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Social Digital Mentors
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

CONTEXT The Europe 2020 Strategy has defined among others, one key priority that is to raise "Europe’s employment rate – more and better jobs, especially for women, young people and older workers" so to achieve a benchmarkl of " 75% employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 by 2020– achieved by getting more people into work. The achievement of this important goal, that has important implication for the more general objectives of at least 4 of the five headline targets that have been set for the EU to achieve by the end of 2020 as employment; research and development; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction, is threatened by the economic crisis and the consequent loss of job opportunities that in many countries lead the unemployment rates to achieve "record" percentages. Older workers are more exposed to unemployment and exclusion from good careers opportunities, with rates that often reach 35% and more in European Countries and due to the economical crisis and low qualification. Within this context the partners of this project will explore these issues and identify solutions to help older people to be inserted in the labor market establishing effective links between adult schools and the world of work. NEEDS Adult learners, Adult teachers and enterprises need to break the barriers caused by the digital divide which separate them from the netFor helping adullt learners to join the labour market using social media, we will train mentors on how to write an European CV, how to find a job using social empolyment portals and how to create, maintain and preserve the digital identity for the world of work. Social online Mentors will be 10 adult learners in each country. Mentors will offer support, advice an information related on the project issues to the other adult learners using the "social mentor office". The project will use Mentoring interpairs like a methodology of shared learning and growth izens (Internet, first-class citizens), and the rest of people who, due to their lack of knowledge or domain in relation to the use of web social media tools, are considered as the new digital illiterates of the 21st century. The use of Social media and ICT is not widespread among adults, they need to know how to use social media to socialize, communicate and searching job oportunities. Social Media and Internet are now very often used by the companies for selecting in an effective way their future employees. Adult learners need to know how to create and preserve his digital identity where they could keep on their competences, language knowledge, etc. to become an optimal candidate to be reincorporated in labour market in the most rapid an efficient way. AIM The aim of the project is to promote employment for long term unemplyed adult people, through an effective use of social media , ICT and through the training of 10 adult learners in each participant country that will be called “ social digital mentors” ACTIVITIES -Learning community -Social mentors training package -Workshops will adult teachers -Training the "Social digital mentors" -Barcamps with personal recruitment managers of companies. -Social Online Mentors office -Conference about “social digital mentors” CONSORTIUM the project will involve 7 institutions of 5 different European countries. The partnership is composed by institutions with experience in training adult teachers and learners and in the development of innovative projects for adult education. OUTCOMES -Online social digital mentoring training package, The training package will contain a guide and a collection of useful training materials with at least the following chapters:how to create your European curriculum,the most demanded profesional profiles, how to look for work in an effective way in Europe using Euroepan employment portals,how to create personal professional profile, how to monitor and improve personal and professional profile, how to organize personal development plan, tools for creating, controlling, maintaining and improving your own reputation. For creating (select your name, social networks (pages on facebook, twitter, linkedin,foursquare, etc), blogs, youtube, flikr, slideshare etc., for controlling (google alerts, google analytics, Tweetreach, google inside, facebookinside, howsocialble, etc), for improve and maintain (tweetdeck, hootsuite ,etc.) The training packate will contain too a collection of training materials (videos, online games, images, documents, links, interview, etc) -Social digital mentors website and social media pages -Social mentors office.A mailbox and facebook on the homepage website will be created, where all interested adult learners may consult their questions or make an appointment with the social online mentors. IMPACT People involved in the project. -70 adult teachers -2000 adult learners -45 professionals in the field of the recruitment of employees -45 enterprises
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