- Context/background of project Learning activities that take place outside formal settings (school, training or professional refreshing training, etc.) are approximately 80% of what we learn during our existence. Contemporary society, characterized by the rapid pace of innovation, should support actions that encourage individuals subjectively and / or objectively weaker in relation to the rapid social changes and to learning difficulties. NEET people are out of any training, education and employment environment, representing a tragical condition of social youth disease that must be faced by the EU by any means, to positively resolve it. 14 million young people are not in employment, education or training across the EU. The economic cost of not integrating Neets is estimated over € 150 billion, or 1.2% of GDP. The project strengthens networking and cooperation activities, enhancing public and private resources that already exist in each country to improve the performance of the learning system, involving public and private offer of services/interventions focused on the needs of NEET. As determined by analysis and statistics, museums are places particularly suited to learning processes for young people. Spaces different from classrooms, away from the rules of academia, museums are places where it is easier to acquire skills. The project adopts the museum space and the many activities that revolve around it to activate virtuous circles of social recovery. - Objectives The overall objective is to contribute to the priority EU 2020 "Inclusive growth" by measures to prevent and combat poverty with measures aimed at NEET young adults, a target particularly exposed to this danger. The specific objectives: to test on 80 NEETs 4 from EU countries and validate new methodologies of involvement in learning through museums; create an integrated, modular learning path of transnational value (blended: guidance, mobility, self-entrepreneurship); strengthen the skills of lifelong learning educators in cultural heritage environment, museum providing them with innovative tools targeted to the NEET target to deliver / receive easy to use learning , customizable self-updating; implement through mobility the skills of European active citizenship. - Number/profile of participants . 60 Educators (Universities, teachers, bearers of knowledge, study circle tutor, training agencies, individual coaches, socio-cultural operators) in the socio cultural environment. They'll be involved in staff short mobility to exchange experiences and praxis. they'll help experts to create innovative methodology. n. 80 Learners (Adult learners) bearers of social and/or economic disadvantage Learners will be young adults / adults aged 19 to 39 years: unemployed or with no permanent work, but occasionally or persons who have lost their jobs, working in the field of promotion and enhancement of cultural and natural heritage: (about 20 IT beneficiaries, 20 SW 20 BG, 20 NO). They'll be involved in a piloting integrated learning activity. 200 NEET of partecipating Countries involved in information and diffusion activities (open workshop, social media, app and so on) 200 Adut Educators involved in virtual open forum. They'll be involved in exchange of experiences and diffusion activities to enriche the products (social, internet and so on). The partecipation of learners in piloting action will be ruled by public selection. A1. ANALYSIS where the outputs are: 01 Scenario planning 02 Comparative Analisys on UE NEET 03 Comparative Analisys on "Museumas learning place" A2. TOOLS CREATION 04 Guidelines for adults' educators/trainers 05 Learning modules A3. DEVELOPING PILOTING 06 Development of blended learning paths. 07 Heritage mobility Manual 08 Guidelines for NEET by idea to selfenterpreunership A4. MONITORING/EVALUATION/VALIDATION 09 Quality Manual 010 Compendium of validation A5. INFORMATION/DISSEMINATION 011 Impact Multiplying Plan 012 App (The University - Buskerud and Vestfold NO) will transform the result of the training (relationship between formal and informal) that can be applied at all levels of learning, even at school. 013 Information campain A6. MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION The quality plan of the project will be carried out in accordance with a PCM (Project Cycle Management) approach and to involve all possible variables: the general objectives, the project objectives, results and activities. The plan is formally developed by the coordinator with the contribution of the partners, and will benefit from the contribution of each partner. - Results and Impact - New approach of learning - Cooperation between the different systems of education and learning /job through Museum involvement; - Sharing and usability of operational methodologies to improve the system of adult learning.
The project focused on the learning activities for young people/NEETs, which can be overtaken in the context of museums, to favour their active citizenship and to face the challenge of looking for a new job or start another education path to re-direct their lives. The context of the project in fact is the learning that take place outside formal settings - school, training or professional refreshing training - which is approximately 80% of what we learn during our existence. Contemporary society should support actions that encourage individuals subjectively and/or objectively weaker in relation to the rapid social changes and to learning difficulties. This methodology of learning is a great opportunity for NEET people – young people out of any training, education and employment environment - who represent a tragical condition of social youth disease in all EU. Objectives The overall objective to contribute to the priority EU 2020 "Inclusive growth" has been matched by innovative measures to contrast and prevent the NEET phenomenon, to favor the linking to the labor market for the young adults. The measures were based on reinforcing the cultural identity, providing soft skills, capacity to be active and responsible, and to plan a new project for life and job. The specific objectives were all matched: - the metodologies and measures of involvement in learning through museums were tested on 106/80 NEETs 4 from EU countries; - the integrated path for learning (blended: guidance, mobility, self-entrepreneurship) has been created - the skills of 64/40 educators in cultural heritage were strenghtened providing them with innovative tools targeted to the NEET - the skills of active European citizenship were implemented through the mobility for 75/80 NEETs and for 34/40 operators - 272/200 NEETs/Young Adults and 360/200 operators were involved in the information and dissemination activities of the project. The number/profile of participants were respected: - 64/40 educators (museum and socio-cultural operators) involved in the learning modules and 34/40 in the mobility abroad, where they exchanged experiences and practices to accompany the young people in their learning path - 106/80 young adults/NEETs (aged 18-35, unemployed or with no permanent work, or persons who have lost their jobs) involved in the learning paths at the museums faced and tried to overcome their social and/or economic disadvantage. 75/80 were involved in the mobilities. - 272/200 YoungAdults/NEET involved in the information/diffusion activities - 360/200 Adult Educators were involved in diffusion activities - at least 1500 people informed on the project and its results All the activities and outputs planned were implemented: A1. ANALYSIS 02 Comparative Analisys on EU NEET population 03 Comparative Analisys on "Museum as learning place" A2. TOOLS CREATION 04 Guidelines for adults' educators/trainers 05 Learning modules for operators A3. DEVELOPING PILOTING 06 Development of blended learning paths 07 Heritage Mobility Manual 08 Guidelines “From idea to business” A5. INFORMATION/DISSEMINATION 012 App – Wanted A6. MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION The project has been carried on in accordance with a PCM (Project Cycle Management) approach in a quality plan managed by the coordinator with the contribution of all the partners, in order to face all possible variables: the general objectives, the project objectives, results and activities. Results and impact The most important results are related to the new approaches and to the methodologies to improve the system of disadvantaged adult learning through culturale heritage. In detail the most innovative measures created and tested by the project are: monitoring the gap between the end of studies and the access to the labor market; museum as learning organization; social responsibility of the museum; project learning approach in the involvement of young people at risk of marginalization in society and labour market; museum operators acting as facilitator to NEETs; method of evaluation of the NEETs’ learning outcomes related to soft skills. The impact was on 170 people involved in the learning activities and 1500 people in the information and dissemination activities, but many thousands of people had news on the project during the events for the wide public. If relevant, longer-term benefits The education and learning system will be innovated by new measures/methodologies target to disadvantaged groups; the museums involved will improve their mission as learning places, applying the tested measures to support young people and favouring their active citizenship; the scientific bodies will apply the methodology and products for the education of students as future trainers; the link between the education and job system in the 4 countries will be reinforced, the learning and inclusion measures in the 4 countries will be innovated e integrated, the museums’ network on heritage will be reinforced.