PROMOTING FINANCIAL, DIGITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCES FOR VULNERABLE ADULTS (WOMEN) WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE DIGITALISED MARKET (HOME BASED) – FINE2WORK Erasmus Project

Project Title

PROMOTING FINANCIAL, DIGITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCES FOR VULNERABLE ADULTS (WOMEN) WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE DIGITALISED MARKET (HOME BASED) – FINE2WORK

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: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The expanding use of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers for work at home and elsewhere is rapidly transforming the traditional model of work. It can improve work-life balance, reduce commuting time, and boost productivity.
Research (EUROSTAT 2017) has shown that there is a stable increasing of adults working from home. More specifically, the percentage of employed persons aged 15 to 64 in the EU who usually work from home stood at 5.0% in 2017. In the EU, more self-employed persons usually worked from home (18.1%) than employees (2.8%). The frequency of working from home increases with age which indicates the necessity of adults and seniors to remain in the skill force. Only 1.6% of 15- 24 year-olds in the EU usually worked from home in 2017, rising to 4.7% of 25-49 year-olds and 6.4% of 50-64 year-olds.
Further to the above, research has shown that a slightly higher proportion of women in the EU usually worked from home (5.3%) than men (4.7%). Work is a determining factor of gender equality and women’s economic independence, but also important for the entire economy. Women’s employment patterns are tightly connected to motherhood.
Similarly another category of adults which favours working from home is the group of adults with disabilities. Over 15 % of employed people with disabilities worked from home in 2011, compared to 13 % of those with no disability irrespective of which of the two definitions of disability is used.

Based on the above the project targets adults who for various reasons have restricted access to the labour market. Through the project the consortium aims to reach out:
– Adults, especially women, who for family reasons (newly born babies, cultural norms, family reasons etc.) cannot take a F/T employment
– Adults with health-related conditions or some form of disability (with basic disability – seeing, hearing, walking, communicating or who are limited in the work they can do because of a longstanding health problem and/or a basic activity difficulty – LHPAD)
– Adults, senior citizens or unemployed people who want to re-entre the labour market working on flexible terms.
The indirect target group is adult educators whose profiles will be upgraded and strengthened through the professional development programme to be developed to acquire the essential skills to support, guide and train the above groups of adults using on-line and of-line opportunities.

The project aims to provide adults with a three stage upskilling pathway programme to acquire, develop, assess and validate a set of essential competences (financial, digital and entrepreneurial) to be able to meet the needs of working remotely. The development of the project is based on: audit skills screening of current skills acquisition, intervention through on/off line upskilling opportunities for LLL (e.g F2F training, e-learning, provision of MOOCs, workshops, setting up of the FINE2WORK REMOTELY HUB) and external assessment-validation of the newly acquired competences in a non-formal learning setting.
These will be achieved through the on-line assessment tool to be designed based on the ecosystem of the OPEN BADGES and the FINE2WORK Competence Framework with inbuilt benchmarks and indicators for measuring adults’’ knowledge and skills (skills identification screening and on-going progress). The Open Badges offer the basis on which the assessment, recognition and validation of the financial and entrepreneurial skills acquired through the HUBS to be organised will be achieved.

Project Website

https://fine2work.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145307,2 Eur

Project Coordinator

PROJECT NET & Country: LV

Project Partners

• RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd
• Descularte – Associaçao Promotora de Projetos para a comunidade