ASK4JOB

Around 70 million people in Europe lack adequate reading and writing skills, and even more have poor numeracy and digital skills, putting them at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion; more than half of the EU's 12 million long-term unemployed are considered low-skilled adults.

To strengthen and upskill long-term unemployed (2+ years) and low-skilled adults so they can effectively use digital technology for work, leisure and communication, and to give employment agencies and adult-education providers tools to assess, educate and recognise digital-literacy competences.

An 11-partner transnational consortium (led by E.RI.FO, Italy, with partners including Installofi Levante, Turgutlu Kaymakamligi, Best Cybernetics, Foxpopuli, Vilnius Gabriele Petkevicaite-Bite, Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi, the Directorate of Secondary Education of Chania, the Institute For Private Enterprise and Democracy Foundation, the Business Foundation for Education and All Digital) designed, tested and validated an educational pathway and its assessment tool, developed a blended methodology combining an A-MOOC and a 'Capacity Lab' built on micro-units of learning outcomes, and built a pathway for recognising competences gained through informal learning.

No quantitative outcomes or evaluation results are reported in the source material ('Evaluation: No').

ASK4JOB produced a transferable toolkit intended for use by public and private employment agencies and adult-education providers, but its real-world uptake and effectiveness are not documented in the available source material.