Etos project

A big portion of adult marginalized population have never seen their competences certified due to not completion of any kind of school. As adults, former drop outs, people with learning disabilities, migrants they find themselves missing these recognized skills, not able to attend standard adult training, thus reducing the already scarce chances to access the labor market and increasing their social exclusion.
The aim is to create an attractive, practical training model not requiring in classroom attendance, but allowing on the job learning, to transfer and certify basic skills to the target population.
ETOS will develop a training model which will be performed on the job and not in classrooms through practical, interrelations activities thanks to entrepreneurs (small, sole proprietorship) becoming adult trainers and supported by experienced tutors. The project will also develop a new EU skills certification based on an innovative evaluation model in line with ECVET system requirements, awarded at the end of the training path.

To achieve these results ETOS will elaborate a state of the art analysis and a training need assessment among 90 stakeholders in 6 EU countries. After the provisional draft of the training model and the certification system their contents will be transmitted to 90 adult trainers which later will perform the pilot training with 144 final beneficiaries. The feedback collected by adult trainers performing the pilots will refine, finalize the two outcomes published as handbooks.

To keep ETOS running the long term the consortium will implement 2 IST Grundtvig courses, organizes 6 workshops with stakeholders and decision makers as well as commit 20 EU public administrations to require ETOS approach on behalf of local training entities. The project will be disseminated by website, newsletters, press releases, media events and 6 local seminars. Quality assurance is granted by a continuing monitoring system and by the feedback of an external evaluator.