The project addresses the lack of a comprehensive learning program to help adults in developing a developing a cocktail of skills needed by any worker in the current labour market and those specific set of abilities needed by self-employed people, small contractors or micro-entrepreneurs with a special focus on gig economy. The innovation is based on the possibility for adults to learn at the same time different employability skills that are usually spread over several programs or courses: entrepreneurial skills, communication skills, ICT skills, management, organization or financial literacy…
The necessity for acquiring those skills is pushing adult education providers to find new ways to offer training and services more relevant to the world of work and contribute more actively to increase employability skills in adults that are facing socio economic challenges related to their poor digital skills. In particular, the 4 partners in the project are willing to learn more about it, to create a self-employment program to encourage 50+ year old adults to create their job opportunity in this new trending labour market segment. The partners aim at preparing a set of micro-courses on specific competences connected with the gig economy to help unemployed adults in acquiring a cocktail of employability skills needed to re-enter in the actual labour marker with a particular focus on the GIG ECONOMY, as flexibility, time management, task orientation, communication skills, digital abilities, problem solving among the other called XXI century competences (https://www.oecd.org). By working together in the project, the partners want to enlarge their offer and add a new specific service tailored to help unemployed adults in develop better digital and employability skills to take advantage of this flexible and booming work setting.