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Connectivity is a project that focuses on developing a method of sustainable inclusion for unemployed adults through educational outdoor activities. We see the need of such initiative for multiple reasons. Creating an accessible learning frame for disadvantaged groups is a common challenge throughout Europe, especially when it comes to adults. There is a growing interest in working with youth and supporting it through various activities and opportunities, but offering the same to adults seems to be more difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that these adults are less likely to participate in such events, in most cases the participants are people who already take advantage of many learning opportunities. Also, this is the target group that has difficulties in adjusting to the formal educational system, thus losing connection with education in any forms. This often results in social exclusion and borderline behavior (addiction, abuse, depression, etc.). On one hand there are many organizations that focus on this target group and create various activities for support (such as biking, city safari etc.), still, in many cases, these events have no educational value and no long-term impact. On the other hand, even if the organized activities do have an educational purpose, they serve as a one-time experience and they hardly create a difference in the long run. Through this project, we would like to offer a solution to this challenge by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies and have higher chances to enter the labor market. Our idea is to bring together partners who are actively working with this target group and to support them and their staff members in creating a suitable method of inclusion which has a long-term impact not only on the affected individuals but also on the organizations and on the local community. By creating an innovative playground and engaging persons with limited formal education not only in the activities of the organizations but also in the work of these organizations, inclusion will happen on a much bigger scale and will serve as a way to tackle unemployment. The project brings together 7 partners from the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and France. Each of these partners works with adults from difficult backgrounds and aims to support their active participation in society through different tools and methods coming from the field of non-formal education.The objectives of the project are the following:- extending and training the competences of our partner organizations when working with fewer opportunity adults (designing activities, creating a sustainable relationship with the target group, offering different learning opportunities within the organization, encouraging the active participation of unemployed adults within society);- improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual fewer opportunity adults so that they enhance their key competencies;- disseminating the project results, inside and outside of the participating countries with the support of the associated organizations during and after the project duration;- ensuring the step-by-step evaluation of the project through transnational meetings, training events, Europasses and learning questionnaires; - creating a sustainable partnership of complimentary parties (with various scopes).In order to reach its goals, the project includes 3 transnational meetings, 4 training events, 3 intellectual outputs (a workbook, a handbook and an online platform) as well as 14 multiplier events. The methodology we apply in Connectivity is process-based and it is in line with Andrew McCoshan’s EPALE Thematic Coordinator.The main results of the project are the following:Intellectual outputs: two guide-books (a workbook and a handbook) tailor-made for adult educators and an interactive online platform.The outcomes regarding the participants are:- acquiring new skills in coaching, mentoring and training (in specific relation with their target group);- developing their competencies in creating and implementing educational outdoor activities;- understanding the interconnections between formal, non-formal education and the labor market.As an outcome the partner organizations will:- equip their staff with new pedagogical materials needed to address their target groups;- improve the partners’ educational output by adding in a new way to work with their target groups;- open up to new ideas coming from other European countries and have a better understanding of collaborative working in a European context;- expand their international profile; - expand their visibility in the partner countries.
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