Heritage training for young adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Heritage training for young 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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project focused on the learning activities for young people/NEETs, which can be overtaken in the context of museums, to favour their active citizenship and to face the challenge of looking for a new job or start another education path to re-direct their lives. The context of the project in fact is the learning that take place outside formal settings – school, training or professional refreshing training – which is approximately 80% of what we learn during our existence. Contemporary society should support actions that encourage individuals subjectively and/or objectively weaker in relation to the rapid social changes and to learning difficulties. This methodology of learning is a great opportunity for NEET people – young people out of any training, education and employment environment – who represent a tragical condition of social youth disease in all EU.
Objectives
The overall objective to contribute to the priority EU 2020 “Inclusive growth” has been matched by innovative measures to contrast and prevent the NEET phenomenon, to favor the linking to the labor market for the young adults. The measures were based on reinforcing the cultural identity, providing soft skills, capacity to be active and responsible, and to plan a new project for life and job.
The specific objectives were all matched:
– the metodologies and measures of involvement in learning through museums were tested on 106/80 NEETs 4 from EU countries;
– the integrated path for learning (blended: guidance, mobility, self-entrepreneurship) has been created
– the skills of 64/40 educators in cultural heritage were strenghtened providing them with innovative tools targeted to the NEET
– the skills of active European citizenship were implemented through the mobility for 75/80 NEETs and for 34/40 operators
– 272/200 NEETs/Young Adults and 360/200 operators were involved in the information and dissemination activities of the project.
The number/profile of participants were respected:
– 64/40 educators (museum and socio-cultural operators) involved in the learning modules and 34/40 in the mobility abroad, where they exchanged experiences and practices to accompany the young people in their learning path
– 106/80 young adults/NEETs (aged 18-35, unemployed or with no permanent work, or persons who have lost their jobs) involved in the learning paths at the museums faced and tried to overcome their social and/or economic disadvantage. 75/80 were involved in the mobilities.
– 272/200 YoungAdults/NEET involved in the information/diffusion activities
– 360/200 Adult Educators were involved in diffusion activities
– at least 1500 people informed on the project and its results

All the activities and outputs planned were implemented:
A1. ANALYSIS
02 Comparative Analisys on EU NEET population
03 Comparative Analisys on “Museum as learning place”
A2. TOOLS CREATION
04 Guidelines for adults’ educators/trainers
05 Learning modules for operators
A3. DEVELOPING PILOTING
06 Development of blended learning paths
07 Heritage Mobility Manual
08 Guidelines “From idea to business”
A5. INFORMATION/DISSEMINATION
012 App – Wanted
A6. MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION
The project has been carried on in accordance with a PCM (Project Cycle Management) approach in a quality plan managed by the coordinator with the contribution of all the partners, in order to face all possible variables: the general objectives, the project objectives, results and activities.
Results and impact
The most important results are related to the new approaches and to the methodologies to improve the system of disadvantaged adult learning through culturale heritage. In detail the most innovative measures created and tested by the project are: monitoring the gap between the end of studies and the access to the labor market; museum as learning organization; social responsibility of the museum; project learning approach in the involvement of young people at risk of marginalization in society and labour market; museum operators acting as facilitator to NEETs; method of evaluation of the NEETs’ learning outcomes related to soft skills.
The impact was on 170 people involved in the learning activities and 1500 people in the information and dissemination activities, but many thousands of people had news on the project during the events for the wide public.
If relevant, longer-term benefits
The education and learning system will be innovated by new measures/methodologies target to disadvantaged groups; the museums involved will improve their mission as learning places, applying the tested measures to support young people and favouring their active citizenship; the scientific bodies will apply the methodology and products for the education of students as future trainers; the link between the education and job system in the 4 countries will be reinforced, the learning and inclusion measures in the 4 countries will be innovated e integrated, the museums’ network on heritage will be reinforced.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 313948,83 Eur

Project Coordinator

Provincia di Livorno & Country: IT

Project Partners

• BULGARIA ECONOMIC FORUM
• HOGSKOLEN I BUSKERUD OG VESTFOLD
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
• Stiftelsen Jamtli
• Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo