The main goal of the project is to improve the competences of the adult education staff participating in the project and to exchange good practices regarding models of educational support for adults with low key skills. The basic skills, in addition to fluency in reading, writing and understanding text, and mathematical reasoning to the extent that allows you to navigate in the modern world, includes the ability to use digital technology. In addition, personal, social and civic competences are becoming increasingly important. The Polish Qualifications Framework defines social competences as "the ability to shape one's own development and to participate autonomously and responsibly in professional and social life, taking into account the ethical context of one's conduct". The problem of low key skills is a global problem and is reflected not only in relation to work, but it is also much broader, serious social problem. The consequences of this phenomenon are present in almost all areas of life. The project is directed to employees - adult education staff working with and for people with low key competences. As a result of expansion and development competences of educators and other employees supporting adult learners, the partners participating in the project will expand the scope and increase the quality of services provided. As a result of project implementation, access to and quality of the educational offer for adults with low key skills, i.e. recipients of activities of all partners, will improve among folowing partners of the project: Federation of Social Organizations of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship FOS (Poland) USE - Universidade Sénior de Évora - Associação de aprendizagem ao Longo da vida (Portugal) Gulbenes novada pasvaldiba (Latvia) Polregio e.V. (Germany) Asociatia Jugendzentrum Seligstadt (Romania) Under the project, each partner will organize short-term joint staff training to share good practices, methodology and work tools, discuss and design new tools and create a pilot, self-organizing local groups that will continue their work after the project is completed. Each training will be attended by 2 people from each partner = 10 people x 5 trainings = 50 mobility. As part of the project, there will be also organized international project meetings in which 2 representatives of each partner x 5 partners x 2 meetings = 20 mobility will participate. The project will also create a publication - a guide to the good practices of each partner and a set of tools for creating self-organizing groups. Indirect recipients of the project will also be local communities, participants of dissemination activities, decision-makers, organizations and institutions that will become familiar with the publication. Main project results: 1) increase of knowledge and competence of the management, employees specializing in work with / for people with low key skills, at risk of exclusion socially discriminated and marginalized; 2) improving the quality and scope of the educational services provided; 3) establishing international cooperation in combating social exclusion; 4) developing assumptions for training programs and learning processes of organizations supporting people with low key competences; 5) improving the quality of functioning of entities operating in the field of education and social inclusion; 6) developing the competences of partners' employees in the field of transnational cooperation and strengthening linguistic competences; 7) development of international cooperation, expansion of the network of contacts and establishment of new partnerships, including future project partnerships. Project assumptions could not be implemented without international cooperation. Establishing a partnership is an added value for all partners involved, in the long run it will help strengthen its members in the areas indicated in the project, allow exchange of experience and strengthen the scope and results of the project. The partnership is also a response to the ongoing global social changes and the need to search for new solutions and work tools in other EU countries. Duration of the project: 24 months.
The main objective of the project was to improve the competences of the adult education staff participating in the project and to exchange good practices regarding models of educational support for adults with low key skills.
The problem of low key skills is a global problem and is reflected not only in connection with professional work, but is also a much broader, serious social problem. The consequences of this phenomenon are present in almost all areas of life. This is highlighted by the Council of the European Union in its Recommendation on supporting low-skilled adults. These people are at higher risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, their health is at greater risk, their life expectancy is lower, while their children are at higher risk of underachieving in school. The difficult situation related to the global COVID-19 epidemic, the collapse of the economies of many countries, the growing unemployment rate in the world, the increasing sense of isolation of the inhabitants of many countries mean that access to the educational offer, improvement of the quality of services provided to people who are excluded or at risk of social exclusion is even more important. Hence the need for constant and systematic search for new ways of working with people with low basic competences and raising the qualifications of adult education staff.