Upskilling parents – how to guide children safely through distance learning through times of crisis Erasmus Project

Project Title

Upskilling parents – how to guide children safely through distance learning through times of crisis

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Innovation and promotion of quality offer the opportunity to reach those parents who are not easily reached, in order to keep up with the ever changing needs and challenges of parents. Distance learning during the Coronavirus-crisis made parents more responsible than ever before. Socio-economically disadvantaged families from educationally disadvantaged classes are experiencing great difficulties, which means that they are often excluded from society and their children often drop out of school without any qualifications. These families are often difficult to reach.
The family is the core of European society, the starting point for building democracy, participation and social change, and therefore social support and assistance for special needs is very important. When working with young people, especially young families, families who are educationally and socio-economically disadvantaged, we know that they often need help on the same issues.
The main priority of our project is to offer effective and innovative ways / possibilities / services based on the knowledge gained in this partnership. Best practices collected and exchanged during implementation are based on high value and quality principles.
We want to examine the question of what it is like in the European Community, whether Greek and Austrian children, young people, parents and their families have the same problems. And what are the solutions to these problems with our partners. What suggestions can we get from other organisations working with parents and children, how can they improve our work?
In order to find out, we would like to enter into a partnership with an Austrian coordinator, an Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, German and Greek partner and professionalise it.
Experience has shown that many parents and their families are relieved when they realize that they are not alone with their problems. For this reason, we will disseminate the results of the project through an online article, guidelines and a set of methods that describe the treatment of family problems in a European comparison and show different approaches to solve them. This completes the main goal of achieving additional professionalisation of our organisations. The direct target group are therefore the employees of the organisations, who through their work will further disseminate the results to other organisations and to
indirect target group of young parents and their families. Not only the individual organisations benefit from the European exchange, but also the families can get the feeling that other people in Europe are similar to themselves. In this way they get a feeling for the European Community and this leads to mutual understanding and sympathy across national borders. The partnership plans to use the similarities and solutions that have been found in a follow-up project.

Project Website

http://www.upskilling-parents.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 74700 Eur

Project Coordinator

Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen & Country: AT

Project Partners

• LUETEC
• Systeme in Bewegung e.V.
• EDUCOMMART SIMIO SINANTISIS EKPEDEVSIS KE DIMIOURGIAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETERIA
• Associação para a Ação Educativa Cultural e Desportiva Form2you
• VsI Zmogiskuju istekliu stebesenos ir pletros biuras