisations working on migration, technology, and social inclusion.
Developed a digital platform using open data to support employability, career guidance, skills matching, and access to social, educational, and cultural services, enabling more personalised support for migrants and public authorities.

More

SHADOW

Addressed the inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN) in pre-primary and primary education by strengthening cooperation between teachers and support facilitators (“shadows”).

Involved a European partnership coordinated by Romania, with partners from Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Romania, including education authorities, schools, universities, and training organisations.

Developed competence analyses and training programmes for teachers and “shadows”, together with validated training methodologies, international workshops, and practical resources.

More
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