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The project has the defined outcomes as:
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Development of an International curricula, and original Training Programme for Managers in the Welfare/Social sector with an approximate duration of 200 hours. The contents will be developed for blended learning: a mixture of face-to-face and distance e-learning.
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Development of a Pilot course for testing and improvement of developed materials with ten students from each participant country.
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Production of a specialised multilingual Web site to foster the meeting and exchange of experiences among technicians and intermediate managers in the welfare sector at national and international level.
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Creation of an on-line European Network of Welfare Institutions as a meeting place and Resource Centre for experts in different subject areas.
There is a manifest gap in the training available for the Management of Welfare Institutions throughout Europe as a result of the recent proliferation and enlargement of Welfare Centres in Europe. Although there are many initiatives in vocational and higher education for the training of the technician or “field worker” in social institutions but these programmes are not comprehensive and require further training elements for the Intermediate Manager.
The main objective of this EU funded project is improving the professional profile in the intermediate management layers in the welfare institutions. The project is framed within the social exclusion agenda of the European Union.
The preferential target group is women with medium and low qualifications.
In Spain this problem has been exacerbated by the recent reductions in European Funding. There is a dire need to have trained people to overcome these changes and future reforms. In the UK statistics show that that up to 42% of employee’s time is spent attempting to resolve conflict while the majority of employees have received no formal training in this area. However, through using new technologies as a training mechanism and ensuring that ‘Technology must fit the human way of learning’ this project provides the opportunity for a ‘difficult to reach’ group of employees to receive training leading to increased employment opportunities and improvements in the quality of their working lives. In Bulgaria until recently the activities in the welfare sector were state monopoly. The present priority is the protection of social and civil rights, guaranteeing the social autonomy of individuals. The new situation requires the preparation of different kind of specialists. In Austria middle and lower managers are often not given suitable training opportunities. The Greek Partner has also found similar problems in his country and will be represented in the project with the support of two Partner institutions which will benefit from the exploitation of the project results and which will contribute largely to the dissemination and valorisation of the project ongoing process and results..
The Regional Government of Madrid has expressed an interest in the development of the project and the intermediate and final products. The project will create an independent quality committee in charge of evaluating the processes and products. The quality committee will submit interim and final reports of its activities which will be submitted in parallel with the official reports. Independent external evaluators will be contracted for the evaluation of special work-packages and quality of products.
