EGUIDYA is developing transferable strategies and structures to open up and durably manage transnational work-related exchange for socio-economically disadvantaged young adults outside of compulsory education. The specific profiles of the ten (plus five associated) partners from nine EU member states in North, West, East and South Europe contribute to the project´s wide scope and its desired impact on institutions and people working with disadvantaged young adults.
Five of seven meetings have been held so far at partner institutions in order to work on the first European Career Guidance and Transnational Work-Related Exchange Programme for Disadvantaged Young Adults. The sequence of topics follows the steps from the admission of a learner at our institutions up to a debriefing of her/his transnational work stay.
On the basis of screening and mentoring, the partners synchronise an advancement of a special needs and counselling concept. All partners put emphasis on the interposition of key competences and its influence upon educative processes. The partnership´s approach is participative, pragmatic and processual.
EGUIDYA is establishing an adaptable and transferable model plan of how each institution - with shared methods in planning, sending and hosting - can prepare its learners for transnational mobilities and host beneficiaries in its training centres or with cooperating local companies. Both staff and young adults in-situ participate in every stage of the programme development and report on the possibilities of individual stays abroad.
By identifying the requirements that can be mastered by the young adults and by finding ways to plan transnational work stays with them, the learning partnership aims at enhancing their motivation and self-confidence. The partnership will consolidate the European dimension of adult education at our own and at similar institutions and will foster interculturality as well as European awareness and citizenship among a growing group of young adults more and more at risk of exclusion from European progress and development.