COOL - Competence Oriented Open Learning for disadvantaged Learners, 2021-2023

Funding agency: EC Erasmus+ programme, KA220-ADU – Cooperation partnerships in adult education.

Project No: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000026681.

The main coordinator: BUPNET Bildung und Projekt Netzwerk GmbH, Göttingen, Germany.

Participating countries: Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Spain and Lithuania.

Project description:

The COOL project aims to create open learning spaces to disadvantaged learners to improve the access to lifelong and civic learning to provide a system of more appropriate learning modalities. COOL targets on the one hand disadvantaged learners in the European Adult Education sector and on the other hand trainers and other educational personnel who are involved in various kinds of educational activities and courses for disadvantaged learners. The COOL project aims to

  1. Empower disadvantaged groups to become social innovators.
  2. Create open spaces for learning and development for these target groups.
  3. Create a methodology to facilitate open learning in three modalities.
  4. Train and qualify AE professionals to become “Learning and Development Facilitators”.



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