The MOVE-UP project intends to develop a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for low skilled unemployed or inactive mothers, offering the opportunity of assessing, validating and further developing their prior learning for facilitating their participation in training and in the labour market, by enhancing the competences they gain thanks to their role of parent. The focus of the prior learning is on the Personal, Social and Learning to learn competence (PSL) that they gained/are gaining thanks to their role of parent, thus by using and preliminarily valuing it as a driver for upskilling. Indeed, PSL competence has proven to be functional to ignite the motivation and predisposition towards all the other Key Competences for lifelong learning, thus the capacity to fully beneficiate of afterwards basic skills acquisition (literacy, numeracy and digital skills) and employment opportunities. By valuing mothers' competences, mainly acquired through informal learning opportunities and daily life experiences as new parents, can have an immediate positive effect on their willingness to be empowered and involved in formal learning opportunities to better match highly required job positions in the labour market. So, on one hand, the project is going to foster innovation in Adult Education (AE) by supporting and enhancing the capacity of AE providers and stakeholders to contribute in equality between women and men, as well as in social inclusion, through the promotion of a different mind-set towards motherhood, intended as a potential to succeed in the labour market rather than as a limitation in women’s affirmation; on the other hand, the project is going to work on low-skilled mothers’ empowerment and upskilling for facilitating their access to education, training and lifelong learning, putting into practice the first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights as well as the European Skills Agenda priorities with specific reference to Action 8 - Skills for life.
The MOVE-UP project intends to develop a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for low skilled unemployed or inactive mothers, offering the opportunity of assessing, validating and further developing their prior learning for facilitating their participation in training and in the labour market, by enhancing the competences they gain thanks to their role of parent. The focus of the prior learning is on the Personal, Social and Learning to learn competence (PSL) that they gained/are gaining thanks to their role of parent, thus by using and preliminarily valuing it as a driver for upskilling. Indeed, PSL competence has proven to be functional to ignite the motivation and predisposition towards all the other Key Competences for lifelong learning, thus the capacity to fully beneficiate of afterwards basic skills acquisition (literacy, numeracy and digital skills) and employment opportunities. By valuing mothers' competences, mainly acquired through informal learning opportunities and daily life experiences as new parents, can have an immediate positive effect on their willingness to be empowered and involved in formal learning opportunities to better match highly required job positions in the labour market. So, on one hand, the project is going to foster innovation in Adult Education (AE) by supporting and enhancing the capacity of AE providers and stakeholders to contribute in equality between women and men, as well as in social inclusion, through the promotion of a different mind-set towards motherhood, intended as a potential to succeed in the labour market rather than as a limitation in women’s affirmation; on the other hand, the project is going to work on low-skilled mothers’ empowerment and upskilling for facilitating their access to education, training and lifelong learning, putting into practice the first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights as well as the European Skills Agenda priorities with specific reference to Action 8 - Skills for life.