Seniors’ Learning Value Erasmus Project

Project Title

Seniors’ Learning Value

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

“Who trains in small and medium enterprises: characteristics, needs and way to support” [Cedefop 2015] highlighted how the trainers received little attention in the company and how their potential as multipliers on increasing the participation and quality of the VET offer remains untapped. The number of different standards of competence required for CVET trainers, together with the heterogeneity of corporate training approaches, limit the transnational mobility of the Trainer profile, reducing the opportunities for growth of these professions.
SEniors Learning Value aims to design and test new ways of recruiting and training trainers and mentors among senior workers, who can thereby develop skills and competences according to a personalized learning pathway. The profile of Senior Learning Facilitator can be used both in the organisations from which they come (e.g. for apprenticeship in companies) as well as in other contexts that make use of work based learning (VET Providers, Territorial Research Centres, Competence Centres, etc.).
The SEAL project is aimed at leveraging the capital of know-how represented by senior workers, with very advanced levels of technical skills that can facilitate learning processes at work.
The project includes following main actions:
– the definition of a European framework of competences for the SLF
– an open access online platform where tools for self-assessment of learning facilitator capacity will be available, together with teaching aids for the improvement of SLF training, guidance tools on how to activate work-based learning experiences
– pilot training activities, together with the activation of learning paths dedicated to 80 senior workers
The project brings together different approaches that aim at a common objective: the development of individualised training pathways, through access to MOOC and Open Educational Resources available from previous Erasmus + projects; interventions for the application in a work context of the skills learned from SLFs. The SEAL project foresees the realization of workshop activities in which the SLFs and the trainers designated by the project partners will participate, together with other stakeholders and policy makers active at local, national and European level in the definition and monitoring of work-based learning processes.
A robust phase of stakeholder engagement and conslutation will accompany all phases of the project to validate the project results, ensuring their sustainability and immediate transferability into VET Provider management systems and facilitating dialogue with work-based learning systems.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 372496 Eur

Project Coordinator

SISTEMI FORMATIVI CONFINDUSTRIA SCPA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• Uczelnia Korczaka
• CIS SCUOLA PER LA GESTIONE D’IMPRESA SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA
• ARGO di Donda Andrea e C. snc
• GIP FIPAG