BASIC ECONOMIC TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN ADULTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

BASIC ECONOMIC TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN ADULTS

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues)

Project Summary

The focus of this E + project proposal “We make Europe’s citizens financially fit (BASIC ECONOMIC TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN ADULTS)” are two topics and goals:

1) HORIZONTAL: Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences
2) ADULT EDUCATION: Improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults

The following project activities are planned to achieve the project goals:

A) Development of 4 INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
This project proposal focuses on the development and implementation of 4 intellectual outputs
1. E-learning platform (web-based learning/blended learning)
2. training program for low-skilled or low-qualified persons (to increase the professional qualification)
3. Training program for their supervisors (to increase pedagogical competence)
4. and a professional journal (target group specific journal).

B) CONTENTS of the four outputs to be developed are the following topics:
– Assets (investment objectives, interest, savings, opportunities and risks)
– Financing (real estate, loans, leasing)
– types of insurance and contributions
– Liquidity (budget, revenue-expenditure-bill)
– bank account (How does a bank account work?)
– (retirement) precaution (pensions, private pension)
– “Must have” insurances (liability insurance, special saving forms)
All outputs will be available online for at least 4 years after completion of the project.

It should be noted that all project results are significantly different from other adult education courses (eg EBCL – European Business Competence Licence);
Issues of the EBCL (eg accounting, cost accounting, company key figures and commercial law) are NOT found in this project.

C) Implementation of 4 cross-border PROJECT MEETINGS (twice a year):
Destinations: Germany, Sweden, Greece and Turkey
Program: Project Management Group (Budget, Dissemination, Evaluation, Sustainable use) and expert group (development of 4 innovative outputs, implementation of a cross-border expert group)
Participants: 1 project manager and 1 expert per project partner
D) The following additional activities are planned:
– Development of a project website (project history incl. documentation)
– facebook group: “We make our citizens financially fit”
– 2 project newsletters: in the respective project partner languages ​​and ENG
– Each project employee participates at one regional educational event (dissemination of the results in spring 2021)
E) Implementation of a SHORT-TERM JOINT STAFF TRAINING:
Objective: staff training to use the 4 developed innovative outputs (IO1 – IO4)
Participants: 2 employees per project partner
Place/Date: Vicenza/IT in April 2021
F) Implementation of 7 multiplier events in all project partner regions
Objective: regional dissemination of all project results and Outcomes among stakeholders
Participants: relevant actors / multipliers in adult education
Dates: May 2021
G) Establishment of a cross-border EXPERT GROUP
Objective: Exchange of advisory documents, mutual collegial advice
Participants: Employees of the project partners and the stakeholders
H) Preparation and implementation of an EVALUATION CONCEPT
a) Product evaluation: testing of individual outputs by employees
and project participants
b) Process evaluation: Monitoring of the project process through regular emails or
Skype conferences

IN ADDITION ALL 8 PROJECT PARTNERS HAVE AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING TASKS:
1. Participation in 4 transnational project meetings
2. Participation in the 3-day short-term joint staff training in Vicenza / IT
3. Translation of all project-relevant documents
4. Testing of all IO1-IO4
5. regional / national / EU dissemination activities
6. Active participation in the evaluation

ACQUISITION OF PARTICIPANTS
Potential participants or users will be acquired both through other training courses provided by the project partners, through multiplier events, via stakeholders (eg JVA Heinsberg) and via social media (in particular Facebook).
All project partners can rely on address data from former and current trainees, but also good contacts to stakeholders or contacts via social media, to inform future participants during the project implementation as well as after project completion ideally about the current course program for less qualified adults in order to motivate them for participation.

The project partners EXPECT the following IMPACT:
1. Improving knowledge on “Economic and Financial Affairs”
2. Improvement of pedagogical competence (at expert level)
3. Increase language competence in ENG
4. Extension of the consulting portfolio

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 224171,29 Eur

Project Coordinator

WESTDEUTSCHER HANDWERKSKAMMERTAG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB
• EURO-NET
• DATCA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• Europe Unlimited e.V.
• EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS
• SCUOLA COSTRUZIONI VICENZA ANDREA PALLADIO
• VondiConsulting Unternehmensberatung Vondrak KG