SAVE project

The “SAVE – Social Added Value of Employability” project is a Strategic Partnership supported by the Erasmus+ programme. Six European partners (Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, France) combine their skills and approaches to fully achieve the goals of the horizontal objective “common values, civic commitment and participation”, through innovative training interventions for adults with low schooling, in order to trigger a virtuous circle between formal and informal education on the issues of global citizenship and social inclusion.

Low schooling is one of the main socio-demographic negative variables linked to inclusion behaviors and global citizenship. In particular, adults with a low schooling level are a target at risk of radicalization, given that the crossing of those two data (age and school level) can easily lead to hate and xenophobia phenomena, especially in the present digital age where a basic literacy is fundamental to be able to recognize fake-news and participate positively in the community.

Most initiatives to promote common values ​​and intercultural skills, carried out by the project partners and more generally in Europe, have so far focused on a target of young people mostly with reference to the formal education system, while very little has been done for a target of adults. Therefore, another project’s objective is to improve the training offer’s quality provided by Training agencies for adults with low skills/qualification. Such improvement will be achieved adding to the training courses a transversal dimension of inclusion values and active citizenship, represented by the subject of global citizenship.

The SAVE project refers to 2 main priorities of the Erasmus Plus Program:

1) HORIZONTAL – Common values, civic engagement and participation;

2) ADULT EDUCATION – Improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults.

Hitherward, the project will provide teachers (and other professionals involved in the planning and delivery of training activities), with a User Manual of the SAVE educational model (IO3) and an assessment toolkit (IO2), in order to convey teaching methods in line with the new needs.

Third Sector Bodies will be involved together with training agencies, to structure educational paths not only based on skills and knowledge, but also aimed at raising awareness towards universally shared needs and values, with a view to corporate responsibility.