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The unexpected dimension of the refugee crisis has hit Europe unprepared, and it challenges, apart from logistical problems, also the large number of professionals and volunteers who work with receiving, helping, teaching and integrating refugees. This huge task requires not only additional budgets for registration, accommodation, food, medical care etc., but also a large work force of “front lin...
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Validation of Competences Acquired in Volunteering

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

The overall objective of the ValCoVol strategic partnership is to provide an overview about projects, initiatives and methods for the validation of non-formal and informal learning, through volunteering, and to identify instruments, models, and schemes which validate and clearly identify the key competences that have been gained by volunteers. In order to reach the objectives, the following activ...
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CiudAct: Empoderamiento del Adulto / Mayor para una Ciudadanía Activa

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

The departing point for this local consortium is an initiative based on a thematic network, "Growing Cities/Ciudades en Crecimiento", under the leadership of the Università delle LiberEtà (Udine, Italy) and composed of more than 20 members, which provide added value thanks to the special nature and specific purposes of the institutions that belong to the national consortium (Senior University at t...
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The new information technologies are deeply modifying the learning techniques thus allowing the access to knowledge sources and to their use beyond space and time limits that are typical of the previous technologies. The activity of assistance and support to learning (tutoring) can be implemented also in the distance and also the communications and the human relations among the different actors of...
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Europe is in need of innovative new solutions to prepare for the unprecedented ageing of its population, reflecting a number of factors including the increasing life expectancy and access to health care. The need to improve and increase the exchange of knowledge on healthy ageing and the challenges raised by the increasing number of elderly people is a major task for all EU countries. Sexuality is...
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The main objective of the partnership is creating the manual “Guide for trainers. Beautiful Mind – Open Educational Resources in non-formal senior education” with three methodological and practical components: • Active Mind and Body (Italy) is a module that consists of active teaching materials for seniors, connected with healthy nutrition, psychophysical exercises and stress management. A special...
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Social literacy means the presence of social skills, knowledge and positive human values that support ability in human beings to act positively and responsibly in range of complex social settings and their ability to successfully and deliberately mediate his/her world as family member, worker, citizen and lifelong learner.The public sector requires from its staff a high level of social skills to...
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Adults who are socio-economically disadvantaged, with a low level of education and those with a migration background belong to the groups of adults most at risk of acquiring a physical or mental lifestyle disease, which “include Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, asthma, cancer, chronic liver disease or cirrhosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, metabolic ...
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The project targets personnel at orphanage institutions who are often notqualified to offer the necessary professional care, and quite oftenprofessional leadership is lacking. Especially small children are sufferingfrom the lack of even the most basic human contact and care. One of theaims of the FAIRstart project is to address complexity of problems for theorphanage environment as a whole by offe...
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The project OpenInn serves as a new Pedagogical and Organizational Model for communities and individuals to explore their innovative potentials by the use of ICT-tools with the benefit of strengthening their self-esteem. The results will contain the Knowledge Generating House which is an Internet site enhancing innovation on a social networking basis designed according to the Open Innovation conce...
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Senior education has different objectives than younger ones. Seniors (citzens over 65 or retired) don't aim at professional goals when they attend to class, as opposite to younger students. Their objectives are more related to personal interests, sociability, adaptation and integration in present society, participation, active citizenship, and, mainly, improving their quality of life through a lif...
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All Institutions in the partnership work with adult education. The idea of a project considering natural sciences seemed very good idea considering specifically four main areas in which we intent to act: Community; intergenerational relations; gender and ICT.Community because we want to open the doors of our work and make it available to the community living around us. Natural Sciences is the perf...
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The low participation in adult education especially in the Eastern and Southern regionsof Europe is a challenge. The euroCALL project is designed to develop, support andlink together new centres or sites for nonformal free adult lifelong learning in countrieswhere such centres are highly needed and with weak adult education traditions. TheeuroCALL project is based on a strong synthesis of the Scan...
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mediaPLAYINGcommunities

Start date: Nov 1, 2007,

The mediaPLAYINGcommunities project aims to establish experiments of communitycoherence and interaction, based on and centred around the pre-school pedagogicalenvironments and involving and reaching out to networks of pedagogical staff, children,parents and local companies. The project intends to let the media playing training andactivities be the focus point of this learning, working and producin...
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Active and healthy ageing are key concepts of our European society today with mental health as one of the major issues in focus. The level of mental health and wellbeing of people 50+ is a key resource for the success of the EU as a knowledge based society and economy. The WHO as well as the EU in their policy papers like the “2012:European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations...
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Directing Life Change

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The Road Not Taken (1915)Drawing on experience and inspiration to improve signposting and development for adults aged 40+ with broken career paths, we will, as adult learning practitioners, seek to determine optimum practice.The key product is Action Learning Manual "Poin...
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