Parenting Education and Awareness of Community to Enable Social Inclusion of Teens Exposed to the risk of becoming parents Erasmus Project

Project Title

Parenting Education and Awareness of Community to Enable Social Inclusion of Teens Exposed to the risk of becoming parents

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The main objective of PEACE SITE project was to allow organizations from Romania and from the other partner’s countries to exchange ideas, practices and methods regarding the education of parents and their children, teenagers at risk to become parents, exchanging experiences and reinforcing networks.
For the PEACE SITE project, a consortium of 7 partners was formed: the University for Foreigners of Perugia Italy joined Association for Prenatal Education in Romania together with Association Education Prenatale -Information EPI Belgium, Hellenic Prenatal Association, Cyprus Association for Prenatal Education KEPA and Latvian Association for Perinatal Development, former partners from 3 European learning partnership projects, since 2006 to 2013.
The partners offered through the PEACE SITE project’s products and activities an effective communication model and education/information tools for supporting parents, teachers and especially adolescents at risk to become parents. The scientific researches reveal that a qualitative parent-child communication is associated with positive adolescent outcomes, serving as a protective factor for adolescent problem behavior.
Teenage pregnancy in Europe affects young people’s sexual and reproductive health and their social inclusion. In EU, in 2015, 93 000 births of first children were to teenagers (4%), and 1 in 10 first children born to teenage mothers was in Romania. Parenting Education and Awareness of Community to Enable Social Inclusion of Teens Exposed to the risk of becoming parents – PEACE SITE was set up at the initiative of Association for Prenatal Education in Romania, the partner country with highest rate of teens pregnancies, as leading partner.
The project was focus on improving and extending the offer of high quality learning opportunities for parents to enhance their knowledge, skills and attitudes for a better communication with their children to support them in adopting a healthy life style, through sexual education and prenatal education. Different tools were developed within the project to facilitate parent-child communication: an interactive, user friendly, multi-lingual platform with e-learning courses (9 modules), 4 doodle animations and a mobile phone application. Although prior to the application the partners did not assess directly the training needs of parents regarding communication with children of different ages, they based the project proposal activities and intellectual outputs on reviews from scientific and specific literature. That is why the partners aimed to remedy this shortcoming through the IO1, the Comparative study, meant to investigate the educational needs concerning parent-child communication on sexual education/prenatal education issues of 6 parents / partner Finally there were interviewed 398 parents (of which 198 from Romania) – the sample in this study being one of availability. The results of the study guided the further development of content for the project products and activities. Thus, instead of 7 modules there were developed 9 modules. The 2 extra topics were: emotional development of children and the risks of digital technologies for children.
The content of the IO3 training materials / IO4 the 9 e-learning modules, IO5 the 4 doodle animations and IO6 the mobile phone application sought to answer the parents’ educational needs concerning their communication knowledge, attitude and skills on life subjects (as sexual education and prenatal education) in the relationship with their children, as revealed by questionnaires replies. During their 4 transnational meetings the coordinator and partners decided to improve the project outcomes and the up-graded topics where addressed during the learning –training events: C1 short-term joint staff training event and C2 blended mobility of adult learners, during dissemination events inside the project. The results where positive and were confirmed in all the meetings and events that partners had with their associate partners during the PEACE SITE project life time. Although the project language was English, due to the participants request, IO1 was also translated in Romanian and IO3, IO4 IO5 and IO6 were additionally developed in French and Romanian, while part of IO5 was subtitled in Japanese. The partners have transmitted information about the products of the project to the parents’ associations and several schools (including the electronic networks to which the schools are registered and we expect this number to increase now that the schools activities are in full swing. The access to the e-learning platform remained free after project completion; through IO2 (the accreditation of the e-learning courses) the graduates (with university training) of the modules will be certified by the University of Perugia receiving 3 CFU university credits valid in the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236450 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociatia de Educatie Prenatala din Romania & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Elliniki Etairia Progennitikis Agogis
• FUNDATIA ROMTENS
• Education Prénatale – Information
• KIPRIAKO SOMATIO PROGENNITIKIS AGOGIS
• Latvijas Perinatalas Attistibas Biedriba
• UNIVERSITA PER STRANIERI DI PERUGIA