Family Training to Support their Marginalized and Disadvantaged Members Erasmus Project

Project Title

Family Training to Support their Marginalized and Disadvantaged Members

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: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

In the past decades, the philosophy of the European welfare state included the objective to help people in need, in which a common attitude was to take over responsibilities of people in need
whenever they weren’t able to solve their problems themselves. The focus was not in the first place to increase the independence of people in need but to help them participate more adequate in society. Rendering help was paramount, in which the professional was the expert.

The drawback of this development became apparent during the last few decades: A part of the welfare state cracked because of the expanding costs of professional support to families. Reducing the expenses of the state and making the welfare system more flexible became a necessity. The organization of the welfare state is being reviewed, and professionals have to render help in a different way with lower costs, with a stronger focus on strengthening families and training citizens to become less dependent of professional help.

The FamilEU project aspires to integrate the potential of digitally-mediated social environments into the fostering of innovative learning communities for the EU Citizens. FamilEU is an online training package to build the capacity of adult member of families with socio-economic problems to act as social workers. It focuses on providing training to adult members of families with some social or economic problems and by doing this improving social inclusion and participation of citizens, as promoted in Horizon 2020.

The core product of FamilEU is a digital training toolkit for adult trainers and professionals who work in the areas of family care, with the aim to provide training to family members, in order to enable them in their turn to provide a peer to peer support to members of their families who are in need, facilitate their (re) integration both in the society and in the labour market where appropriate.
FamilEU is built on an online e-learning platform, which hosts online training modules, social network applications and information material in order to provide internal support to their family members in need. Additionally, FamilEU is also available through a mobile platforms application.

The FamilEU Online Curriculum consists of eight modules that have been identified based on the Transnational FamilEU State of the Art and Gap Analysis Report. They cover the following areas:
Basic Principles of Social Work
Communication & Collaboration
Family Issues
Health Issues
Migrants & Integration
Labour Market & Entrepreneurship
Financial Issues
Digital Literacy

The basic units of each module have been translated into all partner countries languages, while the subsequent units are available in English.

The consortium of the FamilEU consists of eight partners from seven different EU countries. They come from a wide range of backgrounds including training centres, family care centres, research and development centres, and SMEs.
The philosophy and the approach of the project is in the same direction of the EU policies and the Horizon 2020: an inclusive, innovative and secure society in which citizens experience social cohesion and possibilities for productivity and employment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 244743 Eur

Project Coordinator

KTP – Spolecnost pro kvalifikaci na trhu prace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• INTEGRA INSTITUT, Institut za razvoj clovekovih potentialov
• OXFAM ITALIA INTERCULTURA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA
• KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• E-C-C Verein fuer interdisziplinaere Bildung und Beratung
• INNOVADE LI LTD
• QUALED obcianske zdruzenie pre kvalifikáciu a vzdelávanje