“Skills Game” European project
[This article was originally published in French. It was translated in English by EPALE France]
Lessons learned from the first observations carried out within the framework of this project
The "Skills Game" project (G@staffl)) is a European training project for professionals (salaried employees and volunteers with a professional mission) working with young adults over 16 years of age who have left the school system and are not enrolled in continuing education.
Within the framework of this project, four trainees have already completed their observations, namely Marianne L. (MAP Réussite), Rose Y. (Mission locale des Bords de Marne), Caroline R. (Mission locale des Bords de Marne) and Christine R. (Local Mission des 3 vallées Brétigny-sur-Orge). They carried out observations in the following centres: Marianne and Rose were hosted from 11 to 16 March 2020 at the Mensch Raum e.V. in Berlin. Caroline and Christine were received at the Jugendberufsagentur in Berlin from 1 to 7 March 2020. These four people found observation provided a strong cross-cultural moment, during which they acquired new skills.
They actively took part in the “Skills Game” project and their experience allowed them to discover learning outside their own structure and personal habits. This is the synergy created by the “Skills Game” project. The project provides a favourable context for the emergence of behavioural skills. It combines the exchange of best practices and the acquisition of skills.
The stakes for these adults are high. The focus was the acquisition of behavioural skills, considered as the key to the sustainable integration of the people they support in the jobs they are aiming at (according to the guide resulting from the work of a national and transnational partnership developed within the framework of a Leonardo Transfer of Innovation project “Developing key competences in vocational training: Key pedagogical tools - Behavioural know-how for inclusion in employment” published in October 2015).
In fact, life skills are an essential element in the integration process and in understanding the backgrounds and attitudes of the vulnerable people they support. Faced with such a fast-changing society, the professionals participating in the Erasmus+ observations discover what other Europeans are doing to find solutions in the social and professional field and to gain skills that they will be able to put in to practice in their daily work.
The four trainees were able to experience different facets such as social inclusion, learning to learn, professional insertion, personal journey and social peace on a small scale during these observations, which were also considered as places of meeting and cross-cultural exchange. In this way, on a daily basis, these trainees will be better able to understand the social inclusion or exclusion that the target audiences are experiencing, and they will be able to learn from innovative practices to respond to the issues.
Moreover, thanks to these new learning outcomes from the "Skills Game" project, the trainees can enable those they support to regain self-confidence, find the energy to project themselves into the future and the conviction that, despite the difficulties, solidarity and collaboration have a positive impact. A positive transfer of energy and skills results from the synergy of this Europe-wide project.
The project also created synergies between different organizations that did not know each other. Thus for the development of the second teaching observations planned for autumn 2020 at the French Centre in Berlin, the MAP Réussite structure and the coordinating structure of the project, the Maison de l'Europe des Yvelines, will involve the host organisations of the observations carried out in spring 2020.
Emotional intelligence
Training/quality/assessment
Initial training for migrants
Coaching and support
Leadership/team spirit
More about the general project: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/fr/node/120852
Contact Christine Colleville: christine.colleville@maisoneurope78.eu
