New Tools FOR New Skills in WBL Erasmus Project

Project Title

New Tools FOR New Skills in WBL

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Work Based Learning (“WBL”) enables vulnerable people to overcome a series of failures and exclusions by acquiring various key skills thanks the development of learning situations based on concrete action. The model stays acclaimed at European level because of its ability to enhance the employability of trainees and thus promote their reintegration both socially and professionally.

Highly specialised technical skills are therefore necessary for the trainers, but are not sufficient, since the process of training requires simultaneous hard pedagogical skills. The objective of the 6 project partners was therefore to identify the needs in this area in order to develop new tools to support the training programmes. The aim was also to add an additional transversal dimension of promoting diversity in employment and to conclude this experience with a series of recommendations advocating the cause of “WBL”, including an institutional dimension.

Then the twenty and more trainers involved in the front line of the project have proceeded concretely on this way:
> identify and exchange some training materials,
> test them with trainees selected by each partner,
> develop new materials based on the experiments carried out and informed opinions gathered during the organisation of workshops in the combined presence of more than one hundred WBL experts from 5 different countries,
> develop common tools at the European level at the end of a week of training conducted in action, according to the major principle of “WBL”,
> develop some tools adapted to different more specific contexts, then potentially transposable into new ones on the basis of sheets evaluating and commenting on the process at each of its stages.

The main themes revolved around :
> evaluation of the trainees,
> preparation for work placements,
> fight against discrimination.

On this basis, the partners propose a series of recommendations and working ideas intended for people working in the field and for people responsible for training administration and policy, emphasising the advantages and the innovative side of the teaching materials (grouped together in a toolbox) in order to continue the reflection on the different ways of organising the “WBL” and its challenges with a view to a wider dissemination of the model.

All the results stay freely available on the project website (http://www.nt4s.eu/) and via the partners’ portal.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183116,97 Eur

Project Coordinator

Actions Intégrées de Développement & Country: BE

Project Partners

• CONVERGENCES EMPLOI CERGY
• ASPIRE-IGEN GROUP LIMITED
• SCUOLA CENTRALE FORMAZIONE ASSOCIAZIONE SCF
• CSC-diversité
• SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE INOVACAO CONSULTADORIA EMPRESARIAL E FOMENTO DA INOVACAO SA