"Le réseau Tandem Plus, créé en 2008, est une organisation à but non lucratif regroupant des organisations publiques et privées de 9 pays de l'UE (FR, IT, DE, TR, PT, DK, HR, GR RO) et de pays tiers (MA - Maroc). Les membres du réseau Tandem Plus sont impliqués dans des actions concernant un public cible vulnérable touché par la pauvreté, l'exclusion sociale et la discrimination : les migrants, les jeunes, les personnes âgées, les détenus, les personnes touchées par la pauvreté ou en situation de précarité. Le réseau dispose d'une expertise variée dans le domaine, proposant par exemple des projets d'insertion sociale et professionnelle organisés autour de la formation et/ou de l'emploi, favorisant l'éducation et la sensibilisation interculturelle, l'égalité, la justice et le progrès, par des actions harmonisées de développement économique, social et culturel, encourageant la solidarité.Le projet ""Compétences clés pour tous"" (KC4ALL) est le résultat des reflections des partnenaires qui ont ressenti le besoin d'un moyen plus structuré de partager les connaissances et le savoir-faire sur le thème des compétences clés pour tous. Toutes les méthodologies et tous les outils créés et partagés, ont été rassemblés dans un recueil en ligne; une plateforme d'échange entre les partenaires qui appartiennent au réseau (mais de libre accès pour tous: www.kc4all.net ) pour apprendre et partager des expériences en mettant particulièrement l'accent sur la contribution au partage des connaissances et des pratiques, des actions d'apprentissage et d'inclusion que chaque partenaire a adoptées pour relever les défis identifiés dans le document COM(2016) 381 final UN ORDRE DU JOUR POUR L'EUROPE EN MATIÈRE DE NOUVELLES COMPÉTENCES.Le project Kc4all se concentre sur deux objectifs interconnectés :1) Renforcer le potentiel transnational du réseau et de ses membres à opérer au niveau local avec la valeur ajoutée de la coopération transnationale, en partageant et en confrontant les systèmes et les solutions, les méthodes et les pratiques qu'ils ont utilisés ou avec lesquels ils opèrent;2) Soutenir la capacité des organisations impliquées et de leurs réseaux locaux à améliorer leur offre de services et leur portée, en particulier pour les cibles ayant des compétences clés plus faibles (notamment les adultes de plus de 45 ans, les adultes et les jeunes ayant un faible niveau d'éducation, les migrants et les réfugiés, les NEETs et les chômeurs de longue durée)Le projet capitalise sur un certain nombre de projets locaux, régionaux et nationaux - y compris certains projets de développement de l'innovation réalisés - indépendamment ou sous forme de consortiums diversifiés par les partenaires du projet.Les produits livrables et l'impact du projet ont été :-4 sessions conjointes de formation/apprentissage sur des aspects spécifiques du développement et des la validation des compétences clés de la durée de 5 jours chacun -4 événements locaux de diffusion organisés au profit des parties prenantes et en présence de participants transnationaux pour partager avec les acteurs externes les principaux contenus/connaissances acquises -5 réunions transnationales de deux jours en présence, chacune axées sur l'évaluation et la consolidation des connaissances et du savoir-faire générés lors des sessions de formation/apprentissage -1 réunion transnationale en ligne dédiée aux partenaires de projet pour évaluer et planifier le déroulement du projet après l’émergence covid19-1 formation en ligne sur les ""compétences digitales pour la vie"" qui a vu un public très varié de professionnels et des bénéficiaires potentiels- 1 événement final en ligne (durée 7 h) qui a retracé les étapes du projet et ses résultats, en les relisant à la lumière de la situation d'urgence covid19 -Une publication électronique d'un recueil général consolidant les résultats du projet et l'expérience partagée (avec matériel en anglais, français, allemand, portugaise, roumain, italien - https://www.kc4all.net/)-Communication de résultats du projet sur le site web de Tandem Plus et résultats ERASMUS + et EPALE comme matériel OER.Les résultats à long terme:-Amélioration de la capacité des organisations partenaires à travailler au niveau transnational, à comprendre la valeur ajoutée des échanges et à coopérer avec d'autres organisations pour améliorer la fourniture de services liés à l'éducation, à la formation et à l'inclusion sociale en ce qui concerne le rôle crucial des compétences clés -Une capacité accrue à développer des stratégies et à identifier les lacunes et les moyens de les combler avec les connaissances acquises-Amélioration de la qualité de la préparation, de la mise en œuvre, du contrôle et du suivi des projets communautaires/internationaux-Une meilleure compréhension des approches, méthodes et pratiques concernant la reconnaissance et la validation du développement des compétences clés dans les pays concernés."

The EMBRACE Project aimed to structure and test a transnationally recognized methodology to identify, document and validate non-formal and informal competences acquired by migrants in their countries of origin or in other EU countries in order to improve migrants’ opportunities for entering the European labour market. The main target group of the project was represented by migrants from countries outside the EU who had recently arrived in our continent and who had or didn’t have formal qualifications or previous job experiences, gained in their country of origin or in another EU state. The project addressed the challenges that migrants face regarding their professional inclusion and strived to contribute to a more inclusive and cohesive society and to a better well-being among citizens, linking together economic development and social cohesion. The project raised awareness that an effective skills validation system could improve the supply-demand matching and foster a long-term professional inclusion based on the actual skills and competences of individuals. That also encouraged a higher level of transparency of the acknowledgements (due to the comparability of the professional qualification systems) and promoted the transferability of competences between sectors and companies also at EU level. This challenge was taken through the elaboration and experimentation of a specific procedure, based on “migrant-friendly” tools and on intercultural approaches. The objectives set in the planning phase have been achieved through the contribution and active collaboration of the whole partnership. Furthermore, in order to achieve the project objectives, it was pivotal to share a methodology based on the awareness that people from third countries constitute a plural universe of individuals, families and communities that cannot in any way be seen as a homogeneous whole: they come from dozens of different countries, they profess different religions, they reach Europe for work, for family reunification, for birth, for transit, for study, for health problems or to escape from a war, they are young (above all) and they are elderly women and men who arrive alone or in family groups. In this scenario each partner implemented several actions in the frame of their institutional activities that followed two directions: recognizing and validating professional skills and paying attention to foreign citizens and their inclusion in society. The partnership was composed by 8 organization from 6 EU countries and included partners from traditional countries of arrival (Italy and Spain) and from countries of destination of the migration flows (Denmark, Netherlands and Germany); partners’ profiles are vocational training and guidance agencies, cooperatives and associations dealing with migrants reception and social integration support, local public bodies and workers’ organizations that, beside their diversity, have been able to carry out the entire project process. The activities have been mainly focused on the agri-food sector, considered as a growing and strategic sector in many EU countries. This sector absorbs a lot of migrants in their countries of origin and shows a strong demand of migrant labour force. Furthermore, despite the various production technologies, it presents basic analogies in the different countries (origin and arrival). EMBRACE has produced 3 main Outputs: the Catalogue of professional profiles and skills required in EU and in the agri-food sector (Output 1); the methodological approach described in the Methodological Guidelines for the recognition and validation of skills in the agri-food sector with reference to citizens from third countries (Output 2); the Certification Toolkit for Experts and Operators which provides tools and a step-by-step guide to support migrants with finding a new or better job through identification and validation of their skills (Output 3). The materials produced can be freely accessed and used via the project website (www.embraceproject.eu) which will be online for 5 years after the end of the project. 2 multiplier events were carried out in Germany and Italy with the participation of stakeholders from local, national and European level. Wide dissemination has been performed via the project dissemination channels and via partners’ networks, by organizing campaigns mainly during live events and Social Media activities, creating and constantly updating a Facebook page and using YouTube and LinkedIn where also many promotional videos were shown.

ACROSS- “Appraising transversal skills in green jobs for employability of youth and workers in restructuring processes” contributed to strengthening the capacity of VET and labor market organizations to reduce the gaps between available skills and labor demand and to deliver innovative tools to bridge such gaps focusing on two main tenets: sustainable development in the so-called green economies and the appraising of transversal skills as portable skills in times of high unemployment and restructuring. The project has looked at green jobs as a cross-sectorial overhaul of traditional jobs in transforming/ restructuring sectors and the development of innovative, technology- and efficiency-driven new jobs also in traditional sectors. ACROSS has highlighted distinctive features that adapt general transversal skills to the green context and the different meanings that “green” could have in different job profiles and specializations. Led by a European network specialized in training and inclusion of people at risk, TANDEM PLUS (FR), the partnership is made up by diverse but complementary partners, operating in the relevant fields of VET and employability operating directly in many territories in different Members States, covering 9 different countries (FR, IT, PT, DE, HR, BE, NL, DK, FI), with expertise in different realms of IVET and CVET, including capability to adapt policy, devising and delivering career support services, effective transversal competence assessment, support to entrepreneurship, analysis and development of tools, also ICT driven.The needs identified at the project’s start: (1) the transition to new forms of “green” economy is not easily foreseeable but necessary to the fields of education, training, employment and business support services (2) the weak capability of micro, SMEs to identify not only products, but human capital with suitable skills to transit to a greener approach; (3) high need for flexible (on-the-job, practical) sound methods for skills appraisal and development available in the portfolio of VET providers; (4) the effort to develop tools for green skills must not be a separate policy from wider frameworks. To respond to these needs, ACROSS has identified the following specific objectives:1. To expand and improve the knowledge of current practice on ACROSS’ two tenets to provide partners and other stakeholders with concrete methodologies and tools2. To provide multi-stakeholder accepted analysis of issues and innovative, blended solutions as a set of concrete tools for professional development to be streamlined in wider VET frameworks; 3. To test and transfer ACROSS tools and strategies 4. To make the project’s results and outputs accessible to the highest possible number of actors, stakeholders and beneficiaries The project’s first output, “the ACROSS knowledge toolkit”, has drawn on different analyses of sectorial trends (CEDEFOP, OECD, ILO) and builds on past & current work, changes in the labour market, the experience in skills forecast, and the long experience in skills’ assessment and key skills/profiles for innovation, including the partnership’s experiences and work with SMEs. The partners have embedded the project into the appropriate transnational EU framework, using the ESCO (European Skills, Competences Qualifications and Occupations) taxonomy and standards. The extensive work done has been conducive to the development of three blended tools which are based on a cross-cutting principle: contextualization of transversal skills in jobs and work environments that have the attention to preservation, promotion and development of environmental, social and economic sustainability. The result is a set of integrated tools: a tool for transversal skills assessment (IO 3); a tool for guidance and employability in greening jobs(IO4); a tool to anticipate green skills needs(IO5). All tools are available online on a platform http://acrossonlinetool.eu/. A 5-day intensive joint staff training has been pivotal to the development of the methodology, which has been tested on a very small scale (IO6). The overall methodological approach has been codified in the “ACROSS model” (IO 2) and disseminated through local and transnational multiplier events to present the results of the project and to promote its approach to external stakeholdersBased on existing good practice and innovative tools, the ACROSS model and its tools are, at the end of the project, already re-used in mainstream VET and employment policy (ESF funded activities). The partner organizations are already – and plan- using the tools developed in the project as part of their service delivery, in some cases within larger policy frameworks at regional and national level. The small experimentation has shown that final beneficiaries appreciate the simplicity of the tools, and professionals deem them as useful new support in their job.