Enhancing transversal and digital skills to promote innovative blended training strategies in Adult Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing transversal and digital skills to promote innovative blended training strategies in Adult 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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

This project – DigiTrAin (Enhancing transversal and digital skills to promote innovative blended training strategies in Adult Education) aimed to improve the ability of training organisations to deliver high quality and relevant adult digital skills training by developing a strategic framework for promoting digital skills including formulating digital competence frameworks for (a) adults and (b) adult educators, producing learning materials and developing tools, techniques and methodologies for digital skills training. The specific objectives were to:

1. Formulate a digital competency frameworks for (a) adult educators and (b) adults
2. Design and pilot a modular “Train the Trainer’ course for adult educators, and Digital Skills course for adults
3. Develop blended training resources for the ‘Train the Trainer’ and Adult Digital Skills courses
4. Improve adult educators’ knowledge of learning technology platforms, tools, and skills in using them
5. Produce guide for adult educators on strategies, tools and approaches for promoting and delivering digital skills training to adults.

The project was developed against a background and context of rapid digital transformation of the economy in which almost all jobs require some level of digital skills, as does participation in society at large. Today, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in their various forms, permeate our lives from early years. Furthermore, the use of ICT in our private lives for leisure purposes, entertainment and communication with other individuals has shown a dramatic increase. In the work place, these technologies have spread so rapidly that an estimated 90% of all available jobs require at least a basic level of digital skills. Almost half the EU population lack basic digital skills with 20% having none at all (New Skills Agenda).

The main project activities included 4 intellectual outputs:
• Digital Competency and curriculum frameworks for (a) adult learners and (b) adult educators
• Courses in Digital skills for (a) adults and (b) adult educators
• Leaning resources to support the blended delivery of the courses
• A Handbook on delivering digital skills

Joint staff training over 5 days involving adult educators from the partner organisations.

Dissemination Conferences in each partner country.

The project provides additional learning opportunities for adults and adult educators. The main impact to date has been greater awareness of the importance of digital skills among adults and greater clarity about the specific competences that educators need to deliver digital skills to adults and for adults to have the competences to use digital technologies in their private lives for leisure purposes, entertainment and communication.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166151 Eur

Project Coordinator

Global Learning & Skills Partnership Limited & Country: UK

Project Partners

• G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED
• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• Futuretrend Technologies Ltd
• FUTURO DIGITALE
• ASOCIACION INTERCULTURAL EUROPEA GO EUROPE