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Introduction 6

According to the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills, approximately 70 million Europeans struggle with
basic reading and writing, calculation and using digital tools in everyday life. The lack of these skills,
makes various necessary everyday activities difficult and represent a barrier to social- and work
inclusion. The importance of Digital Literacy, as one of the eight key competences that every
European citizen should master, is even highlighted by the European Commission’s 2010 Digital
Agenda for Europe.
As a response to this need, the European Council adopted the “Recommendation on Upskilling
Pathways” in order to help adults acquire a minimum level of literacy, numeracy and digital skills
through the development of high-quality and accessible services.

In this context the COMP-UP consortium, according to its experience with disadvantaged and low
qualified adults, suggests that updating competences of Adult Education Professionals (AEP) who
support adult learners is a reply to improve the literacy, numeracy and digital skills of this target
group.

Therefore, the aim of the COMP-UP Training Curriculum is to give a helping hand and support Adult
Education Professionals in their work with low-qualified adult learners on their learning path while
involving them in the learning processes for improving their literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
The training has been based on the Tool Collection results, which has been drawn up through the
first working phase of the project, including not only successfully implemented, good practice
projects gathered by the partnership, but also interviews conducted with AEPs in each partner
country in order to achieve best effectiveness.

The present document has been elaborated jointly by the COMP-UP consortium’s 5 partner
organisations, coming from five different countries (Italy, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Poland and
Romania), all having waste and valuable experience in Adult Education. It uses the learning
outcome approach; it is structured in five learning modules and uses the blended-learning
methodology. Consequently, each module is having an online part – based on Webinars of min. 15-
30 minutes duration each -, and a face-to-face part - to be implemented in the classroom. The
curriculum also focuses on the importance of establishing a bond and a trustful relationship with
the target group of low-qualified adults as this is the first, and most important step motivating
them throughout their learning processes.

The Curriculum will be available for download on the project website in all partner languages EN,
IT, DE, PL, ES, RO, HU, SE to maximize its further use.