Launch of the MOVE UP project
The MOVE UP project consortium held their Kick-off meeting in Perugia, Italy on February 6th and 7th 2023, marking the beginning of our exciting journey!
The MOVE UP project will develop a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for unemployed or inactive mothers with low qualifications who need/are willing to (re)access education and/or labour market, offering the opportunity of assessing, validating and further developing their prior learning, by enhancing the competences they gain because of their role of parent.
This approach offers the opportunity of discovering, assessing, recognising, possibly validating, and further developing the competences they acquired thanks to the motherhood experience, therefore mostly through informal learning and daily activities. The outcome of this process is
thus the opportunity to make value out of these competences to facilitate their participation in training and in the labour market, and as active citizens.
The focus of this path for upskilling is on the Personal, Social and Learning to learn competence (PSL), that has already proven to be an effective driver for developing other key competences for lifelong learning. They have been selected, together with the basic competences, as it includes several skills that women acquired or further develop while becoming mothers, as better adapting to change, coping with uncertainty, getting involved, managing tasks, solving problems.
The specific objectives of the MOVE UP project include the following:
- Prototyping an innovative outreach strategy and guidance measures which can overcome gender bias and stereotypes
- Allowing the identification and self-assessment of their Personal, Social and Learning to Learn competence (PSL)
- Developing, testing and piloting innovative and integrated tailored learning provisions based on the individual needs for upskilling and designed accordingly to existing frameworks
- Allowing the recognition and paving the way for validation of both PSL competence and basic competences
- Providing a permanent framework to ALE stakeholders for setting up effective and renewed policies and provisions, thus contributing to a more gender equal labour market freed from stereotypes related to maternity role
Stay tuned for more updates on MOVE UP!
