21st century skills recognition for adults in Cities of Learning

Bagattenstraat 158, 9000 Gent, Belgium

21st century skills recognition for adults in Cities of Learning

Bagattenstraat 158, 9000 Gent, Belgium

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An international partners will introduce the Cities of Learning platform into several new communities: Ghent and Hoogstraten (Belgium), West Brabant, Region Rijnland, and Island Curacao (Kingdom of The Netherlands), Lisbon (Portugal).
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﻿Cities of Learning promote open, accessible and inclusive learning to all. This project idea takes place in the context of digitalisation of societies, which is now additionally accelerated by the lockdowns due to the pandemic crisis. Common challenge is the lack of adult education programmes oriented towards competences and skills needed to thrive today and in the future. That’s where the 21st century skills idea originates.
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We refer to 21st century skills as a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits and character qualities for people in ensuring well-being, civic engagement and employment. This set of skills also include digital skills and literacies necessary to harness the digital transformation. Through the work in Cities of Learning context and also the international adult education context, we will combine frameworks for 21st century skills that are recognised on European level and on national levels.
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Partners﻿CODEC vzw (Belgium) - the lead partner, contact codec.europe@gmail.com
﻿Samen Leven vzw (Belgium)
﻿Camara Municipal de Lisbao (Portugal)
LAC vzw (Loopbaanadvies- en arbeidsmarktcentrum) (vroeger KOPA)
﻿Breakthrough Foundation﻿
﻿Skills-Connect﻿
﻿Ministry of Education, Science, Culture & Sports﻿
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ObjectivesThis project aims to achieve the following objectives:
To map existing best practices of validating and recognising 21st century skills developed through adult education programmes. 
To exchange perspectives on how 21st century skills can be connected with existing or newly developed competence frameworks.
To create skills assessment, validation and recognition pathways for adult education programmes focused on the 21st century skills development.
To develop technical solutions to embed 21st century skills assessment and competence frameworks within the platform of Cities of Learning.
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ActivitiesThe project partners will map best practices in validation and recognition of the 21st century skills in participating countries, in other countries in Europe and the world. The 21st century skills are skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy, flexibility, leadership, initiative, productivity, social and cross-cultural skills, learning to learn, digital literacy, problem solving, and creativity.
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Partners of this project will create unique skills assessment, validation and recognition pathways for adult education programmes focused on 21st century skills development, which will be developed respecting different perspectives of organisational roles and countries.
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During this project we want to extend the possibilities of digital technology to improve transparency and recognition of skills, in our case 21st century skills. We want to develop the skills assessment and competency frameworks functionalities and integrate them in the platform for Cities of Learning. The assessment functionality will enable learning providers and learners to use a 360° assessment system which will combine self-assessment, external feedback from other learners, mentors and supervisors. The 360° assessment system will be based around a specific competence model chosen by the learning provider. The competence model can be aligned to a specific qualification framework or occupational standard.
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ResultsWebinar recordings and a comprehensive report with good practices of validating and recognising 21st century skills developed through adult education programmes.
Guidelines for validation and recognition of 21st century skills in adult education programmes.
Validation and recognition pathways designed, tested and created for selected adult education programmes implemented by the project partners.
Technical solutions to implement assessment and recognition of 21st century skills using the platform of Cities of Learning.
Impact on learning and recognition of adult learners to improve their opportunities for 21st century skills validation and recognition 
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Longer term benefitsOne of the most valuable results of this project will be to launch 5 localised platforms for Cities of Learning. This technical solution will be made available not only the partner organisations of this project, but also for any learning provider in participating cities. We will make sure to promote this opportunity well to our local partners and stakeholders and beyond our networks.
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Partners of the project will use Multiplier events to reach out to targets audiences who can make best use of Cities of Learning platform locally. Every partner delivering adult education programmes identified specific stakeholders for this project. We selected local partner organisations, institutions, and businesses which we work with for some time already. In this way we will make sure that the results of this project will be made relevant and known to important stakeholders. Validation and recognition of skills requires direct involvement of external partners to strengthen value and benefits to learners
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The European Union's Erasmus+ programme provides co-funding this strategic partners "21st century skills recognition for adults in Cities of Learning". Thanks to this public funding, all results will be available free of charge for transfering and using to interested organisations.

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