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EATI – European
Adults: Training and Internationalization Erasmus + |
Coordinator: EPRALIMA – Escola Profissional do Alto Lima (Portugal)
Partners:
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ESE – Association E-Seniors (France)
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LFI – Learning for Integration (Finland)
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CIPFP – Centro Integrado Publico de Formación
Profesional Misericordia (Spain)
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Fundacja Aktywni XXI (Poland)
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VITECO – Vitale Tecnologie Telecomunicazioni (Italy)
The validation of non-formal and informal
learning is generally seen as a key factor in the success of lifelong learning
strategies, because of its potential to increase permeability in education and
training systems. Validation of this learning brings several benefits,
including the fact that low-skilled adults and other disadvantaged groups are
trained through the identification and development of their skills and
potential. In the labor market, motivation may be to promote adult
employability or to solve the challenge of qualification in certain economic
sectors. In addition, validation of this
learning can reduce other barriers to learning, such as lack of time or
funding, because it allows learning paths to be leveraged.
At European level, the validation of this
learning has been systematically promoted since the adoption of European
principles in 2004. In 2012, the Council published its recommendation on the
validation of lifelong learning with the aim of motivating more adults to
participate in lifelong learning, particularly those from disadvantaged
socio-economic groups and low-skilled adults. The Recommendation invited Member
States to put in place mechanisms to validate this learning until 2018,
allowing adults to have their knowledge/competencies/evaluations assessed and
validated and to obtain a full qualification or, where applicable, a partial
qualification. It is stressed that de facto disadvantaged groups will be able
to benefit in particular from these validation mechanisms.
The project aims to create a methodological
manual consisting of a methodological guide for professionals - a training
basis for all coordinators/technicians/teachers involved in the process - as
well as a set of specific tools for the recognition, validation and certification
of competences to be applied to adults. It is expected that the manual, common
to all entities, will enable adults to continue and complete the process in any
other country or foreign countries in order to validate the process at European
level.
General objective: within the framework of adult
school qualifications, it is planned to contribute to the development of a
methodological manual which ensures the recognition, validation and
certification of adults, allowing the combination of theoretical and practical
approaches to validation and certification in order to extend national and
European visions.
Specific objectives:
1 – Creation of a methodological manual
consisting of a methodological guide for professionals and a series of specific
recognition, validation and certification of competences. The objective is to
build a common tool that will enable adult mobilization. In order to equip
adults and make their certification transversal to other countries, the manual
will serve as a basis for training all coordinators/technicians/teachers
working or coming to work in these processes.
2 - Pilot study - experimentation of the manual
with a group of adults to put into practice the validation and school
certification tools at European level. In addition to the tools that will have
to be applied and validated, a certificate recognized at European level will
have to be issued at the end of the process.
3 - Creation of a digital platform for the
dissemination of the methodology used with adults and the implementation of
complementary tools to promote integration into the national and international
labor market. It will be a tool for adults, already certified by the partner
entities, which aims to promote accompaniment and obtain specific training for
other transversal knowledge.
4 - Final evaluation of the impact of the pilot
study, which will lead to a report on the development and implementation of
the manual.