Motivating Low-Skilled Adults in Accessing Upskilling Pathways to Increase Job Opportunities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Motivating Low-Skilled Adults in Accessing Upskilling Pathways to Increase Job Opportunities

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

MOTIV-ACTION is a strategic partnership composed of 11 organizations from 9 countries (BE, BG, EL, ES, FR, IT, LV, PT, SWE) that aims at providing a comprehensive strategy for creating new career opportunities for unemployed adults through a strategy that aims at increasing the provision of digital guidance services. The MOTIV-ACTION consortium is composed by a European alliance of Adult Education Centers and Confederations, Employment Centers and Agencies, Career Guidance and Counselling operators, Public Authorities active in providing Employment services and national and international networks.
MOTIV-ACTION will design, develop and test a methodological toolkit (that will be exploited in form of e-book, audiobook and skills for adult learners and in form of e-book and MOOC for adult educators/employment counsellors) that will support the uptake of a digital, open and multichanneling approach to career guidance, fostering the creation of a stronger dialogue between unemployed adults and career counselors/adult educators.

Thanks to our approach, we will respond to the mentioned KA204 priorities by:
– supporting unemployed adults – in particular those with low skills and qualifications – in finding new guidance and motivation pathways, built on an increase of their career management skills (IO1), thanks to the creation of a set of digital tools that will foster their self-awareness and understanding of what options they have for entering new learning or career opportunities.
– extending the competences and tools of employment counsellors, career guidance and and adult education providers, providing them with new innovative digital solutions that could enrich the methods they use for providing support to unemployed adults in finding new learning and job opportunities.

These objectives will be reached thanks to the following set of outputs, that will be realized and made available for free by all partners:
IO1 – E-Coach Course and Skillset for Adult Learners and Guidance Operators – The IO1 will produce a set of didactic materials (in form of e-book, audio-book and MOOC) that will support both unemployed adults with low skills and qualifications and educators or guidance counselors in increasing the uptake of digital tools for providing guidance services. The output will also introduce a series of good practices and storytelling from all Europe, that will be included in the e-books and on the project website
IO2 – Exploitation Guidelines for Users and Educators – This IO aims to validate the toolkit and the methodology created during IO1, thanks to two consistent pilot programs that will be conducted in all partners countries and the realization of two guidelines’ documents (one for adult education center/employment agencies, the other for adult users) that will support the inclusion and exploitation of the project methodology in Europe. The Output will be implemented through a cross-fertilization and co-design process among partners from various European countries,that will represent an added value that will allow the spread of an e-guidance culture at European level.
IO3- MOTIV-ACTION Strategic Action Plan – The final output will consist in the exploitation strategy, that will allow the creation of a handbook addressed both at policy-makers and provider level, with a series of recommendations that will address both national and European needs and favor the creation of National Alliances for the adoption of the MOTIV-ACTION methodology.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 351040 Eur

Project Coordinator

IGITEGO & Country: SE

Project Partners

• ROMA CAPITALE
• INSUP FORMATION
• MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT ORGANISATION
• Latvijas Karjeras attistibas atbalsta asociacija
• E.RI.FO.-ENTE DI RICERCA E FORMAZIONE
• FONDATSIYA NA BIZNESA ZA OBRAZOVANI
• Association “IT World BG”