LEARNING HELPING: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF ADULT PERSONS THROUGH VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEARNING HELPING: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF ADULT PERSONS THROUGH VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The project “LEARNING HELPING: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF ADULT PERSONS THROUGH VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING” builds on the experience gathered since 2017, when a strategic association was created to promote a new method of learning for adults based on encouraging users to achieve educational objectives as a means to develop useful volunteering and promote the social inclusion of migrant and/or refugee adults.

However, the learning of adults who try to become volunteers or achieve full inclusion in the host country does not just need digital educational tools and training courses in which the user receives information and knowledge, but also innovative learning to develop their competences while putting them into practice to help those who need it most. They need an adapted LEARNING BY DOING methodology to learn, so we propose an innovative training methodology consistent with the official curriculum for adult learning, where users learn formal contents through digital volunteering that places them in appealing situations and motivates them to learn as they also promote the inclusion of other students and themselves. They will learn by doing, through unique and unforgettable experiences (translating letters of refugees, helping NGOs…).

To achieve this, we propose a methodology that can be implemented through the Intellectual Output O1 – “LEARNING BY DOING, LEARNING HELPING: METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE FOR COLLABORATIVE AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING BASED ON DIGITAL VOLUNTEERING”, a guide that will develop an innovative digital volunteering methodology for the inclusion and learning of adults with barriers through a motivating and attractive LEARNING BY DOING process, which generates learning in couples of two students of a similar educational level but with very different life experiences (for example, a migrant adult with one born in a Europe) that will promote the learning of both through mutual aid, based on the modern “PEER TUTORING” methodology.

Along with the Intellectual Output, we will develop the tangible result “VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING LAB: LEARNING BY DOING, LEARNING HELPING”, a digital environment that will facilitate the implementation of the O1 through specific tools to create a transnational and effective educative experience. From the creation of user profiles used to make compatible virtual study pairs, to the management of a collaborative volunteer program between adult education centers and NGOs, going through a learning certification system, virtual communication tools (messaging, file sharing…), and a toolbox that collects the materials generated by other users, the VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING LAB will help you understand what to do. In this digital space, the adult students themselves will generate itineraries or routes through which the student will carry out digital volunteering activities that allow them to develop their educational skills through the educational methodologies developed in the guide.

To create these results (along many other tangible and structural results), an intersectorial and complementary European network has been gathered, with entities expert in the creation of educational materials for groups at risk of exclusion such as REDTREE (Spain) and ELEN (France-Europe), an entity expert in computer programming and ICTs for learning, SMALLCODES (Italy), adult education centers integrated in the GRETA DU VELAY network (France), also adult volunteer entities that work directly with migrants and refugees to enhance their social inclusion, like AJMV (Spain) and GENERAZIONE ZERO (Italy). The participation of the organization that manages one of the refugee camps in Lesvos and develops adult training services is especially noteworthy: LESVOS SOLIDARITY (Greece), who will ensures a major impact on the target groups, and contributes significantly to the inclusion of these persons who have left everything they had to flee from war, hunger, or poverty.

Experts, teachers, and members of the partner entities from the beneficiary groups will develop, for 24 months and in 4 Transnational Meetings (Spain, Italy, France, and Greece), activities to create results, virtual meetings, pilot tests, many dissemination activities, and two major Multiplier Events (Valencia and Lesbos – Greece) that will have the participation of more than 185 multipliers in total.

Thanks to this project, we hope to achieve a significant impact on the training processes of adults, but which will also have a great impact on achieving a more inclusive society, aware of the issues of refugees and migrants.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147005 Eur

Project Coordinator

REDTREE MAKING PROJECTS COOP. V & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Generazione Zero
• European Language Equality Network
• ASOCIACIÓN DE JÓVENES MUSULMANES EN VALENCIA
• Smallcodes srl
• Lesvos Solidarity
• LYCEE CHARLES ET ADRIEN DUPUY