Professionalization of Trainers for work based basic skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Professionalization of Trainers for work based basic skills

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Why:
Across Europe, the participation of low-skilled workers in continuing vocational training remains far below average, and their risk of unemployment high. In the debate on skilled workers, these employees are increasingly coming under scrutiny throughout Europe as endogenous potential for securing competitiveness. As a consequence, companies are becoming increasingly important as a means of gaining access to low-qualified target groups for lifelong learning.
Work-based basic skills training – WBBS for short – as a continuing education offering is proving to be an important way of reaching employees with no or no recognised vocational qualification for the further development of their basic skills in Europe. A wide range of national and European projects and implementation strategies have generated empirically sound findings on how access to companies and employees can be designed, how learning and competence development close to the workplace can be initiated and realised and which organisational conditions promote this educational service as a business field. It has been shown: If strategies of further training for semi-skilled and unskilled workers are to be successful, work-based learning – as close to the workplace as possible – must be professionally organised. Due to the diverse specifics of WBBS training in companies, this training service represents a challenge for adult educators. This is where the Profi-Train project with its professionalisation approach comes in.

Who:
Partners of the project are:
bbb Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung, R. Klein & Partner GbR, Dortmund; Dipl. Päd. Rosemarie Klein Managing Director (Koordinatorin) & Dipl. Päd. Gerhard Reutter, Dipl. Päd., Senior Researcher.
BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH, Wien; Helmut Kronika, Managing Director
ERGANI Center for Support and Advancement of Employment for women in Thessaloniki; Parthenopi Sourmaidou, Managing Director; Anna
ERUDICIO nadacni fond, Plzen; Jarmila Modra, researcher; Vlastimil Outly, Senior Expert, Jana Vanova, Researcher, Vera Komerova, researcher
MEDE Ministry for Education and Employment. Directories for Lifelong Learning, Malta; Christianne Fenech, Project Manager, Mandy Mifsud, researcher
SIAE Slovenian Institut for Adult Education, Lubljana; Estera Mozin, Researcher and Project Leader; Petra Javrh, ResearcherWhat:
PROFI-TRAIN builds on the existing knowledge of WBBS training and presents a transferable and flexible further training concept for teaching, scheduling and process support staff in further training. The further training concept “Acquiring competencies for work-based basic skills” consists of three components:

– IO 1 “Self-Study-Manual. Acquiring Competencies for Work-Based Basic Skills Training (WBBS)
– IO 2 “Guide with six training modules for attendance seminars
– IO 4 “European Roadmap for Stakeholders”, who can implement sustainable professionalisation strategies

The products are based on initially prepared country reports, which were published in a compiled version as specialist article. For the qualitative and country-specific contextualised completion of the products, national pilot seminars lasting several days were planned, implemented and evaluated by each partner (IO 3). The results of the pilot seminars were documented in a report (IO 3) and were used in particular for the qualitative further development of IO 2 and for the development of IO 4.

The modules in IO 1 and IO 2 run close to the action process of WBBS trainings and thematise the topic:
Module 1: Basic knowledge of Work-Based Basic Skills
Module 2: Approaches to companies
Module 3: Appeal to employees
Module 4: Developing an Operational Training Programme for Work-Based Basic Skills
Module 5: Realisation of Work-Based Basic Skills Training
Module 6: Finalisation and Evaluation of WBBS-Training

How:
The Profi-Train partnership produced the products in a division of labour and were subject to a structured feedback process and a thorough peer review process. The partners took the opportunity to develop a detailed analysis of the educational system, the degree of innovation, etc. based on country-specific characteristics of the educational system. criteria to contextualize and then translate the English-language versions that were initially developed. This was particularly relevant to ensure the connectivity of the products, to make the wording more precise and to increase the chances of implementation in the country.

Result:
Due to the innovative content of the professionalization concept, the products IO 1 and IO 2 in particular have become much more differentiated, in-depth and thus more comprehensive than expected. The results of the pilot seminars indicate that it has been possible both to comprehensively secure the knowledge base on WBBS and to present guidelines for planning attendance seminars with lively learning methods and opportunities for biographical career development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 390912 Eur

Project Coordinator

bbb Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung R. Klein & Partner GbR & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ERUDICIO nadacni fond
• ANDRAGOSKI CENTER REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE
• MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
• CENTRE FOR SUPPORT AND ADVANCEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN IN THESSALONIKI-ERGANI
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH