LEASYS, according to the priority n. 4 of the LdV call for proposals, operates directly on the education and training sector aiming at the development of best praxis and innovative models and methods addressed to experts, teachers and trainers which realise lifelong learning processes, giving an answer to the renowned social and labour market needs.

Objectives:

• To realise the survey of the lifelong learning state of the art in the partner’ Countries and to compare the acquired data;

• To start the definition and the sharing at the European level of best praxis, models and methods of lifelong learning addressed to experts, teachers and trainers;

• To elaborate a shared Training Model prototype based on the “Experience Approach Methodology” which can help the operators to overcomes the limits of the traditional methods and to create learning contests that favourite the development of social skills and the improvement of the relationship with the local social contest;

• To elaborate operative paper and multimedia tools (Guidelines) - shared, tested and validated by all the partners - which must be used by operators of the lifelong learning. The tools must be flexible and adaptable to the different beneficiaries;

• To diffuse the concept of lifelong learning focused on the user;

• To create, since the starting of the planned activities, a web site as an on line system of communication that can be used by the operators and the visitors. In the same time, this tool will be used to realise a dissemination activity finalised to determinate an efficient impact, which must guarantee the continuity of the project after the closing of all the activities;

• To disseminate the results using the networks where each partner is member and also the traditional systems.

The project intend to create tools shared at the European level to guarantee an easy access to a quality system of lifelong learning on the different opportunities of education, training, requalification and employability in Europe for all the long life.

The innovative elements of the project are as follows:

-    The diffusion of the concept of lifelong learning focused on the user;

-     The opportunity to connect, integrate and share the different training systems between all the partners;

-     The application of the “Experience Approach Methodology” to the unemployed and employed in phase of reconversion and young people in phase of access to the labour market (disadvantaged or with skills acquired in non formal contests);

-     The adoption of the LaSPP, Laboratory for the Simulated Participated Planning methodology to realise the workshops. This methodology contribute to improve the comparison, the operating abilities and the dynamics sharing of the aims of the project between the involved actors in the different phases of projecting, planning, monitoring and evaluation process.

The target group is:

• experts, teachers and trainers which operate in the public/private education/training system realising lifelong learning processes. Therefore, the experimentation of innovative teaching and learning methods is addressed to all the persons that, at the system level, have a crucial role for the innovation of the approach with disadvantaged people who need specific skills to improve their relationships with the referring contest. Considering all above, the final beneficiaries are:
• young people that left or risk to leave the school and searching for the first work place;
• Workers that risk to loose their work place that need an individual re-qualification process, finalised to create again a new work profile by the support of experts, teachers and trainers, which will use the developed lifelong learning tools;
• Unemployed and not employed people, to facilitate their re-enter or access in the labour market by an individual lifelong learning process aimed to awareness them on the specific professional capabilities.