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EU-China Innovation Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation (URBAN-EU-CHINA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The key objective of URBAN-EU-CHINA is to develop a robust, evidence-driven bottom-up approach to complement the existing top-down EU-China strategic approach to sustainable urbanisation. This will be accomplished via a coordinated series of actions including: a strategic R&I agenda, scoping and assessment, networking events, peer-to-peer exchanges, benchmarking and monitoring, and joint demonstra...
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Building up green Skills for Trainers from the construction industry

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

BuS.Trainers goal is to overcome skills mismatch and boost competitiveness in the construction sector. Vocational teachers hold a crucial role for the transfer of knowledge to current and future workforce at the sector. Based on existing evidences, building up VET trainers’ skills in Energy Efficiency and Renewable energies is the required breakthrough to address the weak link between education an...
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Geothermal & Solar Skills in Continuous Vocational Education and Training

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The EU's strategy for sustainable growth, Europe 2020, puts innovation and green growth at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness. Indeed, it has set clear objectives in terms of energy sustainability, the 20-20-20 targets . Moreover, according to the EU Directive 2010/31/EU on the Energy Performance Buildings, all new buildings by the year 2020 will have to be nearly zero energy buildings...
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Business Transformation towards Digitalization and Smart Systems

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The idea of Business Transformation towards digitization and smart systems – BITTMAS is to prepare SMEs’ processes and their managers’ and employees’ competencies to deal with the challenges of the “Internet of things” and the opportunities from technological change. Their realization requires the commitment of each enterprise to identify its individual potential and develop a roadmap for implemen...
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DiasporaLink

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

DiasporaLink is a 4-year exchange program between 24 universities and research institutes representing EU, the Americas, Africa and Australia and will investigate, evaluate and facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, TDE as driver of development and wealth creation in countries of origin and residence. • The partners in DiasporaLink have together a unique possibility to have a substant...
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Continuity of Traditional Enterprises in Mountain Alpine Space areas (C-TEMAlp)

Start date: Dec 16, 2015, End date: Dec 15, 2018,

Description (EN): Demographic change and rising of ageing index in AS areas could endanger the capability of territories to keep their attractiveness because of the risk that companies are not right transferred and maintained alive. Business transfer is thus seen not only as a critical phase but as a way to strengthen the innovation potential of established SMEs and as an opportunit...
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An innovative and open learning resource for professionals of the furniture industry to expand their knowledge and provide added value for the Green Public Procurement

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The Roadmap to a Resource-Efficient Europe outlines the significant impact of manufacturing goods on natural resources, energy, the environment and climate change. In this way, significant improvements in furniture manufacturing processes and materials have the potential to contribute to a competitive furniture sector and related industries, as well as to their sustainability and energy efficiency...
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Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for tr...
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Integrating Blended Entrepreneurial and Manufacturing Technology Competency into Socioeconomic Development in Egypt

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

An interdisciplinary manufacturing/business entrepreneurship continuous learning system is introduced aiming at developing a new line of small-business owners with engineering background grasping in-depth expertise in manufacturing technology with adequate entrepreneurship skills capable of establishing a sustainable small manufacturing business within micro economy spectrum. Although, manufacturi...
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Transnational Technology Transfer Training: Training Blueprints for Accelerated Growth

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2018,

BACKGROUNDGlobal competition has generated a need among all the enterprises, and especially SMEs, to adjust their strategies for their survival. There is a general belief that the future accelerated growth and sustainability of SMEs will largely depend on the use of appropriate technology and the acquisition and absorption of knowledge. Technology and the transfer of discoveries and knowledge to S...
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Train Brain Soft - Development of standardized curriculum and e-tool for soft skills for private security personnel

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Despite the growing global need of private security personnel, there is evident practice of early leave of employees and big turnover which alludes on systematic problem in this sector. Several international surveys had shown mismatch between skills acquired through private security basic training and the transversal skills needs at the labor market. At the same time, private security employers ar...
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AppHelp4SMEs – Apprenticeship Helpdesk for Small and Medium Size Enterprises

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The project aims to build the capacities of key intermediary bodies in two EU countries – Cyprus & Poland - for providing tailored support to SMEs for taking on apprentices.Key Objectives:1. To develop the first of its kind national apprenticeship support service for SMEs in Cyprus and Poland offered by intermediary bodies such as Chambers of Commerce, Professional & Trade Associations, National A...
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OUTSIDE IN INSIDE OUT

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

In the participating countries of this project we concluded that too many young students - at the end of general secondary education - make the wrong choice for vocational education (VET) and to higher vocational education and university. After general secondary education students switch too much in the first years of further vocational education and university, because they were not well informed...
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Vocational Education and Training in the Working World 4.0

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The project “Vocational Education and Training in the Working World 4.0” wants to promote work-based learning in the sectors electronics and mechatronics with special regard to the existing and future challenges of working world 4.0. in the European vocational education and training. The project wants to provide and improve the open and innovative education in the field of working world 4.0., embe...
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Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: apprenticeship coaches for SMEs

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

AC4SME is a large scale European project implemented by Chambers of Commerce & Industry (hereafter ‘Chambers’ or CCIs) in 12 Erasmus+ countries (AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, ES, FR, IT, LV, RO, RS, TR) and under the coordination of EUROCHAMBRES, the association of European Chambers of Commerce & Industry. It is a response to the observation that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are less likely to ...
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Learning Outcomes Approach and ECVET Principles for Assessment and Validation of Work-based Learning and Apprenticeships: Training Programme and OER for VET and Enterprise Tutors

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

In line with ET2020 objectives recently elaborated in Riga Conclusions (2015) calling to "to promote work-based learning in all its forms", "to enhance access to VET and qualifications through more flexible systems", to promote the use of transparency and recognition tools, to support for transnational mobility, to support for professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in scho...
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Capacity Building for Intermediary Organisations through e-learning

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

In many countries of the Southern and Eastern Europe, current legislative reform is moving the apprenticeship system from a 100% school-based system towards a company based system. However, neither the intermediary organisations nor the companies are ready in order to cope with this change. The E-APPREN project is aiming to build the capacity of the intermediary organisations to support apprentice...
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Strengthening the capacities of the chambers and partners to help SMEs to engage in apprenticeship

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Project aims at strengthening the capacities of all project partners to provide support for SMEs already engaged or planning to engage in apprenticeship. In Croatia an insufficient amount of vocational learning is provided in real work environment in enterprises. Employers indicate that the competencies acquired in the traditional education system are not adequate to the competencies required that...
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OPEN AND INNOVATIVE SPACES FOR COLLABORATIVE WORKING BETWEEN VET PROVIDERS AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

We are facing very important and long-term changes that go further than the crisis we are undergoing and that have impact in all economic and social changes. These geo-political, economic and social changes are forcing our companies to change their “ways of doing”, to make things better or differently, transforming their value proposals, their international presence and their organisation and mana...
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Innovation and good practices exchange through adaptation and testing of Suggestopedia as a highly еffective teaching method.

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Basic skills (literacy, numeracy, science, technology, English as a second language) are the foundation for further learning and are a gateway to employment and social inclusion, according Europe 2020 - the EU's strategic growth strategy. A key factor for achieving smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth is to implement policies, programmes and projects aimed at raising attainment levels and imp...
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Entrepreneurship with vision - methods and tools for managerial capacity building of agricultural producers in Central and Eastern Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

European farmers and their successors live in a changing market environment and have to prepare for the new Common Agricultural Policy after 2015, allowing more freedom to produce products of own choice and quantity. The new EU countries experience this even more. Especially the situation in less favored regions, often in remote areas with relative small farms, is complex. Such families are found ...
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“TRAM-WBL Engaging SMEs for Quality Transnational WBL experiences”

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

WBL is proving to be a successful model to improve the learners’ employability, which is especially relevant at this time in EU with a dramatically high number of unemployed youths. Different sectors and stakeholders are demanding a more labour-market-oriented VET education combining practical and theoretical learning in order to qualify skilled workers in a practical way and better prepare them f...
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Training for Energy Efficient Operations

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Enabling energy efficient operations (EEO) is a target priority for policy-makers as 23% of CO2 emissions globally is attributed to business operations. However, SMEs lack the knowledge to implement such practices and achieve EEO due to lack of proper market oriented curricula offered by higher education institutions (HEI) that will enable the emergence of graduates suitable to tackle EEO concep...
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Developing life and employability competences through mobility

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This project aims to contribute to Europe 2020 Strategy, Rethinking Education and the Youth Guarantee by helping to address high rates of youth unemployment and skills gaps. Through the development of a new employability and entrepreneurship course unit of e-learning materials for use before, during and after a mobility, participants will develop their international and soft skills such as team w...
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Increasing SME Apprenticeship Engagement

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

To combat youth unemployment the European Union and its member states are using apprenticeships as a solution. Public money is being used to encourage employers to invest in young people as apprentices. For employers however, it is not a level playing field the barriers for micro, small and medium sized enterprises are significant and prevent them from taking on apprentices. In the UK less than 10...
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Validation of formal, non formal and informal learning: The case study of Administration Personnel

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Research demonstrates that the sector of office administration is very important and popular and is will continue to be one of the first professions in demand until 2020. EUPA_NEXT deals with this sector. EUPA_NEXT is the continuation of a very successful project EUPA (Leonardo DOI) that has developed a qualification framework for administration personnel in four EQF levels (levels 2,3,4 and 5) a...
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Politiche Abitative per l'Edilizia Sostenibile

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project Housing Policies for Sustainable Construction aims to incorporate four important characteristics in sustainable building: 1 ) Economic sustainability: ability to generate income and employment for the people's livelihood ; 2 ) Social sustainability: ability to ensure human well-being (security, health, education) equally distributed by class and gender; 3 ) Environm...
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Job Developer: From Job Creation to Competence Development

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The objectives of the project „job developer: from job creation to competence development“ is to set impulses in the reduction of the high unemployment in Europe by adapting vocational educational training and career counselling in the EU to the labour markets‘ conditions and requirements in the respective countries. These activities of adaptation are achieved by the education/training of so-calle...
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Improving of Competencies and Competitiveness in Internationalization process of FM sector through VET (ICC_VET)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

In the framework of the European economy, that is showing alarming symptoms of recession, the Facility Management (FM) market seems to move sharply in the opposite direction, following a general growth trend and sometimes a strong one. The market of facility service in Europe is bursting with good health in those countries where the economy is almost stagnant as well. The worldwide facilities mana...
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Growing Apprenticeship Partnerships for SMEs

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

SMEs often lack an appreciation of the long-term benefits of apprenticeships despite many supporting intermediary organisations. In the EU, there is no single definition of what an apprenticeship is, which acts as a barrier to take up and confusion of where to go to ensure the most suitable candidates. One consequence is a low availability of placements and low take up. SMEs are less engaged with ...
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Enhancing Employability of Unemployed Persons through New Forms of Employment and Sharing Economy

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

22 million persons in the EU-28 were unemployed in November 2015, and more than 12 million people who have been unemployed for over a year. The unemployment rates among the youngsters were also very high in 2014, being it 22.2 %. This has social consequences for the persons concerned, a negative impact on growth and public finances and in poverty rates (Eurostat).Self-employment (SE) and entrepren...
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Gamified Training for Successful Commercialization of Young SMEs’ Innovation

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Europe is gradually becoming a more innovative continent. Innovation has been placed in the centre of Europe 2020 strategy for its key role in business expansion, employment creation and economic growth.Innovation Union Scoreboard (2015) states that EU innovation growth has been increasing at an average annual rate of 1.0% between 2007 and 2014. Still, the growth has not been equally strong across...
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Učenje za razvoj kompetenc v kamnoseštvu

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

The situation of young people entering the labor market is characterized by a bad connection between the education system and the labor market. Formal education institutions only marginally associated with the business sector, which makes young people (in addition to the right educational policies according to the needs of the labor market) is also a lack of practical experience. The proposed proj...
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Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Berufsbildung

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

(A) Background:Since the publication of the study on the future of the world economy "The Limits to Growth" by the Club of Rome over forty years ago the number of publications on the effects of destructive handling of natural resources, especially in the industrialized countries, has not only reached a confusing extent. Their results and conclusions, in a frighteningly dramatic way, point out a th...
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Green Kitchen giovani cuochi in mobilità

Start date: Jun 21, 2016, End date: Jun 20, 2018,

The concept of sustainable development is focused on the impact of human activities on the environment, the economy, human health and social structure.An increasing number of brands are promoting items about environment respect “in both touristic and catering chains” Nowadays the chefs are facing new professional challenges in carrying out "sustainable food", often not developed in traditional tr...
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Train-to-NZEB: The Building Knowledge Hubs (Train-to-NZEB)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jun 1, 2018,

The Train-to-NZEB project is designed to establish a functioning network of training and consultation centres (Building Knowledge Hubs, BKHs), providing practical trainings, demonstrations and complex consulting services for the implementation of nearly-zero energy buildings (NZEB). Using the improved training facilities, the BKHs will provide enhanced capacity for conduction of trainings on curri...
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IFA VET mobility+ 2016

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

The funding applied for within the framework of the project will be used to finance stays abroad for a total of 555 individuals and 8 accompanying persons.337 apprentices will complete a 2 to 6 week internship specifically suited to their profession, individual level of training, knowledge and skills at a company active in their professional field. IFA will organize internships in small groups sta...
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New Models in Work-Based Learning

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The aim of our project is to: - increase public awareness of work based learning models. - strengthen relationships among and within all sector stakeholders' groups. - fortify links between all actors working and interacting cohesively and collaboratively to create greater effectiveness of work based learning. - reinforce a dynamic and effective communications network. These goals we will achieve...
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New European Dialogues

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

" New European Dialogues " is the title of the project in which we hope three young volunteer from the UK are going to take part in a long-term European Voluntary Service in Moldova. The service will last for one year. UNA Exchange will be the sending organization, IOM, SGH and Amcham will be the local receiving organization and ADVIT Moldova will act as EVS contact point outside the RO.IOM works ...
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Empowering Agribusiness Training in Emilia 2

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The Municipality of Correggio has made significant commitments with respect to European policies that can be implemented locally to promote a thorough European citizenship. The applicant is working at all levels of education and is Agency of the Italian network for the transnational mobility of young people EURODESK.It is the territory of the Parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic Vinegar of Reggio...
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