Choose a job not a dole Erasmus Project

Project Title

Choose a job not a dole

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The Project offers innovative ICT-based solutions to foster integration of people with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities into the labour market by 1) upgrading their low soft skills coherent with the employment-related key competences: sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, social and civic competences, digital competences and learning to learn; 2) improving the quality of training provided by adult education (AE) organisations active in employment-related training in order to attract low-skilled people and motivate them to learn. Thus, the project contributes to “Europe 2020” strategy to reach employment rate of 75% as well to achieve benchmark of 15% of learners’ participation in lifelong learning as defined in European agenda for adult learning.
The objectives are: to contribute to a reduction of number of low-skilled adults by re-skilling and up-skilling their soft skills; to facilitate access for learners to employment-related training by offering exercises based on Open Educational Resources (OERs); to increase motivation of people with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities to learn by providing information on validation of non-formal and informal learning; to strengthen the capacities of AE organisations active in employment-related training to offer high quality ICT-based training tailored for individual learners with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities; to enhance the professional development of AE staff by introducing new innovative educational methods: reversed training, Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended-learning approach with new role of trainer as facilitator, and to increase the adaptability of employment-related learning to the nowadays labour market’s needs by reinforcing social partnership between AE organisations, labour exchange offices and world of work (enterprises).
Two main intellectual outputs have been developed for two main project’s target groups:
• people with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities – Innovative model for integration into labour market (IMILM) model;
• AE organisations and their staff – AE organisation modernisation model (AEOM model) to ensure the effective implementation of the new educational methods and tools proposed within the IMILM model.
The IMILM model is implemented as online non-formal Job-YES Training Course, which is addressed to people who want to increase their soft skills related to employability and consists of four interconnected learning tools – a Self-Need Analysis, a Knowledge Portfolio, Exercises based on Open Educational Resources, and an Action Plan. The website www.job-yes.eu part for Learners provides them with open access to these learning tools, which are easy to use and learner-friendly. The Learner’s Guide on how to proceed with the training course is also developed. The non-formal Job-Yes Training Course is available as an open educational recourse in five languages of partnership: English, Lithuanian, Latvian, Spanish, and Italian.
The AEOM model is a supplementary intellectual output designed to strengthen the capacities of AE organisations to apply the innovative IMILM model effectively in their daily work. The methodology of AEOM model is based on applying reversed training, Open Educational Resources (OERs), new role of a trainer as facilitator to ensure the learners’ participatory approach. This output consists of interrelated methodological materials: e-Guidebook for AE organisations; Collection of good practices with learners’ success stories; Framework for social partnership between AE organisations, Labour Exchange Offices and Employer’s organisations. The AEOM model is openly accessible at the ‘Adult Educator’ part of the website www.job-yes.eu.
Consortium was composed of 7 organisations from 5 EU countries (ES, IT, LT, LV, UK). All partners have high level of competencies in developing and applying different ICT-based educational methods within adult education activities.
The main impact on learners with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities is upgrading their soft skills coherent with employment-related key competences with the longer-term benefit: fostering their integration into the nowadays labour market. Thus, the expected impact of the project after its lifetime is the reduction in number of low-skilled adults by increasing the level of their soft skills and increased employment rate of people with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities.
The main impact on AE organisations active in employment-related training is strengthening their capacities to offer high quality ICT-based learning opportunities tailored for individual learners with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities with the longer term benefit – increasing the level of learners’ participation in employment-related training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 280373 Eur

Project Coordinator

SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• DEFOIN Formacion para el Desarrollo y la Inserción
• Kauno teritorine darbo birza
• CESIE
• Society Valmiera Development Agency
• Viesoji istaiga Baltijos edukaciniu technologiju institutas
• MERSEYSIDE EXPANDING HORIZONS LTD