FOREMOR
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
This project, framed in a local initiative structured to fight unemployment, aiming to find answers to this specific question: How can adult education, within the MARCA-ADL diverse areas of work, namely entrepreneurship and associations; local produces and resources valuing, environment; volunteering and youth, boost employment and local/regional development?
It is intended to promote the meeting and sharing ideas, in work context, between professionals and organizations from European territories marked by unemployment and lack of opportunities, which deal with similar challenges at local development level.
In summary the aims are: (a) identify good practices in local projects dedicated to promote employment and employability in four European countries (Portugal, Spain Belgium, United Kingdom); (b) stimulate the dialogue, resources sharing and partnerships between European organizations; (c) participants linguistic competences improvement; (d) contribute to organizations and staff capacitation, in terms of acquisition and consolidation of adult education methodologies, employment and community development competences; (e) disseminate practices and results of the mobility activities, bringing to the local level, providing innovation, opportunities, and quality projects to the community and target audiences.
The project provides preparation, mobility, evaluation and dissemination activities: linguistic training, preparation and following meetings with the participants, preparation meetings, via skype, with partner’s organizations, mobility (job shadowing), and, finally, the post-mobility seminar and thematic workshops.
The project results should reflect at three levels: (1) organizational, sending and receiving organizations; (2) participant / staff level, the ones that benefit from the mobility activities; (3) dissemination target audience and projects developed by the involved organizations.
At level (1) it is expected to identify a minimum of four local projects (good practices) that embrace adult education and employment promotion; create a network that holds education and employment dialogue, which generate at least one new international project driven to different communities, involving at least two partner organizations. (2) At participant level, it is reckoned a significant improvement in the ten participants linguistic competences, in Spanish and English, and also the elaboration of at least three research plans to develop on the partner’s organizations. (3) Finally, the impacts on community and target audiences level, it is projected to accomplish at least one seminar of good practices, in which five local organization, twenty professionals and twenty unemployed or individuals in precarious employment.
At long-term we have the confidence that this initiative reveal its impact on territories and community sustainability, by the accomplishment of new projects and new answers that will allow job generation and employability raising, struggling against high unemployment rates.