The South Yorkshire Communiversity Passport: Co-Designing a Pilot Scheme

The aim of this project is to co-design a skills passport pilot scheme to roll out across South Yorkshire over the next year. We will be bringing together and fostering collaboration between: community volunteers (including Arbourthorne Community Primary School as our main partner), employers and education providers, policymakers (including South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority or SYMCA), and academics.

 

We ask: “How can we better recognise, document and endorse community-based skills, experience and learning beyond formal educational training – to contribute to the readiness of groups to engage in multiple pathways towards adult learning, education and skills?”

 

We want to find out whether a South Yorkshire Communiversity Skills Passport could act as a credible mechanism to recognise, document, and endorse community-based skills (which are so often not recognised by formal education training). There is a need to provide systematic recognition for those transferable skills which come from community and voluntary participation, yet are so often undervalued.

 

If you have any questions please contact the Project Contact: Sam Burgum (samuel.burgum@sheffield.ac.uk)