Erasmus-KA220-ADU – Centro Qualifica AE Anadia

Erasmus+ Key Action 2 (KA2) supports partnerships for cooperation, including cooperative partnerships and small-scale partnerships.

This key action is intended to give rise to the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices at organizational, local, regional, national or European levels.

Key-Action KA220

The Agrupamento de Escolas de Anadia applied, together with other European institutions, for a project in the Key Action KA220 – Adult Education, for the period from 2022 to 2024, which was approved, with Italy as the coordinating country.

The actions supported under this key action are intended to significantly contribute to the priorities of the Program, produce positive and lasting effects for the participating organizations, for the policy systems in which these actions are framed and for the organizations and people directly or indirectly involved in organized activities.

These will be carried out in a partnership of 5 European countries over the period between February/2022 and January/2024.

The project

Project 2021-1-IT02-KA220-ADU-000029478

LINK – LearnIng OpportuNities on Digital and Employability sKills for Young Adults with Behavioural and Cognitive Disabilities

Webpage of the project —> HERE.

Evidence that in the pandemic context inequalities in education have been exacerbated and that more flexible and inclusive learning paths are needed (EEA Communication, 2020) has pushed the LINK Partnership to be established, addressing in particular the needs of adults with behavioural and cognitive disabilities (AwBCD) aged 19-24.

In this context, post-secondary and adult education can play a crucial role. It emerges however that only few adult education institutions and disability day care centers offer structured high learning possibilities to AwBCD that are generally limited to artistic and manual competences.

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Objectives

The main aim of LINK is therefore to allow AwBCD aged 19-24 to develop digital and employability skills enabling them to actively participate in the society and find a job. The following objectives summarize what LINK wants to achieve:

1. Developing an innovative flexible modular curriculum on digital and employability skills tailored for AwBCD

2. Developing gamified and digital learning activities and materials adequate for AwBCD

3. Inspire and enable adult educators to organize high quality gamified and blended learning opportunities for AwBCD

4. Raising awareness on the needs and potential of AwBCD and the learning opportunities that can unleash it

What seems particularly relevant for the purpose of this project and for the target group it addresses, as shared by the educators interviewed, is the role that digital tools and new technologies might have as a “mediating” tool to address their relational and learning challenges.

Results

The results expected to be reached are tangible and intangible in nature.

The main tangible results are:

1. LINK Blended Adult Education Course on digital and employability skills with 6 learning Modules including Gamification and Game-based activities in 6 languages aimed at improving digital and employability skills of AwBCD.

2. LINK handbook on digital and gamified learning activities for adults with behavioural and cognitive disabilities aimed at supporting Adult Educators of AwBCD to use LINK Course.

Intangible results are intended to be achieved by adult educators (AE), AwBCD and partners. The list of these results can be consulted AQUI.