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SkillsUp:Skilling up educators for today and tomorrow's labor market
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The knowledge, skills and attitudes of each of Europe‘s 6 million teachers are of great importance. The quality of their teaching has a direct effect upon learner‘s attainment. The demands made on educators/teachers, which is our target group, are increasing and changing. They are called on to play a key role in modernizing education. To do that, they need to develop their own knowledge and skills.Our project's main objective is retaining older teachers/trainers, who is our target group, in employment through the provision of appropriate educational opportunities supported by innovative learning methods.The project will create and propose:• Open Multilingual collaborative platform with Digital and Soft skills courses consisting of 6 modules each for study in English, Lithuanian, French, Greek, Swedish, Bulgarian for 60 hours;• a set of lesson scenarios or lesson plans compiled in e-book (50 lesson samples);• innovative informal training program for professional development of elderly educators, applicable at European level;• State of the Art Report about informal digital and soft skills training for educators in partner countries;• 1 short-term staff training in soft skills (total 15 persons);• 1 multiplier event in partner countries (total 5 events & 120 participants);• 1 international pilot training in soft skills (15 participants),;• 4 national pilot trainings in soft skills (20 participants each; total 80 participants);• 1 international pilot training in digital skills (30 participants);• 5 national pilot trainings in digital skills (20 participants each; total 100 participants);Partnership unites experienced teams from institutions providing distance and adult education what enables to ensure high quality of project implementation and its results mentioned above.Expected results and impact is visible improvement of educators' professional competence, intellectual thinking, practical, transferable skills: the ability to plan & deliver trainings using ICT tools creatively responding to the changes of the modern world; increasing educators' motivation of using languages and ICT in communication and obtaining international experience in professional development; new and modern cooperation between the organizations which can lead to new projects of cooperation in non-formal education for disadvantaged groups.
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