Practices and Approaches for Upskilling Educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Practices and Approaches for Upskilling Educators

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

“PAUSE: Practices and Approaches for Upskilling Educators” is aimed at exchanging experience and good practices for improving the skills and competences of educators working with vulnerable adults. Within a consortium of 8 organisations from 8 EU countries and extended networks of stakeholders at national and European level, the project will develop a comprehensive database of practices and initiatives that provide successful mechanisms for improving the teaching skills of adult educators related to promoting interculturalism, dealing with cultural and linguistic diversity, promoting tolerance and equality in the class room , fighting stereotypes, racism and discrimination,
promoting inclusion and participation, paying attention to specific learning needs, etc.

The good practices will be targeted at addressing skills needed to work with three groups of vulnerable adults considered a high priority on the adult education agenda, and namely:
– People from disadvantaged backgrounds such as migrants, Roma, refugees and asylum seekers who can use adult learning as a means of strengthening social inclusion and active participation
– Elderly people who need enhanced learning opportunities in the context of active aging
– People with disabilities who need tailored educational opportunities for addressing their specific learning needs

Policy recommendations place importance on the fact that vulnerable groups have distinct needs and cultural patterns which must be respected and reflected in an educational context, and in a systemic and inclusive way that caters for diversity. In this respect, adult educators working with vulnerable groups can benefit highly from good practices, approaches and methods for making adult education more attractive, more accessible and more effective and thus improve the quality of their service.

The project objectives cover:
– To develop and disseminate a comprehensive database of successful and effective practices at EU level aimed at improving the skills of educators working with vulnerable adults
– To build a European-wide network of practitioners developing national and European initiatives focused on providing quality adult education and to enrich their expertise
– To enhance the motivation of adults from vulnerable groups to take part in adult education
– To foster the exchange of experience at EU level and enhance the dissemination and exploitation potential of existing educational projects providing tools for improving the skills of adult educators

The good practices will be made available through a user-friendly search engine on the project website which will allow users to sort out their search preferences and search for good practices by impact targets, criteria, target groups, topics, countries, key words, etc. The practices will be spread to relevant stakeholders within a series of 24 national exploitation seminars for exchange of experience.

In addition, PAUSE will create an EU-wide network of over 80 associated partners which will get involved in the process of research, feedback, quality assurance, dissemination and exploitation of good practices focused on quality adult education and inclusion of vulnerable groups.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89160 Eur

Project Coordinator

INICIATIVAS DE FUTURO PARA UNA EUROPA SOCIAL COOP V & Country: ES

Project Partners

• KU TU EOOD
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi
• SMASHING TIMES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED
• Cooperatieve vereniging Pressure Line U.A.
• brainplus- Projektmanagement Schabereiter
• B.S.D. S.r.l
• APROXIMAR- COOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL