Developing intErcultural coMmunication skills for coAl iNDustry (ex)workerS

The DEMANDS project has been designed on the basis of providing adequate and strategic training in terms of building intercultural communication competences for low skilled and working age adults from the lignite industry sector. This upskilling and reskilling process addresses the needs of these individuals to successfully manage the energy market transition caused by the European Green Deal and increase their employability and social inclusion.

Short training activities of VET trainers and low skilled (ex)workers from the lignite industry sector, to build their intercultural communication skills, will be organized using ICT tools to facilitate acquisition, assessment and microcredentials issuing. In this vein, an Open Educational Platform will be developed with the integration of all teaching material that will be produced and with an individual assessment toolkit for testing the intercultural communication competencies gained.

• To produce training material for VET trainers and for (ex)workers in the coal industry to acquire intercultural skills • To design and implement an educational open platform to facilitate assessment and microcredentials issuing for their intercultural communication competences • To enhance the communication and intercultural communication skills and strategies by organizing short training activities for (ex)workers • To recognise the learning experience with microcredentials Certification