BoB as a Bait – Better Adult Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

BoB as a Bait – Better Adult 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The idea around BoB as a Better Training Tool or BABBAT, is based on the fact that we need to rethink education and try to encourage adults of all ages to use the educational opportunities that are to be found all around us in Europe.
Number of reports have showed that despite of many different efforts and projects the involvement of low-skilled and low-qualified persons who are in the strong need of improving, upgrading their skills is still low.
The most important approach here is to shift focus from the group to the individual, from the formal to more informal. This means that we must equip people with the skills to be more self-sufficient and find methods to attract them to different types of learning. People also must learn to trust themselves to have the strength, motivation to learn new things and with proper support to use the resources that are within their reach, like the IT, entrepreneurial tools and the Net.
This project, BABBAT is about designing better methods in the field of adult training created around fine tool called BoB aimed at the 2 main target groups, adult trainers and low skilled people.
The main object is to create interesting, simple adult training tools, BoB as a Bait adapted to the needs of low skilled adults.
Thus, our project is addressing several objectives:
1. Extending and developing the competencies of educators and other personnel who support adult learners (105 of them will be involved in total during the testing process + 28 adult educators during 2 learning activities in Spain and Greece);
2. Improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of low-skilled or low-qualified adults (at least 105 of them will be involved in focus groups and piloting of the project outputs);
3. To prepare interesting psychical publications in 8 languages to motivate low skilled and low qualified people to take part in lifelong learning;
In order to achieve those objectives the consortium of 7 European partners (from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain and Iceland) have joined their forces into a 2 year project to tackle this issues and contribute with their experience and knowledge to create the main outputs of the project:
1.O1 Adult 2 Adult – Creating training modulus and Textbook for adults’ trainers online.
2.O2 BoB as a Bait 1 – How to Use BoB as a tool in adult training. Creating training modulus and a textbook.
3.O3 BoB as a Bait 2. – How to recruit low skilled adults into lifelong learning – Marketing and Motivation publication.
Project deliverables will be achieved as a result of 5 transnational project partners‘ meetings, 2 joint staff learning events, 2 big international conferences in Czech Republic and Lithuania (with 200 participants and 6 low skilled adults brought by partners), 5 local dissemination seminars (with 125 participants). Each partners’ meeting will be devoted for only for administrative project matters and discussions on project outputs, but also inviting adult trainers, meeting low skilled adults and asking them – how can we improve our work methods to get greater involvement of the target groups into learning process and improve their entrepreneurial, IT skills which would ensure their greater inclusion into labour market.
The project results, the learning obtained in LTTAs will be tested during the piloting process with the main target groups in 7 European countries:
1. Adult educators, trainers (after the LTTA in Spain);
2. Low skilled and low qualified adult learners (after LTTA in Greece);
The created outputs are expected to provide adult trainers around Europe the tools to attract more low skilled adults into their training (through collected good practice examples, methods of work –IO1), encouraging them not to drop the chosen learning path (through created marketing tools – IO3) as well as to develop their entrepreneurial competences (using BoB – IO2) and IT skills (to use online platforms for learning).
The created outputs will be free of charge and shared on EPALE platform, Erasmus+ Results Platform partners’ websites and project website and dissemination activities planned within the frames of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 254613 Eur

Project Coordinator

Skref fyrir Skref ehf / Step by step & Country: IS

Project Partners

• EKO Gymnazium Stredni odborna skola Multimedialnich studii
• Tenerife Job Training S.L.
• BIZNESA MAKSLAS UN TECHNOLOGIJU AUGSTSKOLA RISEBA
• EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS
• VsI Zmogiskuju istekliu stebesenos ir pletros biuras
• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE