Project ""Openess to diversity trought community education", ODEonThe project aim is to develop methodological recommendations for adults with disadvantaged backgrounds inclusion into the education, organizing adult educators training and exchange of experience. The Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in Education and Training (ET 2020) says that in 2020 in education will be involved 15% of adults from age 25 to 64 years old. The Target group, who experiencing difficulties to involve in education, is disadvantage peoples: people with a low standard of living, people from remote or rural areas, immigrants, young people in long-term unemployment or poverty. The Project aims at promoting equity and inclusion by facilitating the access to participants with disadvantaged backgrounds. For that purpose will be developed methodological recommendations for the inclusion of disadvantage peoples in education. The project participants will be adult educators, they will learning and share their innovative experience at 3 training sessions. Between the sessions they will be tested to adapt the experience of their country and distribute it in their community. The project partners are Organizations with different experience in area of adult education: Kurzeme planning region from Latvia, Teatro Nucleo from Italy and NGO from Cyprus.
The strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020) set an objective to involve 15% of adult population aged 25-64 in education in 2020. One of the target groups that have difficulties becoming involved in education is adults from disadvantaged backgrounds. The aim of the project “Openness to diversity through community education” (ODEon) was to develop recommendations for involving adults from disadvantaged backgrounds in education. The project also targeted to improve competence of adult educators and involve them in the exchange of experience. The project was developed in cooperation with three partners: the lead partner Kurzeme Planning Region (Latvia), and two other partners, namely, social theatre NUCLEO (Teatro NUCLEO) and a non-governmental organisation OPEI, Organization for Promotion of European Issues (Cyprus). The project comprised two activities, “Project Management and Implementation” and “Learning, teaching, training”. Three learning sessions were organised in the framework of these activities. Each partner organised one session which altogether involved 63 participants. The result of the project is the developed recommendations on involving adults from disadvantaged backgrounds in education, as well as some proposals for adult educators’ professional training. The developed results can be consulted on the EPALE platform. The project participants have improved their pedagogical, linguistic and intercultural competences, as a result improving the capacity of organisations involved in the project development. The recommendations and proposals were submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia for their further use in policy-making.