Sharing good educational practices and systematising a training competences programme for employment and inclusion for vulnerable adult people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sharing good educational practices and systematising a training competences programme for employment and inclusion for vulnerable adult people

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Context/background
Europe has great challenges, and we must solve these troubles from the collaborative actions.The major problems (unemployment and social exclusion) can / should be addressed also from an educational perspective. Training institutions for adults and specifically teachers and trainers that work with adult people and adult learners need to know the methodologies and the educational strategies that can help adults at risk of exclusion (to improve their employability situation and social inclusion) and to access different kind of materials to improve teachers’ work. The Ei project proposed to face these questions from an international approach, given the global dimension of this problem and, on the other hand… Europe receives more and more migrants from the rest of the world.
So, it is necessary to continue building a united Europe, with exemplary solutions for the world, where different cultures and languages are not an obstacle to creating the community of European people.
Objectives
This project intended to identify and to share good experiences/practices concerning adult education, in the resolution of their problems of unemployment and social exclusion.
The project was oriented towards teachers who have great action in their students in the medium and long term. Specifically:
Several expert members (8) in elderly people and ICTs from E-Senior.
2 adult schools, CEPA 15 teachers, and CPIA with 12, state-funded, which work for employment and social inclusion day after day.
2 state universities with programmes for elderly people, the UOv. (6 lecturers), and Long-life UAb. (5). They also carry out a powerful, serious and official training activity with teachers, with effective in-class methodologies and e-learning, command of the current fundamental and transversal competences, ability to plan, implement, evaluate and designing educational plans.
All of these teachers have an annual activity of about 10,000 adult students annually. There was among these participants, several directors and vice-rectors of these educational centers who were also implicated, therefore the impact is greater and more quantitatively.
The main activities carried out:
This project did not request economic support for intellectual products, however, we can highlight:
4 international training activities of 5 days for teachers (46 directly and 205 related),
Mutual knowledge of educational institutions,
A repository of Good Practices, documents and materials for adult education,collected in the four countries involved in the project,
Several TV programs/WEB,
A network,
WEB sites,
DVD publishing, (2018). Research results on Adult Education. Madrid: Dykinson. ISBN: 978-84-9148-618-3,
International Conference, with Proceedings documenting adult education experiences from different countries and in different contexts,
Multiple publications and presentations at scientific and cultural events,
A Wikipedia entry, with versions in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Results and impact attained:
60 international mobility experiences of adult teachers involved in this project who have shared their successful work with other colleagues.
A large number of other teachers and students of education who have also participated in our training actions. These teachers involved in the training activities know different and effective options in the formation of adults, for example, technological, e-learning methodologies, communication in multicultural contexts, idiomatic competences, coaching and leadership competences, teamwork, work options making a video curriculum, etc.
Many other teachers and adult trainers without participating in this project have access to several experiences and good practices in adult education schools through the documents produced in the E&I project and that are available in the web site, and where presented in TV programmes, news, etc.
Experts and academics know the effective actions of adult education centers through scientific articles, attendance at conferences, and other events.
The European and ERASMUS dimension has also been fostered in the solution of European problems.
The mindset of many teachers has changed and solutions have been known from an international perspective. So, many of the shared educational strategies have been incorporated into the respective educational programming and will be applied systematically. We can say new methodologies have been implemented in the way of teaching, for example, the activity in inclusive educational centers. The educational administrations are giving more importance to a less valued training context such as adult education.
Obviously we have not been able to solve the European problems of inclusion and unemployment, but humbly, we have given visibility to some good practices that can help adult schools to more effectively perform their important daily task.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 101375 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CEPA Gijón
• Centro Provinciale per l’Istruzione degli Adulti – CPIA di Padova
• E-SENIORS: INITIATION DES SENIORS AUX NTIC ASSOCIATION
• UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA