Voice UP – Supporting Disadvantaged Women’s Successful Job Return Erasmus Project

Project Title

Voice UP – Supporting Disadvantaged Women’s Successful Job Return

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The Voice UP – Supporting Disadvantaged Women’s Successful Job Return project combines the efforts of 5 partners, reflecting current challenges and trends in the field of adult education from different regions of Europe – Eastern (Romania and Bulgaria), Central (Austria), Northern (Norway) and Southern (Italy). The starting point of our joint effort is supporting adult trainers in effective teaching of their courses to disadvantaged women trying to return on the job. By equipping adult trainers with the adequate methodology and resources we aim at increasing the quality of training provided to female learners, so that they can successfully be employed and stay on the job in a long-term perspective.

The end-users of our project efforts are disadvantaged women learners, who are Roma, refugees or migrants. They face different situations limiting their opportunities, such as low qualification, lack of upper secondary education, economic difficulties, cultural and ethnic differences, etc. By improving the competences of adult trainers we will directly contribute to one of the horizontal priorities of Erasmus+ for 2019, related to supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences, in order to foster their employability and socio-educational and personal development.

Our innovation proposed focuses on providing adult training based on the concept of empowerment and the understanding that one of the driving factors for sustainable employment is through fostering individual’s motivation for learning and development.

-Tangible results (outputs)-
1. IO1 – Methodological Guide for Training Delivery “Voice UP”, electronic document available in all partner languages and English.
2. IO2 – Online Training Activities Tutorials Inventory “Voice UP, video materials available in all partner languages and English.
3. IO3 – Empowerment Game “Voice UP”, available in all partner languages and English.
4. 60 adult trainers integrate IO1, IO2 and IO3 in their daily work (piloting: 20 and exploitation:40).
5. 190 disadvantaged women learners engaged in adult education courses based on IO1, IO2 and IO3 (piloting: 75 and exploitation:115).
6. 1200 adult trainers other stakeholders reached through dissemination activities (5 multiplier events, 45 online publications, 15 thematic presentations at external events, ongoing information provision).

-Intangible results (outcomes)-
1. Improved professional competences of adult trainers in partner organisations and beyond to deliver empowerment training to disadvantaged women;
2. Improved motivation for learning and development of disadvantaged women participating in trainings;
3. Improved awareness of adult education communities in partner countries and beyond in the area of empowerment training provision.

The main impact dimensions envisaged can be summarised as follows. The overall quality of training provision in our organisation to disadvantaged learners will improve. Our adult trainers’ self-esteem will raised, which will further enhance the quality of their teaching. The employment prospects for disadvantaged women will improve, as a result of their empowered motivation for learning and development, acquired during trainings based on Voice UP outputs. It is important to highlight a specific impact expected, which is related to their increased chances of staying on the job for a longer period, as a result of their improved motivation for development during the trainings. Their self-esteem will improve and their awareness of being active members of the society will raise.

Project Website

https://voice-up.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 185511 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrul de Resurse pentru Educatie si Formare Profesionala & Country: RO

Project Partners

• SPEHA FRESIA SC
• Your Ideas Matter LTD.
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH
• LoPe – forening for mikrointegrering