Objectives

General objective of the project is identifying, experimenting and modelling methodologies and instruments to contrast employees’ discriminations and disparities.

VARCO’s goal is to bring benefits to the training, working and social systems, to operators in the training and educational fields within the target territory (Rome and Latium); to policy-makers interested in social welfare; to workers involved in the project. The individuated beneficiaries are all represented in the VARCO Development Partnership, guaranteeing a wide participation at each stage of the project.

VARCO’s final users (unskilled and/or over-45 workers, disabled people, marginalised women) will initiate a fundamental process to sort out subjectively-perceived and objective discrimination, by being given access to learning opportunities in the context of a lifelong integrated learning and training system capable of supporting and sustaining their adaptation to “change”.

As specific results, VARCO aims at making available to final beneficiaries innovative pedagogical solutions based on the valorisation of self-training ability of organisations and nets.

All final beneficiaries will be able to use new ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), including distance learning; they will also be conscious of their skills and will be prepared to continuous change. Their gap in basic knowledge – as identified in the research stage of the project – will be filled, and perhaps their new professional position will be more opportunely tailored to their wider skills (formally, informally and non-formally acquired).

On the one hand, referring to operators in training and orientation, employment services, local development and welfare fields, the project pursues the specific objective of identifying and defining the profile of an advisor for the valorisation of learning practices. On the other hand, enterprises will benefit from the advisor’s work by fostering their innovative ability.

VARCO will also encourage a collective improvement in the working, training and social systems involved, by attaining the Model for the Valorisation and Adaptation of non-formal and informal abilities.

Last but not least, the project will introduce new ways of institutional co-operation, like the “Equal Agreement”. The partnership will strongly attempt to create public/private networks dedicated to the development of structures and integrated tools in order to foster adaptability to change in the working place, and will fight any factors that may cause marginalisation.