MOVE-UP

The MOVE-UP project is a 24-month initiative for developing a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for low skilled unemployed or inactive mothers, offering the opportunity of assessing, validating and further developing their prior learning for facilitating their participation in training and in the labor market, by enhancing the competences they gain thanks to their role as parent.
The focus of prior learning is on the Personal, Social and Learning to learn competence (PSL) that they gained/are gaining thanks to their role of parent, thus byu sing and preliminary valuing it as a driver for upskilling. Indeed, PSL competence has proven to be functional to ignite the motivation and predisposition towards all the other Key Competences for lifelong learning, thus the capacity to fully benefit from afterwards basic skills acquisition (literacy, numeracy and digital skills) and employment opportunities.

By valuing mothers’ competences, mainly acquired through informal learning opportunities and daily life experiences as new parents, can have an immediate positive effect on their willingness to be empowered and involved in formal learning opportunities to better match highly required job positions in the labour market.
So, on one hand, the project is going to foster innovation in Adult Education (AE) by supporting and enhancing the capacity of AE providers and stakeholders to contribute inequality between women and men, as well as insocial inclusion, through the promotion of a different mind-set towards motherhood, intended as a potential to succeed in the labor market rather than as a limitation in women’s affirmation; on the other hand, the project is going to work on low-skilled mothers’ empowerment and upskilling for facilitating their access to education, training and lifelong learning.