NumeriKA2Neets Erasmus Project

Project Title

NumeriKA2Neets

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our project’s main objective was to make trainers, and digital mediators working in Fab Lab, communicate and share their learning methods to face the best way possible their audience of learners and increase their professionalism thanks to these exchanges of good practices. We met this goal, as 100% of the participants involved in the activities noted the increasing of their skills and knowledge of the Fab Lab environment by the end of the project.

Why the “Fab Lab?’ Because it is a place of echange, manufacturing and development of projects of many different types according to the DIY philosophy (Do It Yourself) framed by professionals, Fab Lab Managers. These Fab Labs are equipped with 3D printer and scanner, laser cutting machine and CNC cutter, digital embroidery machine, etc.

From the partnership of professionnals in this unique environment is born a tangible intellectual output : the repertoire of skills for “Fab Lab Operator”. This repertoire broadcasted on a large scale, freely accessible will allow other actors in Fab Labs to rely on a document containing a definition of the profession, the key competencies associated with it, the requested specific and transversal skills in order to exercise the profession and training units to ensure a comprehensive learning.

The final objective of this project was to reach a particular audience : the NEETS. With the digital tools, we hoped to “hook” these young people who are neither in employment, education or training. Often lost in the meanders of the world of work, these youngs are regularly left behind and their number increase dramatically in Europe. This public is difficult to reach through “classics” training offers. Succeding in bringing them into a Fab Lab and making them discover the possibilities of creation it offers let them understand they can manufacture something with their own hands : a good way to restore their self-confidence. In addition, this discovery turned for some to a professional project.

Therefore, this project was the occasion to bring together actors of this growing sector, and to make emerge from their partnership a tool, lauching pad for an audience that sometimes miss confidence in itself and in our society. Finally, NumeriKA2neets allowed to all participants, trainers and learners, to develop technical and social skills that will make them evolve personnally, and professionaly.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71897 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre d’Orientation et de Formation & Country: BE

Project Partners

• RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
• FABLAB LILLE
• CENTRE CULTUREL SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE ASSOCIATION