SUSTAINABLE LIFE SKILLS CAFE

The concept of “Sustainable Life Skills” can be elucidated in connection with internal capacities and behaviours that allow individuals to “build the needed competencies for human development and to adopt positive behaviours that enable them to deal effectively with the challenges. Sustainable life skills have a substantial effect on all aspects of life, especially social environment and business life. Soft skills include most of the important abilities such as problem solving and the ability to work in a team. These skills are particularly important in sectors where social relation is of high importance for the delivery and quality of the work. In this respect, in the EU, disadvantaged groups including migrants, marginalized groups and low/semi-skilled adults are the most vulnerable part of the community in terms of lacking sustainable & soft skills or mindset. Literacy difficulties and lack of sustainable life skills, restrict individual capabilities and prevent innovation. These groups need targeted support to meet these challenges. Sustainable Cafe makes an important contribution in this respect.

Sustainable Café Project was framed around empowering adults and an interactive process of high quality learning opportunities for disadvantaged adult groups, including low-skilled/low qualified, marginalized, socially excluded adults and migrants. Sustainable Cafe Project aimed to support sustainable skills mindset as well as social inclusion which will enable these adults to acquire knowledge and to develop attitudes and skills which support the adoption of vocational skills and as a result help them navigate through in a business environment. General objectives: a) Low Qualified Adults as future active workers, entrepreneurs, employees developed a sustainable life skills mindset and gained the relevant knowledge to improve soft skills and gained sustainable competences b) Adult education organisations, trainers, and support structures such as chambers or incubators are put in a position to sustainably professionalise their services and increase their impact. c) By actively supporting the potential active work force in disadvantaged groups, we create an important impact for the regional economy. d) Project partners acquired new strategies, tools and methods for improving the effectiveness of their services.

1. Project Management and Finance 2.Rapid prototyping product development & project results - Three PRs were developed. 3. Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Plan 4. Sharing & Promoting and Sustainability Plan 5. Website of SLS Café was developed -that will remain accessible after the project completion. 6. Multiplier events were coordinated by each partner organisation 7. Social Inclusion Management & Engagement and Use of Results 8. Transnational Partner Meetings in Antibes (France) and Turku (Finland)

Sustainable Café Project’s concrete outputs are: 1) Comprehensive toolbox, which presents state of the art methods for the development of an Sustainable Life Skills Mindset and is designed in a supportive simple and easy to understand way (WP1) 2) Sustainable Cafes, providing a target group specific, inspiring, low-threshold learning environment and a blueprint handbook that enables other organisations beyond the participating partner regions to implement the methodologies (W2) 3) An interactive APP (WP3) working as both, content dissemination platform as well as interactive exchange and calendar/location tool, ensuring wide and free access of all produced resources.