Restart Transfer of Innovation Project
The Restart Transfer of Innovation project will be delivered through the Leonardo LLP programme and will commence on 1st October 2010, running for two years. It aims to develop the quality and attractiveness of VET systems and practices throughout Europe by ensuring that they are responsive to the very specific needs of a group known to be at high risk of social exclusion: lone parents.
Project Summary
Restart is an innovative training course developed by Gingerbread NI (see Background of the Project). The project's main aim is to transfer the Restart programme to Cyprus, Italy, Poland and Norway. The partners are Gingerbread NI, Possibilities NI, Associazione NET (Italy), WSINF (Poland), NOVA (Norway), INDEX (Cyprus), CONECT (Belgium), Anniesland College (Scotland), and the Department for Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland). Please see Information about the Partnership for more about these organisations and their roles in the project. The Restart Transfer of Innovation Project will target support at lone parents that face particular difficulties in the labour market by actively involving them in the project to transfer qualifications across Europe.
Project objectives include:
- To carry out research into the situation of lone parents in each country.
- To establish cross-sectoral Stakeholder Forums, ensuring the involvement of policy and practice professionals who can support this transfer.
- To adapt and translate the programme to suit each country's language, welfare, employment and VET systems, and to attain accreditation for the programme in each country.
- To pilot and evaluate the programme with 10 lone parents in each country.
- Dissemination will include a case study film, best practice report, project report and a final event in Brussels involving Director Generals and other key practice and policy players. Valorisation options include commercialisation, e-learning adaptation, conversion for use with other disadvantaged groups and ECVET accreditation.
The envisaged impact is that each partner country will be able to offer through their VET system an accredited return to work training and support package for lone parents seeking a return to work. This will better enable lone parents, a group traditionally disadvantaged in the labour market, to achieve greater equality of access to sustainable employment across the EU.
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