Focus on the Individual Learner (FIL)

Focus on the Individual Learner (FIL)

Nowadays, training programs for such basic skills are an imperative need for all workers of all sectors. The particularity of such a training, that the FIL project addresses, is that it has to be highly individualised as the needs differ from person to person, depending on their previous education, working experience, hobbies, interests and social context.

The project FIL proposes a tool that can assess the needs for generic and basic skills of each interested person and propose an individualised training course curriculum. The tool is based on a self-assessment model taking into consideration different parameters of the individual (such as educational, social and work background, present situation, available skills, job demands and wishes and career expectations) and of the sector (analysis of professions and skills required by each position).

The results of the project are:

  • Sectorial studies concerning the different occupations in each of the following sectors: food, clothing, metal, engineering industry, retail trade, economic counselling and hotels and catering as well as the generic skills needed for each one.
  • A model for the assessment of present and future training needs in generic skills and a set of electronic tools that will be based on the model.

More specifically the model consists of:

  • Questionnaires recording in detail the profile of each person (education, working experience, current working position and tasks, future career expectations)
  • A database with occupations and the specific skills required for each occupation. The database will be based on studies performed by the partners on specific occupations as described above.
  • Self-assessment questionnaires for the identification of skills and knowledge in specific subjects (tests)
  • A matching methodology for the identification of missing and/or needed skills.
  • A complete curriculum for each generic skill.
  • A methodology for proposing a personalised training course.
  • A set of electronic tools that will be delivered in a form of a CD-ROM. The electronic tools will be based on the proposed model. The main features of its envisaged user interface are:
    • a data entry part, in which the beneficiary/ user fulfils his/her personal data,
    • a self assessment part, in which the user takes the tests,
    • a result part, in which the user gets the feedback of the tool in the form of a proposal for a training programme curriculum.

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