Qualified basic skills training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Qualified basic skills training

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: Recognition, transparency, certification; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Basic skills have an impact on all aspects of daily life, from school to employment and from health care to social life. We have seen this very specific during the “corona” crises, in terms of understanding given advices and regulations, to master digital tools, to decide if information in media and social media is true or false etc.

Basic skills also effects work life and duration of employment shows that literacy difficulties limit individual capabilities, reduce productivity and prevent innovation. Recent research shows that adults with poor literacy and numeracy skills are less likely than more highly skilled adults to engage in education programs designed to improve their skills.

The percentage of low-skilled jobs in the EU is expected to decrease by nearly 30 % between 2015 and 2025 (Cedefop, 2016). This means that today’s jobs require better skills and more education since the future the workplace will become even more basic skills dependent.

The educator is the most important factor to create quality in adult training and education. Today there are no formal regulations in the partner countries regarding adult education. Almost anyone can enter a classroom and teach basic skills. The project will work to improve quality assurance of adult learning and better track the progress of adult learners, by develop criteria’s for transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications for educators.

From our preparatory work, we see that trainers/teachers in adult education need new approaches and tools, adapted to today’s situation, for training of important basic and literacy skills, as well of better integrate digital learning and digital transformation in education. Lack of certification to qualify teachers for such training provides very varied dividends for students.

Projects preparatory work also shows that adult learning activities mostly are non-formal and most Basic skills training is conducted in a technical way, focusing on the teaching topic its self instead of how it integrates with life and work challenges. This highlights a need to revitalize the content, the curriculum, of offered basic skill teaching.

In order to deal with those challenges, the project aims to
– Create updated curriculum for concrete skills like Numeracy, Oral communication, Critical thinking, Digital skills, literacy and Media literacy with adjusted content meeting the real needs.
– Create a powerful methodology package with learning modules, tools and guidelines to support basic skills teachers and trainers
– Create certification criteria for trainers in order for lifelong training centres to certify their staff in using developed materiel.
– Create assessment tools to certify educators within basic skills training as developed in this project.

Each partner will conduct a pilot of basic skills training, where the developed methodology package and certification tools will be tested in all countries. The partners will cover various professional aspects of basic skills training (ex ICT, media literacy, numeracy) which overall cover a multitude of opportunities.

As a result of the project, the adult educators will have much better quality in their basic skills. training and teaching. The positive effects of training will likely motivate more adults to undertake training.

In order to achieve longer term benefits, the project’s methodology is centered around a close cooperation with all stakeholders, such as governmental education institutions, employer and employee organizations and business sector. The professional network of the project partners aims to create a network where one reaches as many potential companies/participants/students as possible in a given region, and show how it is possible to work together in order to improve the quality of basic skills training and teaching.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186600 Eur

Project Coordinator

Prios Kompetanse AS & Country: NO

Project Partners

• FONIX AS
• Innovation Frontiers IKE
• VALUEME LTD
• OLEMISEN BALANSSIA RY
• ASOCIATIA EDULIFELONG
• Trabzon İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü