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Sweden - Learning Environment

SPACE

Powered by 7 municipalities, Sjuhärad

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Focus of the project SPACE (former KRUT)

Focus: Strengthening of soft skills        

Strengthening of soft skills in order for an individual to return to work and studies. Internship abroad with preparation and reintegration.                            

Situation

SPACE (former KRUT) "över gränserna" gathers all involved authorities plus an extensive individual and group support for the participant - a holistic approach for each individual. The project helped to increase the participants' (a) health (b) ability to activate themselves (c) Work training helped participants back to the job market.

Participants receives coaching / pedagogic support while participating in active health  (walking together in a group once a week), on-the-job-training (before travelling abroad) and during internship abroad as well as with placements/further steps after home coming.

Important Aspects

+All involved authorities and the project are jointly involved in making sure the participant receives all support needed in order to go back to the job market.

+Expected result; participant should should go back to studies or work after project, or at least be closer to the job market or studies

+Group coaching is particularly successful. Participants (1)become confident in being in a social context, it (2)creates trust and the participants get to (3)meet others in the same situation.

+Active health (together in a group, see benefits above)

+Across boarders (3 weeks internship abroad)

+Vintage shop (on the job training)

+Work support function (coach joins participant to work and supports)

+Guidance from social worker/coach throughout the Project

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Softskills

Confidence, trust, learn tools to handle and cope within a social context

learn to ask questions, show interest, be active and take responsibility

Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions.

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Learning Principles

Peer-to-peer learning

Peer-to-peer learning interaction and cooperation with people from different backgrounds and ages creates security and confidence in social settings, enhances trust and a sense of togetherness as all participants are in the same boat (active health, across boarders)

During the project period (ca 6 months intensivly, 3 weeks abroad is possible, it is possible to stay longer within the framework of the project - which can also be a danger in terms of not moving on in life) The project is or becomes a platform, a place to be and a social context for some individuals.

Collective training combined with personalised support 
In addition to collective sessions, there are also individual support, counselling and coachings every week.  

By participating in professional individual and group coachings/ support every week, the participant becomes more and more at ease with a social context and develops social skills in this interaction, enabling the individual to move on to the next phase.

Learning-by-doing  

Before the mobility, the participants accomplish an internship at home; on-the-job- training with or without a joining coach. Across boarders (mobility abroad like IdA) During a 3 week period the participants are challenged to be self sufficient abroad and confident enough to accomplish an internship. The time abroad helps the participant to reflect upon him/herself in a new framework and to see the situation at home in a different light - by realising it is possible to act and change: re-activation. Due to the short period of time the internship might be more of a learning to do what needs to be done rather than accomplish a project of ones own.

On-the-job-training is a social setting where social soft skills are trained naturally in the work environment social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions and situations at work. During the job-training the participant can Look and learn / imitate behavour and execution of tasks at work. participant can learn to ask questions, show interest, be active and take responsibility.

Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions. Understanding of important parameters at work (motivation of employer, paying customer and to react accordingly). Participants will realise their own strenghts and weaknesses by feedback from employer and colleagues.

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Greta G.

https://www.coordinationeurope.org

Sweden - Learning Environment Greta G. - Resilience - Responsibility & Commitment - Reflection - Communication

IdA project

Learning Environment Greta G.

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Focus of the project

1. Media Workshop in a professional media company, becoming an official team member of the crew
2. Perform the official model contest Greta G. event in 6 Swedish cities

Situation

Becoming official team members in the Greta G. crew. First step was a media workshop in order to learn cameras, sound, pictures, editing and all aspects of the event, from casting models to building the cat walk, styling of models, catering & drinks to delivering a smashing event for paying companies, the city council and the audience/ town people.

Important Aspects

- Professional media crew (no teachers)
The participants are supported by a professional team w/ supervisor

- Clear expected result
Setting up and delivering a successful model event in several cities, film and take pictures of this event, build up cat walk, backstage set up, styling workshop, café, audience spots etc.

- Public work/ project
It is a real event supported by the city council and the business men in town - who show their collections and do PR for their shops via the model show

- Group dynamics/ real life social setting
Do participants help each other or not, do they compete against each other or not, who can do what, who is great and who is not

- Guidance social worker through IdA Project

- Receive real responsibility
participant is an official crew member responsible for his/her task within the project

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Softskills

Resilience
Responsibility & Commitment
Reflection
Communication

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Learning Principles

Training-on-the-job
Look and learn from “role model” (media professional) “copy cat”

Look and learn from media professionals, practice to become good in the respective task, ask questions, show interest, take action, take responsibility for the actions just-do-it (pretend to be professional)

Learning-by-doing
Receive instructions from role model/ professional, training independently and in the group, optimizations under auspices of professional

Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions. Understanding of important parameters in the project (motivation of employer, paying customer, municipality, audience - and to react accordingly)

Support from professionals

Professional support allows participants to move on to the next level by benefiting from the know-how and advice from the professional and his/her contacts

Peer-to-peer learning
Interaction and cooperation with people from different backgrounds and ages

The team of ca. ten people is a social setting where soical soft skills and socializing are trained naturally. IdA-social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions at work and at “home”.

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Project Beta

This Mobility Learning Environment (LE) and the method learning by doing was successfully used during IdA-Projects in Småland
The origin of this way of working "learning by doing" is partly in the swedish culture ("you can not give an intern a boring job, then s/he will lose interest - s/he has to be able to do the fun parts") and partly in the nature of the super- visors themselves. The supervisors for Greta G. are very social, friendly, including in their approach at the same time as they are sensitive to what the participants want to do, what they like and what they are good at. Firstly the participants receive a hands on introduction and training on the job, what does the participand need to learn in order to execute a specific task. The task is first trained and trained again until the result is good, the eye has been educated and sensibilised for the job. Then the agreed upon job is done by the participant. Like photoshoping model shootings, creating a flyer, learning to use a camera, cutting, editing, creating an intro, handling a camera, handling a film camera, filming live events etc. The clue was that the participants were integrated into the Greta G. Model Contest project - a real project where aspiring models were casted together with one of Scandinavias leading model agency from Stockholm (MIKAS), top model Mona Johannesson (the swedish Kate Moss), The Swedish Fashion Council and companies and en- trepreneurs from Småland. The project set up was the planning, organisation and execution around