European Project Assistants at Inova Consultancy Ltd

Laura Broß

Nikolaos Tsitonakis

Introduction

Aim of the project:

To provide adult learners with new pathways to re-engagewith learning and improve their knowledge andcompetences to consider making a transition intoenterprise

Objectives:

Bring together LLL professionals from across the fields ofChange Management and Enterprise, as well as those withexperience of working with older learners, to build aprogramme (through a practical guide) that can bedisseminated to stakeholders linked to older unemploymentin partner countries

Partners

Inova Consultancy from Sheffield, UK

Scienter España from Granada, Spain

New Technologies and Learning in Europe from Erlangen,

Germany

Facilitating

1. Workshop: 13th December 2013 in Granada,

Spain

Three Knowledge cafés

Analysis of the current situation

Identification and tackling of barriers

Collecting positive interventions for engaging older learners

2. Workshop: 10th July 2014 in Sheffield, UK

Mentoring and coaching exercises

Mentoring Circles ™

3. Workshop: April 2015 in Germany

Feedback

1. Workshop (ca. 1 month after)

Quotes from participants

Ability to apply the experience of other people

to own transitions

Interactive, sharing, rich experience,

complementary

Learn from best practices from other countries

Feedback

2. Workshop (ca. 1 month after)

Quotes from participants

Despite the fact that the participants were of diverse backgrounds,

all of them were very open to sharing with and learning from

others

“The things I learnt during this training will be

useful when recruiting our future intern, as

well as during the period this student will

carry out his/her placement with us. I am

talking about identifying the intern’s

competences and serving as a mentor for

them, after having developed my own

mentoring skills.”

Quotes from participants

I am using the self-reflection exercises as I am in

the process of choosing where I want to go in

life.

I now understand fully the advantages of having

a mentor!

I will certainly incorporate some of the mentoring

and coaching exercises and techniques

introduced by Marina Larios in my own

workshops as well as in my work as external

evaluator.

Thank you for your attention!

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