Adult education in the field of healthy life and sustainable living environment

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The project main purpose is to contribute to sustainable cross-border cooperation between Excelsior and Koros-Maros in order to increase the occupancy level of workforce in Arad and Bekes counties.General objective of the project is to sustain the objectives of cross-border cooperation programme same as the strategic objectives of the two partners involved. Both partners want to continue their previous cooperation activities knowing that future integration of vulnerable people and groups in society demands a higher level of training and acceptance of the ethnic and cultural diversity specific to their region. Implication of the employees in cross-border cooperation activities helps this process because they collaborate personal and individual with their border neighbors.The people who will benefit the most from project implementation are people in the target group, mainly unemployed persons, persons in search for job and socially marginalized persons.As seen in the latest European semester country reports, both countries are facing difficulties in providing the working aged persons the qualifications in new and demanded sectors of economy. The youth unemployment rates (peoples aged between 15 and 24) are increasing in both countries, but Romania has an especially high rate in inactivity and the share of young people neither in education, employment nor training has increased in the past years. If in Hungary the agricultural sector is very well represented in economy, in Romania jobs were lost in agriculture and there is low demand of low skilled employees. Urban-rural disparities are holding back economic and social development in both countries. The project will provide training and qualifications to the working aged persons in new and demanded sectors of economy considering the sustainable living environment. The project will address especially to the vulnerable categories: young people (aged 15-24), women and to the rural population in both countries, will help people with no access to adult education be better prepared for the demands of the labor market and integrate in new sectors of economy. The joined project will make the best use of the experience of both partners in completing and sustaining the efforts and the strategies of both countries in training people for the new demands of the labor market. The project was developed considering the latin proverb "Verba docent, exempla trahunt.", which means that the word is teaching and the example is followed. We considered that only by organizing a series of activities for adults long life learning and contributing to improving occupation of labor position, our endeavor would not suffice and not make a difference for offering an example of good practice and long term results sustainability. This is the reason why we considered that a long term investment in creating two facilities that work together in the crossborder area, the "Verba Docent" Adult Education Center and the Social Center in Gyula, will offer continuous possibilities to intervene with more education and labor occupation activities.Activities to be implemented in Arad county are:- developing and realizing the "Verba Docent" Adult Education Center Arad,- organizing and performing adult education courses especially for unemployed persons, persons in search of job and socially marginalized persons, in the fields of healthy life and sustainable living environment,- organizing and performing job fairs, general job fairs and job fairs dedicated to jobs in health, agriculture and tourism.- organizing conferences and performing communication activities.- developing and promoting a joint Romanian-Hungarian brand for local products of the Crisul Alb/Feher Koros river valley.Activities to be implemented in Bekes county are:- developing and realizing the Social Center Gyula,- organizing and performing adult education courses especially for unemployed persons, persons in search of job and socially marginalized persons, in the fields of healthy life and sustainable living environment,- organizing and performing job fairs, general job fairs and job fairs dedicated to jobs in health, agriculture and tourism.- organizing conferences and performing communication activities.- developing and promoting a joint Romanian-Hungarian brand for local products of the Crisul Alb/Feher Koros river valley.Target groups are: unemployed persons, persons in search of job and socially marginalized persons, involved staff, involved children, involved local stakeholders, local and regional public authorities, private organizations, participants to projects events and activities, local and county communities. The approach of the project is to effectively integrate infrastructure development with soft specific activities implementation, for their sustainable use and performance during sustainability period and beyond.Both partners participate in project communication activities. Both partners participate together in implementing fair organization and joint local brand development activities. Also, Romanian students/trainees participating to courses organized by LP will perform study trips to Gyula, Hungary - for experience exchange, as well as Hungarian students/trainees participating to courses organized by PP will perform study trips to Arad, Romania. These facts insure joint project implementation and cross-border impact of the project.A new and interesting aspect approached by the project will be generated by the use of the joint local brand for promoting local products from the Crisul Alb/Feher Koros river valley. This activity may have a high cros-border impact, once put in place and adequately promoted.

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