about the project

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Here you can read about the need for this projects and his goals. We hope you are interested in our outcomes.

Train Sustain endeavours to encourage professional and specially volunteer trainers to share their passion in helping vulnerable groups as well in sharing their knowledge to them.

Vulnerable groups are forgotten in society’s discussion of climate change, sustainability, sustainable growth. This project sees the need to professionalize NGO workers/volunteers working with vulnerable groups: By enhancing the competencies of VET-trainers and volunteers who teach recycling/upcycling, this project will equip disadvantaged groups with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to thrive in an evolving labor market with emerging green business opportunities. The disadvantaged groups will be trained thereby improving their employability and gain better access to the job market.

The Train-sustain project aims to:

Enable VET-institutions and NGOs improve the competences of their trainers and volunteers to become more qualified in teaching particularly in upcycling, recycling and/or repair of furniture, appliances, clothes, etc.
Ensure that the disadvantaged groups get the training and support that is required for them to handle a job, thus enhancing their employability.
Promote social inclusion by providing disadvantaged groups with professional training as well as ensuring that they are ready for the job market.
Contribute to the realization of the European Green Deal by promoting sustainable use of used materials through recycling/upcycling.

Train-Sustain has two main direct groups of participants:

Primary target group:

teachers and volunteers (seniors, retired teachers, professional craftsmen) that teach practical craft skills used for repairing, renovating, and restoring secondhand items to citizens

Secondary target group:

disadvantaged groups - people with learning disabilities and mentally vulnerable, unemployed people on the periphery of the labor market

The Train-Sustain project will undertake the following:

A curriculum for trainers of disadvantaged groups (see outcomes)
A handbook for future VET-teachers and volunteer trainers (see outcomes)
A compendium of good practices on different socio-economic business models within the field of repair/recycling/upcycling (see outcomes)
Engage 88 trainers in professionalizing the teaching of repair/recycling/upcycling of furniture, clothes, appliances.
International Teacher training (Spain): 28
Hold Local teacher training events: 60 (10 per partner)
Train disadvantaged VET-students trained in recycling/upcycling goods that could give them employment (6 x 20 participants = 120)
Hold a Final Conference in Portugal