INNOFLIT
Innovative Media Education on Functional Literacy for Youth
KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
INNO FLIT aims to share, develop and disseminate best practices in non formal educational activities in order to improve the capacity of disadvantaged people, NEET in this case, in collecting, interpreting and disseminating informations coming from digital sources. According to the horizontal priority “inclusive education, training and youth”, the project will address formal and non-formal education and training in order to develop critical mind, civic consciousness and intercultural competences to young people (14-18 years old) and NEETs; moreover, considering the link between functonal illiteracy and the uncapability to manage the high flow of information, the actions will increase the level of literecy of the people involved. According to the horizontal priority “open and innovative education, training and youth work, embedded in the digital era”, the project will disseminate the non formal practice for the digital information’s education that will represent a youth pedagogy and work methods for youth workers at any level.
SIMPLIFY
Special Educational Needs Maps & Practices for
Life Inclusion of Youth
KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Recent estimates place the number of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) at 15 million, and despite a political consensus on the importance of inclusive education, a “mutual learning and the sharing of best practice on the provision of support for children with SEN are lacking at the European level”. On the other side, inclusive education good practices around Europe exists and are implemented but the level of exchange and acknowledgement is still low also within teachers, parents and professionals. Often, stakeholders’ restraints depends on lack of interest and difficulty to read, interpret and understand complex, technical and redundant documentation. SIMPLIFY aims to overcome these obstacles making easy, accessible and understandable the main concepts and practices of inclusive education for young people with special educational needs.
RULEs
Real-life Use Literacy Excercises
KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
The transfer of written information is a fundamental pillar of modern society. Although formal literacy, i.e. the ability to decode and understand letters and numbers, is well acquired throughout the western world, a clear divide among European countries is shown with regards to the level of “functional literacy” (FL), which indicates the ability to exploit literacy abilities and benefit from them in order to improve one’s own condition, as well as the condition of her society. The number of functional illiterates in Europe was estimated roughly at 80 million, being them less frequent in Sweden (about 8% of total population) and more common in Portugal (about 40%). Although there is obvious correlation between functional literacy and aspects such as economic performance and inclusion, there is generally a lack of agreement in its definition, and the subject seems understudied. The General objective of RULE will be to help accesso to knowledge and job opportunities, as well as to improve the overall awareness of the financial, scientific and professional world through enhancing the comprehension of complex pieces of texts of bureaucratic or scientific origin.
MacroYouth
Macro Region for Youth
KA1 – Learning Mobility of Individuals
In 2014, the European Commission and the European Council have adopted the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region to create synergies and fostering integration among the eight countries that it covers. EUSAIR is a long-term strategy that lays the groundwork today, but their effects will be tangible, in terms of development and stabilization of the area, in a decade. ACC considers necessary the directly involvement of youth for a success of the strategy, because the current generation of young people (18-30 years old) will be the real beneficiaries of the results and impact. The applicant launched a survey with the aim to understand the level of youth awareness about EUSAIR. The survey results show a very low youth awareness of EUSAIR’s strategy despite a quite high interest in cooperate with those countries. The questionnaire was published in the website of ACC , it was disseminated thanks the support of Universities, youth centers and associations active on Marche Region area and it was the main reference for the development of MACROYOUTH project.