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Lifelong learning has become an essential part of EU´s response to challenges that derive from globalisation, increased competition and the need for sustainable development and social cohesion. The NEWS project has identified effective preventative interventions for educators and adult trainers to become more up-skilled and up-to-date professionals who could be attractive for the nowadays students and adult learners. The project aims to introduce innovative ways to adult educators for reaching out to young and adult learners in the topics like media, critical thinking and languages; also for inclusion and reintegration of young people on the pathway toward an employment and further education on their way becoming adult educators.More specifically, according to SA Kutsekoda (Chamber of Certification) there are only 439 adult educators with existing certificate as adult educator or andragogue, most of adult educators are older than 50 years old. Therefore, there is utmost importance to find ways to increase the number of the adult education by motivating young people or new in the adult education field to become adult educator and train them in the topics like media, critical thinking and languages. Supporting empoyment of young people and ensuring their social and economic participation are already key issues on the agenda of all EU countries. Also, as most of adult educators are elderly people, they are lacking knowledge and skills of innovative teaching methods, especially of using computers and social media.NEWS project aims to increase participation of the younger people into labour market and in education through up-skilling existing adult educators in effective engagement methodologies, increasing awareness among non-educators about attractive possibilities of becoming adult educators. The secondary aim is to get general overview of the needs of the existing adult educators so that they could do marvelous work and give innovative classes/lectures/courses among general population.Adult educators, trainers, etc knowledge regarding innovative skills is limited. Critical thinking is not included in any syllabus or curriculum. Media and ICT are taught to the younger people, but elderly people are left out and their skills are perished.The objective of the project is to give the possibility to educators and trainers for better and more targeted provisions of services through the use of tools which will be implemented under the project. To achieve the above aims the project will implement the following objectives:- Identification of the needs of the existing adult trainers and educators;- Development of an on-line e-Learning Toolkit for the general methodology how to include critical thinking into syllabus of languages, ICT and media with examples;- Development of an on-line manual for training new educators. The use of specific tools would enable the target group to allocate their time with each one of the people who could be in need of their counselling in a more constructive and effective way, via mobilizing internet technologies.- Development and implementation of targeted courses, which enable adult educators to support and improve the skills of new adult educators. The practical training courses give possibility to get more personal communication between adult educators and possibly new adult educators by also up-skilling both target groups knowledge in topics of media, ICT and languages.The partners of the consortium aspire to facilitate the work of the target groups and fostering the delivery of more targeted services to people who are looking towards the job and training as adult educators, with the vision that the adult educator field of the participating countries can be more effective and more satiscatory for the general population participating in adult education.The main target groups of the project is addressing are existing adult educators with the need to up-skill their competences; and new educators with the need to be active in empoyment, training, etc in order to provide better assistance and motivated training courses for the learners.For all participants regarding selection, relevance to the content of the project (i.e. pilot testing) will be the primary focus. Any individual that has an interest in learning, sharing and/or participating in the project activities or being informed about the activities will be engaged. The engagement of the partners’ networks and the associated partners that have direct links with target groups is the most importance. Each partner involved, using criteria such as: knowledge, labor market-related background, time available, language and ICT skills etc., will select the participants to participate in the activities.
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