The RESCALE project brings together seven European partners to support adults who are unemployed, inactive, or in transition, and underrepresented in adult education.
OECD data (2020) show that adults with below upper-secondary education face higher unemployment and lower participation in adult learning. At the same time, the green and digital transitions are reshaping labour markets across Europe.
RESCALE addresses these challenges through a European network of Reskilling Labs, implemented as local pilots that bring together adult education providers and labour-market actors to test structured reskilling approaches in real learning contexts.
Key activities include:
- Developing and piloting an innovative Reskilling Lab infrastructure, informed by a comparative analysis of European education and labour-market systems.
- Delivering a skills assessment tool and a European Reskilling Labs model, including a Lab blueprint, enhanced career guidance, counselling and mentoring, and innovative training materials.
- Implementing Reskilling Labs in seven countries for 210-350 participants, combined with scientific evaluation and the publication of a digital manual and a roadmap.
- Producing a policy model, supported by a digital decision-support prototype and a business model to enable scaling.
All models and tools developed in this project are designed to support practical implementation by adult education providers.
So far, the project has produced an educational model, a coaching model, and a comparative study analysing training infrastructure and public-private collaboration across partner countries.
This news article is provided by EAEA’s partner VUB (Free University of Brussels)
