Online Educational Escape Rooms to Re-engage ESLs and NEETs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Online Educational Escape Rooms to Re-engage ESLs and NEETs

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The Inclusion from NEETs combined with to fight youth unemployment is one of the key cornerstones of EU policy. The fact that these youths and young adults are outside of education, employment and training for long times can have major economic consequences in the future. In addition to economic risks, however, there are also individual risks for these young people, such as feelings of estrangement, insecurity and poor employment perspectives, youth crime, and mental and physical health problems. Therefore, the project “NEET-SYSTEM Online Educational Escape Rooms to Re-engage ESLs and NEETs” had mainly focus on the participants who fall under 2 key target group categories: (1) NEETs to build the key competences necessary to enable and supporting them to assist their reintegration to education or employment. (2) Adult education professionals trying to attract NEETs back to education and training. However, other stakeholders, such as NGOs, researchers, policy makers, adult education institutions, etc. can directly or indirectly benefits from the project’s deliverables. During the project period were reached direct (attending the discussions, workshops, presentations, conferences) between 100-200 NEETs and Adult education professionals per country. Indirect there were over 11 000 people following the news and results thorough social media or by publishing articles and Newsletters.
From the national and transnational perspective, the NEET-SYSTEM-Consortium of 8 European countries and Switzerland has developed, piloted and implemented a multi-faceted and robust pedagogical model. Therefore, providing a suite of education materials to educator’s professionals and youth workers across Europe, there is significant potential for our approach – to re-engaging NEETs in education or employment – to be transferred to a range of contexts across the EU. Learning resources have been created, based on online escape rooms addressing the following 4 key competences: Digital competence; Social and civic competence; Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; Cultural awareness and expression. As a result, a series of 32 Escape Rooms are available on the online learning platform https://www.neet-system.eu/en/learning-portal/the-game/:language/en. For the adult education professionals who are charged with delivering and sustaining this new intervention NEET-SYSTEM-Consortium has developed a comprehensive in-service training program to support them in using these new resources but also developing key skills to enable them create new challenges in the future. The proposed pedagogical model can also have a significant impact on future policy development in education. Therefore, all results were summarized in a policy paper specifically for policy makers. All developed resources are available online in 7 partner languages on website https://www.neet-system.eu/. The materials are available to share freely online, to access without issues with copyright or fees, and to re-use or re-purpose as it required by Adult education professionals.

Project Website

http://www.neet-system.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257548,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Jugendförderverein Parchim/Lübz e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Lancaster and Morecambe College
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• Centrum Ksztalcenia Edukator Sp. z o.o.
• Hub Karelia Oy
• AKLUB CENTRUM VZDELAVANI A PORADENSTVI
• Ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih Dante