The Project offers innovative solutions to foster learning process and its accessibility to inactive people in order to engage them into the civic society and labour market by upgrading their soft skills coherent with civic society and the employment-related key competences & extending and developing elderly educators’ and volunteers’ competences in the effective use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended learning approach and new role of trainer: e-mentor/educator/volunteer & Developing model, tools and strategies for Adult Education and Voluntary providers for improving the quality of training to engage and to deliver services; to use ICTs with embedded OER based on Web 2.0 tools, to support learning and social networking. Thus the project contributes to “Europe 2020” strategy to reach employment rate of 75% as well to achieve benchmark of 15% of learners’ participation in lifelong learning as defined in European agenda for adult learning. Also the project contributes to Lisbon Strategy objectives by increasing key competences for lifelong learning as the project addresses social and civic competence. The objective are: to increase inactive people’s motivation to learn for integration into civic society and the labour market using participatory approach based on self-need analysis; to equip inactive people with the skills, knowledge and competencies that they need in order to cope with challenges and remain active in the society and the labour market; to develop and test experimental educational approach based on innovative integration of e-Learning platform for e-learning process (on Moodle) with OERs for self-directed learning (on Web 2.0) for inactive people and educators/volunteers; to increase participation of inactive people in learning by developing e-mentor/educator/volunteer support – sharing dual teaching experience (educator and volunteer) services within the staff of AE and voluntary organizations; to extend and develop senior educators’ and volunteers’ competences using OERs, blended learning; to ensure wide and effective dissemination campaign at national and European levels through active involvement of project’s partners and their available networks; to ensure optimal use of the results beyond the partnership, during and beyond the lifetime of the project. The project develops, tests and evaluates two different intellectual outputs: European Training Model for Inactive People (ETMINP) & Methodological material "Educator/Volunteer/Mentor” (MEVM) simultaneously in six different European cities to foster integration of inactive people into the labour market and civic society. ETMINP is based on participatory approach, ICT-enabled solutions, OERS, blended-learning methodology. ETMINP model with complex different educational pathways will be efficient tool for equipping of both learning groups (First Group “Youth”: NEET; early school leavers, disable, unemployed young women or single mothers & Second Group “Senior volunteers”: retired educators, trainers or aged people who voluntary would like to share their own experience to young generation) with the skills they need in order to cope with the change and to foster re/integration into civic society and labour market. It consists of four online tools as Self-need analysis, OERs, Diary and Guide for learners. Piloting of ETMINP model will be done with 108 inactive people. The developed website with e-learning platform provides the open access to the learning tools. MEVM for educators and volunteers within AE and voluntary organisations will ensure the successful implementation of ETMINP model in their daily work. It will be developed consisting of interconnected methodological materials: e-Guidebook & Video set on Role model. E-Guidebook will include State of Art Review Report; introducing of innovative educational methods (participatory, blended-learning approach, OERs as attractive self-learning tool); instructions and recommendation how to use ETMINP; role of trainers as e- educator/volunteer/mentor. Piloting of the MEVM will be done with 96 educators, volunteers. Politicians, AE managers and trainers, representatives from labour services and other stakeholders from six EU countries will declare their availability to exploit these educational provision by final conference in Italy. The involvement in the local and transnational seminars of the key stakeholders of the integrated system of education, labour market and social care will contribute to the transferability of the project outcomes to their respective networks, local, national and European. The main impact on learners – inactive people is upgrading their soft skills coherent with key competences with the longer-term benefit fostering their integration into the civic society and the labour market. Therefore expected impact of the project after its lifetime is the reduction in number of inactive people by increasing the level of their soft skills and increased employment rate
With the implementation of our project we wanted to develop and offer to the public innovative solutions to foster learning process and its accessibility to inactive people in order to engage them into the civic society and labour market by upgrading their soft skills coherent with civic society and the employment-related key competences & extending and developing elderly educators’ and volunteers’ competences in the effective use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended learning approach and new role of trainer: e-mentor/educator/volunteer & Developing model, tools and strategies for Adult Education and Voluntary providers for improving the quality of training to engage and to deliver services; to use ICTs with embedded OER based on Web 2.0 tools, to support learning and social networking.
The inactive people and those from vulnerable demographic groups need to be attracted into lifelong learning opportunities, so to become an integral part of social life and the labour market. From the direct and vicarious experiences of the consortium, we know the many difficulties the educational and training organisations face in attracting vulnerable demographic groups into lifelong learning opportunities, as the data across Europe demonstrates. This presents yet another challenge to including them in solidarity communities able to avoid social exclusion and the marginalisation of an increasing number of citizens. To make them access these opportunities we need to find flexible ways to involve them in effective learning pathways, with concrete proposals, able to valorise their empirical learning and stimulate further training for enhancing their employability. Probably, as already demonstrated, teachers/trainers have to move where inactive people meet, they should be more oriented towards a mentoring approach, offering (as per their needs) blended-training proposals able to open also the access to the new technologies, one of the important weak points of inactive adults and low-skilled (in the current labour market) people.
The Project offers innovative solutions to foster learning process and its accessibility to inactive people in order to engage them into the civic society and labour market by upgrading their soft skills coherent with civic society and the employment-related key competences & extending and developing elderly educators’ and volunteers’ competences in the effective use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended learning approach and new role of trainer: e-mentor/educator/volunteer & Developing model, tools and strategies for Adult Education and Voluntary providers for improving the quality of training to engage and to deliver services; to use ICTs with embedded OER based on Web 2.0 tools, to support learning and social networking. Thus the project contributes to “Europe 2020” strategy to reach employment rate of 75% as well to achieve benchmark of 15% of learners’ participation in lifelong learning as defined in European agenda for adult learning. Also the project contributes to Lisbon Strategy objectives by increasing key competences for lifelong learning as the project addresses social and civic competence. The objective are: to increase inactive people’s motivation to learn for integration into civic society and the labour market using participatory approach based on self-need analysis; to equip inactive people with the skills, knowledge and competencies that they need in order to cope with challenges and remain active in the society and the labour market; to develop and test experimental educational approach based on innovative integration of e-Learning platform for e-learning process (on Moodle) with OERs for self-directed learning (on Web 2.0) for inactive people and educators/volunteers; to increase participation of inactive people in learning by developing e-mentor/educator/volunteer support – sharing dual teaching experience (educator and volunteer) services within the staff of AE and voluntary organizations; to extend and develop senior educators’ and volunteers’ competences using OERs, blended learning; to ensure wide and effective dissemination campaign at national and European levels through active involvement of project’s partners and their available networks; to ensure optimal use of the results beyond the partnership, during and beyond the lifetime of the project. The project develops, tests and evaluates two different intellectual outputs: European Training Model for Inactive People (ETMINP) & Methodological material "Educator/Volunteer/Mentor” (MEVM) simultaneously in six different European cities to foster integration of inactive people into the labour market and civic society. ETMINP is based on participatory approach, ICT-enabled solutions, OERS, blended-learning methodology. ETMINP model with complex different educational pathways will be efficient tool for equipping of both learning groups (First Group “Youth”: NEET; early school leavers, disable, unemployed young women or single mothers & Second Group “Senior volunteers”: retired educators, trainers or aged people who voluntary would like to share their own experience to young generation) with the skills they need in order to cope with the change and to foster re/integration into civic society and labour market. It consists of four online tools as Self-need analysis, OERs, Diary and Guide for learners. Piloting of ETMINP model will be done with 108 inactive people. The developed website with e-learning platform provides the open access to the learning tools. MEVM for educators and volunteers within AE and voluntary organisations will ensure the successful implementation of ETMINP model in their daily work. It will be developed consisting of interconnected methodological materials: e-Guidebook & Video set on Role model. E-Guidebook will include State of Art Review Report; introducing of innovative educational methods (participatory, blended-learning approach, OERs as attractive self-learning tool); instructions and recommendation how to use ETMINP; role of trainers as e- educator/volunteer/mentor. Piloting of the MEVM will be done with 96 educators, volunteers. Politicians, AE managers and trainers, representatives from labour services and other stakeholders from six EU countries will declare their availability to exploit these educational provision by final conference in Italy. The involvement in the local and transnational seminars of the key stakeholders of the integrated system of education, labour market and social care will contribute to the transferability of the project outcomes to their respective networks, local, national and European. The main impact on learners – inactive people is upgrading their soft skills coherent with key competences with the longer-term benefit fostering their integration into the civic society and the labour market. Therefore expected impact of the project after its lifetime is the reduction in number of inactive people by increasing the level of their soft skills and increased employment rate