"Why: Across Europe, the participation of low-skilled workers in continuing vocational training remains far below average, and their risk of unemployment high. In the debate on skilled workers, these employees are increasingly coming under scrutiny throughout Europe as endogenous potential for securing competitiveness. As a consequence, companies are becoming increasingly important as a means of gaining access to low-qualified target groups for lifelong learning.Work-based basic skills training - WBBS for short - as a continuing education offering is proving to be an important way of reaching employees with no or no recognised vocational qualification for the further development of their basic skills in Europe. A wide range of national and European projects and implementation strategies have generated empirically sound findings on how access to companies and employees can be designed, how learning and competence development close to the workplace can be initiated and realised and which organisational conditions promote this educational service as a business field. It has been shown: If strategies of further training for semi-skilled and unskilled workers are to be successful, work-based learning - as close to the workplace as possible - must be professionally organised. Due to the diverse specifics of WBBS training in companies, this training service represents a challenge for adult educators. This is where the Profi-Train project with its professionalisation approach comes in.Who:Partners of the project are:bbb Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung, R. Klein & Partner GbR, Dortmund; Dipl. Päd. Rosemarie Klein Managing Director (Koordinatorin) & Dipl. Päd. Gerhard Reutter, Dipl. Päd., Senior Researcher.BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH, Wien; Helmut Kronika, Managing DirectorERGANI Center for Support and Advancement of Employment for women in Thessaloniki; Parthenopi Sourmaidou, Managing Director; Anna ERUDICIO nadacni fond, Plzen; Jarmila Modra, researcher; Vlastimil Outly, Senior Expert, Jana Vanova, Researcher, Vera Komerova, researcherMEDE Ministry for Education and Employment. Directories for Lifelong Learning, Malta; Christianne Fenech, Project Manager, Mandy Mifsud, researcherSIAE Slovenian Institut for Adult Education, Lubljana; Estera Mozin, Researcher and Project Leader; Petra Javrh, ResearcherWhat:PROFI-TRAIN builds on the existing knowledge of WBBS training and presents a transferable and flexible further training concept for teaching, scheduling and process support staff in further training. The further training concept ""Acquiring competencies for work-based basic skills"" consists of three components: - IO 1 ""Self-Study-Manual. Acquiring Competencies for Work-Based Basic Skills Training (WBBS) - IO 2 ""Guide with six training modules for attendance seminars - IO 4 ""European Roadmap for Stakeholders"", who can implement sustainable professionalisation strategies The products are based on initially prepared country reports, which were published in a compiled version as specialist article. For the qualitative and country-specific contextualised completion of the products, national pilot seminars lasting several days were planned, implemented and evaluated by each partner (IO 3). The results of the pilot seminars were documented in a report (IO 3) and were used in particular for the qualitative further development of IO 2 and for the development of IO 4. The modules in IO 1 and IO 2 run close to the action process of WBBS trainings and thematise the topic:Module 1: Basic knowledge of Work-Based Basic SkillsModule 2: Approaches to companiesModule 3: Appeal to employeesModule 4: Developing an Operational Training Programme for Work-Based Basic SkillsModule 5: Realisation of Work-Based Basic Skills TrainingModule 6: Finalisation and Evaluation of WBBS-TrainingHow:The Profi-Train partnership produced the products in a division of labour and were subject to a structured feedback process and a thorough peer review process. The partners took the opportunity to develop a detailed analysis of the educational system, the degree of innovation, etc. based on country-specific characteristics of the educational system. criteria to contextualize and then translate the English-language versions that were initially developed. This was particularly relevant to ensure the connectivity of the products, to make the wording more precise and to increase the chances of implementation in the country. Result:Due to the innovative content of the professionalization concept, the products IO 1 and IO 2 in particular have become much more differentiated, in-depth and thus more comprehensive than expected. The results of the pilot seminars indicate that it has been possible both to comprehensively secure the knowledge base on WBBS and to present guidelines for planning attendance seminars with lively learning methods and opportunities for biographical career development."

About the TRIAS ProjectThe Erasmus+ project TRIAS - guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low-qualified developed an innovative approach to guidance bycombining outreach guidance work with employers’ involvement. The project focuses on strengthening the competences of guidance practitioners tosuccessfully reach out to the workforce, especially to the low-qualified as one of the most important target groups in adult education. Therewith the projectcontributes to increasing the chance of low qualified persons to participate in training and education.Why? The rationaleSince continuing education and training are of unprecedented importance in knowledge societies, workplace guidance has to raise awareness for guidance andlifelong learning, as well as to provide low-threshold access to guidance services for the employed directly at the place where vocational and educationalchoices matter most – in the workplace.Introducing the TRIAS approach to guidance in the workplaceTo develop the TRIAS approach of workplace guidance, the project integrateed two already existing ways of promoting education and training in the workplace:- Qualification consulting targeting companies- Career guidance targeting employeesThe TRIAS approach to providing guidance in the workplace includes the company as a relevant actor in the guidance process. Thereby, TRIAS guidancepractitioners act in the relational triangle of guidance users, companies and the practitioners them-selves.The inclusion of companies poses a challenge for the more familiar and well-established user-practitioner relationships. Guidance practitioners not only haveto gain access to employers, but also know about business models and human resource development strategies in order to be able to take the employer’sperspective into account. The TRIAS project prepares guidance practitioners for these new challeng-ing tasks.Who?The TRIAS project focuses directly on the target group of guidance practitioners and adult educators. In order to be able to offer services in the field ofworkplace guid-ance, they require additional know-how and competences.What?The TRIAS project compiled a text book for self-study purposes and developed a training programme, both targeting guidance practitioners who want to offerguid-ance in the workplace.Overview on Outputs/Results:- Intellectual Output (IO) 1: A synthesis report on collected European experiences of guidance in the workplace based on 5 country reports- IO 2: Text book “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (a self- study tool for guidance practitioners) - translated into allpart-ner country languages- IO 3: Curriculum “Guidance in the workplace: involving employers, reaching low qualified” (Curriculum for a two days seminar for guidance practitioners)trans-lated into all partner country languages. The curriculum was tested in Pilot Semi-nars in all partner countries except DenmarkWhere?The project was carried out in the EU partner countries Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Slovenia. In each partner country, we organisedmultiplier events fostering the dialogue with policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of guidance, adult education and labour market policy.The project consortium consisted of 5 European partners with experience in qualifica-tion consulting for companies as well as educational career guidance inthe workplace:ÖSB Consulting – Austria (coordinator)Peter Plant - DenmarkBüro für berufliche Bildungsplanung – GermanyERUDICIO – Czech RepublikAndragoski Zavod Maribor – Slowenia