1. Who are the partners
of the “VET4e-I” project?
This project is carried out by a VET 4
E
consortium of 8 organisations
representing non formal education,
-
higher education, foundations, think
tanks and vocational training centres
from Spain, Italy, France, Germany and
Bulgaria.
Fundación Acción Social y Tiempo Libre,
Esplai, Spain
European VET
www.fundacionesplai.org Solution
Dynamic Organization Thinking, D.O.T,
Spain
For e-Inclusion
www.d-o-t.eu
Facilitators
arci Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale
(VET 4e-I)
Italiana (ARCI), Italy
www.arci.it
ICT Development, Bulgaria
www.ictdbg.eu
More information on the project
L’Agenzia per la promozione dell impresa may be obtained from: w w w. e f a c i l i t a t o r s . e u
solidale (LAPIS), Italy Project coordinator,
Gabriel Rissola,
www.arci.it/lapis
grissola@d-o-t.eu
Ligue de l’enseignement, Paris, France Press relation, This project is carried out with the support
www.laligue.org David Lopez, of the Leonardo da Vinci
dlopez@laligue.org Programme of the European Union
Infrep, Paris, France
www.infrep.org
Technische Universität Dortmund - sfs
Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund,
Germany
www.sfs-dortmund.de
w w w.efacilitators.eu/

2. Why such a project? What is e-Inclusion? What is the EU position
In the last years, growing attention has been Today, around 30-40% of older people, people on e-Inclusion?
drawn towards e-Inclusion policies, considering infor- with disabilities, women, lower education groups, 34 European countries signed a Ministerial Declaration
mation and communication technologies (ICT) as a unemployed and “less-developed” regions are still not in which ambitious policy targets were set for an inclu-
vehicle for personal development, active citizenship, actively engaged in using ICT and are no part of the sive Knowledge society in 2006. Known as the “Riga
social inclusion and employability. Public Internet Knowledge society in Europe. e-Inclusion aims to: Declaration”, it set concrete targets for Internet usage
Centers play a key role in local societies especially in prevent the risks of “digital exclusion”: to ensure that dis- and availability, digital literacy, and accessibility of ICT
towns and small villages, where they have become a ref- advantaged people are not left behind; by 2010. It was followed by the “i2010 initiative” that
erence point not only for new technologies and learn- avoid new forms of exclusion due to lack of digital liter- proposed a strategic framework for action. Today, we are
ing, but also for the development of social links, a sense acy or of Internet access. far from reaching these objectives. In March 2009, the
of community belonging and cultural life. The goal of this European project is to increase e- European Council recognized that e-Inclusion remained
Inclusion chances of disadvantaged groups by creating “overall poor in Europe” and that public authorities had
a new professional profile of e-Facilitators with to use “various instruments at their disposal, such as leg-
Who are e-facilitators in Europe? European relevance and that would be certifiable at islation, standardisation and certification as well as pub-
The animators or facilitators have a key role to play, they national/local levels. lic procurement”. The partners of the “VET4e-I” project
are not only ICT trainers but also socio-cultural media- want to encourage public authorities:
tors. They are the promoters of disadvantaged users’ to recognize the role of e-Facilitators as promoters of e-
inclusion. Today, their profile and status differ greatly Inclusion;
from one country to the other as well as their access to to promote the development of certified and transpar-
formal and non formal training. The partners of the ent training solutions that correspond to their needs.
“VET4e-I” project will compare these different profiles They are convinced that investing in the professional
and the training offer that is already provided in their development of e-Facilitators is a key to face these
respective countries. important challenges.
Can we talk of a common professional figure of “e-
Facilitators” in Europe? What are the
What are their needs in terms of vocational training and expected
development? results of this
project?
On the basis of a cross-
country context analy-
sis, the partners of the “VET4e-I” project propose to
develop an innovative VET solution aiming to help
European countries to cope with the common chal-
lenge of e-Inclusion. The partners will develop a certifi-
able training curriculum for e-Inclusion facilitators
focused on the development of key competences of
users at risk of social exclusion, aiming to their empow-
erment in the Knowledge society. This training curricu-
lum will be based on an innovative blended learning
environment inspired in Web 2.0 as well as on user-cen-
tred didactics.