"Level Up!" is a project focused on analyzing good practices related to non-formal education of adults in 3 European countries: Poland, Latvia and Spain. The analysis is to concern the development of methods of systematic improvement of trainers (trainers) for adults (increasing the quality, extension of the offer) and adaptation of the training content to participants with low professional skills and with specific needs. The analysis of training systems targeted at adults in terms of non-formal education is to take place in particular to a group of people from the NEET group (not learning, not working, not involved in raising their competences and qualifications). The following will be analyzed: ways of reaching individual groups, diversification of training methods, preparation and support of trainers, evaluation in the educational process and long-term effects of training. The project will start with the preparation of documentation and a thorough analysis of the subject of the study. An analysis process and results that researchers want to achieve through conducting it will be prepared. Next, the team will focus on preparing analysis among the community using previously selected institutions. The methods will be interviews, questionnaires, in-depth interviews with selected groups. The methods used will be identical in all countries. Then the material will be analyzed and diagnosed. The presented problems will be divided according to their respective categories. Then consultations will be conducted with the community of these places and focus groups with selected experts in the field corresponding to the study. The result of this phase should be recommendations of changes in given places with their impact. The project lasts 24 months during which 7 international meetings will be held, including 3 on the exchange of good practices. Each meeting will gather 12 participants from partner countries. The result of the project will be the publication of good coaching practices based on the partners' own experience. The long-term sustainability of the project will be ensured through a comprehensive database of key stakeholder contacts. This will enable the project to move to the next development phase, which will be a continuation of the practical use of collected good practices by trainers, teachers, social workers etc. The website and other internet networks will continue to allow communication of all future opportunities, work and research as well as participation in future events. Our project in numbers: - min. 12 experts involved in the work on the project in our 3 organisations. - 12 learners involved in the project directly and around 30 indirectly interested thanks to best practice sharing - 12 completed evaluation questionnaires at each stage of the project - 5 other institutions willing to cooperate with project partners - 10 new trainers willing to use the program and methods we will create in their future work (min. 2 at the level of a partner organization) - using new curricula for trainers.
Project Level up bring benefits for: 1) participants: - by introducing elements of critical thinking of trainers and people involved in designing the training process (SWOT analyses, brainstorming) - increase the participants' awareness of creating a good educational environment (presentation of best practices) - create more professional Trainers/teachers and managers and more competent in educating adults, - the wider horizon of educational tools, motivational factors, and performance in the learning process for students and staff, - better awareness of behavior related to tolerant, discriminatory, and anti-discrimination procedures - more self-confident and tolerant of other cultures and educational environments 2) organizations: - exchange with each other, partners able to adapt their educational offer to the real needs of adults, - increase participation in the adult education programs of the participating organizations and their staff (target group), - introduce at least one new intercultural or different way in their existing adult courses by each participating organization and its employees, - exchange and compare information and review how best practices are applied in each country.
The project emerged from a real need for the PL, LV, and ESP organizations to internationalize and look for solutions to common challenges. The Level up project was of strategic importance to the consortium participants and aimed at: a) to increase the partners' capacity for international cooperation and to analyze their own capacities by and in relation to the external environment; b) to develop the competence of the organizations and their own staff to cooperate in adult education and to learn about other methods and forms of work; c) to expand possible contacts and learn about good national and international practices; d) to gain experience and expand the dimension of practical solutions; e) to activate the members of the organizations and the cooperating institutions from the partner countries through involvement in the activities. The Level up project was focused on an exchange of best practices, broadening the knowledge about partners and the scope of their activities from the EU perspective. By it, consortium members wanted to expand their experience, the acquisition of new international connections, and the practical and theoretical knowledge of the local conditions of activation and education of adults