Circle of Competences for Community Work with adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Circle of Competences for Community Work with 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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project Circle of Competences for Community Work with adults was focused on development of basic skills and key competences in adult learners, through a system of actions which started from assessing learning needs of partner organisations staff and learners, then improving Educators competences and trough them reach adult learners with fewer opportunities in the 4 countries of the partnership (Italy, France, Slovenia, Portugal). 23 Educators active in Adult Education (from 4 different countries, and with different professional profiles ) were engaged in an international training course collecting and sharing good practices and tools to facilitate and recognise their learners achievements (E- portfolio) and to engage learners with fewer opportunities (Popular Education tecniques). They tested and experienced themselves those tools as well as share with colleagues from different countries. As a second step, the same Educators tested and applied the gained methods in their own countries with a group of 300 local learners with different difficulties in education and inclusion in society and job market ( adults with migrant background, asylum seekers, unemployed adults with unstable/poor educational paths ) trough workshops run at local level whose content and methods will be defined in details during the project. The workshops aimed to engage adult learners at local level, motivate them to participate to further learning experiences and to make easier the recognition of their experience acquired trough non formal and informal learning. To reach these aims we used E-portfolio and Popular Education tecniques and methods. The partnership worked on the fine-tuning of the tools used and tested during the project in order to make them accessible to a larger audience of educators and adult learners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58410 Eur

Project Coordinator

ARCI NUOVA ASSOCIAZIONE COMITATO TERRITORIALE DI CATANIA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• HORS PISTES
• Associação de Professores de Expressão e Comunicação Visual
• UPI – ljudska univerza Zalec