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Who are the partners of the “VET4e-I” project? This project is carried out by a consortium of 8 organisations representing non formal education, higher education, foundations, think tanks and vocational training centres from Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Bulgaria. Fundación Acción Social y Tiempo Libre, Esplai, Spain www.fundacionesplai.org Dynamic Organization Thinking, D.O.T, Spain www.d-o-t.eu Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI), Italy www.arci.it ICT Development, Bulgaria www.ictdbg.eu L’Agenzia per la promozione dell impresa solidale (LAPIS), Italy www.arci.it/lapis Ligue de l’enseignement, Paris, France www.laligue.org Infrep, Paris, France www.infrep.org Technische Universität Dortmund - sfs Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, Germany www.sfs-dortmund.de arci More information on the project may be obtained from: Project coordinator, Gabriel Rissola, [email protected] Press relation, David Lopez, [email protected] VET 4 - - VET 4 E European VET Solution For e-Inclusion Facilitators (VET 4e-I) This project is carried out with the support of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Union www.efacilitators.eu www.efacilitators.eu/

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Who are the partners of the “VET4e-I” project?This project is carried out by aconsortium of 8 organisationsrepresenting non formal education,higher education, foundations, thinktanks and vocational training centresfrom Spain, Italy, France, Germany andBulgaria.

Fundación Acción Social y Tiempo Libre,Esplai, Spain www.fundacionesplai.org

Dynamic Organization Thinking, D.O.T,Spain www.d-o-t.eu

Associazione Ricreativa e CulturaleItaliana (ARCI), Italywww.arci.it

ICT Development, Bulgaria www.ictdbg.eu

L’Agenzia per la promozione dell impresasolidale (LAPIS), Italywww.arci.it/lapis

Ligue de l’enseignement, Paris, France www.laligue.org

Infrep, Paris, France www.infrep.org

Technische Universität Dortmund - sfsSozialforschungsstelle Dortmund,Germanywww.sfs-dortmund.de

arci

More information on the projectmay be obtained from:Project coordinator, Gabriel Rissola, [email protected]

Press relation,David Lopez,[email protected]

VET 4--

VET 4E

European VETSolution

For e-InclusionFacilitators(VET 4e-I)

This project is carried out with the support of the Leonardo da Vinci

Programme of the European Union

www.e fa c i l i t a to r s . eu

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Why such a project?In the last years, growing attention has been

drawn towards e-Inclusion policies, considering infor-mation and communication technologies (ICT) as avehicle for personal development, active citizenship,social inclusion and employability. Public InternetCenters play a key role in local societies especially intowns and small villages, where they have become a ref-erence point not only for new technologies and learn-ing, but also for the development of social links, a senseof community belonging and cultural life.

Who are e-facilitators in Europe?The animators or facilitators have a key role to play, theyare not only ICT trainers but also socio-cultural media-tors. They are the promoters of disadvantaged users’inclusion. Today, their profile and status differ greatlyfrom one country to the other as well as their access toformal and non formal training. The partners of the“VET4e-I” project will compare these different profilesand the training offer that is already provided in theirrespective countries.Can we talk of a common professional figure of “e-Facilitators” in Europe?What are their needs in terms of vocational training anddevelopment?

What is e-Inclusion?Today, around 30-40% of older people, people

with disabilities, women, lower education groups,unemployed and “less-developed” regions are still notactively engaged in using ICT and are no part of theKnowledge society in Europe. e-Inclusion aims to:prevent the risks of “digital exclusion”: to ensure that dis-advantaged people are not left behind;avoid new forms of exclusion due to lack of digital liter-acy or of Internet access.The goal of this European project is to increase e-Inclusion chances of disadvantaged groups by creatinga new professional profile of e-Facilitators withEuropean relevance and that would be certifiable atnational/local levels.

What is the EU position on e-Inclusion?

34 European countries signed a Ministerial Declarationin which ambitious policy targets were set for an inclu-sive Knowledge society in 2006. Known as the “RigaDeclaration”, it set concrete targets for Internet usageand availability, digital literacy, and accessibility of ICTby 2010. It was followed by the “i2010 initiative” thatproposed a strategic framework for action. Today, we arefar from reaching these objectives. In March 2009, theEuropean Council recognized that e-Inclusion remained“overall poor in Europe” and that public authorities hadto use “various instruments at their disposal, such as leg-islation, standardisation and certification as well as pub-lic procurement”. The partners of the “VET4e-I” projectwant to encourage public authorities:to recognize the role of e-Facilitators as promoters of e-Inclusion;to promote the development of certified and transpar-ent training solutions that correspond to their needs.They are convinced that investing in the professionaldevelopment of e-Facilitators is a key to face theseimportant challenges.

What are theexpected

results of this project?On the basis of a cross-country context analy-sis, the partners of the “VET4e-I” project propose todevelop an innovative VET solution aiming to helpEuropean countries to cope with the common chal-lenge of e-Inclusion. The partners will develop a certifi-able training curriculum for e-Inclusion facilitatorsfocused on the development of key competences ofusers at risk of social exclusion, aiming to their empow-erment in the Knowledge society. This training curricu-lum will be based on an innovative blended learningenvironment inspired in Web 2.0 as well as on user-cen-tred didactics.