4ever 2gether Erasmus Project

Project Title

4ever 2gether

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The European project, Erasmus + “4ever 2gether”, is a project aimed at promoting the exchange of good practices for the social and labour market inclusion of young adults at risk of social exclusion. This project will run for 24 months and will involve five European partners: CPEPA Cuenca Minera (Spain), CURIO (Netherlands), Seinäjoen koulutuskuntayhtymä (Finland), FONDAZIONE MONDO DIGITALE (Italy) and Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board (Ireland).

All partners have identified a common need i.e. that there are many young people at risk of social exclusion in our areas due to a lack of academic training. This project will focus on helping our students with their social inclusion through lifelong learning in adult education as a second chance to become active citizens. In order to achieve this goal successfully, we will also count on in this context of work with external partners from institutions that work directly with this profile of students as social workers, psychologists, youth institutions all of whom will help us by acting as a link and support mechanism during the whole project.

The three pillars or general objectives on which this project is based are, first of all, to know, learn and apply motivation strategies and educational guidance for young people between 18 and 30 years old who may have difficulties (academic, social, personal and work related) that do not allow them to develop adequately in their local environment. Secondly, to know, learn and apply new active work methodologies that will allow students to maintain a positive attitude towards their studies and consequently towards an active and productive life thus showing them all the possibilities that adult education offers them through individualized training itineraries. The third pillar that supports the project is to know, learn and apply techniques on how to reach the young adult population, to bring the school closer to the society in order to build an open and accessible school for all by promoting the participation of local entities that actively collaborate in the project. This is one of the strongest points of the project: to be able to establish relationships that are maintained over time and allow to join the efforts of all the different agents involved in the achievement of a common objective: the social inclusion of young people at risk of exclusion.

The project deliverables will be carried out through regular communication between teachers, students, collaborators from the external associations and the inspiring figures, called “mentors” in the project. Materials will be developed using a digital platform where everything developed during the project will be stored, as well as the drafts, studies carried out and evaluations of the results of the implementation of these studies.

The application of the active methodologies will be carried out in “open classrooms”, where teachers, mentors, students and external collaborators will work in a collaborative way. The project will conclude with two European mobilities involving students where knowledge and exchange of ideas, problems and solutions will be strengthened.

The ultimate aim of the exchange of good practices between the European partners will be to learn from each other and to be able to experiment with similar problems, presenting different points of view to try to solve them, reaching, as far as possible, a consensus on them. Likewise, the partners will share and be enriched by the cultural aspects of each country, promoting European and global citizenship and promoting the use of languages.
The results and long-term benefits expected from the development of this project are

– To improve our educational practice thanks to the professional enrichment that we will obtain from this exchange of good practices and from sharing our strengths and weaknesses.
– To strengthen ties with nearby institutions to continue collaborating and working together in the future with the aim of helping the social inclusion of those who need it most. This work will lay the foundations for collaborations that will be maintained over time and even extend the collaboration networks to other institutions.
– To learn techniques for guidance, motivation and creation of individualized learning paths that we will put into practice and constantly evaluate in order to improve them.
– To have more young students between 18 and 30 years old in our classrooms who obtain successful results in their academic training and, above all, feel motivated to continue with this training.
– To make other adult education centres and institutions that work with young people aware of the work in order they can benefit from the results to put them into practice. We hope that the impact of the project will go beyond our institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85440 Eur

Project Coordinator

CPEPA Cuenca Minera & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Stichting ROC West-Brabant
• Seinäjoen koulutuskuntayhtymä
• Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board
• FONDAZIONE MONDO DIGITALE
• Oz-Officine Zero Società Cooperativa a responsabilità limitata.