Abstract:

Through the work carried out over 2 years, a new educational model has been generated to develop second-chance schools that promote the inclusion of young adults through training for entrepreneurship and employability in the third sector. For it, a mixed training process has been used involving students in learning for the creation and management of social entities and simultaneously developing the educational competencies of the curriculum of adult education. This educational model has been focused directly on the socio-economic and educational characteristics of the target audience: adults between 18 and 35 years old with significant obstacles to their social integration derived from the various causes that impact early school leaving, or from the barriers imposed on migrants with issues to validate or continue the training processes carried out in their territories of origin.

We aim to both motivate people who have lost their learning habits and drive and do so in a series of skills and knowledge necessary to develop their work or entrepreneurial drive in the field of management of social entities in the third sector and carry out social development projects within them. These aims are carried out through an innovative methodology that combines digital learning -which provides a wide autonomy to the student- with a personalized tutorial monitoring that decisively boosts their motivation and resilience. One of its innovative aspects is the ability to involve students and motivate their work through a learning-by-doing process that leads to the development of their educational competencies in accordance with the official curriculum for adult education thanks to a process of generation of competences and internships, and the possibility of creating their own organization by receiving the required prior funding.

One of the keys to our work is the creation of a new technological framework that includes an innovative e-Learning platform that enables a framework as friendly and as close as possible to the personal situation of our target, adapting it to the second chance model in adult education that we are developing under the name E2.0C. In this way we provide a digital environment that is similar to that of any real educational center and therefore avoids resorting to tools that may pose barriers or that limit accessibility to training. Our interface has an aspect especially adapted to a new model of second chance adult education through an inclusive virtual campus that reproduces the familiar spaces and elements of a real educational center: the secretary's office, classrooms, library, cafeteria, laboratory… all of them as virtual spaces in which to carry out all the activities related to the training and learning of new knowledge and skills.

We do not only want to offer a new digital training tool, but also to provide all the necessary elements so that any social or educational entity can launch its own E2.0C educational center (2.0 second chance center) by coupling the necessary software for this with plans and appropriate documents to shape, strengthen, and replicate new educational centers that contribute to disseminate our pedagogical objectives of social reintegration.

Acknowledgements:
This work has been funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, within the project 2022-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000089775; Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE).

Keywords:

Education, training, third sector, entrepreneurship.