BEST practices for TRaining in Adults Non-formal Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

BEST practices for TRaining in Adults Non-formal Education

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

BEST TRANE aims at providing best practices to trainers in order to prepare them to teach in intergenerational environments and to motivate older learners to take part in non-formal education activities.
The participation in non-formal education of older people aged 55+ is still very weak in Europe. The access to education of unemployed seniors is even more limited: in 2012 only 50 % of people aged 50+ attended educational courses for professional or personal reasons.
According to Eurostat data, in 2016 just over 45 % of adults aged 45–64 participated in some form of education or training and 80% of them were job-related learning activities. Non-formal education centers are traditionally dedicated to younger people and leave few space to older learners.
There are no main provisions and dispositions from the national governments to tackle this issue.
As a consequence, educators working in non-formal education centers lack of specific skills to tun their activities also with older people.
The project aims at filling this gap by offering innovative training models to educators in non-formal centers, through the collection of information, examples of existing good practices and different views on working with older people and involving them in their centers.

Therefore, the objectives of the project are:
• To provide examples of best practices in adult non-formal education to professional trainers,
• To increase the knowledge of trainers in non-formal education about seniors’ needs and expectations,
• To promote intergenerational dynamics.

The project partners will conduct a comprehensive and accurate researches and study visits that will lead to the creation of the main project outcome: a Manual identifying the best practices linked to non-formal learning methodology applied to seniors. In particular, the partners will enquire about the situation of non-formal education centers for older people in Europe and will produce a Manual including best practices about:
• Working with seniors
• Involving seniors in non-formal education centers
• Elaborating innovative interactive activities both for seniors and young people
• Encouraging intergenerational dynamics in non-formal education classes
• Motivating seniors in attending non-formal education courses

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59846 Eur

Project Coordinator

Solution: Solidarité & Inclusion & Country: FR

Project Partners

• The Rural Hub CLG
• Società Cooperativa Sociale Fuori dal Sommerso
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD
• Eurospeak Language Schools Ltd