The " EUROPEAN ADULTS: TRAINING AND INTERNATIONALIZATION " project is developed by a European partnership composed of 6 entities from 6 european countries: Portugal, France, Finland, Spain, Poland and Italy. Its general objective is to contribute to the development of a european area of competences by developing a European Platform to support and ensure the recognition, validation and certification of adult competences carried out in other european countries, allowing the combination of theoretical and practical approaches and broadening the national “vision” to the european “vision” in the context of Adult Education and Training. The project provides a set of structured activities, shared by the partnership, during 3 years, in order to: 1. Elaborate matrices of correspondence between the practices of the entities of the different countries, with respect to the recognized methodologies and with innovative character in the recognition, validation and certification of competences; 2. Design the manual "Balance of Key Competences for Universal School Certification", composed of a methodological guide for professionals (a descriptive guide to the followed methodology) and a set of tools of the various stages and substeps of the work involved in the process of diagnosis, recognition, validation and certification of adult skills. This product results from the deficiency found at national and international level since each entity uses its own methodology; 3. Develop a European Digital Platform to support and ensure the recognition, validation and certification of skills at European level. The platform will have integrated the methodology developed in the previous point; 4. Implement a pilot study with 8 adults in social exclusion or at risk of social exclusion to put into practice the procedure of recognition, validation and certification of competencies through the methodologies pointed out in the previous numbers; 5. Provide the group of adults with mobility to Finland to acquire language training (english) in order to train them and provide them with more tools considered essential for integration in the labor market; 6. Provide, on the European digital platform, access to certified adults to other cross-disciplinary trainings (linguistic, motivational, behavioral, entrepreneurship, among other subjects) that distinguish them at the time of insertion in the world of work. This project underlies the need to value, credibility and recognize the learning acquired by adults throughout their lives. Recognition of the training of the 8 adults in mobility in europe is essential for personal and professional training. The intellectual products in result of this project will be disseminated through multiplier events which will be carried out in the context of partner countries and other activities.
The Project "EUROPEAN ADULTS: TRAINING AND INTERNATIONALIZATION" was developed by a European partnership consisting of 6 organizations from 6 European countries: Portugal, France, Finland, Spain, Poland and Italy. The project´s general aim is to contribute to the development of a European area of Competences, through the conception and development of a European Platform to support and ensure the adults recognition, validation and certification of competences, carried out in other European countries, allowing the combination of theoretical and practical approaches, and extending the national "vision" to the European "vision", in the context of Adult Education and Training. The project developed a set of structured activities, shared by the partnership, over 3 years, to: 1. Elaborate matrices of correspondence between the practices of the organizations of the various countries, regarding the recognized methodologies and with innovative character in the recognition, validation and certification of competences; 2. Create the handbook "Key Competences Balance for Universal School Certification", composed by a methodological guide for professionals (descriptive guide of the methodology followed) and a set of tools for the various stages and sub-stages of the work involved in the process of diagnosis, recognition, validation and certification of adults' competences. This product is the result of the lack of national and international resources, since each organisation uses its own methodology and tools. 3. Develop a European Digital Platform to support and ensure the recognition, validation and certification of competences at European level. The platform integrates all the methodology developed in the previous point; 4. Implement a pilot study with 8 adults in social exclusion or at risk of social exclusion putting into practice the procedure of recognition, validation and certification of competences using the methodologies pointed out in the previous numbers; 5. Provide the group of adults with language training (English) in order to empower them and give them more fundamental tools in order to enter the labor market; 6. Provide to certified adults access to the European digital platform for other transversal training (linguistic, motivational, behavioral, entrepreneurship, among other themes) that will distinguish them at the moment of entering the labor market. This project is based on the need to value, give credibility to and recognize the learning achieved by adults throughout their lifetime. The intellectual products that resulted from this project were disseminated through multiplier events held in the partners countries and other activities.