Augmented Basic Skills for Social Cohesion and Welfare Erasmus Project

Project Title

Augmented Basic Skills for Social Cohesion and Welfare

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

Project Summary

Life-long learning is one of the most important subject of European Agenda. People always want to improve their living conditions during their life span. One of the best way to reach that target is to get new skills and competences. It can be done in many different ways. In today’s conditions, distance learning is an effective way of doing this. We live in a world today where using digital technologies has become a necessity. In normal circumstances, it is not a prefarable practice to fit learning into limited time and physical environments or to set an end for learning. Because, education is widely accepted as the process of nurturing the personality of individuals and investment in human resources constantly. Education involves the creation of behavioral changes in current learning, not only in the case of formal education, but also in non formal and informal education. It could be explained as “Lifelong Learning” in two words. The Project was prepared and realized according to the abovemetioned philosophy. During the project different types of organizations came together and cooperated not only to produce distance learning outputs but also to organize local and international activities for adults from disadvantaged social groups in order to support them with the basic skills needed for social life and social cohesion. It was thought at the beginning of the Project planning that there were some problems which the target groups facing continually in daily life. In this respect, during the Project local and international activities were organized and realized with people from local neighbourhood to develop basic skills with the help of seminars, meetings, training sessions and distance learning opportunities.
With project activities and outputs, on personal level the learners had the chance to raise their self- confidence by developing their basic skills and competences for social cohesion and welfare. They had the opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and competences with activites and the distance training videos made under the titles of family life, healty living, social life and communication. The participants had also chances to improve their language skills during the Project. They saw the similarities and differences among the cultures, people and ways of living. Developed knowledge, good manners, social skills and competence to contribute to social welfare and harmony, improved attitudes, understanding and trait for self-actualization needs, developed democratic life consciousness for individual and social development and to contribute to social change, increased awareness of European values, equal and accessible opportunities for basic social skills, developed digital competencies were the prominent effects of the project observed on the target groups.
The social changes brought by the globalization have taken social relations to international dimensions. For this reason, the Project had the partnership at international level. In addition, the international partnership supported mutual exchanges for educational cooperation at international level, removed obstacles, encouraged innovation in education and contributed to common educational policy areas. The methodology were based on the idea of experiential learning. A variety of training methods were used such as case studies, demos, lectures, brainstorming, sharing experiences, small groups, simulations, practice by doing, teaching others, group discussions, thinking time, exercises, PPT presentations to reach the target groups in a diverse manner.
At end of the project duration 29 training videos were created under the titles of family life, healty living, social life and communication. The partners also produced the project short movie which includes and express the main idea of the Project itself. The outputs could be used not only by EU citizens but also by people who are from different countries of the world because of the structure of them. Also the training videos were prepared in both in English and Turkish. It helped to increase the number of the people that the Project adressed and targeted. The modules will be active for years and the number of the beneficiaries will be dublicated in years.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112298 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sincan Halk Egitim Merkezi ve ASO & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITATEA OVIDIUS DIN CONSTANTA
• EducaLife Egitim, Danismanlik, Proje, Spor, Tercumanlik, Turizm ve Seyahat Ltd.Sti.
• MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
• STI Holland
• Stowarzyszenie Zalasowian
• EurokeyCommunity