Our project DILABS aims at supporting trainers/teachers, staff and organizations involved in adult education in the field of key competences, including literacy and digital skills, in an active process of developing European cooperation.The consortium is made of 8 partners:- Université de Lille 1 (HEI), Collegium Balticum (HEI), Oslo and Akershus University College (HEI), Futuro Digitale (Association), Centre de formation Dr. Rui Gracio (Public training center), Glafka SRO (Private agency for guidance and training center), IES Jacarandá (Public training center), Inercia Digital (Private training center)This project is developed in an intercultural context, and in an improving approach of programs dedicated to adults facing problems of literacy, early school leavers, and/or with low level of qualification and lacking of basic skills making it impossible for them to find a job or to face the technological evolutions to maintain their employability. It will be supported by research works from HEI and by practitioners’ point of view.The project activities of DILABS will provide specific outcomes on the following issues:- Raising awareness in the field of Key competences and identification of illiteracy situations, linked to the labour market, and/or social inclusion (production of tools kit, and methodological guides, and realization of videos to identify relevant basic skills at work)- Training of trainers of adults in the field of key competences, methodology to develop innovative and efficient training programs, digital skills to improve training programs, teaching literacy (methodological guides, realization of videos to analyse educational practices, student and teacher’s book, training sessions and study visit)- Development and support of a “learning community” and collaborative system in an evolutive and portable approachDirect target : staff from adult education, trainers, teachers, companies, socio-economic partners, regional and local authoritiesIndirect target : adults involved in training programs to improve their basic skills, and key competences (digital skills, functional literacy), low level qualified adult, early school leavers, and participant organizations. At last, according to the unprecedent context of migrants in Europe, key competences are at stake for this public at risk of exclusion, and training systems should benefit to them too.
DILABS is part of a dynamic process to raise awareness about key competences and basic skills in a work situation. Our objective was to capitalise on experiences, teaching and training approaches at European level. While digital technology plays an important role in training offer and educational practices, DILABS provides a set of online results (educational outputs in the form of booklets, online activities, videos, etc.) and examples of innovative practices in classrooms that foster collaborative work. Thus, we wanted to focus on analysing contexts in the project partner countries, analysing training situations, and identifying and pinpointing the competence in a given situation in the perspective of transferring the results in various professional contexts and committing on methodology. The consortium was made of 8 European organisations from France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Portugal, Poland, Norway: vocational training organisations, private and small companies dedicated to adult education and training of trainers, NGO, universities and higher education institution (public and private). The project deals with key competences such as communication (languages), digital skills, and soft skills for citizenship and employability (team building, teamwork, cooperation, critical thinking, cultural awareness). With DILABS we can deliver digital tools and videos to raise awareness in the field of key competences and resources to learn how to film and how to analyse the activity. The consortium implemented learning activities all along the project (study visits, or training sessions) in order for the participants to understand the European contexts, to be trained to use the digital tools and videos for educational purposes, to film and to develop online training. These activities fostered the enrichment of the participants’ practices for the benefit of their organisation and the learners, and contributed to the valorisation of the results and the improvement of the intellectual outputs. We developed a Moodle platform (Creative Commons) with open access to the results of the project, to the pedagogical resources and videos (channel dedicated to DILABS). The target and beneficiaries of the project are teachers and trainers, and professionals involved in adult education or in work-based training, human resources managers, tutors, coach, and students in Sciences of education.