LLP – Grundvig Multilateral projects 2011 - 2013

Project No. 518500-LLP-1-2011-1-RO-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

 

LeWeL_UP seeks to empower lower educated adults in order to improve their quality of life by getting better paid jobs, being able to adapt to various situations, by feeling confident to learn, work and do better. Such an initiative it is thought to be accomplished through innovative methods and focus on the learner, and developing the competence "learning how to learn" as a transferable competence throughout Europe.

 

Target Group: trainers, people with lower levels of educational attainment, people most at risk of economic and social exclusion, long term unemployed, migrants and lower-skilled adults. 

 

LeWeL_UP’s aim is to ensure better chances for lower educated citizens in Europe to become lifelong learners and, thus, to be able to permanently and autonomously adjust to new social and economic situations by facilitating their equipment with the competence of learning to learn, concretely translated into “skills for life and work”.

 

The objectives of the LeWel_Up Project are:

 

-      to analyze the definition and different (cultural) understandings of learning to learn and make this competence more operational together with the direct target group - adult learning facilitators. More precisely, a future framework for learning to learn will be developed by identifying corresponsive sub-competences, also called ‘skills for life and work’ , i.e. critical thinking, problem solving exercises, constructive ways of emotion management, attitudes to change and diversity etc.;

-      to design and validate a training concept and materials of ‘skills for life and work’. The project’s focus is on lower-educated learners and migrant workers, as more needs to be done for disadvantaged groups of learners whose full potential at work can only be achieved by enhancing their capacity of learning. The project will develop new pedagogical approaches towards implementing the competence of learning to learn in novel learning environments. In the end, by designing and promoting training that focuses both on personal and professional achievement, providers of adult education will make learners aware of how and why they acquire knowledge;

-      to promote the new training concept across Europe by delivering the course of “skills for life and work” in a European context and by organizing a promotional campaign and a final conference.