Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The ASIDE project intends to support inclusive education and digital skills, improving the competences in digital social inclusion of social educators and social volunteers.
Our project addresses social inclusion through the definition of a portfolio of basic digital competences that are necessary for developing ICT-based social inclusion initiatives/services.

More precisely, our project aims to:
a) foster social inclusion improving the competences of social educators and social volunteers engaged in designing/implementing social inclusion initiative/projects (Priority: Social inclusion).
b) enhance the support, participation, and learning activities of social educators and social volunteers engaged in inclusive education and digital social practices (Priority: Extending and developing educators’ competences).
c) improve social inclusions through digital innovation practices, innovative ICT-based methods and pedagogies, as well as online participatory models, where appropriate (Priority: Open education and innovative practices in a digital era).

This project will foster synergies with researchers and professionals through the exchange of good practices between partners engaged in social inclusion activities.

Taking into account the EU priorities as well as the priorities of participating countries, the ASIDE project is in line with the 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda’s priority areas:
1. Strengthening the links between education, research, and social educators’ professionalization (third sector).
2. Extending and developing competences that can growth social inclusion
3. Using open and innovative practices based on digital social inclusion , namely the use of technology to satisfy social inclusion needs.
Needs

The main addressed needs are:
• enhancing social inclusion improving professional competences of social educators and social volunteers in a topical sector such as digital social inclusion and in the use of technology for social inclusion practices;
• educators empowerment in the use of online educational processes.
We underline that, nowadays, the empowerment in the use of online educational processes is crucial. The current literature shows that the new technologies can be relevant in social inclusion programs since they reduce the mobility and give the opportunity of personalized inclusion paths. Nevertheless, the use of new technologies requires specific and structured competences.

Target groups
Social educators, more precisely social educator students and social educators engaged in volunteer activities or employed in social services institutions/organizations, are our main target group.
Our project also involves other target groups:
– Vulnerable social groups
– Social services
– Educational institutions
– Associations that support social inclusions

Transnational motivation
The ASIDE Strategic Partnership is motivated by the following main factors:
– Social inclusion, special education, social services, and social inclusion go beyond national borders
– social inclusion and professional use of new technologies are European goals that need a transnational approach
– our projects wants to contribute to achieve a European objective: creating new operative curricula through the active and responsible involvement of researchers and practitioners

Project Website

http://aside.inbie.pl

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 45075 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACJA INSTYTUT BADAN I INNOWACJI W EDUKACJI & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ITC International Training centre s.r.o.
• FUNDACION UNIVERSITAT JAUME I-EMPRESA
• Saricam Halk Egitimi Merkezi