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Europe requires its educators to be culturally and intellectually equipped in appropriate ways for both their present and their future. Only thus will they be able to lead meaningful and satisfying lives personally, socially, professionally and collectively. Adult education Institutions play a major role in developing appropriate strategies for adult learners and preparing their educators in a life long learning perspective, for a productive career. However, adult learning is the weakest link in developing Lifelong Learning towards interpersonal skills development among adult educators and learners, which impedes educators’ expected productive career due to a lack of a set of skills toward their social and professional development. See https://bit.ly/2XEMpRP Further, even though the importance of adult educators competences is at some extend understood, an understanding of the concept alone is insufficient. The true importance lies in the implications a competences-based approach has on adults teaching, training and learning: appropriate methods for teaching and training, participatory learning activities as well as effective learning and performance assessment methods to foster the skills in terms of knowledge, understanding and attitudes. An approach which requires educators to have a high level of interpersonal skills to meet the needs of learners, regardless of their backgrounds or their learning and performance abilities. See https://doi.org/10.7227/JACE.13.2.9 In this regards, the project seeks to address the challenges to the lack or low-level of interpersonal skills among adult educators by fostering their empowerment through training and teaching activities based on practical and dynamic approaches: participatory learning methods as means for capacity strengthening and interpersonal skills development. The project overall goal is to strengthen the capacity of adult educators in face-to-face training-teaching process, supplemented with mentorship components to facilitate adult learners empowerment. Thus, the project overall objective is to foster interpersonal skills development among adult educators by:(1). producing a handbook based on results of national open-ended consultations on the challenges to interpersonal skills development among adult educators;(2). producing a guide to Interpersonal Skills Development and Interpersonal Skills Self-Assessment in adult education;(3). developing training and mentorship material for educators as means to facilitate adult learners Interpersonal Skills Development and Self-Assessment;(4). creating a guide to Interpersonal Skills Awareness-raising through advocacy campaigns and blogging.The partners are invited to develop and share mechanisms to foster interpersonal skills development within adult education and further, promote a sense of belonging for adult learners who are at high risk of exclusion, such as women, refugees and minority groups by creating opportunities for educator to practice their competences in an inclusive learning environment. Moreover, provide the opportunities for practice outside partner institutions to further test, pilot, disseminate and exploit results through practical classes, lecture sessions, seminars, or field training programmes.
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