ePassport Erasmus Project

Project Title

ePassport

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

ePassport project aims to reinforce the capacities of organisations working in the field of VET and improve their techniques and methods of preparing and following-up online their beneficiaries participating in a hybrid and virtual mobility project. For these reasons, ePassport consortium will develop, within the two year of the project, innovative, inclusive and sustainable material: two online training tools and two online guides. The aim is also to adapt these tools and guides to be used by VET structures not only throughout the partners’ countries but also throughout Europe.

The consortium is composed of four partners: ADICE in France, Forum Educativo in Spain, KERIC in Slovakia and KANE in Greece. All partners are located in territories on which unemployment has an impact and where opportunities such as European mobility programs are less present. This situation was aggravated by the COVID19 crisis and led to an alarming unemployment rate in Europe. This is further reinforced by the fact that unemployment situations and inactivity have a heavy impact on the mental health of individuals. Thus, hybrid and virtual mobilities are a way out for these people to face the Covid-19 crisis by allowing them to remain active, to continue training and acquire key skills for their employability while preserving their motivation and their European commitment. Altought, the COVID19 crisis found the majority of the European organisations unprepared to carry out their activities efficiently online, without the appropriate tools and resources. This is why the implementation of an online training and the endowment of the organisations with qualitative tools and skills is a must.

The partners of the ePassport project will therefore undertake the creation of 4 intellectual productions:

a) The IO1 “Participants ePassport” will be developed to help future VET participants build their project during a distance preparation and follow-up.

b) The IO2 “eGuide for online predeparture training” will be a user-friendly and adaptable tool for professionals in the vocational education and training field that will increase the access and knowledge to existing tools for online training implementation through the creation of an online guide.

c) The IO3 “Hybrid and Virtual Mobility eNotebook” will be developed in order to ensure the support and continuous contact between organizations and the participant during a hybrid or virtual mobility.

d) The IO4 “eFollow-up guide” will aim to improve remote monitoring of the participants during hybrid and virtual VET mobility.

The resources will be open source, freely consultable and downloadable via the project partners websites in English and in the other project languages. Users will be able to tailor the materials to the needs of specific target groups.

In order to do so, each organisation will be in charge of organising a multiplier event in its country where the four intellectual outputs will be disseminated and evaluated. By the end of these events, it is expected that the participants are made aware about the new existing tools and have a good understading of where they could find them online and how to make use of them.

The Multiplier events will take place in:
a) One Multiplier event in Roubaix, France
b) One multiplier event in Seville, Spain
c) One multiplier event in Kalamata, Greece
d) One multiplier event in Cacda, Slovakia

The ePassport project will directly involve 40 vocational education and training workers and 50 participants to mobility projects, including at least 20 with fewer opportunities.

The impact of ePassport project will be on the number of vocational education and training workers trained. It will also be on the future hybrid and virtual mobility participants that will receive a personalised support in order to be well oriented and prepared to benefit from hybrid and virtual mobilities in terms of competences, professional and personal experience. Also, by maximizing the follow up of participants by vocational education and training workers, and the capacities of the people with fewer opportunities while undertaking a hybrid or virtual mobility, the desired long-term impact is for these participants to have more opportunities to access employment after the end of their mobility. The project also aims to have a positive impact on the wellbeing and safety of the participants, especially those with fewer oportunities in a context where people lose the moral because of economic crisis as a consequance of the COVID situation. Overall the project partners expect that the results facilitate the work of VET workers in the COVID context and equip them in the digital era with innovative tools to overcome the actual needs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 218772 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES INITIATIVES CITOYENNES ET EUROPEENNES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• SOCIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CIVIL NONPROFIT SOCIETY
• OBCIANSKE ZDRUZENIE KERIC
• FORUM PARA LA EDUCACIÓN Y EL DESARROLLO, SL