A major concern regarding adult education is tackling unemployment and raising the adult participation rate in learning, particularly of low-qualified adults, older citizens and people vulnerable to social exclusion (Cedefop, 2015). Moreover, adult education supports greater social mobility and equalizes societies. Adult learning brings together people from different walks and stages of life. This benefits democracy and social peace (European Association for the Education of Adults, 2019). Throughout Europe, a large number of institutions, public or private, provide adult education. These include formal, non-formal and informal education and training institutions, chambers, trade unions, organisations, associations and many more. On the other hand, most of the education providers do not understand diversity or are not able to determine individual learning needs of their learners. To practice inclusion of learners, adult education providers need to adapt their curricula and their learning opportunities to vulnerable adults. Furthermore, adult educators also need to be empowered to work with vulnerable learners. The CONSIDER project aims at enhancing the quality of adult training services through cultivating the inclusion culture in adult learning organisations at managerial and training level. The adoption of techniques, methodologies and tools that facilitate equal access and successful implementation of adult training programmes transform the organisations into vehicles of inclusion of vulnerable groups that otherwise would be socially excluded or marginalised. The project will produce training and support tools for management and adult trainers of training organisations, which will support inclusion of all learners, regardless of their social/economic background, their age, their sex or their cognitive capabilities. The general objectives of the project are: - to support adult learning organisations for becoming more inclusive - to facilitate the outreach and access of adult education for disadvantaged members of society and - to promote inclusion and active engagement of all learners in adult education The specific objectives of the project are: - to set the Quality Framework of an inclusive training organisation from managerial to training - to design an assessment tool for the management of adult training organisations and an assessment tool for trainers of adults - To design e-learning courses for managers and adult trainers on how to promote inclusion in their organisations Target group of CONSIDER project are managers of adult training organisations, adult trainers, other personnel who support adult learning. CONSIDER project will include 3 Intellectual outputs: O1 Quality framework for inclusion of adult learning organisations O2 Assessment tools for inclusion including an self-assessment tool for managers /training institutions as far as inclusion practices are concerned and another self-assessment tool for the use of trainers O3 E-learning courses for "Promoting inclusion in adult learning organisations" and for "Inclusive adult learning methods and practices" . The project will also include a short training of trainers event in Germany and multiplier events in France, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Slovakia. IFRTS, a French Institute in the areas of Training and Research in Social Work, Medico Social and Health is the project applicant. Partners are IDEC, a Greek adult learning and consultancy institution, ASTRA, a regional development agency in Slovakia, VHS CHAM a no-profit German organisation providing language training and VET to vulnerable learners, Eurocultura an Italian non profit organisation providing counseling and training to vulnerable groups aiming at their insertion in the labour market and INOVA, the leading Portuguese company for promotion of innovation and social development and assistance to third countries in these fields. Partners will contribute with their diverse expertise and experience to the quality, plurality, adequacy, transferability and fullness of CONSIDER project results.
The general objectives of the project were to: *support adult learning organizations to become more inclusive *facilitate awareness and access to adult education for disadvantaged members of society *promote inclusion and active engagement of all learners in adult education The specific objectives of the project were to: *establish a quality framework for an inclusive training organization from management to training *design an evaluation tool for the management of adult training organizations and an evaluation tool for adult trainers *design online courses for managers and adult trainers on how to promote inclusion in their organizations.
The European demand for increasing participation in adult learning still remains a challenge that should be addressed. Most education providers do not understand diversity or are not able to determine individual learning needs of their learners. To promote the inclusion of learners, it is necessary to support them in adapting their curricula and learning opportunities to vulnerable adult populations. The CONSIDER project aims to promote the inclusivity of adult learning organizations, to facilitate access to education for people with fewer opportunities, and to promote the active inclusion of all learners by developing resources for adult education stakeholders.