The project aimed to create online resources enabling adult learning organisations to use family learning as a tool against dropout and minimal participation, as well as a marketing tool enabling them to reach out to more learners.
Due to the lifelong learning requirements of modern life, working parents are often asked to return to education and training. However, returning to the classroom often clashes with their family obligations, leading the learners to minimal participation or even dropping out. Researching the problem on the OECD statistics platform, the Kalamata Second Chance School and Areadne Lifelong Learning Centre found out that in mediterranean countries "Childcare and family responsibilities" was by far the most significant barrier to adult education and learning participation(https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=79325), something that also seems aligned to perceived cultural attitudes towards children upbringing and family upkeeping in these areas (e.g. a reluctancy to leave children with a "stranger" and a preferance towards activating the grandparents or having a parent, usually the mother, stay home in the respectivecountries). Hence, the questions was: How can we help our learners who are also parents participate more in adult education? And how can we do it without asking them to leave their families for even more training / coaching, etc ?