INVENT

The “INcubator for innoVative non-formal EducatioN Transnationally” (KA220-YOU-D90F1C62) project aims to address the key megatrends that are transforming the labour market and their implications for job quantity, job quality, and inclusiveness, gender equality, all of them key priorities of the EU today. The world of work is changing. Labour markets have evolved to include social groups that were previously left out, most notably many women. Technological progress, globalisation and great numbers of under-skilled young people (the biggest percentage of them being women) entering the EU from other countries are re-shaping the labour market. At the same time, new organisational business models and evolving worker preferences are contributing to the emergence of new forms of work. Finally, depending on infrastructure, economic opportunity, and policy choices, migration flows radically change the makeup of the population in advanced economies. The main INVENT target is to create a sustainable cooperation among organisations in different parts of the world – during the INVENT life time between Europe and Sub-Saharan countries – building skills and matching skills and jobs to highlight and capture mismatches in the labour market, such as the long-term unemployment of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), the most vulnerable and marginalized women by empowering with skills, competencies and tools to become multipliers of methodologies, to promote youth active participation and to foster inclusiveness within their communities, to develop and apply their skills to successfully transition to work and use all to change their life, work place and the society. To achieve these aims, the project will develop a training and apprenticeship approach using a blend of formal and non- formal, synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous (any time) learning with the method: “Individual hands on” at a Workplace Learning to build skills and knowledge they need to do their jobs necessary for their professional development and with an e-Learning Module (open source platform) that trainees-employees can dip into when it suits them. Also seeks to address the Erasmus+ horizontal principle “Inclusive education, training and youth” by seeking to provide a critical insight into promoting equality and inclusion developing trainers to address diversity and integration in (non-formal) delivery to trainees who young women NEETs or with a migrant background coming from different cultural backgrounds and facing critical issues relevant to their gender, financial status, origins and identity. INVENT will help all interested parties in supporting young people mainly women belonging to vulnerable groups (migrants, newcomers to EU, or NEETs) with a motivating methodology in the process of self-recognition, validation and development of their competences ), which will lead them to better living conditions in EU, other host countries, or to follow the paths of professional development.