Key competences for people 50+

Know more about our activities

The background

The project focuses on the subject of key competences, taking into account the needs of people over 50. Key competences are those competences that everyone needs for self-realization and personal development, employment, social inclusion, sustainable lifestyle, live successfully in peaceful societies, manage life in a healthy way and active citizenship.

In some EU countries, up to one in three adults has the ability to understand and create information only at the lowest level.

As indicated in the Council document, 44% of the population of EU has low or no digital skills (19%). In a knowledge-based economy, remembering facts and procedures is essential, but not sufficient to ensure progress and success. In our rapidly changing society, skills such as problem solving skills, critical thinking, collaborative ability, creative thinking, computational thinking, and self-regulation are more essential than ever before. They are the tools to do what you get learned, put into practice in real time to generate new ideas, new theories, new products and new knowledge.

Targets:

The main participants in the project are people who will take part in the project work… participants in partner meetings and people involved in developing the results of intellectual work.

Participation of these people in the project is expected to affect their knowledge, skills, competences and attitudes.

Objectives:

To increase...

… access to the acquisition and strengthening of key competences, taking into account the specificity of people over 50.

To expand...

… the access to individualized education programs for people over 50, taking into account the specificity and needs of these people.

To support...

… the development of key competences among people over 50 in the countries participating in the project.

To strength...

… the competences of coaching staff and organizers of adult education in the EU by providing them with high-quality and free materials supporting the process educating people over 50 in the field of key competences.

Expected results:

  1. Methodology of training courses “Key competences for people aged 50+”.
  2. Four modular training courses in key competences that can be delivered together or separately as independent course units.
  3. Guidelines for trainers / educational organizers, implementing and conducting courses in the field of key competences for people aged 50+.

The results will focus on 4 out of 8 key competences:

  • Ability to understand and create information.
  • Digital competences.
  • Personal, social and learning to learn competences.
  • Entrepreneurial competences.

Expected impacts:

  • Exchange of experiences and practices with institutions of the adult education sector from other European countries.
  • Obtaining an innovative educational tool in the form of a set of materials regarding the acquisition of key competences by people over 50.
  • Increasing the institutional potential related to the implementation of international educational projects.
  • Increasing the European dimension of business.

The above-described impact on educators and institutions in the adult education sector indirectly affects people over 50, who:

  • Will be able to receive educational support in the field of key competences according to the developed materials, and thus obtain knowledge and skills.

Timeline

  • March 2022

    Kick Off Meeting

    First partnership meeting in Poland.

  • Project result nº1

    PR 1: Methodology of training courses “Key competences for people aged 50+”.

    April 2022

  • June 2022

    Second transnational project meeting

    Second partnership meeting in France.

  • Project resoult nº2

    PR 2: 4 modules of a training course in key competences for people aged 50+.

    September 2022

  • March 2023

    Third transnational project meeting

    Third partnership meeting in Spain.

  • Project resoult nº3

    PR 3: Guidelines for trainers / education organizers in the field of implementing and conducting courses in the field of key competences for people aged 50+.

    April 2023

  • August 2023

    Multiplier event

    A series of disseminating meetings in Poland (60 participants stationary and 20 remotely in total).

  • Multiplier event

    A series of dissemination meetings in Spain, France and Norway (20 participants stationary and 10 remotely in total).

    October 2023