The “SAVE - Social Added Value of Employability” project was designed to fully achieve the goals of the horizontal objective "common values, civic commitment and participation", through innovative training interventions for adults with low schooling, in order to trigger a virtuous circle between formal and informal education on the issues of global citizenship and social inclusion. Low schooling is one of the main socio-demographic negative variables linked to inclusion behaviors and global citizenship. In particular, adults with a low schooling level are a target at risk of radicalization, given that the crossing of those two data (age and school level) can easily lead to hate and xenophobia phenomena, especially in the present digital age where a basic literacy is fundamental to be able to recognize fake-news and participate positively in the community. Most initiatives to promote common values and intercultural skills, carried out by the project partners and more generally in Europe, have so far focused on a target of young people mostly with reference to the formal education system, while very little has been done for a target of adults. Therefore, another project’s objective is to improve the training offer’s quality provided by Training agencies for adults with low skills/qualification. Such improvement will be achieved adding to the training courses a transversal dimension of inclusion values and active citizenship, represented by the subject of global citizenship. The SAVE project refers to 2 main priorities of the Erasmus Plus Program: 1) HORIZONTAL - Common values, civic engagement and participation; 2) ADULT EDUCATION - Improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults. Hitherward, the project will provide teachers (and other professionals involved in the planning and delivery of training activities), with a User Manual of the SAVE educational model (IO3) and an assessment toolkit (IO2), in order to convey teaching methods in line with the new needs. Third Sector Bodies will be involved together with training agencies, to structure educational paths not only based on skills and knowledge, but also aimed at raising awareness towards universally shared needs and values, with a view to corporate responsibility. The project partnership boasts an extensive experience in European projects’ design/management and in planning professional training courses and initiatives based on global citizenship and social inclusion. The partners of SAVE project are: Solco Srl (IT) Head of Management/Administration and IO1’s leading partner; CEMEA del Mezzogiorno (IT) responsible for Impact and Dissemination, supporting partner to IO1; Association Odyssée (FR) responsible for Communication, supporting partner to IO3; Akademie Klausenhof (DE) responsible for Sustainability and leading partner for IO3; University of Celije (SL) responsible for Internal Product Evaluation and leading partner for IO2; CRIA (ES) responsible for the project’s Quality and supporting partner to IO1. The outcomes produced by the partnership, within 3 IOs, will offer: a Methodology Vademecum (IO1) which will contain the guidelines of potential activities and contents related to global citizenship, to be integrated into the training courses offered by the training agencies working with adults; a Qualitative-Quantitative Assessment Toolkit (IO2) which will help teachers/trainers to analyze the skills developed in the offered training courses and the relevance of those skills in the training courses enhanced with the global citizenship/social inclusion topics; a User Manual for the SAVE education model (IO3), drawn after testing a training module containing the project’s results, aimed at being shared and integrated with the training offers and methodologies applied by the training agencies at local, national and European levels, able to guarantee added value to the target group (teachers) and a positive effects for the final and potential beneficiaries. Finally, an important operational segment of the process will be the dissemination and sustainability of the results. In order to involve the largest possible number of potential users of the User Manual for the SAVE education model, many and diverse forms of external communication will be used to increase the impact both in the partner countries and throughout all Europe. The goal is to create products (to be translated in the 5 languages of the partnership) that can be interesting for a large number of people for their innovation, free use, European dimension and immediate usability.
The final objective of the SAVE project is to focus on the issues of inclusion and active citizenship in adults, which stems from the observation that, especially in cases of low schooling, there is higher probability of radicalisation, with particular reference to phenomena of hatred, xenophobia and criminal behaviour. The project operates with innovative training interventions for adults with low schooling to trigger a virtuous circle between formal and informal education on global citizenship and social inclusion issues. The orientation activities focus thanks to the co-presence of two main dimensions: the first is an economic key, which focuses on learning as a key lever to improve the chances of entering or re-entering the labour market; the second key is dedicated to social inclusion, which allows the development of active citizenship skills, common values, and inclusiveness, so that each individual can become the bearer of those characteristics that support interculturality. The innovativeness of the SAVE project, which unites all the 3 IOs, consists in the approach itself: lifelong learning is not only reduced to an economic/professional dimension, but invests in active citizenship and inclusion competences.
“SAVE - Social Added Value of Employability” project was designed to fully achieve the goals of the horizontal objective "common values, civic commitment and participation", through innovative training interventions for adults with low schooling, in order to trigger a virtuous circle between formal and informal education on the issues of global citizenship and social inclusion. Low schooling is one of the main socio-demographic negative variables linked to inclusion behaviors and global citizenship. In particular, adults with a low schooling level are a target at risk of radicalization, given that the crossing of those two data (age and school level) can easily lead to hate and xenophobia phenomena, especially in the present digital age where a basic literacy is fundamental to be able to recognize fake-news and participate positively in the community. The SAVE project refers to 2 main priorities of the Erasmus Plus Program: 1) HORIZONTAL - Common values, civic engagement and participation; 2) ADULT EDUCATION - Improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults.