Fast changing educational market makes competitiveness of learning centers, economies and individuals dependent from knowledge and innovation. In this group innovation is generated based on experience-based skills and informal processes. It results from experience related to the crisis situation generated that will follow the Covid-19 pandemics episode. That requires availability of skilled teaching and training methods, organizational problems and lack of innovation expertise are main barriers to innovation. Obtaining innovation in this sector requires training and up- skilled staff, support for innovation in learning process and knowledge transfer. Innovation skills allow to generate innovation capacities of educational/teaching/training/development centers and continuously identify innovation opportunities by allowing their trainers to contribute to innovation, decreases risk of redundancy and increase employability. While ensuring trainers engagement across functions is crucial for educational and trainings innovation, low-skilled trainers presents significant lack of innovation understanding and skills. In preparatory phase study of the project, educational and training centers shows that 65% of their trainers doesn't recognize importance of innovation in scope of their activity. Cross-referencing specific questions allowed to define that the reason lies in 2 principal issues suggested by the lack of understanding of innovation, especially incorrect association of innovation with high-tech industry and assigning innovation activity exclusively to this educational and training centers. To fill the skills and knowledge gaps, the project aims at to build awareness of trainers and teachers of importance of innovation and related skills for their professional growth and employability, providing trainers with understanding how to contribute to innovation and innovation skills, developing innovative mindset and building awareness of educational and training centers of importance of building innovation capacities among them and how to integrate them in the learning processes. The innovation methods that will be applied in the content of the learning process will be ensured by 2 rules : 1) The Black mirror rule: the trainer have the more options from where to choose how to carrying out the training programme in an interactive way, from stage to stage, from user to user; 2) Breaking the fourth wall method where the methods applied by trainer are analyzed by specialists (in the teaching way, special techniques used for keep the participants in the process, how he used hid=s resources, public speaking or emotion management). To realize the objectives the project will provide open user oriented skills development path in innovation area that will allow in time and cost effective way provide low skilled trainers and educational and training centers with innovation skills. It specifically aims at up skilled low-skilled trainers from educational and training centers. By development, test and delivery of targeted methodology and integrated online digital tools, it aims specifically at increasing the supply of high quality skills development programs in innovation area that will suit individual needs of low skilled trainers or teachers across Europe, facilitate their access to up skeilled pathways in innovation area and increase the training poll with innovation capacities. Considering fast changing innovation in educational environment, ensuring integration of state of the art knowledge, diversified practical experience and their transfer across boarders is crucial to provide solution with expected impact, by ensuring strong synergies and relevant knowledge inclusion. Inclusion of international partners is specifically crucial not-only for providing a comprehensive base of knowledge, experience and different visions, but to ensure inclusion of less developed EU regions in transfer of state of the art innovation practices and increasing the innovative methods applied in the learning process.
The main goal of the project was to develop specific trainer's competences in how they have to act, teach and training in a neuro-linguistic way and how can they improve their knowledge and gain self-esteem through digital exercises which imitate the reality. All this could be possible through an e-learning program where they can update the information gain from the manual and the practical life through augmented reality. The main points that could be reflected through this project are: 1. the trainers understanding of topics in question and their beliefs, 2. trainer's awareness of their behavior and choices of words, 3. improving knowledge on perceptual position.
The project started from a need identified in practice by trainers 'how to achieve training by putting yourself in the place of the learners without becoming a learner". By giving the ability to make choices and define an accurate frame trainers developed specific competences in how they have to act, teach and train in a neuro-linguistic way. Also give them the opportunity for a constant improving of themselves, through gaining experiences and knowledge how to gain self-esteem by doing digital exercises who imitate the reality. The e-leaning tool give them access to update their methods related to their needs and the type of training that they are holding. The results of the project are added value resources for the trainers who are working in the field of lifelong learning where exchange of knowledge, culture, field and level of education are all in the same room.