Participatory EmeRgenCy Evaluation in civil ProtecTION planning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Participatory EmeRgenCy Evaluation in civil ProtecTION planning

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

In case of natural disasters/humanitarian crisis experts/teams able to assess what worked well and mistakes in the crisis management unit and act with public authorities are needed and their role is crucial in post-emergency, when new strategies can be defined to improve the ability to be prepared, respond and react to a crisis learning from past mistakes. Evaluation is thus a key concept and evaluators a key profile, able to assess crisis management approaches and identify strategies to prevent future disasters or limit their impacts, making this process part of the civil protection planning. Another key element is facilitation, i.e. the ability to apply participatory approaches aiming at building a constructive relationship among citizens, enterprises and local/regional authorities.
In this context, PERCEPTION will create a new profile, the Evaluator and Facilitator on Emergency Planning (EFEP) to catch this opportunity in terms of employability and innovative VET. The EFEP operates in local and entrepreneurial contexts acting as a link between enterprises and public bodies, fully knowing civil protection plans application and safety measures in enterprises/factories located in risk areas. He can transversally read and see complementarities and synergies among the 2 levels (internal and external emergency planning/management) and to ease their assessment and understanding using a participatory approach, which can support recovery and reduce future disaster impacts.
PERCEPTION aims at providing learning opportunities to young people (18-35 years, to match the minimum age to be a volunteer in civil protection/humanitarian area and difficulties experienced by youths to access the labour market), unemployed/underemployed, university and/or high-school graduates, with at least one volunteering experience – preferably in Civil Protection/Humanitarian Aid domain – to help them to transform this experience into a career opportunity, by providing them with:
-knowledge, skills and competences to improve their volunteering experience with organizational and managerial abilities
-specific social/interactive skills, following their passion and attitude to work in emergency conditions
-entrepreneurial skills to make them able to build their own career.
60 participants will be selected at EU level to experience a blended mobility, made of local class lessons, transnational virtual exchanges, a webinar (piloting course) and a final intensive programme (Summer School) in Italy.
To reach its objectives, PERCEPTION will implement:
-a Curriculum for the Evaluator and Facilitator for Emergency Planning, defining the transnational professional profile (competences, skills, knowledge and job positioning)
-a Training scheme focused on 6 competences areas: emergency management planning, facilitation, social/environmental impacts, strategic evaluation assessment, communication and entrepreneurship, applying work-based (role/simulation games, mentors/learner approach, cases study, etc.) learning tools
-a Summer School (an intensive 10-days-programme in Italy) involving the 60 participants to the piloting course. Trainees will test in a real environment competences and skills acquired and further investigate: disruptive events, impacts identification and evaluation, from evaluation to recovery/emergency management strategies, building your own career.
The project will be developed with a three steps methodology:
1)Analysis, dealing with: EU/national contexts, mentors qualification, volunteer services functions, training courses, specialization, innovative training methodologies/tools/approaches to support the training scheme and the professional profile development
2)Implementation, based on the analysis results and mainly dealing with: competences sharing and profile definition, training scheme definition and implementation, course piloting
3)Evaluation: efficacy and coherence between training, targeted learning outcomes, competence needed by the labour market and target group needs will be constantly monitored/evaluated.
According to previously identified objectives, PERCEPTION expected results refer to:
-mutual recognition of the Evaluator and Facilitator for Emergency Planning qualification among all partners’ countries through the certification within the EQF (level 5)
-provision of a work-based training for at least 60 young people with at least one volunteering experience through a multilevel, multidisciplinary and immersive training methodology
-employability enhancement for young people through the creation of a new curriculum, fostering job opportunities within NGOs, local authorities, private companies or as self-employed
-the creation of dialogue formats to reduce the gap between regional and local public authorities and entrepreneurs, specifically in the field of safety when an emergency occurs and in the planning phase
-higher sensibilisation on safety, risk prevention, climate change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 364214 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gruppo Azione Locale Escartons e Valli Valdesi s.r.l & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Quesite srl
• IPF INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING SL
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD
• Auxilium pro Regionibus Europae in Rebus Culturalibus
• FOUNDATION EUROPEAN CENTRE VALUATION PRIOR LEARNING/STICHTING EUROPEESCENTRUM WAARDEREN VAN LEREN
• National Business Development Network