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The ‘key competences in life skills’ project, or LIFE for short, is a collaborative partnership between ten training institutions and public/private agencies drawn from six countries across Europe. The project is supported by the European Union through the Leonardo da Vinci programme, aimed at improving the vocational education systems of Europe.
Aim
The project aims to develop a train the trainer programme to provide subject orientated vocational teachers with the necessary skills to integrate key skills for life competences into their vocational areas. This transfer of innovation project builds on the European Civil Society Platform on lifelong learning’s recommendations.
Target Groups
The train the trainer programme developed within this pilot initiative is aimed at the following groups
- Vocational teachers and trainers
- Diverse learner groups including 16-19 year olds at initial vocational level, mature students, the unemployed, employees and employers
Primary Outcomes of the Project
- Identify standards for integrating skills for life competences into vocational teaching across Europe
- Identify training needs of non specialist teachers to meet the diverse learner needs
- Develop train the trainer materials offering a variety of learning methodologies, web based materials and video clips and CD/DVDs.
- Pilot the learning materials to a range of vocational staff and learners in each partner institution and evaluate the outcomes
- Develop training guides to use materials in all partner languages
- Gather, collate and analyse examples of good practice
- Disseminate outcomes so that products are transferable to meet the needs of other EU countries
- Investigate the long term potential for including the products in partner countries’ teacher training programmes
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