About EMODE

The starting point and main inspiration for E-MODE has been the role and importance of Adult trainers in creating an attractive and qualitative learning environment that facilitates professional and personal development of adults, which is commonly recognized across Europe.

It aims to equip adult trainers with an integrated set of tools, methods and skills in designing, developing, evaluating their own modules and materials and using them in various interactive ways, so as to support them respond to their essential role as innovators of the flexible, community and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) based learning environments of the modern European knowledge societies.

E-MODE mainly addresses the needs and interests of: trainers active in the area of initial and continuing adult education and Life Long Learning, on the job trainers, trainers of adult educators, members of adult education institutions, or of human recourse departments of enterprises involved in training activities, policy makers, members of social partner institutes providing adult training, Adults wishing to enrol to Long Life Learning programmes, requiring flexibility of learning mode and pace and willing to use ICT for their learning process(with or without advanced ICT skills).

The project that started at 2008 operates in Denmark (Roskilde University), Greece (KEK INE GSEE, Hellenic Adult Education Association, SQLearn ) Italy (Scienter Srl), Bulgaria (FSSK), Sweden (Swedish Tele Pedagogic Knowledge Center) and Turkey (Izmir University of Economics). The partnership that was driven by their long experience in the fields of adult education and vocational training, research and teaching in adult and continuing education, ICT applications in education (e-learning contents production application and delivery) creation of educational methodologies and techniques, etc. develop actions complementary and make use of their extensive collaboration network.

The methodology and approaches adopted by E-MODE mainly consists of : desk research, interviews and questionnaires, focus groups, contact with training institutes and trainers, consultation with training and ICT experts, collection and analysis of already applied practices and experiences, on line communication, monitoring and consultation among the partners, blended pilot training (face to face meetings and distance learning), etc.

An adult learner based approach constitutes the key point of the research and experimenting activities, as well as the familiarisation and use of the contemporary applications of technology/communication by the trainer in order to facilitate and update his/her learning contents.

E-MODE approach is also based on a cultural and linguistic adaptation of the results to the specificities of each partner country, providing specific integration guidelines of the proposed innovation into the national/regional adult training systems of all partners countries.

Dissemination and exploitation is also an important part and it runs from the beginning of the project, indicating and making use of the different existing communication channels and strategies. Target groups are actively involved from the beginning of the project and keep being updated through the diffusion of the printed dissemination products (leaflet, newsletter) and also through the internet.