MOTIV-ACTION is a strategic partnership composed of 11 organizations from 9 countries (BE, BG, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, PT, SWE) that aims at providing a comprehensive strategy for creating new career opportunities for unemployed adults through a strategy that aims at increasing the provision of digital guidance services. The MOTIV-ACTION consortium is composed by a European alliance of Adult Education Centers and Confederations, Employment Centers and Agencies, Career Guidance and Counselling operators, Public Authorities active in providing Employment services and national and international networks. MOTIV-ACTION will design, develop and test a methodological toolkit (that will be exploited in form of e-book, audiobook and skills for adult learners and in form of e-book and MOOC for adult educators/employment counsellors) that will support the uptake of a digital, open and multichanneling approach to career guidance, fostering the creation of a stronger dialogue between unemployed adults and career counselors/adult educators. Thanks to our approach, we will respond to the mentioned KA204 priorities by: - supporting unemployed adults - in particular those with low skills and qualifications - in finding new guidance and motivation pathways, built on an increase of their career management skills (IO1), thanks to the creation of a set of digital tools that will foster their self-awareness and understanding of what options they have for entering new learning or career opportunities. - extending the competences and tools of employment counsellors, career guidance and and adult education providers, providing them with new innovative digital solutions that could enrich the methods they use for providing support to unemployed adults in finding new learning and job opportunities. These objectives will be reached thanks to the following set of outputs, that will be realized and made available for free by all partners: IO1 - E-Coach Course and Skillset for Adult Learners and Guidance Operators - The IO1 will produce a set of didactic materials (in form of e-book, audio-book and MOOC) that will support both unemployed adults with low skills and qualifications and educators or guidance counselors in increasing the uptake of digital tools for providing guidance services. The output will also introduce a series of good practices and storytelling from all Europe, that will be included in the e-books and on the project website IO2 - Exploitation Guidelines for Users and Educators - This IO aims to validate the toolkit and the methodology created during IO1, thanks to two consistent pilot programs that will be conducted in all partners countries and the realization of two guidelines' documents (one for adult education center/employment agencies, the other for adult users) that will support the inclusion and exploitation of the project methodology in Europe. The Output will be implemented through a cross-fertilization and co-design process among partners from various European countries,that will represent an added value that will allow the spread of an e-guidance culture at European level. IO3- MOTIV-ACTION Strategic Action Plan - The final output will consist in the exploitation strategy, that will allow the creation of a handbook addressed both at policy-makers and provider level, with a series of recommendations that will address both national and European needs and favor the creation of National Alliances for the adoption of the MOTIV-ACTION methodology.
The MOTIV-ACTION consortium has been built in order to: a) ensure the representativeness of all Adult Education stakeholders; b) guarantee a wide geographical representativeness and the strongest European added value possible; c) foster the exchange of expertise and know-how between organizations with different knowledge of Erasmus+ KA2 programmes MOTIV-ACTION reached this objectives thanks to a comprehensive action which will support users who are looking for new employment opportunities in becoming more independent in understanding how to valorize their own profile, identifying their strengths and turning their weaknesses into new points of departure for an effective upskilling process. This will lead to an improved relation with the employment service/job orientation center. Within this context, knowledge and skills are the bricks that must be combined together for working towards a new job or qualification. Within this process, a user who is able to understand how to get involved in his/her own local community will have a stronger possibility to succeed, finding new opportunities both at national and international level.
The Motiv-Action partnership had the objective of supporting adult users who are looking for new job opportunities in making a better use of digital tools and devices. The main goal was to make digitalization the more inclusive and sustainable as possible. We did so, by focusing on a set of needs and objectives: • Making underrepresented groups count in any phase of the project realization: both when realizing didactic contents and when designing the pilot process • Constantly taking into account and addressing the needs of the poorest as well as the most vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women, refugees and people with disabilities. • Making digital technologies open and responsible Thanks to such approach, we plan to reach our objectives in an effective way, realizing a set of products that really matter both for counsellors, educators, and users + their communities.