David Fuegi and Rob Davies MDR Partners Transnational Workshop, Martinique, March 2003.
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Transcript of David Fuegi and Rob Davies MDR Partners Transnational Workshop, Martinique, March 2003.
LearnEast Partnership
The project partners are: Essex (with co-ordinating role) Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Peterborough Suffolk Peterborough Learning Centre Ltd. MDR Partners (project management)
Source of Finance:European Social Fund (ESF) - Community Initiative
3 million euros Timescale: 15.05.02 - 14.08.04 Total beneficiaries: 400
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled people
Libraries
Management Monitoring/Local Delivery
Marketing/Evaluation Transnational Activities
Target Groupswomen returners
people in rural areasunemployed people
people with basicskills needs
MDR PartnersManagement
andTransnational
Activities
Essex County CouncilCo-ordinator
Mainstreaming and ThematicNetworking
SubcontractingEvaluation
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled peopleolder workersrural/isolatedunemployed
people
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minoritiesdisabled peopleolder workersunemployed
people
Target Groupswomen returnersethnic minorities
people in rural areaspeople with basic
skills needsunemployed people
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Hertfordshire Suffolk
Peterborough
Overall Objective
To increase and demonstrate the
potential of public libraries to provide
awareness, training and lifelong
learning opportunities which impact on
the recruitment and retention of
specified target groups suffering
discrimination and inequality in
connection with the labour market.
Sub-Objectives (1) To raise the profile of public libraries as potential partners
for other stakeholders in the employment field and to build strong local partnerships.
To provide a model for other public libraries wishing to attain similar objectives.
To utilise the geographical spread and reach of the library service to contact and enthuse the target audience towards take up of learning opportunities offered by libraries, leading to improved basic and ICT skills levels and higher confidence in their ability to participate in the labour market.
To build on existing work and contacts with the target groups and create new contacts by outreach work, i.e. sending trained staff out into the community to deliver awareness and taster sessions and explain the opportunities available.
Sub-Objectives (2)
To deliver in the libraries a range of learning activities, focusing mainly on basic skills and ICT skills, tailored towards further learning and improved employability.
To record and encourage progress by the learners.
To offer, in parallel, information, advice and guidance, referring as necessary to existing IAG partners.
To progress learners towards further training or employment by monitored referrals to Job Centres Plus or other education and training providers.
Target Groups (1)
lone parents/carers with young children travellers returners to the labour market with skills
needs [especially workers over 50] women returners people in low skilled/low paid work with
skills needs local communities with basic skills/ICT
needs rural and isolated communities
Target Groups (2)
unemployed people with skills needs people with physical and sensory
disabilities adults with learning disabilities people with mental health problems people from ethnic minorities with skills
needs people from deprived/low skills
neighbourhoods
The Work (1)
In the UK, the Partnership will: train a selected group of new and existing staff in
the principles of EQUAL, training and support techniques, and the needs of the target groups;
engage with the target groups - initially by ‘outreach’ work, by visiting community centres, meeting places, traveller sites and individual homes to make presentations, talk about learning and employment opportunities, and to demonstrate and offer awareness and ‘taster’ sessions; and
The Work (2)
at community meetings, and through planned follow up, learners will be encouraged to visit local libraries, individually or in groups, where they will be assisted in the selection and use of a variety of learning programmes. In the main, the learning programmes will focus on basic skills and ICT and will be selected from existing offerings .
Local Services
Training Recruitment of
Staff and Volunteers
Infrastructure and Networks Prepared
Service Delivery in Learning Centres
Service Delivery by Outreach
Information, Advice and Guidance
Empowerment and Equal Opportunities
What does LearnEast offer customers?
●Trained staff to help and support●An ‘outreach’ progamme for staff to visit, demonstrate and talk to community groups●Information, advice and guidance on learning and employment opportunities●Learneast is completely free to approved users
What does LearnEast offer customers?
●Well equipped computer access points in libraries – many are approved Learning Centres●Assisted ‘awareness sessions’●Access to learning programmes and resources●Trained staff to help and support
Evaluation plan
● Strong emphasis on evaluation● Contract let to external evaluation
specialist● Aims to demonstrate impact on
partners and beneficiaries● Uses interviews, questionnaires,
focus groups etc● Will provide inputs to the “toolkit”
Transnational Work: so far
● Bologna workshop● Presentation at Pulman Policy
Conference in Portugal, 13th March 2003
● Aiming to create a significant network of public library partners in the second call
● Martinique workshop
Transnational Work: plans
● Presentation in Moscow 8th April 2003
● Presentation at IFLA Berlin, August 2003?
● Presentation at Libraries Without Walls conference, Lesvos, September 2003
● Cambridge workshop 4-5 September 2003 [perhaps with Lithuanian participation]
● Ecotec study [SEIN]
Strategic opportunities for new public library services
Social inclusion, employment skills, lifelong learning spectrum– funding (eg EQUAL but only 3 libraries projects)
e-Europe Action Plan 2005– Information Society for All– Internet, ICT
European Union research programme FP6– Cultural heritage, e-learning– PULMAN www.pulmanweb.org– OeirasManifesto
SEIN Study
Study on Social and economic inclusiveness: the role of cultural and memory organisations.
European Commission, DG Information
Society,
ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd
SEIN - Key objectives and methodology
Key objectives 1.Identify where cultural and memory organizations
already contribute ('Information Society')
2 Specify issues for new research, inc development of content-based services for all sectors of community
MethodologyFocus on small and local institutions, views of
practitioners and users 2 workshops: 31 March, July 2003. Case studies Report end 2003
EQUAL transnational consortium contribution to SEIN
LearnEast on workshop panel Ecotec would welcome as complementary
case study First results of LearnEast evaluation (by
August/September) Comparative study?
Italy, UK, France (including Martinique) Caribbean countries? Complete by August…or later Methodology/who does what?
EQUAL comparative study
Identify relevant national, regional policies
Establish baseline for existing public library services
Training needs Investment needs Shared evaluation criteria
Results
Potential for mainstreaming - toolkit on the Web
National and international meetings Monitoring Evaluation Sustainability