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NEW EXPERIENCES IN TRAINING is a Pilot Project financed by the European Union in the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme (Community action programme on vocational training) http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/leonardo/leonardo_en.html
PROJECT MAIN OBJECTIVE:
The aim of NEXT project is to adapt and integrate training/educational methodologies in such a way as to provide a more effective answer to the increasingly widespread need for the development of social skills.
WHICH IS THE PROBLEM IDENTIFIED?
Traditional training systems are often not adequate to assure a successful transfer of social skills. They are not focused on the person and on his or her personal conquest of experience and self-confidence.
This is a critical issue in modern training systems since social skills are unanimously recognized as a fundamental prerequisite for people wishing to successfully access the labour market and are considered, especially in disadvantaged groups of people whose life experience is affected by particularly problematic situations, important to encourage the development of a serene relationship with the social context of reference.
WHAT IS THE ANSWER NEXT PROJECT INTENDS TO PROVIDE?
To carry out, through an innovative methodology, a valid support and training tool to the traditional training system, based on an experience-based approach (dramatization, simulation, bodily experience, etc.) which encourages acquisition of the ability to relate to others and other social skills such as self confidence, communications skills, organizational skills, team work and spirit of enterprise.
WHO ARE THE DIRECT BENEFICIAIRES?
VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXPERTS AND TEACHERS working in national training and educational systems, players who fulfill a crucial role in encouraging and disseminating innovation throughout national systems.
They will firstly identify and test innovative self-learning methodologies and techniques and then act as promoters of the method’s transfer to the context of reference on the basis of the specific needs identified.
DISTINCTIVE ELEMENTS OF THE MODEL TO DEFINE:
- INNOVATION
- ATTENTION TO THE FRAGILE AND SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE
- TRANSFERABILITY OF THE MODEL TO NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEMS
ELEMENTS BRINGING ADDED VALUE TO THE PROJECT:
- Strong, wide and heterogeneous network of partners;
- Cooperative and participatory type organisational model;
- Coordinated, but decentralised, approach.
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