The FOCUS project – FOstering the Capacity of social workers delivering edUcation on life Skills,  with a duration of 26 months, is a Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnership for adult education of the Erasmus + program.

The aim of the project is to support and strengthen the skills of the private social operators involved in the reception and education processes. The use of life skills in the work of social workers is fundamental, falling within those basic skills put into practice daily; making life skills your own, empowering them and being aware of them is important for individual improvement: the FOCUS project is therefore the first tool to understand how a training on transversal skills can benefit both the subject and those who interact with it (both in the context working as well as socially). So there is a need related to the improvement of life skills education, with specific target in social workers, through the creation of training modules and innovative material contextualized in the needs and work of social workers.

The project activities foresee three fundamental steps:

1. Research on existing literature relating to the impact of the skills of private social workers in identifying learning needs.

2. Guidelines for the management of training courses for social workers in social private sector

3. An interactive platform useful for consolidating the skills of workers in the private social sector

Project Link: https://www.project-focus.eu/index.php/en/