<< Objectives >>The DIV project aims to build an online aggregator of useful services for the integration of those who remain outside social rights due to a lack of tools, information, human and technological support. In fact, there is a lack of a database of public, private and voluntary proximity services that guarantees on the one hand the necessary information for the most vulnerable people and on the other a catalog of opportunities in the world of associations for anyone who wants to volunteer.<< Implementation >>The project aims to map the services active on the territory of the 3 partner countries that fight social exclusion, file their activities, also map them on paper, digitize them, build a database, create a demand and an offer between those who offer services and those who need them , and also between those who offer services and those who want to volunteer. These activities will allow the Associations to network, increase visibility and intervene effectively towards those who are marginalized.<< Results >>- to map digitally private and third sector services active on the provincial territory of the 3 partner countries on social inclusion- to set-up a database of proximity services useful in contrasting margins- to develop local solidarity networks- to set-up an updated repository of associations and services for vulnerable people and for anyone wishing to volunteer- to lay out a site and social networks in order to promote the service

"New forms of poverty hit both individuals and families in Italy and in Europe. After the recent economic crisis, poverty has doubled, affecting young people who cannot find work, adults who have lost it, families who are becoming indebted. In addition to economic instability, social precarity and the breakdown of family and friendship ties were added. All these factors have accentuated the people’s vulnerability. The economic difficulties and social isolation have thus expelled individuals from welfare systems, family-based networks and training systems, creating a vicious circle that leads people who are not part of the labor market forced out into social exclusion. Only those who can resist in times of troubles, by keeping up-to-date and by looking for job opportunities, they are able to emerge from the crisis, while the most fragile and unstable people fall into situations of marginalization and chronic poverty, and remain trapped. The GOL project, ""Get out of the Loop"", aims to tackle the theme of social exclusion in an innovative way, such as: -valorizing existing good practices in Europe to combat social exclusion; - comparing operators working on marginality with European tools and practices against social exclusion; - bring out the new needs on social inclusion by the operators who work every day in this sector together with the excluded - confronting the methods of “generative welfare”, based on the involvement of the excluded and the resigned who do not seek work and do not inform about their rights, developing the empowerment of the marginalized people and re-creating the link broken at the community level - analyzing social policy experiments based on the resilience of people in times of difficulty and crisis - monitor social protection systems to identify practices that best respond to the problems of poverty and social exclusion - promoting systems of active citizenship, rather than passive welfare, for the weakest - developing a model of social inclusion practices to be used in social centers, associations and non-governmental organizations dealing with poverty and social exclusion - experimenting the model proposed by the partnership and contextualize it in own reality The Partners are Association, Fundation, Vocational Training centers, Cooperative, working on marginality and social exclusion aiming to strengthen networks of local existing services in order to reach the most excluded citizens. The target of the GOL project is represented by the Consortium ‘s social operators who want to strengthen and experiment methodologies to fight new poverty; by representatives of the communities and associations of the most marginalized people; by people excluded from Welfare systems. Staff mobility will allow social operators to know and compare the best ways to fight social exclusion used by organizations, communities and countries of the Consortium . At the end of the project the following will be realized: - a vademecum of good practices; - a good practice model - a dedicated area for operators within partner websites on the tools and paths used to combat social exclusion - a recommendation to policymakers on good practices to combat social exclusion in line with the EU's Europe 2020 Strategy, a first step to exit the ""vicious circle"" of social exclusion."

The project’s idea came from analysis of the situation in the area of proficiency in basic skills of adult people. The OECD's Survey of Adult Skills (2013/14) supported by the Commission's DG Education and Culture highlighted that 20% of the EU working age population had low literacy and low numeracy skills and 25% of adults lacked the skills to effectively use ICT. These numbers meant direct consequences for Europe 2020 strategy, both at overall level and for individual countries and showed the need for strengthening the skills dimension of Europe 2020. In view of this situation, the main objective of the project was to increase level of proficiency in basic skills among low educated adults from Romania, Poland, Germany, Spain and Italy through realizing the following operational goals: gathering, analysing and categorising existing OER tools and good practices supporting education of low skilled adults, developing Interactive Pool (on-line database) of tools allowing for categorisation and assessment of existing tools and addition of new tools, developing Guide to IPool providing step by step instructions of using the Pool and disseminating the outcomes in order to assure their exploitation also in other EU countries and other fields of education.The partnership consisted of 6 organisations, all providing training for adult people and in particular with experience in work with low-skilled adults. Among partners, there were: the coordinator, CDA, non-governmental and regional coverage Association providing support in the region by organising consultancy and educational activities (among others), two Polish organisations: Danmar Computers working in vocational and adult education field providing training and developing IT solutions for educational purposes, and CK Edukator, adult education provider having experience with educating target groups especially through EFS initiatives, large scale German adult education provider, VHS Cham, having a leading role in defining education for adults and being the member of the Bavarian Adult Education Association, Spanish Confederation of Education and Training Centers (CECE) having over 40 years of experience in adult education and more than 2000 education and training centres among its members and Italian association ACLI supporting citizens, especially those that are threatened with marginalization and risk of social exclusion. The main undertaken activities in the project included work on the main results, meaning that the activities included gathering, analysing and categorising existing OER tools and good practices, works on development of the Interactive Pool together with its testing and releasing the final version and developing the Guide to Interactive Pool providing step by step instructions of using the Pool. Important part of activities included quality assurance and dissemination of the outcomes in order to assure their exploitation also in other EU countries and other fields of education. The results of the project include tangible results which are the state of art report, IPool database and the Guide, as well as many dissemination materials (website, social channels, leaflets, newsletters) and working materials including plans and very important intangible results. Those are: improved basic skills and competencies of adult people, especially those adults that have low skills, better awareness and orientation of target groups in existing tools and knowledge about using these tools, better educational offer of organisations offering training to adults as well as new networks of cooperation that the partners reached thanks to the project development. The impact of the project exceeded the expectations. It can be seen in partners’ organizations, their staff and learners, low-skilled adults and adult education providers, operators in the field of adult education. The most important is that all who participated in activities or at least heard about its results, have better awareness about lifelong learning, higher knowledge about existence of various tools and opportunities to learn which help to develop own skills and gather new competences. The usage of the Interactive Pool itself helps in increasing ICT skills but using the tools that are gathered in the database allows for increasing the competencies in many areas, depending on the choice of a tool. Project was addressed to low-skilled adults and it is expected that the benefits in the form of better skills will have long-term character in their lives. However, a significant group benefiting indirectly were adult education centres, schools for adults, third age universities, associations which support enhancing basic skills. These organisations will benefit from using the IPool as additional educational tool. As the database is self-expandable (it can be expanded by users by adding new tools), it is expected that it will be used by the organisations for longer time bringing them benefits.