Although strong progress has been made in recent years, yet too many young people are leaving school being poorly qualified, and facing a higher risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. While it is urgent to coordinate actions between educational and non-educational actors and to find inclusive responses, several studies show that transversal skills have become unavoidable, impacting on life, academic and social success, as well as on the decline in dropping out of school. The partnership, composed of 6 organizations from 5 member countries (France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Germany) proposes to promote formative bridges by framing the methods and instruments of "learning by doing pedagogy" in the logic of the assessment and the certification of competences. Based on a revised pedagogical approach, the partnership sets the following objectives: * Create a reference framework for the assessment of competences mobilized by the Experiences of the learning by doing pedagogy, in particular the transversal competences, which are recognized as well as fundamental competences for the professional integration, citizenship and well-being of the individual (EACEA 2010-2012). * (Re) define the training paths to the evolution of the labor market and the needs of companies and territories through the methodological approach of the learning by doing pedagogy which represents an opportunity to link learning, citizenship and development of the territories * Define the learning outcomes of the training courses proposed by the project through the common European language ECVET * Support the educational achievements of young people with the contribution of representatives of the business world * Encourage and promote collaborative approaches and educational alliances aimed at reducing early school leaving at the local level The intellectual outputs committed by the partnership are: O1: Common core of transversal competences developed through the learning by doing pedagogy O2: Training course using learning by doing pedagogy approach O3: Guide to organizing and facilitating experimentation sites
Based on a revised pedagogical approach, the partnership has fixed the following objectives: * Create a reference framework for the assessment of competences mobilized by the Experiences of the learning by doing pedagogy, in particular the transversal competences, which are recognized as well as fundamental competences for the professional integration, citizenship and well-being of the individual . * (Re) define the training paths to the evolution of the labor market and the needs of companies and territories through the methodological approach of the learning by doing pedagogy which represents an opportunity to link learning, citizenship and development of the territories * Define the learning outcomes of the training courses proposed by the project through the common European language ECVET * Support the educational achievements of young people with the contribution of representatives of the business world * Encourage and promote collaborative approaches and educational alliances aimed at reducing early school leaving at the local level
FormBridge relied on the formative and collaborative principles of "pedagogie de chantier ( learning by doing) to support disadvantaged young people and school dropouts towards integration into employment, by working on the validation of transversal skills. It provided responses to the needs of the following target groups: * Organizations and professionals in education and VET: equipped with a common framework of transversal skills valued within multi-sector projects and with an evaluation reference system, they can better act for the development of these skills. * Decision makers responsible for employment, education and vocational training policies: educational alliances and training pathways promote a better valuation of learning within the framework of European political action * Disadvantaged young people and school dropouts: the flexibility and permeability of education and vocational training courses by modularizing courses or alternating between school, training and work on a worksite can encourage them to pursue a training pathway best suited to their needs and abilities.
Although strong progress has been made in recent years, yet too many young people are leaving school being poorly qualified, and facing a higher risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. While it is urgent to coordinate actions between educational and non-educational actors and to find inclusive responses, several studies show that transversal skills have become unavoidable, impacting on life, academic and social success, as well as on the decline in dropping out of school. The partnership, composed of 6 organizations from 5 member countries (France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Germany) proposes to promote formative bridges by framing the methods and instruments of "learning by doing pedagogy" in the logic of the assessment and the certification of competences. Based on a revised pedagogical approach, the partnership sets the following objectives: * Create a reference framework for the assessment of competences mobilized by the Experiences of the learning by doing pedagogy, in particular the transversal competences, which are recognized as well as fundamental competences for the professional integration, citizenship and well-being of the individual (EACEA 2010-2012). * (Re) define the training paths to the evolution of the labor market and the needs of companies and territories through the methodological approach of the learning by doing pedagogy which represents an opportunity to link learning, citizenship and development of the territories * Define the learning outcomes of the training courses proposed by the project through the common European language ECVET * Support the educational achievements of young people with the contribution of representatives of the business world * Encourage and promote collaborative approaches and educational alliances aimed at reducing early school leaving at the local level The intellectual outputs committed by the partnership are: O1: Common core of transversal competences developed through the learning by doing pedagogy O2: Training course using learning by doing pedagogy approach O3: Guide to organizing and facilitating experimentation sites