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Introduction to the training programme ”Family learning on work and life balance”.
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Introduction to the training programme”Family learning on work and life balance” • The training programme is one of the results of the project “Facilitating family learning on the work-life balance (Family)” (2009-2011) under European Commission’s Lifelong Learning sub-programme Grundtvig developed by partners from Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and United Kingdom. • Project seeks to promote bottom-up initiatives encouraging involvement of employees themselves in implementing family-friendly measures at workplaces. • The training programme is developed on the module principle and it is based on brochure with 32 personal interviews and the video collection with 8 video-clips which contain personal reflections of the employees who have benefited from family-friendly measures at their workplaces. More information about the project and its outcomes: www.family-learning.eu
Training programme “Family learning on work and life balance” has been developed by international partnership:
Promotes gender balance and equality in the labour market for women and men; Forms modern image of men-employees with family responsibilities; Encourages mothers to combine employment with maternity and keeps women in the labour market; Strengthens the emotional satisfaction of partnership and parenthood; Strengthen gender equality in the family; Involves fathers in family/home life; Increases the well-being of children. Improving the quality of working life and implementing family-friendly measures at workplaces has many benefits, as it:
Training programme comprises six main modules that cover the most important aspects in reconciliation of work and family life: