RESET & RESTART EMPLOYABILITY SUPPORT TRAINING PROGRAMME – Emerging Issues Response Post COVID19 Pandemic Erasmus Project

Project Title

RESET & RESTART EMPLOYABILITY SUPPORT TRAINING PROGRAMME – Emerging Issues Response Post COVID19 Pandemic

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: Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

COVID-19 an expectation of 20 million cases, 500.000 deaths, this declared a global pandemic has created an employment crisis across the world. Business failure, mass population in lockdown in houses with the whole economy in standstill, around the globe a common problem has arisen of, mass redunandancies. The partnership consortium had identified a common problem and obvious need in the field of employment. As a consequence of mass redundancy the first who will be the most affected are people of low-income, refugees and immigrants, people from disadvantaged areas, the disabled, vulnerable women & unemployed youth (eg NEETs). Nowadays EU, especially Italy and Spain are struggling not only economic crises, but also with a social crisis. Lots of people lost their jobs. Others had to start to work from their own homes. This pandemic situation found us totally unprepared from economic & social point of view. Life will never be the same & being in a continuing changing situation, we have to RESET & RESTART our lives and our careers. To be able to change & to adapt is important to learn, continually learning. Lifelong learning processing is the key that they can open new opportunities in their lives. Firstly, we will provide psychological/emotional support for those who might need & secondly professionally guidance in their careers. Therefore we´ll contribute on the new start of those people who lost their job & who suffered psychological/mental health changes in their professional lives & also their life routine as a result of COVID19.
The project´s main objective is to provide psychological/wellbeing support & professional guidance in the process of employability. Adults educators will mentor people how to re-orient their professional carriers & to discover together which job is more suitable for each of them. To learn how to adapt to this new lifestyle & to embrace new challenges in their professional lives more easily. To ‘RESET & RESTART’. The project will focus on a set of services, activities & tangible solutions, which allow disadvantaged people to make decisions on their education, training & occupations, & manage their own careers, which are OUTCOMES focused. The project will extend & develop educators competencies through training of trainers & creating a legacy to the project with the training course & modules collectively developed. The course developed will improve & extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities for disadvantaged people, tailored to the needs of the individual & each jurisdiction of the partnership. Together they will deliver high level outcomes to improve the psychology health of disadvantaged people & to facilitate them the process of employability on the labour market.
The target group of this project will be adult educators, psychologists & social mentors. Trainers will be trained to provide information about the labor market & employment opportunities. Will help disadvantaged people to understand their own aspirations, interests, competences, personal characteristics, qualifications & skills, & linking them to desirable work opportunities.
The project will work to support actions, co-operations & tools consistent with the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, investing in knowledge, skills, competencies, benefiting individuals, communities, organizations & civic society. It will also give learners the opportunity to develop their knowledge & understanding of the EU & how it can affect their life outcomes & how they can use their skills & training to affect & influence decision making processes in their careers.
A TOTwill train trainers who will provide psychological support for disadvantaged learners on their professional reorientation – the outputs proposed for developing this partnership learning program are:
1. Develop training curricula adapted to the common professional profile of adult educators (TOT) in psychological guidance on changing career.
2. Developed an online course curriculum which assists in developing career problem solving skills to cope with their emotional, logical & practical needs. Psychometric assessments provide an objective & realistic view to plan a career transition strategy. This online course will be available in 5 languages
3. Develop competences & skills of 110 professionals in adult education to become vocational counselors using short-term staff training & learner’s blended mobilities. (Those 10 and 100 has to have different skills)
4. “Online Mentoring in career changing”This e-tool will be avaliable in 5 different languages and the person who uses this tool will be able to mentor in his/her own language.
5. Increased institutional capacity of 5 organizations in 5 countries and include

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 175076 Eur

Project Coordinator

KILCOOLEY WOMENS CENTRE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Asociatia Impreuna pentru Educare si Dezvoltare Sociala
• A.RE.S. scarl
• Association of Social Life Volunteers
• Associacio Programes Educatius Open Europe