The document provides an overview of the European "Pro-Skills 2: Train-the-trainer" project. The project aims to promote basic skills like personal, social, and self-management skills for socially disadvantaged adults through innovative educational methods. It involves 10 partners from 8 European countries conducting pilot trainings using experiential learning approaches. Evaluation results found the trainings improved participants' motivation for lifelong learning and developing skills. The project also seeks to further develop a concept for training multipliers to conduct professional development on these topics.

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European project
“Pro-Skills 2: Train-the-trainer”
Nr. 509958-LLP-1-2010-1-DE-Grundtvig-GMP
Overview on the project
Anne Salovaara-Kero, Free from Drugs, Finland

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CONTINUATION of the former PRO-SKILLS
PROJECT
Promotion of social and personal skills with socially
unpriviledged persons as basic conditions for
lifelong learning

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THE EUROPEAN PRO-SKILLS TEAM
10 partners from eight European countries:
Irti Huumeista Ry Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL)
Helsinki (Finland) Milano (Italy)
Zentrum für empirische pädagogische Forschung Hochschule Fulda, University of
Landau (Germany) Applied Science
Fulda (Germany)
Protasi – Movement for another lifestyle Centre de Prévention des
Patra (Greece) Toxicomanies
Luxembourg
Megyei Egészség Kultúrát Koordináló Alapítvány Institute for Research and
(MEKKA) Development “Utrip”
Nyiregyháza (Hungary) Grosuplje (Slovenia)
Fédération swisse pour la formation
continue (FSEA) Lausanne
(Switzerland)

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The European goal for the next decade:
The European Community is to “[…] become the most
competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the
world, capable of sustained economic growth with more
and better jobs and greater social cohesion.”
(European Council 2000)
Lifelong learning is seen as one of the fundamental strategies
for achieving this goal,”[…] central not only to competitiveness
and employability but also to social inclusion, active
citizenship and personal development."
BUT:
• adult education / lifelong learning is predominantly
taken up by individuals who already have a certain
amount of training
• socially disadvantaged people are seldom represented
or have difficulty in successfully accomplishment

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⇒ Building up basic skills
with innovative educational methods
for socially disadvantaged people
based on the competence and experience of an interdisciplinary
European team
(education, psychology, health promotion, social work, sport science)
European Pro-Skills Project
Lifelong Learning
Health promotion
Reduction of
social unequality

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Who don‘t participate in Life Long Learning:
• persons with no or low school education
• persons lacking basic qualifications
• persons with low income
• non-skilled workers
• ethnic minorities
• older adults
• women with young children
• persons with physical and psychical handicaps
• persons from rural and poor regions
mostly socially disadvantaged people with
deficites in education

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Why do they not participate:
They have…
• negative school socialization (dislike school)
• psychosocial barriers (doubts about personal benefit of education,
anxious of disappointments, low self-confidence etc.)
• low motivation
• lacking general education
• insufficient potential to learn
• lacking appreciation for further education in their social context
• difficult social situation (financial and accommodation problems, loss
of social contacts, health problems, addiction etc.)

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EUROPEAN PRO-SKILLS PROJECT: Background and target
Main target: Promotion of basic skills in offers of adult education
⇒ special focus on socially unprivileged persons

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Main target:
Promotion of basic skills
(personal and social skills)
in offers of adult education
⇒ special focus on socially unprivileged persons

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What do we mean by
„basic skills“?
BASIC SKILLS: PERSONAL SKILLS
⇒ ability to reflect on and regulate
internal concepts and processes
such as emotions, cognitions
and one’s own identity.

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BASIC SKILLS: SOCIAL SKILLS
⇒ abilities and behaviours that help to
direct the focus of one’s own
behaviour away from one’s own self
towards a shared alignment with
other individuals

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BASIC SKILLS: SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS
⇒ sequence of cognitive and active steps
to successfully plan and implement
activities (more or less consciously)

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SELF-EFFICACY AND MOTIVATION
Self-efficacy:
The belief in ones own competences and resources
that leads to the expectancy that tasks and plans will
be realised successfully

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GENERAL TRAINING TARGETS
Motivation: inspire interest and motivation for lifelong
learning in the participant
Human rights: sensitize participants for right to
education and equal access to educational offerings
Recognising own opportunities: make aware to
opportunities to further their education and change their life
Taking personal responsibility: no longer feeling of
guilty and being victims of society

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GENERAL TRAINING TARGETS
Recognising own resources and strengths and
develop ideas as to enhance them and acquire new ones
Acquiring skills: actively upgrade skills; opportunity to
experiment with new skills and behaviours in the protected
environment
Self-worth and self-efficacy: support participants’
sense of self-worth and instil feeling of self-efficacy
Empowerment for self-regulated learning: empower
to plan and implement own individual learning process

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PILOT TRAININGS
Wilde Bühne, Germany:
Theatre project with former drug addicts
Mekka, Hungary:
Training course with young Roma adults
Protasi, Greece:
Empowerment seminar with
unemployed young adults
Hochschule Fulda, Germany:
Implementation of sporting offers in a
seminar for vocational training

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PILOT TRAININGS: Hochschule Fulda
Implementation of sporting offers in a seminar for vocational training
Participants:
Three groups of 16 participants with problems integrating them into
the labour market (migration background, low education)
Specials:
• Group sports offer (e.g. group games, adventure pedagogic) were
used to build up social and personal competences
• High acceptance of sports activities

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PILOT TRAININGS: MEKKA
Training course for three days
Participants:
Fifteen young Roma adults from a special primary school for
adults
Specials:
• building up basic skills in the context of Roma culture
• experience focused education of the skills
• cooperative learning and team building
• including drama role play

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PILOT TRAININGS: PROTASI
Empowerment seminar
Participants:
Twelve unemployed young adults
Specials:
• focused on self-efficacy and empowerment
• interactive exercises and productive learning techniques
• communication and discussion
• offers for voluntary work

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PILOT TRAININGS: Wilde Bühne
Theatre project
Participants:
Nine former drug addicts
Specials:
• combining theatre play with basic skills
• reflection of basic skills in the group and on their own (diary)
• Focus on identity, emotions and social behaviour

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Evaluation results: Example of Wilde Bühne

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Evaluation results: Examples of Mekka & Protasi
I'd like to participate in further
trainings concerning basic skills
I plan further training for vocational Mekka
purposes Protasi
I'll improve my knowledge and skills
in an informal way
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EDUCATIONAL APPROCHES
• Self-Regulated Learning
• Productive Learning
• Cooperative Learning
• Experiental Learning

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Basic conditions & framework of the training
Co-operating
organisation /
stakeholder
• cultural sensibility
• experience focused

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Basic idea: develop further the concept of the European workshops
and train multipliers how to train professionals as multipliers,
e.g. students of social work, teachers, trainers of adult education etc.

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New idea:

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Thank you very much for your attandance!
Tack för att Ni lyssnade!
Further information:
• in the workshops
• in the manual
• on the internet: www.pro-skills.eu