The project aims to develop the competences of adult education staff (with particular focus on institution/functions of a skill broker) in order to extend and develop educators' competences with particular focus on those working with low-skilled or low-qualified adults, within the partnership countries. This will be achieved by: -analysis of currently existing systems of meeting the educational needs of adults in the partnership countires. This action will be implemented in an international partnership of institutions involved in the project. As a result of the reasearch carried out, partners will indicate best practice in this area and together will develop conclusions and recommendations, on which the following support system will be based: -development of a adult education support model/system, that will encompass the role, tasks and education scope of skills brokers, depending on national circumstances. -development of competences of adult education staff (conducting pilot training in accordance with the established model and development of of literacy, numeracy and digital skills) -dissemination of the research outcomes and the results of the pilot training through: 1 Report on the functioning of the system of education staff competence development and adult education system to adapt the educational needs of adults in the partner countries, with particular focus on low-skilled or low-qualified adults 2 Training pack on competence development of adult education staff working with low-skilled or low-qualified adults and the pilot training 3. A summary report with the results of the pilot training directed to the persons providing education-vocational guidance to adults. The project will contribute to the dissemination and exchange of best practices in the area of adult education staff competencies, provision of new training solutions and a significant increase in knowledge in the partner countries participating institutions, persons trained as a pilot training program (a total of 45 people from 3 countries) and those participating in the dissemination activities. The project will be implemented in partnership institutions from: Polish, Great Britain and Italy. Partner institutions are involved in adult education on a day to day basis. They have the knowledge and experience in the area of education staff upskilling.
The aim of the project was to develop the competences of adult educators with particular emphasis on the function/competences of educational brokers, in particular those adult educators who work with people with low skills. This goal was achieved through three main actions: - a comparative analysis of systems fulfilling the educational needs of adults in Poland, England and Italy, countries of the project partners. Developing conclusions and recommendations was a result of the conducted research, on the basis of which the support system in the form of a training package was developed. -developing a training package, which is a model of supporting adult educators, taking into account the competences of education brokers. -development of competences of adult education professionals in the form of pilot trainings conducted on the basis of the training package in three partnership countries. All the project results were disseminated in the form of publications, i.e .: 1. "Report on the functioning of adult education systems in selected European countries: England, Poland, Italy." 2. "The development of competences of adult educators. A training manual for independent and group work ”. 3. Report compiling results of the pilot training and summarizing the project "Expanding and developing Adult educator’s competences’’ During the course of the project an innovative model of supporting the professional development of adult educators was developed, based on the educational needs of this professional group. A particularly important element is the introduction to the training materials the competences of the educational broker, which, in the opinion of the Partnership and the educators themselves, play an important role in their work. Thanks to international cooperation, the results achieved have a universal dimension and can, to a great extent, be used by institutions and educators themselves in any European country. The project significantly contributed to the dissemination and exchange of good practices within the competence area of adult education professionals and caused significant increase in knowledge in partner countries, participating institutions, among the trained individuals and all participating in dissemination activities in the field of improving the competences of adult educators. The project was implemented by institutions from Poland, United Kingdom and Italy, which are involved in the education of adults on a daily basis, have knowledge and experience in the field of professional development in the education system.