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The year 2015 ended with a record number of people forced to flee from their country because of war, famine and poverty: according to the UNO’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the refugees in the world are more than 60 millions. In 2015, according to Frontex data, the illegal entries in Europe were more than 1.5 million, five times more than the 280,000 in 2014.The migration crisis in the M...
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Life Skills for Europe

Start date: Dec 28, 2016, End date: Dec 27, 2018,

This project brings together partners from Denmark, Belgium (Europe), the UK, Greece and Slovenia in order to improve basic skills provision by explaining, further developing and upscaling the life skills approach. Many disadvantaged people have few possibilities to escape the low skills trap, and they often lack the know-how to access social services, proper health care that goes beyond urgencies...
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Implementing Outreach Empowerment and Diversity

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

The project is the follow-up of a Grundtvig network that elaborated guidelines for trainers/staff in adult education and policy recommendations for policy-makers for engaging disadvantaged learners. The partners now want to implement the principles: Outreach – Empowerment – Diversity (OED). The participation in adult education has stagnated or even decreased in some countries while we do know th...
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Technology in Rehabilitation

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

During last years, rehabilitation activities have been becoming very important since the number of people with disabilities is growing for many reasons, like ageing of the population and increase of chronic diseases. The introduction of leading-edge technologies in the treatment of disabilities is central in order to improve the efficiency of rehabilitation and the access to health-care services. ...
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Helping Students with Learning Disabilities - Dyslexia

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

Dyslexia (specific impairment regarding reading/writing skills) is an increasing problem affecting children as well as adults (estimated prevalence 8-20%). The long-term effects from it are higher youth unemployment rates, functional illiteracy, high rate of unfinished vocational trainings. According to the European Dyslexia Association, 8% of the population suffers from dyslexia, although some ex...
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Professional development through learning exchanges

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

Context:AONTAS have a long history working and engaging at a European level. AONTAS is represented on the Board of the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) and acts as the Irish correspondent for the Infonet project. In 2014 AONTAS were assigned the role of the National Co-ordinator for the Implementation of the European Agenda for Adult learning which runs until 2018.Over the n...
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Early school leaving can constitute an obstacle not only for the person's professional development but also for its mental, psychological and social prosperity in general. It is therefore extremely important that the proper counselling and support is provided to the student that is 'at risk', as well as to the people of the student's environment. It is also important that support is provided to en...
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Tourism for VET

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

The dropout affects 22.7% of young people in Spain, 18-24, nearly double the European average, data from the first half of 2014 (IEE), Eurostat stands at 11%, Spain doubles the EU average. The latest data confirm that 2014 was the year of tourism in our country. The arrival of about 65 million tourists (+ 7.1% in 2013) has generated 49,000 million euros in foreign exchange. According to data colle...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the...
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Live and Learn - Audiovisual Stories of Adult Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Our project is inspired by two observations, shared by most European education policy documents and relevant studies. Firstly, there is a clear need to increase participation in adult education across Europe; and secondly, new ways of sharing best practices among European adult educators must be found. We want to address this need in an innovative way: through the medium of videos. We will produc...
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Innovation scores low in SEE, proper framework conditions are missing to bridge research, education & business and the region is characterized by a weak culture for innovation. Although SEE Science PPs have excellent chances for innovative business development since universities and high technology companies are located there, their potential to improve social climate for new developments, is unde...
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European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

EERQI will build an advanced framework for relevance assessment of research documents in educational research based on formal mechanisms including citation analysis and linking, semantically-based full text analysis and co-occurrence of information items in open access and non-open access repositories, as well as in online journal articles, books, and other freely available scholarly publications....
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Education Gate (EdGATE)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The operation “Education Gate” focuses on the educational dimension of European integration and the challenge of the knowlegde-based economy for the educational systems and policies in the regions. The partnership aims to translate the experiences of an earlier INTERREG IIIA project on education in the knowledge society into strategic measures for improving regional educational policies identifyin...
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The focus of the project is to facilitate improved access to training and the recognition of skills and competencies for groups at disadvantage in the labour market, mainly migrant workers, on the fields of hospitality and food production sectors.
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Many adult education staff do not have formal training in AE.EAEA knows from members that there is huge need & interest to learn more about European policies, programmes and other countries’ systems & innovations.We therefore propose an online learning format in order to reach more participants and to make it affordable. An exchange between staff generations,the learning from experts but also peer...
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Gateways to the OTHER...

Start date: Aug 1, 2012,

The project “Gateways to the OTHER...” is designed as a a Partnership Building Activity of 5 working days (excluding travel), which will be held in Armenia, Tsakhkadzor from the 17th of September till 21th of September 2012. The main themes of the project are the Intercultural dimension of EVS and building a Network of like-minded EVS organisation. Representatives of active EVS organisations will ...
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Elearning has become mainstream provision in European higher education and is essential in supporting lifelong learning and internationalisation. By becoming integral part of higher education, e-learning should also be integral part of the QA systems, internal and external, with related innovative and appropriate criteria.By developing the E-xcellence instrument under the e-learning programme an ...
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MOSEP addresses the growing problem of adolescents (aged 14 to 16) dropping out of the formal education system around Europe. Students of this age find themselves in a transition phase in their lives where they have to choose between going into upper secondary education or entering vocational training. It is a time when they have to make decisions and need to be supported in making the best choice...
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The Cloud is a major technological breakthrough with huge potential for education. It allows students and their tutors/teachers to interact productively in formal and informal education situations. Hosted Cloud communities mean that learners themselves can become creators and developers. Laptops and tablets will be everywhere, eBooks will replace text books as a normal part of classroom learning. ...
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MOSEP addresses the growing problem of adolescents (aged 14 to 16) dropping out of the formal education system around Europe. Students of this age find themselves at the transition phase in their lives where they have to choose between going into upper secondary education or entering vocational training. It is a time when they have to make decisions and need to be supported in making the best choi...
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The Back to work project intends to develop the validation and recognition of knowledge and competencies that unemployed people have previously acquired, in different contexts, as part of unemployment services, in order to facilitate better matching between needs and competencies on the labor market.
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DigiSkills aims to bring together and further develop content, services, pedagogies and practices for LL in school/university/adult population, formulating specific scenarios of use of learning tools and platforms which will be tested with real users from 8 countries and evaluated in terms of their impact, with a particular attention to institutional as well as pedagogical innovation and change. D...
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The project “Women in SMEs” aimed to transfer, adapt and pilot an innovative process for validating/certifying the management competences acquired by spouses in non-formal (e.g. in-company training) or informal (through life & work experience) settings. A validation process has been developed by the Swiss Union of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SGV) resulting in a nationally recogn...
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The CHIRON project aims at developing reference material, able to present and analyse research outcomes, experiments and best practice solutions relating to new forms of e-learning, with particular regard to the integration of broadband, digital TV and mobile technologies for ubiquitous application on informal and non-formal lifelong learning. Ubiquitous learning refers to on-demand, personalised ...
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Outreach, empowerment and diversity

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

This network will bring together 16 organisations from 14 countries. Our aim is to tackle the need for outreach to marginalised groups, especially migrants and ethnic minorities, for the development of more diversity in adult education, and especially the inclusion of learners’ voices, and for the empowerment of its learners to become active European citizens.We want to - provide a collection and ...
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Putting the disabled on an equal footing : The project has produced a training curriculum together with an assessment tool aimed at both professionals working with the disabled and the beneficiaries themselves. It will contribute to improved standards of care for the disabled. This project started in 2003 and lasted 36 months.
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The European Network in Intergenerational Learning responds to the need identified among practitioners to offer a platform and incentives for fostering new ideas and new developments in intergenerational learning across Europe, and to provide the infrastructure for on-going exchange of expertise, good practice, news, research and developments in the field. It will facilitate discussion and shared ...
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The LAS-SME's project aims at the development and introduction of training methods and support tools, able to respond to the language communication needs of SME's, particularly those in the manufacturing sector. In order to achieve this, an audit system will be designed, developed and tested in addition to the design and introduction of new training paths for the sector. The audit system will comp...
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Disseminating information and reporting on trends, project/research results, developments, best practice and news in the area of adult education from all European member states as well as EU institutions is the core activity and objective of the unique journalistic service “European InfoNet Adult Education”. This service has been developed as media network since 2005 (InfoNet I and II) and indepen...
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