Increasingly, professionals have to operate in situations that are complex and uncertain. This can lead to feelings of uncertainty. These feelings can stimulate creativity and the need to go the extra mile. However, they can also lead to stress and procrastination. It is of great importance in education to help students to develop skills to deal with this.
PUNC is a 3-year Erasmus+ project aiming to develop strategies, tools and methods for both teachers and students to develop their PUNC (Professional UNcertainty Competence). This is important as professionals encounter uncertainty in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous professional world they find ourselves in.
A future with resilient, creative and productive professionals.
Objective
The aim of the PUNC project is to bridge the ‘competence gap’ of handling uncertainty productively, and professionalize educators to enable learners to develop their PUNC (Professional UNcertainty competence) in their professional performance.
Approach
The six partners will involve teachers and students in developing:
- A guide for teachers for designing a ‘VUCA’ learning environment.
- A PUNC competence framework to define learning outcomes for developing one’s PUNC.
- A PUNC toolbox to support developing one’s PUNC
- An E-portfolio that monitors this development.
For this we work with surveys, discussion groups, and other means. And we keep interested parties informed via our website (https://punc.ug.edu.pl/). In addition to international project meetings, we will also organize national public meetings where the progress of the PUNC project will be presented to interested parties by the project leaders.