CIAPE is an Italian non-profit organisation promoting lifelong learning in an innovative and inclusive way. It holds sound expertise in designing and carrying out training activities aimed at developing and validating soft skills, as well as the competences required in the future labor market.
 

Network

The organization works, daily, in synergy with more than 300 like-minded entities and organisations from all over Europe and beyond; indeed, CIAPE is:

-Protagonist in the promotion of EPALE, the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe, with two EPALE Ambassadors among its members

-coordinator of an Erasmus+ Consortium in the field of adult education, since 2021, involving six organisations operating in the field of adult lifelong learning

-member of the European Network of Innovation for Inclusion

-member of the Rural Employability Network

-member of the National Euroguidance Network (Italy)

-member of the European Commission’s Pact for Skills

-coordinator of the European Network for Quality Apprenticeship

-designer of innovative ideas aimed at ensuring the accessibility of learning to multiple target groups, such as adult students, seniors, professionals, and groups at risk of exclusion

-skilled in learning methods calibrated to learners’ exigencies and in the management of in-service training courses and sectoral study visits

-experienced in EU, national and regional projects management (more than 60 EU projects since 2009)

Activities

1.Coaching and mentoring

CIAPE is engaged in designing and implementing individual and group coaching and mentoring sessions addressed to adults (teachers, trainers…), based on an innovative, inclusive and integrated approach made up of multiple methodologies and tools:

• Non-violent communication
• Storytelling
• Humanistic coaching
• Personal branding canvas
• Prototyping

2. Train-the-trainer

CIAPE proposes a further option that is aimed at improving the replicability potential of the specific coaching approach(es) and consists in addressing trainers, teachers, coaches and counsellors via ad hoc immersive sessions, in presence or via online classes.

3. New Skills for New Jobs

CIAPE conducts research, forecasts, and prepares policy papers and recommendations about the new skills required by the future labour market, for a better professional integration of adults, with a special attention to the implementation of equal opportunities for all in the access to the labour market. Socio-economic and environmental trends (migration, population ageing, jobs’ automation, urbanisation, climate change…), as well as unexpected health emergencies like the Covid-19, heavily affect the features of the economic system and stimulate adults and professionals to adapt their professional profile and perspectives in that sense. Crisis should be conceived as opportunities for specialisation, re-skilling and up-skilling paths.

In 2018 CIAPE activated a service of video CV realisation for the valorisation of transversal and technical skills.

4.Distance learning - Gamification

CIAPE has been involved in the design of scenarios and methodologies for distance training courses based on the most advanced information and communication technologies for mobile devices, serious games, 3D worlds and virtual realities with learning purposes, targeting adults.

5.Social researches

CIAPE carries out specialised research reports for public and private organisations at regional, national and European levels. They are the result of a mix of field and second-level research, integrated with major findings emerging from a structured dialogue with the main stakeholders.

6.Organization of study visits

CIAPE is used to deal with the organisation and management of study visits addressed to adults at risk of social exclusion, policy makers, company top managers and representatives of public organisations about the benchmarking of best practises. In 2021 CIAPE gained the Accreditation as Coordinator of Mobility Consortia for adult learners within the Erasmus+ Programme.

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More about CIAPE: www.ciape.it, more about Adult education projects: https://www.ciape.it/ciape/en/adult-education/