Innovative and Practical training for low-skilled and migrants Jobs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative and Practical training for low-skilled and migrants Jobs

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

CONTEXT
On 15th March 2018, the Council Recommendation on a European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships has detected the work-based learning as essential.
In effect, especially for low-skilled and migrants, there is a strong need to receive efficient and integrated guidance services and access to practical training and tools.
As declared by the OECD, it is more and more important to provide opportunities to acquire skills that are in demand in the labour market. But this is challenging in the context of constantly changing skill needs.
At European level, the EC has detected that:
– many in Europe cannot find a job because they do not have the right skills or they are working in jobs that do not match their talents
– at the same time, 40% of employers cannot find people with the right skills to fill their vacancies and with mind-sets and competences to look for new opportunities.

REASON AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSAL
IP4J project would like to develop, test and introduce a brand-new approach to the work-based learning for low-skilled and migrants starting from the career orientation/guidance and providing practical VISUAL training tools (booklet, videos, APP) for jobs in demand on the market.
The proposal is based on the introduction of creative and novel ways for the initial and continuous VET thanks to the intensive use of ICT in order to stimulate the accessibility to the training materials for a vocational system and to increase the occupational chances.
It is about the development of some innovative tools ready to be used by VET providers and trainers dealing with low-skilled and migrant students.

The project idea is coming from another Erasmus+ VET project Innovation in VET for Jobs and Employment (IV4J) named as “Good Practice” by the German National Agency and involving the coordinator and the Italian partner. During this project, it came out the evidence of a strong need to use practical training tools such as videos and visual Open Educational Resources.

OUTCOMES/OUTPUTS
The PROJECT PARTNERSHIP will:
– Realise a TOOLKIT for a more effective ORIENTATION AND GUIDANCE FOR LOW-SKILLED AND MIGRANTS able to support to identify the useful skills and select the best individual career pathways in accordance with the market and employment real needs;
– Develop a series of visual and interactive BOOKLETS conceived as Open Educational Resources about real market needs such as Kitchen Help, Gardening and landscape care, Cleaning Services, Handicraft and artistic products;
– Release some interesting and practical VIDEO TUTORIALS CONTAINING clear and detailed DIY instructions to be published in a YouTube project channel;
– Produce an APP for ANDROID devices to permit access to the training materials also for mobile learners;
– Research and collect in a handbook the BEST PRACTICES about effective ways to orient and train low -skilled and migrant across Europe;
– Built-up a NETWORK OF EXPERTS with a new PROFESSIONAL PROFILE limited to project partners’ staff as “European Innovative and Practical Trainer for low-skilled and migrants” recognised under the ECVET and EUROPASS systems;
– Launch a WEBSITE integrated with Social Networks containing a DATABASE OF MATERIALS TRANSLATED in different languages to promote and encourage extensive exploitation and dissemination;
– Arrange a series of MULTIPLIER EVENTS with the participation of a large number of stakeholders to foster the dissemination and exploitation of PROJECT Intellectual Outputs and results;
– Distribute some materials to increase the dissemination such as LEAFLETS and NEWSLETTERS;
– Publish a large series of OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES in ISSUU digital platform and on different European portals.

IMPACT ENVISAGED
The partnership is composed of partners coming from different countries and their stakeholders, with the synergic power to reach a very large and diverse audience.
The project’s outcomes are going to be released as OER in 6 different European National languages with an evident benefit in terms of dissemination and exploitation of the project results.

The double-route for the project results is:
– Equip the VET teachers, trainers and mentors with practical and engaging tools/materials ready to be used in the training of low-skilled and migrants
– Recognise and validate the knowledge within partner staff thanks to the ECVET system and a Memorandum of Understanding to create a “European Innovative and Practical Trainer for low-skilled and migrants” profile.

METHODOLOGIES/APPROACHES
The methodologies and approaches to be used for the realisation of the project outputs are:
– Work-Based Learning with I-VET and C-VET practical activities
– Creative Problem Solving methodology
– Professional Career guidance
– Career identification with LEGO® bricks
– Peer-learning within partners’ staff during the Joint Staff Training Event
– Educational training with videos
– Learning in digital contexts
– Educational APP for mobile devices

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 276555 Eur

Project Coordinator

FA-Magdeburg GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• MIDSTOD SIMENNTUNAR A SUDURNESJUM
• SC ROGEPA SRL
• INERCIA DIGITAL SL
• EURO-NET