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BOOST
BOOST

BOOST Global Competence for Advancing
Social Inclusion and Career Paths for
Vulnerable Women
Synopsis

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Together we can foster global competence for more inclusive societies, Gabriela Ramos
Twenty-first century citizens live in an interconnected, diverse, and rapidly changing world. Emerging
economic, digital, cultural, demographic, environmental forces, and global diseases (like COVID-19)
are shaping everyone's lives around the planet and increasing intercultural encounters daily. To cope
with this complex environment, it is important to foster global competence and equip all, not only the
adults of tomorrow, but also the adults of today, with the necessary know-how and tools to use global
competence.

According to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment global competence
framework, global competence is a multi-dimensional construct that requires a combination of
knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values successfully applied to global issues or intercultural situations.
Global issues refer to those that affect all people and have deep implications for current and future
generations. Intercultural situations refer to face-to-face, virtual, or mediated encounters with people
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who are perceived to be from a different cultural background.

Globally competent individuals can mobilise a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes (values) to:

Examine local, global and interculural issues

Take action or collective wellbeing and sustainable development

Engage in open, appropriate and effective interactions across cultures

Understand and appreciate the perspectives and world views of others

Figure 1 - The four dimension of global competence (2018 OCDE PISA Global Competence
Framework)

People able to mobilise their global competence live harmoniously in multicultural communities;
thrive in a changing labour market; use media platforms effectively and responsibly; advocate for the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); pursuit lifelong learning and stay curious, open, and get active

With a focus on fostering global competences, BOOST – Global competence for advancing social
inclusion and career path of vulnerable women, an ERASMUS+ project, targets women, currently
facing vulnerability due to their migrant background and cultural differences. The project also
addresses professionals that work to support these women, such as trainers, career counsellors, social
workers, and intercultural mediators.

BOOST provides both target groups with a MOOC offering a flexible learning path on global
competencies. It will also equip the professionals with bespoke coaching tools to better support
women, in vulnerable situations, in advancing their social inclusion and career path, by using global
competence to cope with challenges they face every day.

1 OCDE Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20 3
2 https://www.oecd.org/pisa/innovation/global-competence/ (last access on 09/11/2021)