TRIAS – Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified Erasmus Project

Project Title

TRIAS – Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

About the TRIAS Project
The Erasmus+ project TRIAS – guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low-qualified developed an innovative approach to guidance by
combining outreach guidance work with employers’ involvement. The project focuses on strengthening the competences of guidance practitioners to
successfully reach out to the workforce, especially to the low-qualified as one of the most important target groups in adult education. Therewith the project
contributes to increasing the chance of low qualified persons to participate in training and education.

Why? The rationale
Since continuing education and training are of unprecedented importance in knowledge societies, workplace guidance has to raise awareness for guidance and
lifelong learning, as well as to provide low-threshold access to guidance services for the employed directly at the place where vocational and educational
choices matter most – in the workplace.

Introducing the TRIAS approach to guidance in the workplace
To develop the TRIAS approach of workplace guidance, the project integrateed two already existing ways of promoting education and training in the workplace:
– Qualification consulting targeting companies
– Career guidance targeting employees
The TRIAS approach to providing guidance in the workplace includes the company as a relevant actor in the guidance process. Thereby, TRIAS guidance
practitioners act in the relational triangle of guidance users, companies and the practitioners them-selves.
The inclusion of companies poses a challenge for the more familiar and well-established user-practitioner relationships. Guidance practitioners not only have
to gain access to employers, but also know about business models and human resource development strategies in order to be able to take the employer’s
perspective into account. The TRIAS project prepares guidance practitioners for these new challeng-ing tasks.

Who?
The TRIAS project focuses directly on the target group of guidance practitioners and adult educators. In order to be able to offer services in the field of
workplace guid-ance, they require additional know-how and competences.

What?
The TRIAS project compiled a text book for self-study purposes and developed a training programme, both targeting guidance practitioners who want to offer
guid-ance in the workplace.
Overview on Outputs/Results:
– Intellectual Output (IO) 1: A synthesis report on collected European experiences of guidance in the workplace based on 5 country reports
– IO 2: Text book “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (a self- study tool for guidance practitioners) – translated into all
part-ner country languages
– IO 3: Curriculum “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (Curriculum for a two days seminar for guidance practitioners)
trans-lated into all partner country languages. The curriculum was tested in Pilot Semi-nars in all partner countries except Denmark

Where?
The project was carried out in the EU partner countries Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Slovenia. In each partner country, we organised
multiplier events fostering the dialogue with policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of guidance, adult education and labour market policy.

The project consortium consisted of 5 European partners with experience in qualifica-tion consulting for companies as well as educational career guidance in
the workplace:
ÖSB Consulting – Austria (coordinator)
Peter Plant – Denmark
Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung – Germany
ERUDICIO – Czech Republik
Andragoski Zavod Maribor – Slowenia

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 226065 Eur

Project Coordinator

ÖSB Consulting GmbH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• PP Peter Plant
• Andragoski zavod Maribor – Ljudska univerza
• ERUDICIO nadacni fond
• bbb Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung R. Klein & Partner GbR