Basic Skills and Family Learning – an integrated approach to help adults re-engage with learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Basic Skills and Family Learning – an integrated approach to help adults re-engage with learning

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In the context of the project every single activity got an extremely important contribution at the level of partnership and led to the achievement of wider benefits of family learning. The ”starting point” of the FamSkill project was based on the challenge of basic skills which was one of the main topics on the New Skills Agenda launched by the European Commission. In the background of the FamSkill project was carried out a genuine research on the ”educational stage” of reading and writing skills, as well as numeracy and digital skills. It was identified a major risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion in the profile of low skilled adults. Thus, there was an urgent need to address family learning as an alternative positive model approach to help adults to re-engage with learning. The participation in the education system and in basic skills programmes was even lower than expected. In this way, a solid partnership with extensive knowledge in European projects had been identified. The AHEM (Turkey) as the coordinator of the project together with the COMU (Turkey), CPIP (Romania), DOCUMENTA (Spain), CIK Trebnje (Slovenia) and MANKO (Poland) worked intensively for 2 years in a permanent collaboration to achieve all the objectives of the FamSkill project.
The main objectives of the FamSkill project were to:
– contribute to the upskilling of adult’s basic skills;
– increase capacity of relevant stakeholders (schools, NGO’s, other educational organisation) to support and promote the implementation of family learning programmes;
– provide evidence and example of good practice for the decision making process.
The objectives mentioned above were met in an extremely useful way based on the content and materials developed for all three Intellectual Outputs. The undertaken activities required the involvement of representatives from the main target group of the FamSkill project. The profile of the participants involved in the activities of the project met all the necessary requirements.
Below are mentioned the activities in which the low skilled adults, schools and education practitioners, decision makers were involved:
– Intellectual Output 1 ”Inquiry on perceptions and perspectives towards family learning”: participation in the completion of the feedback questionnaire, interview grid and focus group session.
– Intellectual Output 2 ”Family learning curriculum”: participation in the development of the content for the training curriculum based on Bloom’s Taxonomy model on three main dimensions: ICT skills, numeracy, reading and writing. It required feedback and content analysis to fit the ”missing” learning needs.
– Intellectual Output 3 ”Resource pack for parents and educators” : participation in the development of content for the Guide for parents and Guide for educators. Based on the feedback received regularly from the representatives of the target groups (educators and parents) there were created extremely useful learning and teaching materials.
– interactive platform to support family learning and foster a collaborative online environment as part of the IO3: participation in the choice of design and structure to be easier for those interested in using the platform.
In terms of number and type/profile of participants the consortium took into account all the necessary requirements. In this way, the main following numbers were achieved during the lifetime of the FamSkill project:
– 2 staff members from every partner organization;
– a total number of 327 participants in the implementation of the IO1 (as stated in every national report);
– a total number of 104 educators and at least 150 adults who participated in the pilot training activities (as stated in every national report);
– a total number of 157 participants in total who attended the raising awareness workshops organised by the AHEM, CPIP, MANKO, CIK Trebnje and DOCUMENTA (as stated in the national report and list of participants for the ”Raising awareness workshop” – ME);
– 10-15 trained trainers who took part in the staff training activity.
The most visible impact was seen at the level of:
– own organization and internal systems. There was an increased capacity of staff to support and promote family learning, but also to support low skilled adults.
– direct target group representatives involved in the main undertaken activities (parents, low skilled adults);
– organisations (schools, educational centers) selected to participate in the pilot training activities;
– key actors and stakeholders by providing them with a comprehensive methodology and resources to enhance family learning;
– decision making process at local, national and European levels by providing strong and reliable evidence for further policy making in the field;
– final beneficiaries by improving their access to relevant adult learning provision.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221141,74 Eur

Project Coordinator

ADIYAMAN HALK EGITIMI MERKEZI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• CENTER ZA IZOBRAZEVANJE IN KULTURO TREBNJE JAVNI ZAVOD
• CANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITESI
• ASOCIACION INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE ESTUDIOS PARA LA FORMACION Y EL DESARROLLO
• Stowarzyszenie MANKO
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA