The Smart Educational Projects Association wanted to implement this international project in order to improve the skills of the trainers in the fields identified as deficient for our organization. The implementation at European level was necessary to live up to the European standards in the field of adult education. The project has 3 objectives: O1) The acquisition by 3 SEP trainers of new skills and competences in the field of conflict management in order to integrate this topic into the training activities. O2) Acquiring competences in the field of social inclusion by understanding and accepting cultural diversity for 3 SEP trainers, in order to implement them in organization´s trainings. O3) Improvement of the competences for developing the courses for adults for 3 trainers of the organization that will lead to the increase of the quality of the trainings offered by SEP. We aimed to increase the capacity of trainers to develop more attractive trainings dedicated to adult education, by introducing inclusive practices as a result of a better understanding and acceptance of cultural diversity, by streamlining communication, preventing and managing conflicts.
We have implemented this project to empower our trainers with new skills to help improve the training activities offered to adults by our organization. The identification of the competences that we wanted to develop was made following a SWOT analysis applied to the Smart Educational Projects Association. The areas that our organization needs to improve in order to respond to the new challenges in the field of adult education have been identified. The 3 areas identified and included in the European Development Plan of our organization are: more attractive trainings for adults; introducing inclusive practices in training activities by developing the communication capacity in an intercultural environment and understanding cultural diversity; increasing the capacity for understanding and managing conflicts. We opted for trainings at European level because we want to offer our students trainings at the level of European standards. We also want to be permanently connected to the trends in the field of adult education at European level.