Program SOCRATES II - GRUNDTVIG Project A. C. R. E   (2000-2001-2002)

To increase his knowledge for better answering Employment

The French Partner, Promoter of the project: The Board of directors of Association SAVOIR et COMPETENCE, created in 1990, is composed of persons in charge of centers of formation, of centers of professional rehabilitation, heads of company and academics. Its social object is the formation, the study, the consulting and the expertise for insertion as well as the maintenance in employment for disabled workers. In each one of its actions, SAVOIR et COMPETENCE are based on principles, respect of identities and differences, definition of contributions, contractualisation of objectives, work in network and implication of companies.

The Italian Partner is a public institution of the South (Area of Pouilles) of 17000 inhabitants involved in the search for answers to his problems of inclusion on a territory which has the strongest rate of unemployment of whole Europe. The causes of this situation give a report on insufficiencies of the school level of the people but also of the incapacity of a labour market to absorb the offer of local labour.

Its interlocutors are primarily the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare as well as the Regional Public Organizations (schools, Socio-Medical Service National...) for this community which takes care of the initial training of its speakers, which thinks on the creation of a development's agency and of the individualization of the answers brought in term of course, criteria of integration in the world of work and mobilization of the territory. This commune initiates in term of services offered (social cooperative, for example), develops the dialogue between the weakened person and the companies and organizes local associative offers.

The interest of this partner lies in the fact that it has almost all latitudes to initiate reflections but also authorities of dialogue, even of the experiments, in term of local territory, including with the schools and colleges by approvals after vote of the Town Council.

1st remark
The level' s problem of acquisitions, considered in term of general knowledge, has made the object of a certain number of statistical studies whatever the typology of weaken publics (woman, unqualified young people, young people under protection, older than 50 years, long-term unemployed people, disabled people, ethnic minorities,...) and has taken the lead again, in a recent past, with setting-up of "specialized measurement" (in France in particular with CFI, PAQUE and TRACE dispositives, for example) or by "specific European program " (NOW, INTEGRA, HORIZON) which have had for main objectives to try to answer at the origin of such action or installation of such measure (Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse, for example).

2nd remark
The daily various European practices count a certain number of elementary gaps in terms of cognitive knowledge (general culture and basic asset) and know how to be (behavioral, social, environmental, organisational - mobility, autonomy, initiative -...) from where the first reason of the difficulty emanates of registering the weakened publics in courses of training which remains pre-requisite insufficiencies and the difficulty of leading too heterogeneous working groups in their components and their contents. Other largely called upon reason, that of the concept of time, precondition necessary to all these publics.

3rd remark
the successes, in numbers too insufficient, are pressed on individualized courses in situations which hold account, on first rank, of the choices of the person without however occulting her immediate environment. All the European actors agree to recognize the impossible to circumvent need for the individualization of the trajectories.

While being based on a framework of three partners testifying to a will to engage a communitary reflection together, a homogeneity of the needs - whilst diversity structural of its levels of interventions could be located within the framework of the barriers to socio-professional insertion for the public known as being in difficulty, in particular for all that relates to the few school level, or not adapted to the requirements of the labour market.

The will of the European actors of the ACRE project is well to share a whole of reports for purposes to define common answers which guide national experiments. Our will is to impulse the reflection at the level of European Community up to the national levels and to study accessibility with the diagrams selected, for third countries interested by this step.

The ACRE project, in its European dimension, has the role to allow publics insufficiently equipped with elementary knowledge to reach training all along their life, by:

The assistance towards people in difficulty, and in particular those which are, or were, in rejection of the education system, requires pedagogy and means adapted towards essential knowledge. An individualized assumption of responsibility is thus essential not to generate exclusion and/or phenomena of rejection by the society.

The ACRE project, in its European dimension, has as a will to fight against discriminations of all kinds by supporting inclusion by the equal opportunity. This is why the methods of interventions of the actors will not have to stick to the specific contexts of differentiated typologies (even if they should be located as such for better accompanying them) but to work with the individuation.

In the ACRE project, the characteristics of the population (women, disabled people, excluded, ethnic minorities...) import a few since the three partners are not confronted with the same problems. Only remains the interest for the individual who expresses the wish to increase his knowledge or to reinvest his former assets in order to develop competences of qualification later on to be validated.

In addition to the logistic installation of an information desk and support, work must lead - in term of final realization with the development of a diagram of intervention's schemes concerted by the three partners and conceived in the form of a European pre-network which will have, for affirmed will, to extend the recommended devices.

Be concern by the project ACRE, any person coming out of education system, being in situation of difficulty of insertion and/or integration, man or woman, and have to overcome a handicap - recognize or not by the specialized commission which generate some multiple and complex situations - of start a accessibility with employment or with different device of reinforcement of acquisition, so much in term of general knowledges than in that of behavior.

The experimentation, which will take care from the very start of the second year to put 15 people (by country taking part) in situation, share of a precondition in the duration with phases located to allow a progressive acquisition of cognitive knowledge.

It is not useless to once again reaffirm this necessary preamble to exposed which follows: the ACRE project, which is thought at the European level and carried out on the level of national sites, is interested in specificity of the courses starting from the located level of knowledge and not from typologies of publics. Any person identified as being in the search of an initial course of training, even of relearning, can be directed towards the service of information and support which will have the role of identifying the needs and adapting the answers to be brought. The individuation being the master word, there cannot be strictly accurate methods and approaches conceptualized in advance. It is well there that the originality of this project resides which will build Community working hypotheses starting from the diagnosed situations and which will try later on, by a common synerg from the three countries partners, to recommend a standard model of diagrams of interventions. The practices located like interesting and carrying potentialities of extension will be tested in the country where they are not yet put in practice. The returns of observations will be the subject of diagrams concerted for later recommendations with diffuse. The contents and expectations of the national exchanges, spread out on the three years whole which will last the ACRE project, will be reproduced for each country, since considered and initiated starting from the European group of coordination. The complementarity of the ones and others must born from the analysis from the answers currently brought and innovative solutions generated by the exchanges of practices developed by the European operators of the ACRE project. The coordinator of the ACRE project will be able to take part in the national exchanges of the Spanish and Italian sites while contributing, on their requests, a share to work of dissemination which they will intend to carry out on their territory. He will contribute with the analysis of the reports and the reflections which will result from this.

The 1st year (September 2000 - September 2001) is intended for the preparation of the installation of the services of information and support (one, or several, on an experimental basis on the local or regional territory of each of the 3 partners).

Transnational meeting (3 days) - November 2000- From the necessary requirements for learning adult as regards of education, each European site will present the devices of greeting such as they exist in its country in the economic context and in geographical reality on the basis of the whole of the needs for the people indexed, the statistical data, the identified brakes and obstacles... Together, the 3 partners will take care to compare the modes of approach, existing methodologies of support as well as the answers brought in the state. They will also work with the location of the European practices interesting to test during the second year.

From these presentations, the partners will build a grid of common interview which will make it possible to inventory the needs for development of cognitive knowledge for learning in request and to locate the specific environmental supports to each course, while taking care to target a panel representative of the diversity of the devices and the public ones in order to have the most exhaustive possible picture as regards public, of process of access, of requests...

It thus acts, at the transnational level, to determine the parameters of the panel and to define the procedures of approach.

For the 2nd Year (September 2001 - September 2002), it will be a question of trying out the service of information and support in the three European countries while making reach the people the device and by building individualized courses of progression.

Throughout development of the ACRE project on the whole 3 years, work will be regularly assisted, on the 3 sites and with the title of the consultance, by an academic specialized in education and human resources, by a social psychologist expert-engineer and a specialist in adults psychology.

Considering the linguistic origin of the countries partners, work will be undertaken in French language.

The coordinator, under cover of the promoter, the guarantor of the advanced work in the respect of the project which was submitted to the European Commission. The coordinator allows the promoter to ensure the execution, management, the realization and the internal and/or external evaluation of the project. He prepares transnational meetings, takes care of the participation of the various actors according to their degree of implication and prepares the reports/ratios of stages and final while taking care, throughout development of the project, with the respect of the intermediate objectives. Within the framework of the ACRE project, it also organizes and takes part in the territorial reflexion and the experimentation of the concerted devices set up strategically by the Technical Cell and ratified by the Steering committee. At the transnational level : each entity will be member of right of the Steering committee which will have to ratify, at the end of each transnational session, the work developed within this framework. It also returns to the load of each of the 3 entities partners to designate a realizer of project which will come to constitute the Technical Cell and to work with the development of the project and the realization of the common resolutions.

At the territorial level : it returns to each realizer of project to operate local reduction necessary to the reflection and the experimentation, as well near the speakers as the authorities decision makers, and to restore with the Technical Cell the whole of its observations.

Promoter, coordinator, partners, all developed one or more experiments of European projects preliminary under their institutions within the framework of the programs HORIZON, NOW, YOUTHSTART, INTEGRA, ADAPT, LEONARDO recommended methodologies of work, the participation in the reflections, the development of the supports of diffusion, the organization of conferences of dissemination, the implication in the experiments... are ordinary practices common to the ones and the others.

Each entity being partner with his proper name (municipality, association, foundation), the questions of the diffusion and the marketing of the results of the project belong to them in so far as it will have been taken care of the guarantee of the intellectual property by the preliminary signature of a convention between the parts.

The follow-up and the evaluation of the project will be ensured by the coordinator who returns the responsibility of capitalize, progressively, of the development of the project, the reports, the diagnoses and analyses which result from this, methodologies of intervention, the respect of the jointly defined procedures, the answers brought by the means possibly of readjustments.

The projection of work could be the object of a periodic news bulletin in four languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian) which would begin again, in term of experimental achievements, the advance related to the opening of the service of information and support and with the individualization of the adapted courses.

As soon as the agreement is meant, contract on the intellectual property will be worked out and signed by the 3 entities partners of the ACRE project. This contract will begin again, under a convention, the definition of the parts, the distribution of the rights if it occurred that there is, the jurisdiction concerned as well as the conditions of widening to which any new European country will have to refer and of which it will have to be prevailed.

Each partner will have, in comparison with the legislation in force in its country, to organize the setting in conformity of the publication of the results of the ACRE project as for the construction of the data base and to the conceptualization of the telematic network by the communication of the exploited results. Each partner will take care to obtain, from each person concerned with the project, a legal authorization of diffusion even if it will be taken care from the start of the individual secrecy related to the identity of each one of them.

To choose the equal opportunity is a question of respect towards the person whatever the prevalence of differences but, also, a fight against any discrimination which continues by a requirement in the equality of the processing.

The preceding work undertaken with the partners of European project ACCES-ARIADNE enabled us to confront the characteristics of public underpriviledged, subjects of our reflections. Whatever the recognized differences (sex, disability, geographical context and/or socio-economic underpriviledged situation), the partners are agreed that it is not as well in the typology of public as reside the difficulties of inclusion as they meet all, at one time or another, but in their individual situation in comparison with the low level of their school and social assets.

The reflection and the development set up within the framework of the ACRE project would allow a different approach, erasing in fact any discrimination attached to a difference since it is in term of individualized course that the answers will be brought.