Workplace Basic Skills Training for Low-Skilled Migrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Workplace Basic Skills Training for Low-Skilled Migrants

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

Literacy, numeracy and social skills are fundamental to master typical situations in everyday working life. Competence deficits in this areas can prove to be an obstacle to permanent and successful integration into the labour market especially for migrants, refugees and locals.

The materials of the ERASMUS+ project “Workplace Basic Skills” were developed by eight different project partners and focuses on four learning scenarios in the areas of construction, cleaning, care and tourism. Using four protagonists, learners can experience how typical professional situations can be managed competently through the application of basic skills particularly required in these professions. Due to the action orientation of the concept, competences are trained and reflected in numerous situations.

The specific objectives of the project were:

• to develop Workplace Basic Skills materials for literacy, numeracy and social skills training in construction, cleaning, tourism and care.
• to design Guidelines for Trainers with information on the target group and how to train social and communication skills particularly required in these professions.
• to take into account aspects of diversity, especially of the cultural and social background of the learners, for their better integration into the European society.
• to provide these e-learning materials and Guidelines at an e-platform and through a mobile app.
• to provide the materials in English and all languages of the partnership plus Arabic and Pashtun.

Our target group

The target group of Workplace Basic Skills e-learning materials are people with poor literacy, numeracy and social skills. The people with these deficits are mainly migrants and refugees, but also local, mostly low skilled people.

The guide is aimed at trainers who support the integration of adult immigrants and locals into the labour market. The materials are applicable in the following situations: job placement of adult refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants & locals who are not able to read, write and calculate well or have a lack of social competence; Language training for adult refugees, asylum seekers & immigrants; Integration programmes for adult immigrants and Vocational education and training.

Workplace Basic Skills Approach

It has long been known that learning theoretical concepts are insufficient to enable learners to apply their knowledge in practice. Instead of promote literacy, numeracy and social skills dryly, abstractly and separately from each other, our concept integrates all learning objectives in a story based approach.

The learner can accompany the following characters on their first day of work:
• Arman: a construction labourer
• Anna: an office cleaner
• Nedjad: a personal care worker in Health Services
• Karina: a waitress

Through this approach, the Workplace Basic Skills approach aims to improve basic education and social skills as a basis for long-term integration into the labour market. Due to the size of the consortium of eight partners in total, an important milestone was set in strengthening the topic of basic education in Europe.

Project Website

https://wbs.ili.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 279076,63 Eur

Project Coordinator

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• INTEGRA INSTITUT INSTITUT ZA RAZVOJ CLOVEKOVIH POTENCIALOV VELENJE
• SDRUZENIE MEZDUNARODEN INSTITUT POMENIDJMANT
• QUALED obcianske zdruzenie pre kvalifikáciu a vzdelávanje
• Innovation Training Center, S.L.
• Ente Bilaterale Veneto
• Wissenschaftsinitiative Niederösterreich (WIN)
• AKADIMAIKO DIADIKTYO