The objectives of this project have been: - Create upskilling pathways, improving accessibility, and increasing take-up of adult education ; - Support for adult educators with an attractive, practical, and innovative methodology promoting high quality in adult education institutions; - Create a better cooperation between educational institutions and companies for a better understanding of the needs of the labor market in the area of soft skills and digital competences; - Develop a methodology for mentoring and training programs focused on learning digital competencies for adults; - To encourage a real support to adult educators with an attractive, practical and innovative approach; - Train mentors who know how to understand soft skills, skills, preferences for job functions, learning styles and are able to teach digital skills in an attractive way so that they can articulate them to improve the employability of adults; - To achieve progress in the development of transversal skills in the digital area for a successful transition to the adult labor market.
The European Commission's initiative "A New Skills Agenda for Europe" and the recommendation "Skills Upgrading Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults" recognized the urgency of the problem of low digital skills among adults in enterprises. MENTORING CHANGE started from the idea of supporting adult educators with an innovative mentoring methodology, focusing on digital competences from a soft skills point of view to foster the inclusion and employability of digitally disadvantaged working adults. The need for the development of transversal competences for a successful transition to the labour market in adults was a need that the project addressed through the point of view of the labour market situation in five European countries ( Cyprus, Spain, Greece,Ireland,Germany) and very different from each other but with the same gap to be solved. The project served as a support to help implement tutoring/mentoring and the promotion of high quality educational services in adult education institutions and companies.The need for the promotion of digital competences from new approaches and innovative teaching methods and based on entrepreneurship in education and mentoring programmes was addressed.