Key skills – new opportunities for adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Key skills – new opportunities for adults

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main goal of the project is to improve the competences of the adult education staff participating in the project and to exchange good practices regarding models of educational support for adults with low key skills.

The basic skills, in addition to fluency in reading, writing and understanding text, and mathematical reasoning to the extent that allows you to navigate in the modern world, includes the ability to use digital technology. In addition, personal, social and civic competences are becoming increasingly important.
The Polish Qualifications Framework defines social competences as “the ability to shape one’s own development and to participate autonomously and responsibly in professional and social life, taking into account the ethical context of one’s conduct”.

The problem of low key skills is a global problem and is reflected not only in relation to work, but it is also much broader, serious social problem. The consequences of this phenomenon are present in almost all areas of life.

The project is directed to employees – adult education staff working with and for people with low key competences. As a result of expansion and development
competences of educators and other employees supporting adult learners, the partners participating in the project will expand the scope and increase the quality of services provided.
As a result of project implementation, access to and quality of the educational offer for adults with low key skills, i.e. recipients of activities of all partners, will improve among
folowing partners of the project:

Federation of Social Organizations of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship FOS (Poland)
USE – Universidade Sénior de Évora – Associação de aprendizagem ao Longo da vida (Portugal)
Gulbenes novada pasvaldiba (Latvia)
Polregio e.V. (Germany)
Asociatia Jugendzentrum Seligstadt (Romania)

Under the project, each partner will organize short-term joint staff training to share good practices, methodology and work tools, discuss and design new tools and create a pilot, self-organizing local groups that will continue their work after the project is completed. Each training will be attended by 2 people from each partner = 10 people x 5 trainings = 50 mobility.

As part of the project, there will be also organized international project meetings in which 2 representatives of each partner x 5 partners x 2 meetings = 20 mobility will participate.

The project will also create a publication – a guide to the good practices of each partner and a set of tools for creating self-organizing groups.
Indirect recipients of the project will also be local communities, participants of dissemination activities, decision-makers, organizations and institutions that will become familiar with the publication.

Main project results:
1) increase of knowledge and competence of the management, employees specializing in work with / for people with low key skills, at risk of exclusion
socially discriminated and marginalized;
2) improving the quality and scope of the educational services provided;
3) establishing international cooperation in combating social exclusion;
4) developing assumptions for training programs and learning processes of organizations supporting people with low key competences;
5) improving the quality of functioning of entities operating in the field of education and social inclusion;
6) developing the competences of partners’ employees in the field of transnational cooperation and strengthening linguistic competences;
7) development of international cooperation, expansion of the network of contacts and establishment of new partnerships, including future project partnerships.

Project assumptions could not be implemented without international cooperation. Establishing a partnership is an added value for all partners involved, in the long run it will help strengthen its members in the areas indicated in the project, allow exchange of experience and strengthen the scope and results of the project. The partnership is also a response to the ongoing global social changes and the need to search for new solutions and work tools in other EU countries.

Duration of the project: 24 months.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89060 Eur

Project Coordinator

Federacja Organizacji Socjalnych Wojewodztwa Warminsko-Mazurskiego FOSa & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Asociatia Jugendzentrum Seligstadt
• USE – Universidade Sénior de Évora – Associação de aprendizagem ao Longo da vida
• Gulbenes novada pasvaldiba
• Polregio e.V.