Integration of Diversity and Social Inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integration of Diversity and Social Inclusion

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

The permanent changes that society is going through as a whole confirm the need to be in a continuous process of training and updating knowledge. In this sense, the training of trainers is configured as a strategic axis within the development policies and plans of the organizations.

Following the approach of Javier Augusto Nicoletti, the implementation of training modalities that are capable of training for the permanent challenge of adaptation required by the changes that occur in society has become relevant. The formation of trainers acts in the field of the most demanded interventions in the current social, cultural and educational contexts.

Research in the field of training of trainers has to seek solutions that solve real, relevant and pertinent problems in the social environment where they are developed.

The training of trainers, as a space for the training of subjects already trained and qualified, requires the application of differentiated strategies already applied in formal training. According to Fernández Lamarra (2010:123), “in the face of these contexts and challenges, the criteria of academic relevance and the competencies that education and the university propose for training must be substantially modified. López Barajas Zayas (2006:247), explains that “people, companies and organizations, on the other hand, need to adapt to changes in the environment in which they carry out their activities. Training has to prepare them to know how to do in the new scenarios”.

Within the framework of ERASMUS+ we will respond to three priorities throughout the project:

– Social inclusion: through an innovative and integrating tool, the dissemination of shared values will be promoted, in the interest of equality, social inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination. Through the contents of the tool, new approaches will be sought to reduce disparities in access and participation in non-formal education, addressing issues such as discrimination, segregation and racism. The tool will strengthen content related to the integration of people with a migrant background, including the collection and dissemination of good practices on the issue. In order for our tool to reach a considerable dissemination it will be offered to different organisations active in training of trainers both at local and regional level.
– This tool will support educators, youth workers, educational leaders and support staff in their professional development. An action will be developed to enable trainers of trainers to acquire the necessary skills to better address inclusion and diversity within the classroom, including cultural and linguistic differences, through the use of more diverse and better adapted teaching styles.

General objective:

– To expand and develop the competences of trainers of trainers, educators and other staff supporting adult learners, in order to promote the integration of diversity and social inclusion of the most disadvantaged and low-skilled learners. The aim is to improve teaching methods and tools through the effective use of innovative solutions and digital technologies.

Specific objectives:

1) To integrate diversity in a transversal way in the training of trainers working with low-skilled adults.
2) To increase the digital competences of trainers of trainers, as well as of other educators and staff supporting adult learners so that they can benefit from the new models on offer, which will be a further step in their lifelong learning.
3) to increase the basic skills of trainers of trainers, as well as of other educators and staff supporting adult learners, in order to learn new methodologies and ways of adapting to the learning pace of learners and to their cultural and linguistic diversity, thus promoting the social inclusion of women, immigrants and very low-skilled disabled people
4) improve the use of resources made available by new technologies to trainers, other educators and other support staff in basic language teaching to facilitate communication with immigrant learners
5) To widen the training offer in order to respond to the lack of competences of the trainers who face a heterogeneous group, not only at a training level, but also at a cultural, ideological and/or religious level which forces to take into account important aspects when developing certain methodologies or ways of acting in the classroom.
6) To make the training offer more flexible by incorporating e-learning courses in order to respond to the professional and personal needs of the students that are given by the current organization of the working world.
7) To recognize, elaborate and evaluate mediation and evaluation tasks, putting them into practice inside and outside the classroom.
8) To dynamize transnational organization by increasing cooperative work with a greater coordination and exchange of information leading to a renewal of the training of trainers in relation to social inclusion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 249470 Eur

Project Coordinator

Creative Learning Programmes Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• GROWTH COOP S.COOP.AND
• FUNDACJA DIVERSITY HUB
• AVENSA CONSULTING
• European Education & Learning Institute
• FUNDACION PARA LA INNOVACION Y LA TECNOLOGIA
• Agrupación de Profesionales para el Desarrollo Internacional APDI