„Practice-Oriented Training for Adults – the bridge to the labor market“ Erasmus Project

Project Title

„Practice-Oriented Training for Adults – the bridge to the labor market“

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

A. BACKGROUND
In order to face both the short and long-term consequences of the labour market, there is a need for adults regularly to enhance their personal and professional skills and competences. Given the current instability in the labour market and the need to reduce the risk of social exclusion, this applies particularly to the low-skilled and the low-qualified. However, all adults including the highly qualified can benefit significantly from lifelong learning.
According to statistic data (Eurostat) exist growing consensus among policy maker bodies of member states of EU that adult learning is currently the weakest link in developing national lifelong-learning systems. Participation in adult learning has continued to fall, from 9,8 % of the 25-64-year-old population in 2005 to only 9,1 % in 2010, and it is still decreasing continually, thus making the increased ‘ET2020’ target of 15 % by 2020 an even greater challenge. Obstacles such as low motivation and a lack of care facilities to help women and men combine family and work responsibilities with learning therefore need attention.

B. TARGET GROUP AND USERS
Target group of the project are: unemployed adults aged 18-64 from partner countries that are not in education and training and have only education level – ISCED 2.
Given the current instability in the labour market and the need to reduce the risk of social exclusion, this applies particularly to the low-skilled and the low-qualified. However, all adults — including the highly qualified — can benefit significantly from lifelong learning. Therefore, the project has recognized three problem areas:
1. Adult-learning reforms are increasingly anchored in overall development in education and training, notably the development of national qualifications frameworks and lifelong-learning strategies.
2. Outreach and learning opportunities are increasingly being targeted at those with the lowest levels of qualifications, thus giving them better prospects of integration into work and society.
3. Non-formal and informal learning, which represent much of adult learning, are increasingly being recognised and validated but take-up of validation opportunities is often still too low.

C. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Enhance the possibilities for adults, regardless of gender and their personal and family circumstances, to access high-quality learning opportunities at any time in their lives, in order to promote personal and professional development, empowerment, adaptability, employability and active participation in society.

D. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Identifying the educational needs of the target group in cooperation with the employment sector and educational providers in order to develop an inventory of long- and short-term courses to meet those needs.
2. Developing methods in the field of accredited adult education in cooperation with educational providers and communicating both national and international innovations to specialists.

E. PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS ACHIEVED
The project was carried out through the following group activities:
Group Activities A – Establishing of project management infrastructure
Group Activities B -. Organizing of transnational meetings for coordinators
Group Activities C – Preparation of intellectual outputs
Group Activities D – Continuous trainings (C) for POTA – bridge project
Group Activities F – Project promotion and dissemination
Each group of activities comprised number of specific activities distributed among the partner organizations. For the for which Action Plan was developed and was carefully monitored during the project implementation. Successful execution of the stated activities has lead to the achivment of the following main project results:
R1. Prepared strategy for developing adults’ competence
R2. Prepared a guidance for training – „Development of basic skills to find employment“.
R3. Prepared a guidance for training – „Business administrator“.
R4. Prepared a guideline – „Financial literacy“.
R5. Created an official page of the project
R6. Creating of official video of the project
R7. Trained and certificated 60 participants-adults
R8. Printed promotional materials

F. PROJECT IMPACT:
It was assessed that project has versatile impact in several areas of relevance:
– Impact on the participants through improved knowledge, acquired skills, developed abilities and behavior
– Impact on participating organizations through implementing good practices for learning, establishing standards for implementation mobility to gain knowledge, acquiring institutional capacity for managing mobility and establish work placement for adults, establishing modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment open to synergies with organizations active in different sectors and educational fields, improving management competences, reinforcing cooperation with partners from other countries, etc..
– Impact on target groups and other stakeholders

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47540 Eur

Project Coordinator

Proficio Skopje & Country: MK

Project Partners

• Institute Perspectives
• VEREIN INITIATIVE FUR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP – UNTERNEHMERISCHE HALTUNGEN WECKEN, FORDERN, STARKEN