Family skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Family skills

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early childhood education and care; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Family Skills project is based on a clear need identified during the planning and design of the intervention activities, of a lack of actions to support positive parenting, based on scientific evidence and innovative learning methodologies, which are considered necessary in the asset of parenting skills.
Through an analysis of the needs carried out by the consortium, it emerged that parenting skills, at a socio-political level, have been strictly empathised in cases of high risk, while there is no common strategy and concept of prevention of discomfort, which is based on a strengthening of parenting skills, especially with respect to new parents and new families.
In order to overcome these difficulties, the Family Skills project foresees a specific support and training action addressed to public and private operators (as adult educators) called to organize and manage training courses of parenting skills, and to sensitise parents’ orientation and motivation to participate.
It seems necessary to review the structure and provision of parental and adult educator-training/education, foreseeing cutting-edge solutions, thanks to the use of digital technologies and innovative tools; for this motivation, the training material will be realized for a full online usability, that includes the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) techniques: these training delivery techniques have proved to be, according to the scientific literature of the last years, much more effective in terms of achieving learning outcomes, for being experiential, immersive and influencing the individual’s training.
Specifically, the objectives of the Family Skills project are:
– To help adults (parents, family members, social workers) to acquire the necessary skills to become effective educators;
– To support parents in their children’s education through learning pathways and empowerment of parental skills (but also of educators, teachers, and adults in general), characterized by interactive and innovative educational kits, which use virtual and immersive reality to foster skills development.
– Increasing awareness and knowledge of the needs and development of children and families through audio-visuals and ICT materials, with particular emphasis on virtual reality as a tool for experiential learning.
– To promote a public-private network ability of collaboration, to support parenthood through training, social and relational networking, also through the diffusion of self-organizing family models.
Directing the results towards these objectives will allow to improve the parenting skills, the so called “Family Skills”, through an active involvement of parents’ groups and, at the same time, strengthening the personal and professional skills of those working in the educational sector.
For this motivation our partnership, composed of public and private bodies from Italy, Romania, Belgium and Poland, through the project Family Skills intends to develop 3 intellectual outputs that consist in: the development of guidelines to design the training, aimed at the analysis of new training needs of the operators; in the implementation of a training path integrated with virtual reality and an exercise, through an active “participation” of the group of parents that exploits the interaction of the individuals, such as “partner works” specific and other activities addressed to the participant needs. The project idea also includes the use of a self-assessment tool, about individual Family Skills, through a digital interface tool. The project aims find a synthesis in an on-site experimentation that involves a group of parents (about 30) from each country, designed and implemented by the operators who will take part in a specific training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 380787 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIONE DEGLI ASSESSORATI ALLE POLITICHE SOCIO-SANITARIE, DELL ISTRUZIONE E DEL LAVORO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Directia Generala de Asistenta Sociala si Protectia Copilului Sector 1
• ASSOCIAZIONE PER LA MOBILITAZIONE SOCIALE ONLUS
• FUNDACJA DAJEMY DZIECIOM SILE
• EUROPEAN PARENTS ASSOCIATION
• SORANGELI TRANS SRL