The project „Adult education as a tool of social inclusion” will be implemented by four partner organizations. The lead applicant is Municipal Social Welfare Center from Gdynia (Poland) and the order partners are: The Solidarity „PLUS” Association form Poland, Kofoed's School from Denmark and MVO PROXIMA* from Slovakia. All these organizations work in area of support people affected by social exclusion. The activities of the project will be used by partner organizations and their employees. People from disadvantaged groups will not participate directly in the project activities because of their life situation (addiction, staying in closed-door centers, etc.), but at the same time they will benefit from the project results and objectives which the partnership has set itself: 1. Creating a network of cooperation and exchange of experience between the partners.2. Improving the quality of assistance provided by the partner organizations.In the project will take part: under the international meetings – 12 persons, under the seminars – 24 persons and under the job shadowing – 18 persons. The participants of the first activity will be people directly involved in the project, its implementation and be responsible for obtaining the expected results and objectives of the project. In the other activities will take part staff members from partner organizations, selected by the recruitment.The project activities are structured and consistent, complement each other. The international meetings of monitoring and implementing group are the core of the project, determine the specific courses of activities, and allow to respond up-to-date to emerging situations. The main part of the project – seminars and job shadowing lead directly to achieving the objectives. Increasing the competence of staff is crucial for the final recipients of the assistance, i.e. people from excluded groups, and also for individual partners and for the whole partnership. We all make gains, which at the end of the project will be recognized and presented in the form of website, publication, film and conference.The activities are based on the classic tools of non-formal education such as activating methods, i.e. : discussion workshops, participating observation, learning through experience, work in groups, etc. Will be used also teaching methods such as presentations, mini-lectures, etc.The immediate results of the Partnership will be:– 6 international meetings of partners (monitoring and implementing group),– 3 seminars for staff members, – 2 visits under the job shadowing for Partner,– 1 conference for the dissemination,– 1 film from the implementation of the project,– 300 pieces of publication on the results of the project.Moreover, will be achieved another results such as:– enhancing the quality of support offered by the partners for disadvantaged groups by raising the skills of staff members resulting from the experience acquired during the various forms of non-formal education. It will be communication and adaptation skills,– enhancing the prestige of the partner organizations in relation to increasing the emancipation skills of the staff,– improving skills of staff members on. maintaining competence of support recipients – maintenance of change,– developing a network of cooperation between partner organizations. At the end of the project partners will be maintain cooperative sharing experiences with the held of the project results (the quality of solutions in each country, the dynamic of change, which is particularly important from the point of view of the three-level assistance, where the lowest level is in Slovakia, the average in Poland and the highest in Denmark). Partners will also be for themselves the potential for further actions,– exchange of experiences. The experiences will be presented at meetings of the monitoring and implementing group and will rely on the presentation of reports from seminars and job shadowing. From the perspective of the people involved in these forms of support exchange of experience will take place after each activity (if the program includes a summary meeting).As a result, the long-term benefits from implementing project are:– increase of the professionalism of staff members,– increase of the capacity and prestige of the institution/organization,– growth of workers mobility,– increase of the quality of the assistance offer.
Project „Education as a tool for social inclusion” was carried out in the international partnership of 4 organizations engaged in adult education of people threatened with marginalization. For nearly 3 years, the partnership was looking for solutions, methods and tools that would allow to increase the quality of the learning and support offer in the social inclusion of disadvantaged people struggling with a number of problems. The participation of the staff in seminars, job shadowing, international meetings allowed to achieve goals of the Partnership: 1. Creating the cooperation network and exchange of experiences between partners. 2. Improving the quality of learning and support offer provided in the partner organizations. The four partners were: Municipal Centre for Social Services in Gdynia, Kofoeds School in Copenhagen, *MVO Proxima from Spiska Nova Ves, Solidarni Plus Association from Wandzin. Having an established position and many years of experience, partners faced similar problems resulting from routine work, stagnation and communication difficulties. Being the leaders in supporting people threatened with social exclusion, they were well aware of the possibilities and system solutions in their own countries. MOPS in Gdynia supports people and families coping with difficult life situations, fulfilling essential needs and taking the activities, which lead to social inclusion. Solidarni Plus Association is a leader in the field of addiction treatment, cooperates with MOPS in looking for effective solutions in education of former patients. Kofoeds School has a 90 years of experience in education of people threatened with social exclusion, carrying out innovative educational programs in accordance with the philosophy of help toward self-help. MVO PROXIMA explores the area of informal education in the field of counteracting: discrimination, exclusion, xenophobia, racism and hate speech. The main activities in the project were seminars and job shadowing, which aim was to exchange the experiences, broadening knowledge, strengthening competences of the staff and creating common solutions in the field of adult education. 43 people participated in seminars: 1) „Motivation – theory and everyday practice in the process of social inclusion of people threatened with social exclusion.” (14–18.V.2017, Poland). It took up the issues of communication and its impact on the motivation of educators. 2) „Adaptation competences in the process of social integration” (5-9.III.2018, Denmark). It concentrated on effectiveness and adequacy of therapeutic interactions in the process of supporting the client. 3) „Stereotypes and informal education in the field of education of adults threatened with social exclusion” (17-21.IX.2018, Slovakia). This was an exchange of experiences concerning informal education, in the context of counteracting hate speech, stereotypes and discrimination in the adult education process. There were 6 cycles of job shadowing, where 23 people took part. The participants became acquainted with the process of education and support for people with low social competences and services in this area. Activity programs included, among others: getting to know the educational processes in a given country, participation in everyday activities. New methods, techniques and forms of work were learned and observed. Participants wrote diaries of daily activities. 6 meetings of monitoring and implementation group were organized to coordinate, prepare, implement and disseminate the activities and results of Partnership. Partners shared good practices in adult education and defined areas of their particular interest. As part of the project activities, on November 28-29, 2018, a conference "Getting out of the shadow - good practices of adult education in the field of social inclusion", a film and publication of the project results were implemented. Partnership activities has resulted in the following: 6 partner meetings, 3 seminars for the staff, 23 job shadowing, 2-day conference, film about the project, 300 pieces of publication about the project results.The project resulted in: improving communication skills, developing competences to carry out educational activities, getting to know new methods of work with people threatened with social exclusion, improving the quality of offered support, creating a cooperation network and exchange of experiences among Partners. The participants broadened their knowledge and gained a broader picture of educational and support systems in partner countries. Organizations gained broader look on the socially excluded needs, increased their own potential and abilities to use it in the professional area. Sharing the experiences with colleagues contributed to the increase of motivation among the staff. Getting to know new methods, exchange of experiences and opinions with people from other countries broadened intellectual horizons. This raised the prestige of partner organizations.