EmpoweringLTU´s gathers 6 partners from 5 countries that are mostly affected by long term unemployment with the aim to give older people the opportunity to experience success through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their own possibilities. However, to achieve this, long-term unemployed need to overcome limiting beliefs that hinder them from taking more proactive and effective approaches. The project will provide strategic support and training to both front-line staff (career advisors, guidance professionals, adult trainers) and Long Term Unemployed Older workers through individualized, tailored and emphatic approaches that will up- skill both career advisors and professionals dealing with LTU´s and ultimately empower LTU´s with the necessary skills and mind-set to explore, unlock and exploit their career potential. The specific objectives of this project proposal are: • To provide career advisors in each participating country with new, more effective and individualized methods and tools to support unemployed adults • To support and empower long term unemployed helping to change their mind-set by discovering their strengths, skills and interests though the most appropriate training and by helping them develop a set of skills to unlock their career potential.• To promote European networking between private and public entities dealing with unemployed adults with holistic collaborative approaches to support and guidance as well as to develop methods and create conditions for tailored and personalized trainings, thus increasing adults individual opportunities for the future. • To improve the level of participation of adult learners from a lifelong learning perspectiveThe project is expected to produce 2 Intellectual Outputs: 1) Handbook on Empowerment strategies and Training Tools to motivate and activate Long Term Unemployed back to work which includes: a) Inventory of skills and competences needed in todays labour market + skills and competences of professionals dealing with unemployed older workers; b) Tailor and validate methodology based on inventory; c) design of the 3 different training packs: NLP coaching; social media skills and personal branding; coaching circles technique. d) implementation of the training packs at 3 levels: career advisors/trainers – Long Term Unemployed – Peer coaching and e) Recommendations for career advisors and adult trainers on strategies, methodologies and practical tools used to empower and activate unemployed older workers2) Short film “Create your personal roadmap to success” which will follow trainings, capture discussions, show slides and explanation of strategies which could be useful for to reach participants that are reluctant to take part or aren´t ready yet. Moreover, the idea is to provide with useful, practical ideas and exercises other front line staff. A total of 30 guidance professionals/adult trainers (5 per each participating partner) and 60 Long Term Unemployed Older workers (2 groups of 5 per each participating partner) will be involved in the training activities. The consortium (10 people) will participate in a transnational training activity of 5 days duration (excluding travels) in Sheffield with the aim to explore new ways of doing that could serve as inspiration for the design and brainstorm the training concepts.
The strategic partnership project “Empowering LTU’s” meets 5 partner organizations from 4 different countries that have been notably affected by long term unemployment on adults over 45 years olds (LTUs). The partnership was composed by Fundación Coremsa (Spain), as leader of the project, and Action Against Hunger (Spain), Inova Consultancy (United Kingdom), Steps (Italy) and Knowl (Greece) as rest of the partners. The aim of this partnership has been to provide LTUs the chance of experience empowering and professional recovery through self-development, creative thinking and exploring their own chances. In order to achieve this objective, LTUs adults must overcome obstacles that block to adopt more effective and proactive approaches. The “Empowering LTU’s” project provides needed strategic support and training not only to professionals who work with unemployed adults (advisors and trainers), but also to LTU adults themselves through individual, customised and emphatic approaches. This has the aim to improve the skills of advisor and professionals who work directly with LTUs adults and to empower adults with the needed skills and mind to explore, open and unblock their professional potential. The specific aims of this project are: * Providing to career advisors new methods, tools and resources, more effective and individualised in order to support LTU adults. * Supporting and training LTUs, by helping to change their mentality and discover their strengths, skills and interests. * Promoting the creation of an European network between public and private entities and organizations that work with unemployed adults so they can collaborate by giving support and advising, new methodologies and skills to unemployed adults. * Increasing the level of participation of LTUs adults in lifelong learning training. During the life of the project, two intellectual outputs have been released: 1) Handbook about training strategies and tools to empower and activate the employment of adults over 45 years by promoting their return to the labour market, which includes: a) Inventory of skills and competences needed in today’s labour market aimed to career advising professionals who deal with LTUs adults. b) Adaptation and validation of the methodology based on the inventory through a group of training experts and professionals on career advising by every participant partner. This transnational activity took placed in Sheffield and it lasted five days. The aim of this piloting was exploring and exchanging new ways that inspire the design and development of the training activity (IO1). c) Comprehensive training action made of 3 essential training modules and 2 complementary modules: 1) Neuro-Linguistic Programming and “Coaching Circles” methodology; 2) Social media skills, 3) Personal Branding; 4) Competences and skills to network, work team and self-confidence; 5) Entrepreneurship mindset. d) Implementation of the five training modules on three levels: 1) career advising counsellors, trainers and professionals; 2) long term unemployed adults over 45; 3) “Coaching Circles” methodology. 25 professionals and 50 long-term unemployed adults over 45 have participated on this training activity e) Recommendations for career advisors and trainer on strategies, methodologies and practical tools used to empower and activate LTUs adults. 2) Short Film “Create your personal roadmap to success”, which is released on the Youtube cannel “Empower 45plus”. It is made of a set of videos with interviews to each partner experts who participated in Sheffield, unemployed adults and professionals and trainers who participated in practical workshop, some cases of success, etc. Those videos serve to empower unemployed adults to participate in this kind of actions and to who new tools and practical resources to career advisors and trainers. All developed materials and contents are gathered on the website of the project www.empower45plus.eu. They are available free of charge in a PDF and e-book version. Also, they have been translated into the four languages of the project. Also, the videos of the short film have been subtitled in English, which is the vehicle language of the project. All of them can be displayed in our Youtube channel which is also free of charge. We are also actively present on social media @EmpoweringLTUOlderWorkers (Facebook) and through the contact email [email protected]