elect- e uropean l earning c ommunities for t raining of people with mental ilness

Knowledge for welfare and health

National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health

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ELECT- European Learning Communities for Training of

people with Mental Ilness

ELECT-CONSORTIUM MEETING 1

Malmö 3-5th March 2008

Ville Grönberg



Content of this presentation

1. What is Life Long Learning Programme and Grundtvig

Subprogramme?

2. ELECT-project in Brief (activities, outcomes, workpackages)



Life Long Learning Programme

•European Commissions Life Long Learning Programme (LLP)

supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every

single life situation.

•It has a budget of € 7000 millions for the period 2007-2013, and is

the successor to the current Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and

eLearning programmes.

•It is composed of 4 sectoral sub-programmes, 4 transversal

programmes and the Jean Monnet programme.

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Structure of the Life Long learning Programme

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Source: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/events/february_2008/documents/grundtvig_programme.pdf



What is adult education / learning?

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Backround of the Grundtvig subprogramme

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Challences of the Grundtvig subprogramme

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Knowledge for welfare and health 8



Additional information

More information on LLP and Grundtvig:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm

Brussells Grundtvig infodays presentations:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/events/

february_2008/index_en.htm



Our contribution to the Grundtvig program

ELECT-PROJECT

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ELECT-project in brief

ELECT project promotes learning opportunities and access to education and employment of people with long-term mental illness

Project's purpose is to create a set of supported education methods and tools for people who are recovering from mental illness and wanting to develop their personal qualification, educational pathway and inclusion in the mainstream education and labour market.

The project enhances cooperation for education and training support between the Clubhouses' psychosocial rehabilitation, Clubhouse Training Bases, Clubhouse Coalitions and the formal educational institutions in consortium countries



ELECT history

European Clubhouse Conference in Munich 22th-24th November 2006 – Visions for the Future: More speed in Europe to the Clubhouse development (Esko Hänninen)

Project planning meeting in Taastrup, Denmark 2nd February 2007

Second project planning meeting and agreement on European Clubhouse Development Partnership (EPCD) in Stockholm 19th March 2007.

March 30th 2007 - Submission of the ELECT-project proposal for European Comission.

October 18th 2007 - Elect project has been selected for community co-financing

1st November 2007 – Project starts

29.-30.11.2007 Steering group meeting in Helsinki

3.-5.3.2008 Kick of meeting in Malmö



EPCD and ELECT

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EPCD – Agreement

EPCD - European Partnership for Clubhouse Development

Objectiveto promote the development of the Clubhouse model in Europe

PartnersOpen partnership – 14 partners so far

CoordinatorStakes

FundingNone, EPCD partners organise planning and other preparations aiming at European funding for Clubhouse development

Duration19.3.2007-31.12.2010

ELECT- Project

ELECT - European Learning Communities for training of people with Mental Ilness

Objectiveto develope supported education activities in European Clubhouses

Partners13 partners

CoordinatorStakes

FundingEuropean Commission, Life Long Learning program, 300 000€.

Duration1.11.2007-31.10.2009



The life cycle of a project

Partner Search

Selection

Application Evaluation

Results

Dissemination

Action

Idea

Agreements

Final Report

Contractual Period

Contract

Kick-off Meeting

’Post-Project’ Phase



Elect-project Activities 1/2

•Finds out the Clubhouse members’ educational goals and career plans for building up individual learning pathways;

•improves learners basic skills and learning to learn abilities by activating and motivating them to take part in different kinds of short courses, e.g. in career guidance, ICT and languages;

•organises two European transnational short courses by using Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)-technology;

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Elect-project Activities 2/2•develops a set of support measures and tools for assisting the clubhouse member trainees to study with success in formal educational institutions in cooperation with institutions concerned;

•enhances cooperation and awareness-raising activities between formal adult education and training institutions and non-formal Clubhouse learning communities;

•organizes a supported education pilot course for qualified trainers and peer trainers and creates a curriculum of supported education.

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Project outcomes 1/2

•A review of the good practices: Education and training in the European Clubhouses. Members' educational needs and goals. Learners' experiences.

•A Document of the support methods. support measures and tools for assisting the clubhouse member trainees to study with success in formal educational institutions

•Two short courses by using Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)-technology

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Project outcomes 1/2

•Supported education pilot course for trainers and peer trainers

•A curriculum of the Supported Education training course for the European Clubhouses

•Five project meetings

•Website, brochures, newsletters

•Evaluation report

•Interim and final report

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Project partners1. Stakes - National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (FI) -

Coordinator

2. Swedish Fountain House. Sweden (Lead partner)

3. Fountain House Fonden Danmark. (Lead partner)

4. Mosaic Clubhouse. United Kingdom (Lead partner)

5. Ersta Sköndal University College. Sweden (Lead partner)

6. Paritaetischer Wohlfahrtsverand Bayern e.V. Sozialpsychiatrisches Zentrum

7. Finnish Fountain House Coalition. Finland

8. Foundation Fountain, Fountain House in Oslo. Norway

9. Klúbburin Geysir. Iceland

10. Helsinki Clubhouses registered association. Finland

11. Stiftelsen Vänskap och arbete, Fontänhuset Org. Malmö

12. Caledonia Clubhouse. United Kingdom

13. ICCD (Associated partner)



How do we organise project activities?

Workpackages

1. Management

2. Activation and motivation

3. Support methods for education and training

4. Training of trainers

5. Quality and evaluation

6. Dissemination and exploitation.



WP1 Management 1.11.2007-31.10.2009

Partners Objectives Tasks/products

Stakes (lead partner)Swedish Fountain HouseFountain House Fonden DanmarkMosaic ClubhouseErsta Sköndal University College

To organise good conditions for the implementation of the project's activities and expected results

-Overall administration-Financial administration-Facilitating detailed planning-Organising WP start-up -Internal action rules -Consortium meetings-Steering group meetings-Interim and final reports



WP2 Activation and Motivation 1.1.2008-31.7.2009


Swedish Fountain House (Lead partner)German Clubhouse coalitionFountain House Fonden DanmarkFinnish Clubhouse coalition

Motivates Clubhouse members to take part in training and finds out their educational goals and needs Improves clubhouse member's basic skills and learning abilities by activating and motivating members to take part in different kind of short courses, e.g. in career guidance, ICT and languages.

Survey of prevailing practicesReport of good practicesMember trainees' educational needs and goals + reportCSCL courses + feedbackLearning pathways and plansReview of WP activities



WP3 Support methods 1.1.2008-31.7.2009


Danish Fountain House Coalition (Lead partner)Mosaic ClubhouseFinnish Clubhouse CoalitionClubhouse Oslo Clubhouse Geysir

To develop on site and mobile support methods for students whose studies have been interrupted or has not yet been started because of a psychiatric disability

cooperation meetings with educ. institutions (pilot CHs in each country) support methods & tools (report on practices)expert consultationsexcursions to educational institutions Manual of supported education



WP4 Training of trainers 1.1.2008-31.7.2009


Mosaic Clubhouse (Lead partner)Helsinki ClubhouseMalmö ClubhouseCaledonia Clubhouse

To organise a Supported Education pilot course for trainers and peer trainers

To create a curriculum of the Supported Education training course for the European clubhouses

planning of pilot coursepilot course + feedbackcurriculum planning



WP5 Quality and evaluation 1.11.2007-30.9.2009


Ersta Sköndal HögskolaSwedish Fountain houseStakes

The aim of this work package is to synchronize internal as well as external evaluation efforts connected to the main project, put the activities within the project into a research context and to identify theoretical key concepts (i e rehabilitation and peer support) that can be valuable in a evaluation process.

defining quality criteriainternal quality assessmentdetailed evaluation plancollecting monitoring informationinterim and final report



WP6 Dissemination and exploitation 1.11.2007-31.10.2009


All PartnersLead partner Stakes

Dissemination and exploitation of the project results

Long term goal is establish special European Office to support ICCD and EPCD in the future development activities

-website planning-brochures + translations-e-Newsletter-awareness-raising/stakeholders-Participating into European CH Conference,-International CH Seminar and Mental Health Europe /conf.-exploitation/project outcomes-exploitation in continuing project



Workpackages and staff days

Manag. Actication Sup.meth. Trainers Evaluat. Dissem.

Staff days wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 Total days

Stakes P1 290 0 0 0 60 140 490

Swe Coal P2 5 75 0 25 5 110

Den Coal P3 5 30 70 0 0 5 110

Mosaic P4 5 0 25 75 0 5 110

Erstä Sk P5 5 0 0 0 60 5 70

Germany P6 0 55 0 0 0 5 60

Fin Coal P7 0 20 35 0 0 5 60

Norway P8 0 0 55 0 0 5 60

Iceland P9 0 0 55 0 0 5 60

Hel TB P10 0 0 0 55 0 5 60

Malmö TB P11 0 0 0 55 0 5 60

Scotland P12 0 0 0 55 0 5 60

Total/wp 310 180 240 240 145 195 1310



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European ICCD Clubhouses - Beneficiaries of the ELECT project

About 90 Clubhouses serving over 11000 members annually

Albania 1Austria 3

Denmark 6England 19Estonia 1Finland 20

Germany 3Iceland 1Ireland 4

Italy 1Kosovo 1

Macedonia 2Netherlands 1

Norway 3Poland 2

Romania 1Russia 4

Scotland 7Sweden 9

TOTAL 90



Vision for future: next steps after ELECT-project A network

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ELECT-project contact information

Management/Coordination:

Ville GrönbergProject ManagerStakesInnovative Employment initiatives –groupStakesP.O Box 220(Lintulahdenkuja 4 – street address)FI-00531 HelsinkiFinland

Mobile +358 400 259 029Tel. +358 9 3967 2130Fax. +358 9 3967 2201E-mail: [email protected]

Reports & payments

Mirva PiispaFinancial secretaryStakesInnovative Employment initiatives –groupStakesP.O Box 220(Lintulahdenkuja 4 – street address)FI-00531 Helsinki, Finland

Tel. +358 9 3967 2609Fax. +358 9 3967 2201E-mail: [email protected]

(Mirva wishes that you send questions considering payments by e-mail!)

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