NGO Nest Berlin aimed to fill the organizational gaps identified as barriers to more effective communication and training, ensuring outreach to a broader audience of disadvantaged adult targets, migrant NEETs, living in the metropolitan area of Berlin. NEST Berlin planned to target all the abovementioned key areas and identified needs by achieving the following objectives in its European Development Plan frame. Internal reflection within the organization let emerge the necessity of integrating new methodological capacities in the use of Blended Learning and Digital Storytelling methods as a means of addressing the needs of the organization in the development of the quality and outreach of its activities: 1) Developing staff (Trainers) competencies regarding environmental education and organizational capacities in the use of Blended Learning as an instrument of enhancing the involvement in green skills and effectiveness of learning with the specific target audience of Adult learners with migrant and NEET backgrounds, who would like to be integrated into the labour market. 2) Developing staff (Trainers) competencies and organizational capacities in using Digital Storytelling as a tool for fostering social inclusion as well as employability empowerment with the specific target audience of Adult learners with migrant and NEET backgrounds, who would like to be integrated into the labour market as well as in the local community. 3) Developing staff (Social Media) competencies and organizational capacities in using new methods of communication, especially on social media to share the experience of the internal staff facilitating the positive multiplier factors among an audience of Adult learners with migrant and NEET backgrounds.
DEV SKILLS project was based on an internal SWOT analysis of the organization NGO NEST Berlin which identified a skill gap which was crucial to enhance staff member's competence in order to reach a wider audience of disadvantaged adult targets living in the metropolitan area of Berlin, specifically the target group of adult migrant NEETs. After careful research of the methodological offers the board agreed to aim for two of the critical European best practices which could be exploited in the frame of Non-Formal Education: the Blended Learning and the Digital Storytelling. By means of Blended Learning and Digital Storytelling four main goals were achieved: 1. Blended Learning allowed Nest Trainers to develop efficient and proper environmental education offer for adult migrant NEETs aimed at including them in the labour market. 2. Digital Storytelling allowed Nest's Social Media staff in promoting the organization's educational offer for adult migrant NEETs in a more appealing perspective. 3. Digital Storytelling allowed Nest Trainers to support social inclusion in the community of adult migrants enabling them to communicate with the community with tools that overthrow linguistic barriers. 4. Digital Storytelling provided an added value for the employability programmes because of its professional feature.