The TRIAS project develops an innovative approach of guidance called "TRIAS Guidance in the workplace" and for this purpose focuses on strengenthing the capacities and competences of guidance practioners, to increase the range of guidance services and to reach out to the group of the low qualified as one of the most important target groups in adult education. "Guidance in the workplace" is an outstandingly promising approach to outreach education and guidance work - with the goal of providing guidance services to clients, who do not usually use guidance services autonomously. That means: Guidance practitioners directly approach companies to offer low-treshold guidance to their employees. The TRIAS project therewith directly adressses the objective of promoting outreach education work as it can be found in the EU action plan on adult education. "TRIAS Guidance in the workplace" leads to a new activity field of guidance services with very particular challenges for guidance practitioners as companies have to be included in the familiar client-counsellor-relationship. They have to find access to companies, but also know about the corporate way of conduct and organisation human-development-strategies. And additionally they have to expand their guidance and consulting portfolio to include promising and innovative concepts like workbased learning (WBL). For this purpose the project uses experiences of the organisation-based qualification consulting, which means the consulting of companies on educational issues. Existing knowledge on company-based approaches, methods and consulting tools are gathered, prepared and adapted for the use of guidance practitioners. By focusing on employees as well as employers, the usual distinction into clientsbased and companybased approaches is reversed and both approaches are integrated into the more sustainable formate of TRIAS guidance. TRIAS guidance promotes the trialogue of three essential actors, to initiate educational processes: guidance practitioners as initiators, employees as clients and educational subjects as well as companies as partners for implementing further education. The TRIAS project directly works for and with the target group of guidance practitioners/adult educators. For becoming able to actively work in the field of "guidance in the workplace", they need additional competences and know-how. The TRIAS-project compiles a text book (O2) for self-study purposes and develops a training format/curriculum (O3) including its piloting. Therewith the project strengthens the quality and competences of the work of the guidance practioners in this innovative field of action. Around 60 guidance practitioners will participate in trainings seminars within the TRIAS project. An additional focus of the project is working with stakeholders to sustainably embed the new guidance approach in the national educational landscape. The dialogue with policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of adult education, guidance and labour market (about 100 persons and 20 further education providers will be reached) will be fostered during the whole project period but especially by organising multiplier-events in each country, to further the transfer of the results into national contexts and increase the policy impact. The products of the project will all be elaborated within the project partnership using an analytically structured and facilitated process in five mutual learning seminars (MLS). Based on thematic expertise and good-practice-experiences the inputs will be refined and transformed into concrete results. The products at a glance: - Synthesis report “Guidance in the workplace – experiences in a European overview” - Text book “TRIAS Guidance – Involving employers, reaching low qualified”, (in DE, EN, DK, SL and CZ) which includes the following four units: > “The TRIAS of guidance practitioners, clients and employers in the work-place” > “Identifying and accessing relevant employers as cooperation partners” > “Providing employees with guidance in the workplace” > “Working with the employer in the guidance process” To be published in English, German, Danish, Slovenian and Czech - Curriculum “TRIAS guidance in the workplace – involving employers, reaching low qualified” (in DE, EN, DK, SL and CZ) incl. the piloting as a two day seminar for guidance practitioners The project partnership consists of organisations which have experiences either in client-based guidance in the workplace or organisation-based qualification consulting. ÖSB Consulting – Austria as project coordinator implements the project jointly with the partners of Peter Plant – Denmark, Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung – Germany, EURUDICIO – Czech Republic and Andragoski Zavod Maribor – Slovenia.
About the TRIAS Project The Erasmus+ project TRIAS - guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low-qualified developed an innovative approach to guidance by combining outreach guidance work with employers’ involvement. The project focuses on strengthening the competences of guidance practitioners to successfully reach out to the workforce, especially to the low-qualified as one of the most important target groups in adult education. Therewith the project contributes to increasing the chance of low qualified persons to participate in training and education. Why? The rationale Since continuing education and training are of unprecedented importance in knowledge societies, workplace guidance has to raise awareness for guidance and lifelong learning, as well as to provide low-threshold access to guidance services for the employed directly at the place where vocational and educational choices matter most – in the workplace. Introducing the TRIAS approach to guidance in the workplace To develop the TRIAS approach of workplace guidance, the project integrateed two already existing ways of promoting education and training in the workplace: - Qualification consulting targeting companies - Career guidance targeting employees The TRIAS approach to providing guidance in the workplace includes the company as a relevant actor in the guidance process. Thereby, TRIAS guidance practitioners act in the relational triangle of guidance users, companies and the practitioners them-selves. The inclusion of companies poses a challenge for the more familiar and well-established user-practitioner relationships. Guidance practitioners not only have to gain access to employers, but also know about business models and human resource development strategies in order to be able to take the employer’s perspective into account. The TRIAS project prepares guidance practitioners for these new challeng-ing tasks. Who? The TRIAS project focuses directly on the target group of guidance practitioners and adult educators. In order to be able to offer services in the field of workplace guid-ance, they require additional know-how and competences. What? The TRIAS project compiled a text book for self-study purposes and developed a training programme, both targeting guidance practitioners who want to offer guid-ance in the workplace. Overview on Outputs/Results: - Intellectual Output (IO) 1: A synthesis report on collected European experiences of guidance in the workplace based on 5 country reports - IO 2: Text book “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (a self- study tool for guidance practitioners) - translated into all part-ner country languages - IO 3: Curriculum “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (Curriculum for a two days seminar for guidance practitioners) trans-lated into all partner country languages. The curriculum was tested in Pilot Semi-nars in all partner countries except Denmark Where? The project was carried out in the EU partner countries Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Slovenia. In each partner country, we organised multiplier events fostering the dialogue with policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of guidance, adult education and labour market policy. The project consortium consisted of 5 European partners with experience in qualifica-tion consulting for companies as well as educational career guidance in the workplace: ÖSB Consulting – Austria (coordinator) Peter Plant - Denmark Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung – Germany ERUDICIO – Czech Republik Andragoski Zavod Maribor – Slowenia