Partners:
- FO-Aarhus (Denmark) – coordinator
- DINAMO – vzw Stroom (Belgium)
- SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED (Cyprus)
- GUREAK LANEAN (Spain)
- Solution: Solidarité & Inclusion (France)
- Proportional Message – Associação ( Portugal)
Project description
The Train Sustain project contributes to the Erasmus+ program’s inclusion and diversity priority and addresses the environment head-on, acting on people’s wasteful behavior (throwing away things that can still be used), while working on social inclusion and employability of vulnerable groups.
Indeed, teaching vulnerable groups – people with learning difficulties, those with ADHD, the disabled, the long-term unemployed – requires more from teachers. In addition to being experts in their field, teachers/volunteers need both social skills and “soft skills” to be able to deal with these groups. The project therefore seeks to design an effective training program that teaches teachers not only to master their craft but also to be more inclusive. On the other hand, volunteer trainers often have more soft skills, but need to improve their technical skills. This is why the combination of teachers and volunteers is ideal because they complement each other.
The project design focuses on producing an effective training program that addresses both soft skills and technical skills; and will thus create work-based learning for disadvantaged groups so that they can thrive in a changing labor market.
In this project, the partners will develop learning materials that professionalize the skills of vocational training providers in the field of recycling/upcycling while ensuring that their teaching is qualified and adapted to green transitions and sustainable thinking. In doing so, it will create a compendium of good practices that can serve as inspiration and help others improve their sustainable footprint.
In addition, the project will help create jobs in the recycling/upcycling field for disadvantaged groups, allowing them to have better access to the labor market. The project emphasizes, on the one hand, the recycling and/or upcycling of used goods that would otherwise be discarded and, on the other hand, provides an understanding of the subject and its role in the sustainability of our planet. Thus, it recognizes the need to conserve and preserve our resources and contribute to the reduction of CO2 in the environment.
These efforts and activities will help save resources, reduce waste and minimize carbon emissions. Through these efforts, the project will strive to make our trainers, volunteer trainers, VET students and ultimately our citizens true agents of change.
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