The project aimed to support local learning environments and promote social inclusion by encouraging local learning centres to work together in order to motivate and enable adults of all ages to learn the key competences necessary to be resilient and adaptable in the face of change and uncertainty. In order to achieve this, the project had the specific objective to develop three interconnected products: TEACH RESILIENCE; PRACTICE RESILIENCE and EMPOWER RESILIENCE. In this way we wanted to contribute to improving the personal, social and learning to learn competences of adult people by addressing the following aspects of this competence: coping with uncertainty and complexity and supporting one’s physical and emotional wellbeing. The project also aimed to contribute to improving the competences of educators and other adult education staff, specifically in the field of training adult people to be resilient and adaptable in the face of uncertainty. Last but not least we aimed at empowering the staff of local learning centres to promote and provide resilience trainings.
Adult people in general, but in particular vulnerable groups need to start prioritizing taking care of their own physical and mental health. They also need to learn how to be resilient, including: coping, self-efficacy, social and emotional learning. According to the European Association for Education of Adults, improving resilience means reducing the dependence of individuals on market conditions and increasing their potential to navigate through life and professional transitions. Local learning centres and their trainers and staff need to address the demand for such trainings, but also to be able to raise awareness about the need of improving coping skills of adults. Such trainings are available mainly in English and at a level often not for beginners. While adult people, not highly educated and especially from vulnerable groups do not have access to practical and easy tools to develop their resilience. With the project we have addressed the need for building resilience of adult people and including resilience as a training topic in adult learning provision.