The project focuses on adult education and employment in Europe. This project will contribute to meeting the Europe 2020 goals to increase employment rate by 75% and participation target of 15% in lifelong learning through development of the basic and specific competences of adult educators.

According to the data of the need analysis in European and partner countries national context, the following needs are addressed within the project:

  • To develop the basic and specific adult educators’ competencies working with disadvantaged learners with focus on innovative ways of outreach and delivery of learning activities;
  • To provide necessary knowledge and information to adult learners with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged background on access to adult learning services and the possibilities for employment on the basis of their lifestyle, abilities and talents.

The objectives are:

  1. to strengthen the competencies of adult educators supplying them with innovative and attractive training material and ICT tools based on Lifestyle entrepreneurship (LSE) approach;
  2. to enhance the professional development of adult educators by introducing the innovative education methods: blended learning, reversed/flipped training, Open education recourses (OER);
  3. to develop OERs tailored to needs of adult educators in order to support digital integration in learning to reach the learners from disadvantaged backgrounds;
  4. to increase the motivation and reduce disparities in learning outcomes of adults learners with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged backgrounds using LSE approach and ICT tools with the long perspective of getting self-employed.

To meet the above mentioned needs and implement the objectives, the partnership will prepare three intellectual outputs: curriculum (01), training material and ICT tools (02) and guidelines (03). A new Lifestyle entrepreneurship approach, as a solution to get engaged in learning will be suggested to adult learners with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged backgrounds thus enabling them to get self-employed and create business around their lifestyle, abilities and talents.

Target groups: adult educators-practitioners; learners from disadvantaged background (senior citizens, people living in remote areas, in long-term unemployment, women of social exclusion, low-skilled, etc.).

The methodology of the project is based on the blended learning approach using the reversed/ flipped training method, ICT tools, Open Educational Resources.

The project will adapt the good practices from UK on Lifestyle Entrepreneurship as a useful alternative to self-employment for adults with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged backgrounds.