Collection of Good Practices & Tools for Profiling

It is a customized individual or group training planning aimed at Learners (age 18-65) that are formally under the assistance of the health and social services. The practice is used by the educational team of Cooperativa Cramars in Tolmezzo, Italy.

It initially consists of sharing a plan with the social services in relation to the needs of the specific learner in order to 1)identify users disadvantages, needs, difficulties; 2) build a specific training path for them 3) find suitable educators for the user.

The collection of user data is organized as described:

1) information -  the training provider presents to the social services the training possibilities for the learner 

2) meetings with social serves to fill the form with data and needs of participant. If useful, the user can take part to the meetings; 

3) meetings are organized with assistants, teachers and learners to present the course and organize the timetable (educators are chosen according to the familiarity of the educators with the users' diversity)

4) during the course coordinator/tutor continuously maintains a close relationship with social services and educators.

The GP deals with the following diversity types (with regard to Erasmus+ priorities): Barriers to education; Social, economic barriers.

This practice is carried out with groups that in some way already have a formally recognised diversity, this method can also be used with other targets in the same way through the collection of needs and actual difficulties to follow the courses (perhaps at the request of parents or employment centres) and the subsequent development of a training programme that follows the needs and difficulties of the person concerned.

The GP is targeting a specific group of learners as well of educators as peers: Learners with Disability who want to pursue a career in the field of academic peer counselling. Alumnis of the course are qualified to combine their own experiences of their diverse life situations with their skills in the field of counseling as a basis for successful peer counseling.

The practice is developed by FH Joanneum, Department of Social Work, in Graz, Austria. 

Interested people need to have a pre-information meeting with an association or social institution dealing with their particular diverse background with regard to disabilities and health problems. Afterwards generic information about the fellow is collected through a oral interview with at least one regional expert institution in the field of representing groups with disabilities and health problems.

Diversity dimension according to Erasmus+ priorities: disabilities, health problems, barriers linked to discrimination.

Peer Counseling can be transferred to other spheres of diversity.

The GP is used in the Cooperativa Cramars in Tolmezzo, Italy to profile learners  that will attend a long term course in order to get as much info as possible to prevent problems and drop outs. 

The process starts with a one-to-one meeting with the learner interested to participate to the course that implies information about past experiences in learning and work, during the meeting the course coordinator evaluates, together with the future learner, the motivations and the proneness towards the course objectives. The learner is then asked to fulfil the formal enrolment form (provided by the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia that is funding the course through the European Social Fund).  Once the course as started, the student with particular issues, always has the possibility to meet individually the course tutor/coordinator to find solutions.  

By profiling learners the Regional form collects mainly all generic information about the learners such as biographical information, about schooling and education, past work experience, skills and competences and, in addition, the one-to-one interview is focus in guiding the learner to choose the right course and is collecting specific information related to mobility problems, availability of time, motivational learning barriers, physical learning barriers, expectations and personal goals. 

By profiling educators, the methods allow to collect generic background information: biographical information, about schooling and training, past work experience, training/educational skills and competences.

The one-to-one interview to define the learner’s motivation and to guide learners to training can be transferred to other courses or educational levels and includes all form of diversity; the formal collection form provided specifically by the Region, it includes contents that are easily replicable.

The GP deals with the following diversity types (with regard to Erasmus+ priorities): The one-to-one interview permits to collect information related to all type of diversity, but the GP is meant to deal with all learners not only for a specific type of diversity.