Unemployed adults, migrants and refugees face multiple difficulties to return to the labour market. Their limited knowledge of other languages and ICT stand out among them.Free movement of workers is the priority treatment of the European Union. Nevertheless, curricular requirements are not enough when they apply for a job in a foreign country. Social and educational integration in the new territory is also required to increase the possibilities to get a job. The knowledge of territorial languages can ease the social integration and represents a curricular advantage raising adult people employability. “Territorial Languages as a employability tool for adult people” is a strategic network of educational organisations searching to increase employability and inclusion of adult people by use of multilingualism, digital competences and ICT benefits.These objectives meet the Commission Document: "Language Competences for employability, mobility and growth" that highlights the importance of multilingualism as an advantage in European economical competitiveness and people's mobility and employability, the "Council Resolution on a renewed European agenda for adult learning", as well as “Europe 2020” strategy, being one of its objectives to raise the employment rate of the population aged from 20 to 64 to, at least, 75%.A partnership of minority language learning and adult people educational organizations has been created in order to carry out this ambitious project. All partners have European establishment, wide experience creating educational tools, materials ans innovative methodologies. Some of them have also influence in European policy regarding this matters. This partnership is formed by Acció Cultural del País Valencià -ACPV-(Spain), European Language Equality Network -ELEN-(France and EU), Smallcodes -SC-(Italy), The Hungarian National Council of Transylvania -EMNT Association-(Romania) , Conradh na Gaeilge (Ireland and UK).The use of ICT, the exchange of experiences and collaborative learning will represent the main tools to reinvent language learning methods for adult people, leaving behind the obsolescence of the old ones and designing new methods to increase adult people employability.Thus, high quality intellectual product will be created:MULTILINGUAL VIRTUAL E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR MINORITY LANGUAGES FOR INCLUSION AND EMPLOYABILITYA unique 3.0 environment that will use specifically created ICT as well as podcasts, audiovisual media, multimedia, blogs, social networks and the new syllabus created by this project. To carry out this project four transnational meetings will be held to exchange the best practices in adult people innovative education, linguistics education, the use of ICT in learning process and their influence in employability growth. Several virtual meetings will be held to coordinate and distribute team work as well as three multipliers events in order to disseminate and increase the impact of project intellectual outputs.The whole project management, distribution of tasks and responsibilities, collaborative work and exchange of the best innovative practises between partners will be done following the principles of participation and equity, trying to take the highest benefit of every partner experiences in every scope of work.During project development and after it, every partner will make a strong effort to foster the impact and the outcome of the project by disseminating the aim of the project with the help of its structure and using the project intellectual outputs in their academies. ELEN will be responsible to ensure the impact of this project since it represents 42 language communities in 21 European states and has consultative status with the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the UN, UNESCO and the OSCE.The project expects to continue its impact to finally become an important tool in Europe, bringing together all European minority languages and being an engine to increase the employability of the adult people.
During the last years, and especially from 2016, when this project was requested, the problems of adult migrant persons to achieve a real inclusion in Europe have worsened, according to the latest studies published by renowned international agencies and institutions. The increase of racist speech and extremist movements, added to processes of de-structuration of the EU has impacted the possibilities for real inclusion of migrant and refugee persons. All of this makes the results obtained after two-and-a-half years of hard work by the entities participating in the project "TERRITORIAL LANGUAGES AS AN EMPLOYABILITY TOOL FOR ADULT PEOPLE" even more important as a mechanism to build a richer, stronger, and more diverse EU. These materials began to be spread, as advised in the Mid-term Evaluation, in the first Multiplier Event held in November 2017 among multipliers, adult education centers, political authorities, and the beneficiary group itself, and started to yield good results, showing that they are an effective tool to achieve the inclusion of adult migrants. These migrant adults (from outside Europe, from other EU countries, or refugees fleeing from war in Africa and Asia) face multiple difficulties to access the labor market, among which is their limited knowledge of the languages of their foster region, which usually derives in severe barriers for their social integration and the creation of solidarity networks that make it easier to find a job. Thus, social and educational integration in their foster region has proven essential to increase the chances of finding a job. The knowledge of territorial languages can facilitate social integration, and is a curricular advantage that increases the employability of adult people. In order to achieve this, we have created during 30 months a high amount of results and materials that are reaching all the proposed objectives. The high quality Intellectual Output that has been one of the main points of the work done is highlighted among them: the MULTILINGUAL VIRTUAL E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR MINORITY LANGUAGES FOR INCLUSION AND EMPOYABILITY. This Intellectual Output is a virtual environment that proposes several digital tools for the inclusion and training of adult people through the learning of the minority languages of the participating regions, designed to increase the employability of adult persons. Along with this Intellectual Output, an exchange of experiences among the entities has also been carried out, plus multiple campaigns to promote the wealth and value of the cultural heritage of Europe and the regions it contains, and a guide of learning methods of minority languages for migrant persons (a guide that establishes educative methods using ICTs adapted to learning). In order to do this, we have held 4 Transnational Meetings that have allowed us to exchange good practices in innovative adult education, language education, the use of ICTs in the learning process, and their influence in the increase of employability. Virtual meetings to coordinate and distribute teamwork have also been held, as well as several national activities for the creation of results, diffusion activities, and three Multiplier Events to spread and increase the impact of the Intellectual Outputs of the project. All of this has been done through a collaborative methodology in which the distribution of tasks and responsibilities, and the exchange of the best innovative practices between the partners was done according to the principles of participation and equity, trying to benefit the most from the experience of each partner in all the areas of work. During all the time that the project has been active, but also after its end, a strong strategic partnership has been built, comprised by entities of very diverse sectors (companies, cultural associations, public institutions, educational entities…) that have improved their networking capabilities to implement an effective action for the training of adult persons that increases their employability and inclusion through the use of multilingualism, digital competences, and the benefits of ICTs. This is an effective work that will continue in the future, increasing the impact and developing new projects in diverse areas. We are achieving an important impact at the regional and European scale, especially thanks to the implication of ELEN (who represents 42 linguistic communities in 21 European states, and has a consultant status for the European Parliament, the European Council, the United Nations, UNESCO, and OSCE).