"SE BGCPO works sustainable to extend the methodological and organizational competences of its staff to work with main target group – unemployed people from risk groups on the labour market – people with different disabilities. Due to the low level of unemployment rate in Bulgaria, their number was drastically increased. Quantity domination of participants with basic characteristics “Association and Demotivation for work and training” has negative impact on the training microclimate, work of the staff and the results of the training. Stress and tension occur; the success of the vocational training is jeopardized.SE BGCPO’s staff needs new methodological approaches, forms and methods when training and caring, such as dual form of training as a good decision for the target group, a phase for preparation for vocational training, strengthened social work for improving social skills and key competences, new playing and creative methods – all this is applicable to adults. This project is sort of continualtion of SE BGCPO’s “FokusDual” project with extended and completed goal. “FokusDual” intellectual objects – mainly the guidance for dual training, are aimed at the companies – employers and mentors. The practice of actively distribution of “FokusDual” results through the last years shows that to a very big extend the companies relies on SE BGCPO’s staff when implementing dual training, because they themselves don’t have the capacity yet for organizing the training process and to deal with the trainees. The SE BGCPO staff itself shows it has shortcoming of competences, because it lacks experience for this new form of vocational training, such as teachers' tasks - a methodology according to the regulation for dual training, the preparation of specific teaching materials, curriculums for practical training, etc.The project’s aims are:1. The necessary extending of the staff competences for implementing innovative methods like:- organization and methodology for dual training as a support for the companies;- methods for vocational approach, training of the risk groups and total caring with final goal professional and social inclusion. - definition of the trainers tasks – methodology.2. Strengthen the capacity of partners organizations as ""training organizations"", and as future “Center of Excellence“3. Strengthen the competences for International cooperation with a partnership at European level to analyze pan-European problems at the training politics and to develop innovative approaches for their solution. The project involves permanent employees of the BGVTC SE - 24 of 85: management, training and administrative staff - all long-time employees with qualifications and experience, directly involved in the supervision and training of unemployed people.The project activities include:-target-actual-analysis of the problems / critical situation with the risk group and the necessary new competencies of the personnel,-4 work meetings: the first one in Bulgaria at BGVTC SE as a kick-off meeting, the 2., 3. and 4. in Germany, Austria and France for monitoring project implementation;-3 Trainings for 2 partners for: analyzing risk group, sharing experiences, developing innovative training and caring approaches.-one closing of the project as workshop in Bulgaria for politics in training. -Elaboration of Guidance, 5 curriculums on dual principle, and training modules for key competences- Distribution and usage at SE BGCPO and the two partners.Thiswill be achieved through the following methodology: exchange of good practices and ideas, in-depth study of relevant experience, observing the application of tailor-made methodology for training and evaluation of social skills, adapting the curriculum modules to the needs of the risk group, dealing with critical situations, group and individual work, psychological support, counseling, coaching, communication.Results:-Material products – innovative products: O1. A Guidance as a composition of all innovative training and caring approaches O2 and O3 - 5 (five) curriculums on dual principleO4. Curriculum/ additional modules in the training programme for preparation, caring of the risk groups during the vocational training and the following professional and social integration. Non-material added value – quality improvement of the vocational training through new methodological and organizational approaches. Innovative approaches will become an integral part of the andragogical approaches in SE BGCPO, they lead to improvement the microclimate of work and training, improve the employability of trainees, and thus improve the quality and productivity of vocational training, and this guarantees the long-term benefits of the project."

"<< Objectives >>The project will bring green thinking into the workplace. With a cooperation of the Stiftung Bildung & Handwerk (DE), the Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre Austria (AT), the Keski-Pohjanmaan koulutusyhtymä (FI) and the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (ES), partners have been found who want to enable teachers to integrate sustainability and ecology into their work and life in an uncomplicated way with simple, easily accessible and motivating LifeHacks.<< Implementation >>With simple steps and easy-to-use LifeHacks, we will design small digital learning units around sustainability and make them available to staff in the education sector. These simple and motivating steps will enable these multipliers to further develop and carry the green idea. We accompany this project with a ""working-out-loud"" blog to engage many people and promote an open working culture. This transparent and fault-tolerant way of working should contribute to the knowledge society in Europe.<< Results >>The project provides free and easily accessible LifeHacks on sustainability at work. These LifeHacks are produced as tips or videos to be easily disseminated via social media, web or newsletter and mail.There is a blog that accompanies the project in an open and transparent way and invites people to join in. Through events in the partner countries, interested people are invited to benefit from the results. We want sustainability to become a normal part of professional life."

<< Objectives >>There is growing demand for services for People on the Autism Spectrum (PoAS) on the interface Training-Employment. VET professionals are often not provided with knowledge & skills required to better support both PoAS dealing with the world of work and companies in employing & integrating PoAS. The 2 Narrate Training tiers intend to bridge this gap and provide professionals with the knowledge & skills to support PoAS entering the world of work and companies in employing PoAS.<< Implementation >>Design & Develop the NARRATE TRAINING PROGRAM (PoAS & In-company tiers): PoAS NARRATE tier is for professionals supporting PoAS in preparation for the world of work; -In-company NARRATE tier is for professionals supporting companies in employing PoAS.Pre-piloting of NARRATE TrainingDesign & Develop NARRATE Online Learning Platform (OLP)Piloting, evaluating, adapting & translating NARRATE Training Program & NARRATE Online Learning PlatformConclusion events (Final conference & Local events)<< Results >>Results & outcomes1.PoAS NARRATE Training to support PoAS transition into the world of work2.In-company NARRATE Training to support companies in hiring & employing PoASBoth programs include: -Training Syllabus: theoretical framework & learning modules -Resource Kit: exercises & activities-Personal Action Plan: guidelines, suggestions how to apply the learnt content context-wise.3.Online Learning Platform with all contents stored, developed in desktop, tablet & mobile format.

<< Background >>Global financial crises and an increasingly aging population cause high unemployment rates with an increased number of disadvantageous people in the labour market. Within that context, disabilities acquired in adult life have become a significant issue in the working-age population. Disabled people’s employment is generally a precarious situation such that more than 30% of disabled persons who had employed previously leave their jobs because of their disabilities (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Disability_statistics_-_labour_market_access&oldid=208936). Especially, people who became disabled in adult life face difficulties as job seekers in the market and suffer from long-term unemployment. Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030 adopted by European Commission in March 2021, aims to ensure that all persons with disabilities, regardless of their sex, ethnic origin, religion or belief, age, or sexual orientation, have equal opportunities, equal access to participate in society and economy (https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=8376&furtherPubs=yes). Many countries adopt strategies for integrating and reintegrating people with disabilities into the labour market by improving their skills related to changing work environments. Thanks to the rapid digital transformation, new work types and opportunities for adults who became disabled afterward have proliferated. To enhance the employability of those people, their digital competencies have to be increased. In line with the 2nd priority of Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2030, the project prioritizes improving adult training materials to enhance the digital skills development of people who became disabled in adult life. (https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/default/files/document-library-docs/deap-swd-sept2020_en.pdf). However, both in Turkey and the EU, training materials and career counseling services aiming to reintegrate people who became disabled in adult life into the job market are limited. Existing implementations are focused on medical aspects of disabilities without covering the social and economic aspects of the reintegration into the workforce process. To foster the employability of disabled adults, new skills that are compatible with the increasingly digitalized economy must be acquired. Consequently, the project will empower disabled adults with a low level of skills by producing digital skills training materials and career counseling services to build confidence, develop skills and competencies through in-formal and non-formal learning. Adult educators’ capacities have to be improved to increase the employability of people who became disabled in adult life. Reliable career counseling and training to enhance digital skills are indispensable mediums to reintegrate disabled adults into the labour market. Therefore, this project will produce high-quality adult learning and career counseling materials to enhance adult educators' capacity. (improve educators and other adult education staff competencies)Economic insecurity, social isolation, and lack of social relations are the significant results of long-term unemployment. To advance SOCIAL INCLUSION, inequality of opportunities based on disabilities must be overcome by reintegrating people who are disabled in adult life into the labour force. Therefore, the project will support disabled adults in developing coping mechanisms against a rapidly changing environment and encouraging them to improve new skills by improving the availability of high-quality learning opportunities for adults. Because adult education, neither in Turkey nor in the EU, is well equipped with training materials to support the reintegration of people who became disabled in adult life. This background of the project is also compatible with the programme objective: creating upskilling pathways, improving accessibility, and increasing the take-up of adult education.<< Objectives >>Digitalization leads to transformations in education, work, and social relations by creating various opportunities. Digital competencies are the requirement of almost all jobs, including sectors not traditionally related to digitalization. The COVID19 pandemic shows that people have to improve their digital skills to remain competitive in the labor market. Improving the digital competencies of those people through adult learning will increase their resilience and create new job opportunities. However, people who became disabled in adult life suffer from various challenges when they try to re-enter the labor market. Although implementations regarding improving the employability of disabled adults are widespread around Europe, adult education institutions experience severe challenges in the COVID19 pandemic. Training and counseling services have been interrupted during this global crisisMoreover, adult learning and career counseling aimed at reintegrating disabled adults into the labor force are not sufficient in Turkey. Although vocational courses in the adult education centers aim to support people with disabilities to acquire a new occupation, efforts remain partial for a successful reintegration process. Few major rehabilitation centers and private psychological counseling services are existing in this regard. However, there is a terrible inequality of opportunities in this regard such that especially those living outside of the metropolitan areas, have minimal access to such services. The situation is quite similar in EU Countries. Access to the rehabilitation centers is not sufficient for fewer opportunities, so the base reintegrating process should be accessible for standard adult education centers.This situation reveals the urgent need to develop the capacity of public education centers and adult educators in this field. Dozens of trainings are provided under the “personal development and training” program in public education centers, including handcraft courses, language courses, and basic digital skills courses. However, training and counseling services focusing on reintegrating disabled adults into the workforce are not available. Although some vocational courses opened within our center’s body to reintegrate disabled adults into the labor market in the previous years, the success rate was shallow; only a few trainees could get a job. In 2020, our center received excessive applications regarding training aimed at reintegration into the labor market. Still, since there is no structured program in this field, adult applicants have been directed to different programs. Thus far, our educators have received training related to reintegration into the workforce neither in their professional background nor in-service training. However, the reintegration process of individuals with acquired disabilities in adult life requires a different training methodology. The psychology of such people cannot be similar to those with congenital disabilities.The adult learning needs can be summarized as, firstly, for people acquired disability in adult life should be reformulated considering the requirements of transformations in the labor market. Adult learning materials related to digital skills should be prepared considering the needs of the learners, and adult educators should receive related training in this field. Secondly, adult learning regarding reintegration into the job market should focus on comprehensive career counseling covering all social, economic, and individual aspects of the reintegration process.Within this background, the project mainly aims to empower the adult education system to reintegrate people with acquired disabilities in adult life into the labor market. The specific objectives are to enable adult education centers to play a more active role in the integration process, thus facilitating access to training for those with fewer opportunities and enhancing adult educators' capacity.<< Implementation >>The main activities to be carried out at the scope of the project are as follows: transnational meetings, development of intellectual outputs, the pilot implementation, multiplier events, and short-term staff mobility. These activities will be essential for achieving the goals of the project. Accordingly, the main activities of the project as follows:Transnational Meetings: Through these meetings, the partner institutions will discuss the task distribution, exchange ideas and experiences, and determine the processes to be realized to develop outputs. These meetings will enable partner institutions to share know-how. The quality of the outputs will be ensured by effective knowledge sharing. In addition, the institutions will reinforce their communication and cooperation in transnational meetings.Development of Intellectual Outputs: The development of IOs is the most significant part of the project. Four intellectual outputs will be produced to achieve the project's objectives according to the project’s needs. The first output will be designed to determine the expectations of the labour market and the existing good practices in adult education regarding the reintegration of the people who became disabled in adult life into the labour market. The second and the third outputs will be developed based on the results of the comprehensive research paper. Accordingly, the second output will be the training module for adult educators to improve their skills and competencies in line with the digital transformation. In the third output, a career counseling guide will be produced specifically for people who acquired disabilities in adult life to supporting them in their transition into employment. The last output of the project will be an e-learning platform for people who became disabled in adult life to improve their skills and competencies and encourage their pre-employment process by career counseling materials. Thanks to this platform, disabled adults will easily access reliable training and career counseling materials.Pilot Implementation: At the scope of the project, ten people with fewer opportunities from the target group will be involved in pilot implementations. Adult trainers from all partner institutions will be responsible for the training process. The training program will take two months. All necessary activities for monitoring the pilot implementation will be carried out by the Osmangazi Public Education center, including logistics arrangements, preparation processes for educators and staff, and communication with the families.Multiplier Events: Through these events, the results of the project will be disseminated to the broader public. Individuals or institutions that can directly benefit from the outputs, help to develop these results further, and transfer them into the official curriculum will be invited to the multiplier events. The widespread use of the outputs will enable achieving the objectives of the project. Furthermore, the multiplier events will ensure the sustainability of the project’s outputs.The Short-Term Staff Mobility: BBRZ Group provides comprehensive adult education and vocational training aiming to reintegrate people with disabilities into the labour market. The institution. Since the BBRZ Group is the most experienced institution in the partnership, it is essential to benefit from its experiences to ensure that the expected impacts of the project are realized. A blended training program will be provided to adult trainers from other partner institutions to improve their skills and competencies in adult education and the digitalization of the training materials during the mobility.<< Results >>The project will produce results both tangible and intangible results on participants, target groups, partner institutions, and large-scale. The most important tangible project results will be four intellectual outputs. These outputs will be adapted to the adult education curricula of the partner institutions and will improve their everyday activities. Partner institutions will meet the needs of their target groups in a more conscious, effective, and qualified way. Formal, informal, and non-formal adult education activities of partner institutions will be enriched. The pilot application with 10-person to be implemented within the project will ensure the development of the participating institutions during the project. With the completion of the project and the integration of IOs into the curriculum, the quality of the services they provide to individuals who became disabled in adult life will increase in terms of the transformation of the former profession through digitalization and reliable career counseling trainings. Moreover, the e-learning platform will add value to participating organizations' capacity and foster the digital transformation of their existing training system.There will be many intangible results as well, such as improving the know-how of all partners, building capacities and professionalism to work at the EU/international level, increasing reputation across Europe through the implementation of the project, transnational meetings, LTT activities, multiplier events, and dissemination activities. The project participants who will be the managing staff or responsible for developing the project results will also gain new competencies. They will create a more modern, dynamic, committed, and professional environment inside their organization through the project results. These staff will equip with the necessary training materials for addressing their target groups who are people acquired disabilities in adult life, as well as will have innovative approaches to the transformation of the previous profession, including digital transformation and career counseling. The participants of the LTT activity will also significantly increase their adult education capacities on working with stated target groups. Alongside the tangible results, participants will improve their management skills, foreign language competencies, organization/implementation capabilities, and increase the EU colleague network as intangible results. Other expected results as follows;-The final beneficiary of the project, people who acquired disabilities in adult life, will access and reach high-quality learning opportunities to re-employment and re-integrate the society.-The reintegration process of people with acquired disabilities in adult life into the labor force will be widespread among adult education centers. Therefore, the access of those with fewer opportunities that couldn’t reach specialized rehabilitation centers to training activities will enhance. Thus, inequality of opportunity will decrease to some extent. -Training activities of the reintegration into the labor force will enable adult education.-High-quality learning materials and methodologies will enable adult educators and centers in this regard.-The digital transition of adult education activities will be supported through innovative project results.-The project will build trust across borders through the partnership and trigger new projects between them. Moreover, the project will enable a sustainable collaboration between participating organizations. -The project will contribute to promoting disabled people’s rights to work as well as override unfounded prejudices regarding the capacity and abilities of persons with disabilities to work by enhancing their digital competencies for new employment opportunities. In this way, the project will improve the social inclusion of people with disabilities by increasing their participation in social relations through employ

"The project ""Implementing e-learning for the better integration of learners with special educational needs into the labour market through audiovisual media (Multimedia Design) curriculum“ (Verbesserung der Integration behinderter Menschen in den Arbeitsmarkt durch berufliche Qualifizierung mittels e-Learning auf der Basis eines Curriculums für audiovisuelle Medien (Multimedia Design) is about improving the professional training of people with reduced mobility through digital education tools. Digitalisation of education is still modestly developed in Europe. It would be reasonable to start organising broader and deeper learning based on the above-mentioned target group, as their vocational learning opportunities are more limited compared to others.According to the objectives of the project, the e-curriculum and its corresponding e-learning modules are created for one speciality in the labour market - multimedia designer - to complete the theoretical part of the whole study. After completion of the products, they will receive a year-long theoretical study by all partners in three countries (Germany, Austria, Estonia). It is a target group that has difficulty in day-to-day attendance. Acquiring a speciality via e-learning is a great opportunity for them to study at home - in any location or country. The project will end after theory training with their direction to practice in which it is possible to participate by telecommuting. The project has a duration of 2.5 years and the pilot process comprises at least 125 students. The results are applicable throughout Europe.The project will result in substantial improvement in getting a job, motivation and self-confidence. The development of new digital education methodology and new solution projects depends on the success of the project for the benefit of disabled people target groups and for the others. The project has equal importance in the local, regional and international stage. It doesn’t matter which country the student or teacher is in – learning that considers the target groups is possible everywhere and in every country. Cross-border learning becomes international borderless education."