Lifelong Learning – A Better Guarantee of Good Realization in the Labor Market Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lifelong Learning – A Better Guarantee of Good Realization in the Labor Market

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Social dialogue; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Since its inception, the impact of the European Union on our daily lives has increased. The dynamics of human relations in the Old Continent, the multicultural and multinational environment created and the innovations introduced over the last 10 years have had an impact on all age groups of societies in the Member States. Most affected by this, in the negative, remained the 40-65 age group, for whom adapting to the current news is extremely difficult. Often this causes them to drop out of the labor market at a very early working age, followed by their inability to become competitive again and find their own employment.
The municipality of Kardzhali is located directly in the border periphery with the borders of Bulgaria with Greece and Turkey. This enables the residents of the municipality to monitor the ways of overcoming the problems of the senior citizens of our border states. The general conclusion that can be drawn is that both countries have much lower unemployment rates (at 45-65 years old) and good mechanisms to support adult qualification and retraining processes, which enable better the realization of the elderly in the civil turnover and, accordingly, a higher standard of living within the age group so cited. This is the main reason for the creation of the current project concept, which is aimed at supporting the development of the elderly in the 45-65 age group, by the municipality by studying and introducing the good practices of our neighboring countries, which enables these representatives of the education and training society for the purpose of qualification and retraining, methods for carrying out communication activities, models of entrepreneurship development, ways of providing social services and activities for tourist destinations strive to provide an opportunity for adults to get closer to this European dimension.
Our aim is to encourage the older people of our community to take on the whole process of “lifelong learning – a better guarantee for a good job market.” The global objective and all project activities are aimed at adapting and qualifying the 45-65 age group to meet the current labor market needs. This will be achieved through group visits in the countries of our partners from Turkey and Greece, during which the good practices of the partners will be explored and then tested within the municipality of Kardzhali. This will be implemented through thematic training courses targeted entirely at the target group, which will be provided free of charge to 50/100 people from the municipality, who are registered with the regional Labor Office and / or experience difficulty or inability to fulfill their work responsibilities. At the same time, together with our partners, we will launch a number of thematic initiatives related to the return of immigrants and the potential they bring; services that can reach the aging population, with an emphasis on supporting an independent lifestyle.
The acquisition of social skills and rapid adaptation in the community is one of the areas in our municipality that needs rapid change. It is very important for us to be able to adapt to the needs and models of new age learning by the aging generation, enabling them to be sustainable and competitive in the labor market. The idea embodies these changes in the way of thinking, behavior and communication of adults (45-65 years old), through adequate awareness of development opportunities in our municipality, through the sharing of good practices by our partners who have made significant progress and experience in this direction.
The realization of this idea will provide an opportunity for building a sustainable partnership network between organizations from the three countries, which will provide additional adult training courses for the formation of professional skills and the desire for continuous development and learning. Through the content, teaching methods and tools included in the planned project activities, we will provide the target group with the opportunity to:
– to update and upgrade their teaching / training skills for the benefit of both trainers and trainees, acquiring useful, original and effective practices from the perspective of another EU / Europe country, especially in the areas of environmental sustainability and social inclusion ;
– acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of transformative training to promote the environmental, social and economic sustainability and valorisation of countries’ cultural and natural heritage;
– gain access to new perspectives on adult learning by offering them the opportunity to reflect and analyze their own sets of tools and approaches regarding the use of foreign good practices;
– improve knowledge of a foreign language.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 252592 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION PERPEREK VALLEY & Country: BG

Project Partners

• EDİRNE BELEDİYE BAŞKANLIĞI
• SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON
• Acces Association Calarasi