Narrative educational resources for socio professionnal inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Narrative educational resources for socio professionnal inclusion

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The project falls within the framework for the fight against unemployment and exclusion. It is based on the principle that a lever, of a more equitable and effective social and occupational integration, is based on a better understanding of socio-economic environments by people responsible for socioprofessional inclusion (SPI), but also on a better knowledge of psychosocial phenomena in connection with social and professional exclusion and the world of work.

The general objective is to overcome the lack of effective, open-source educational resources to help people affected by socio-professional exclusion. Through these new resources and their proper implementation methods, we have promoted effective use by the targeted stakeholders working with the socio-professional integration of beneficiaries in different EU contexts.
The project aims to allow the creation and use of open educational resources (OER), to the attention of actors whose mission is the social and professional inclusion (SPI) of precarious people.
We postulate that learning using specific biographical narratives are strongly recommended in order to achieve some complex levels of learning (learning of cognitive strategies, of synthesis, of analysis, of relations between different principles) and to develop a critical thinking.

The project has implemented activities in order to create OER. An initial survey has allowed an analysis of different national structures dealing with SPI, job profiles and training profiles of SPI worker, and needs assessment. A web platform has allowed practitionner to share their work and ressources (OERs and surveys). IO activities has leaded to create OER : Local activities for collect and build stories, transnational activities of scientific and pedagogical resources production (including indexing of it), implementation and testing of OER in different educational contexts.
Two joint staff trainings has allowed partners to share their knowledge in order to execute the OER production tasks.

The project involve 8 partners from 8 countries: 2 universities (Vytautas Magnus University, LT and Loughborough University, UK), a HE school (WSBINOZ, PL), a SPI operator/training center (Perspectives, BE), a training center for trainer (ELC, ES), an association specialized in digital storytelling (MeP, IT), an association of academic staff member specialised in pedagogy of science using narrative methodologies (Research Paths, EL) and an organisation specialised in SPI analysis and training of SPI worker (Transfer, FR)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194142 Eur

Project Coordinator

PERSPECTIVES & Country: BE

Project Partners

• European Learning Centre
• MELTING PRO LEARNING SOCIETA COOPERATIVA
• RESEARCH PATHS ETAIREIA EREYNAS
• WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
• LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
• VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS
• TRANSFER