Although Europe has been recovering from the high unemployment of the recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that was implemented has a significant impact on local and global economies. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that more than 25 million jobs will be lost in the coming months, as a result of the outbreak. Current data show that by the end of 2019 the unemployed in EU-28 were 15,475 million. At the same time, low-skilled adults have limited labour market prospects compared to other individuals with more qualifications (OECD, 2019), with unemployment having a huge psychological impact on them.
OVERCOME aims at:
- Building the skills of career counsellors and adult educators to better support low-skilled adults.
- Building the psychological capital of low-skilled adults.
- Developing resources with quality material, curricula, toolkits, and OERs to build the competencies of low-skilled adults and their educators.
