Key Tutors- A tool and education guidance to enhance key competences Erasmus Project

Project Title

Key Tutors- A tool and education guidance to enhance key competences

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The Europe 2020 strategy is the EU’s agenda for growth and jobs for the current decade. That is why the key policy component of the Europe 2020 strategy is poverty reduction. By setting a poverty target, the EU put social concerns on an equal footing with economic objectives. Achieving the target to reduce the number of disadvantaged people of poverty risk and social exclusion will depend on successful implementation of other priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy, such as providing better opportunities for employment and education.

Keeping in mind the framework of the Strategic partnerships of the Erasmus+ programme, the specific priorities in adult education aim to reduce disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners. That is why the Key Tutors project wishes to promote the development, testing and implementation of innovative practices in the field of adult education: to develop basic and transversal skills among adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds.

6 partners from 5 countries (France, Spain, Lithuania, Finland and Poland), with actors in the field of adult education, working with learners far away from training and / or employment, worked collectively during two years.

The Key Tutors project addressed two main publics, while taking into account the diversity of professional profiles and context of the partners and the tradition of adult education in their different countries.
1. “Direct” Target public: Tutors (trainers & professional educators) working with learners away from training and / or employment on a temporary or permanent basis in associations, local authorities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

2. “Indirect” target publics: Learners who are temporarily or permanently removed from employment or training, employed or not …
The Key tutors project has thus trained European trainers and tutors to evaluate and improve the key competences that are essential for the professional and social integration of their adult learners. The project reached nearly 120 trainers and tutors: social workers, socio-cultural animators, psychologists, trainers, etc .; and more than 300 learners encountering difficulties in accessing training and employment: employees and job-seekers from the field of socio-educational activities, migrants, home-care professionals, vulnerable families in rural areas, unemployed young adults

The Key Tutors project was based on learning-in-action for tutors who are responsible for designing, testing and validating tools, teaching methods and practices to assess the key competencies of adult learners and thus promote the acquisition of these key competences. The project included national and transnational activities.

The national activities consisted of 3 “learning in action” – sessions organized in each country for at least 10 tutors and 2 phases of experimentation with adult learners with particular difficulties of access to employment or training.

At a transnational level, 2 European seminars (transnational training sessions) organized in Finland and Poland have made it possible to work on the results of the experimentation and to validate the tools.

Three European meetings in France, Lithuania and Spain enabled good management and exchanges between the partners.
These activities resulted in the development of an educational tool and approach for tutors working with learners away from employment and training to promote the key competency approach.

Indeed, thanks to the project Key Tutors, tutors and trainers have at their disposal:

– A tool & process for identifying and assessing key skills of learners away from employment or training. Each partner has experienced a combination of a basic key competence / cross-cutting or complex key competence (Eight Key European Framework Competencies published by the European Commission and the European Parliament, Brussels, 2006) chosen according to their field of activity.

– A methodological guide to support learners far from employment or training in their return to the job market, taking into account their profiles (education / status) and their professional environments (private, public, non-professional, lucrative or associative …).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 285997 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fédération régionale Familles Rurales des Pays de la Loire & Country: FR

Project Partners

• HALBA BENEDICTE
• JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
• VsI Skudutiskio akademija
• Instituto para el fomento del desarrollo y la formación S.L
• Fundacja Agencji Sluzby Spolecznej