Within Europe, a growing number of people need to update and improve their knowledge, skills and competences to fill the gap between their formal education and training and the needs of a fast-changing society and labour market. For this reason, the OUT-DOOR project aims at developing a training program based on outdoor learning methodologies to create an alternative, appealing and engaging means to connect with students that are about to graduate and enter the labour market. HED teachers and trainers will learn the theoretical/practical aspects of the Outdoor Learning model and, with the aid of expert partners, train the trainers. Through the program participants will gain knowledge in their strengths/talents, soft skills, build self-esteem and fortify attitudes for employment. Students will also build their professional career path, learn about labour changes, and prepare for job seeking.
The project has the ambition to equip students with key skills that can complement the hard skills gained during their respective degrees and create a mass of citizens equipped with the skills demanded by the job market and foster the critical thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship in young people.
The OUT-DOOR project seeks to implement an innovative teaching approach based in two pillars:
– To seek the complementarity and interconnectivity among different European Education Frameworks named LifeComp, DigComp and GreenComp.
– To train and certify skills gained during outdoors activities, using IT tools and evaluation grids and using microcredentials.
Project funding:
The European Union programme Erasmus+
Project results:
WP1- Project management
WP2- Dissemination and exploitation
WP3- Definition of the training curriculum
WP4- Virtualization of training materials
WP5- Piloting
Period of project implementation: 2023-12-01 - 2026-11-30
Project coordinator: LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Project partners: FEMXA FORMACIÓN S.L.U, UNIVERSIDADE DOS ACORES, UNIVERSITA DEL SALENTO, Kaunas University of Technology, UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
