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"EU Integration Agent" - development of the European Professional Standard for effective counselling of the low-skilled into labour market through adult education
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

National market research in partner countries has indicated that (except for the Netherlands) all partner countries lack higher (professional) education in counselling. Generally, there is neither demand nor professional standard for this kind of work. Consequently, the counsellor is usually a person with any education in social sciences and probably completed short training course. Those counsellors/coaches who work with low-skilled adults lack relevant training for professional development. Moreover, situation in partner countries shows that: a) Most of stakeholder organisations working with adult education and social affairs lack staff as a consequence of staff-cuts in this sector; b) There are more and more people who search their way to the labour market in the post-recession time. Many of them are low-skilled. “Nowadays 77 million of people in Europe are low-skilled and those with the lowest educational attainments are the least likely to participate in learning.According to the above, there is a strong need for the professionalization of staff working with counselling of the low-skilled for effective management of big caseloads with limited resources in the stakeholder organizations. To solve this problem, IGMA-II project aims at development of innovative training curriculum for improving competences of coaches working with counselling of the low-skilled to labour market through adult education. The second output of the project is DEMP of ICT-based Information Management System for professional stakeholder networks working with counselling of low-skilled into adult education/labour market. The system will ensure smooth cooperaton between adult education staff and other stakeholders working with labour market activities for low-skilled. The effective guidance will put low-skilled individuals with their needs in the centre of integration process, which will increase chances for entering education/labour market and integration into society.
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