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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies
Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,
European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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Senior trainees on Coding
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
The project aims at developing digital literacy for elder citizens and especially learning basics on how to program. The Digital Agenda is so much relevant to the EC, that it is one of the 7 pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy, proposing to better exploit the potential of ICTs in order to foster innovation, economic growth and progress across Europe. But, although the ICT is part of daily life for ...
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Learning and assessing soft transversal skills in work-linked trainings to optimize the success of pathways, to prevent from dropouts and to favor employment integration and professional mobility in the long term
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
To succeed in today’s economy, modern society and personal lives, key competences and the related transversal soft skills are considered essential and complementary to formal skills. This postulate has been highlighted by many organizations and taken as a main thematic for this new project called JANUS+.The innovative approach of JANUS+ is however to focus on the importance of soft / transversal s ...
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Level up! Workplace Tutor goes Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The project "Level-up! Workplace Tutor goes Europe" aims at increased professionalisation and improved qualification of in-company VET personnel as one of the key actors of vocational education. It will work at two levels, a) the practitioners level and b) the political level. At the practitioners level, it will provide an outstanding example of innovative training for in-company training personne ...
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Vulnerable young people accessing and sustaining vocational training and apprenticeships
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...nd work placements for young people. In particular, there will be a focus on organisations that wish to give particular attention to vulnerable young people. This includes private companies; public bodies; social enterprises that aim to improve the lives of the vulnerable; NGOs that provide VET for their clients; schools that provide VET; prisons that provide VET to young offenders; local authorit ...
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Tell your story
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Digital storytelling is an adequate means of communicating these experiences. It is defined as a short form of digital media production that allows people to share aspects of their life story. "Media" may include full-motion videos with sound, animation, stills, audio only, etc. which individuals can use to tell a story or present an idea. Digital stories are often presented in compelling, interac ...
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Empowerment for improvement. Successful Intervention and Prevention against domestic violence.
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...m as DV. Potential long-term benefits from the EMPROVE! Activities and products are expected for counsellors, trainers, DV Survivors, but also for employers, local and national public bodies, Moreover, the impact and the benefits from the EMPROVE! Project are increased by the fact that the project products are designed to live after the project lifecycle has ended. This will be further ensured by ...
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NEW HORIZONS
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The project New Horizons is addressing the needs of a very specific target and at the same time heterogeneous target group - people who have acquired disability after an accident or illness which is still under investigated at EU level. While a comprehensive quantitative analysis of employment situation of people with various types of disabilities has been published by Eurostat in 2015, the qualit ...
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ROBIN- Reinforcing cOmpetences to Build Inclusion through a New learning methodology
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
...the project:
For the development of O1- “Research study on the current methodologies used within second chance programme”, partners will conduct a desk research (current reports, studies, guides) and interview 5 persons directly involved in elaboration of the curricula at national level (e.g decision makers). At the same time, the research will include also an analysis of the best practices at n ...
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Crafting Employability Strategies for HE Students of Languages in Europe
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
The Employability Task Group of the Association of Higher Education Careers Services (AHECS) launched an employability module in June 2014 entitled ‘Crafting the Present for Future Employability’ as a result of an 18-month process of collaborative planning and design with graduate employers, academic staff and students (http://epublications.snap.com.au/ebook/ebook?id=10038255#/0).
The content and ...
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Innovative Strategic Management Games as a teaching methodology for entrepreneurship and business education
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
According to the Europe2020 Strategy, Europe should become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. The Europe2020 Strategy conclusions stressed the central role of education and training as the main instrument to increase human capital. MMost of the managers are only partially satisfied with the training of the employees. The main reason why employers consider traini ...
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Communicating Professional Competence
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...people-focused, as well as operating contexts that span the public/voluntary sector, industry and professional firms, and different balances of interest between official bodies, employers and professional bodies. The project will also meet particular needs in specific industries, for instance to support talent management in the Irish training and development profession, extend competence-based ap ...
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Validation and Motivation for (in)formal Learning in Prison
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The validation of informal learning is a goal in itself, and should be part of the delivery and assessment of learning activities, particularly in a prison context, where any scope to provide positive recognition has a clear psycho-social value. This validation of informal learning underlines the positive social skills and competences, as well as other key competences relevant to learning and the ...
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Entrepreneurial Mindset for Young Disadvantaged Jobseekers
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing challenges Europe faces. According to Eurostat youth unemployment statistics there were 4,96 million unemployed persons under 25 years old in the EU 28 in December 2014, which amounts to a youth unemployment rate of 21.4 %.
While many young people search in vain for employment or apprenticeship positions, existing vacancies are ofte ...
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Silver Age Silver Sage Initiative
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The ageing of the EU population and workforce represents a great challenge to societies and economies, requiring relevant changes in labour markets.
SASSI intends to focus on empowerment of the ageing workforce, developing innovative training strategies that can be applied both in continuous professional development (CPD) for 50+ employees and in VET programmes for adult job seekers.
The idea is ...
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Communication for Professionals - Nursing
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...al nursing contexts. Nursing students will develop video cases (flexible storyboards with voice-over) in an authentic task-based approach based on gamification principles. Scenarios can be studied or used in-service as support tools according to preference/relevance to alleviate immediate needs. The effect of the new pedagogical principles will be measured in in-service migration language learning ...
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Create your Future
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Whilst unemployment in general has increased in Europe, these increases have been disproportionately high amongst young people. And there is a group of people threatened by exclusion from the labour market and society at large which is often neglected: Young people between 15 and 25 years who have survived childhood cancer and are trying to find their way back to life, work and education. Research ...
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Validation System in Lifelong Learning Experiences of Youth Volunteering
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
The theme of recognition and validation of learning outcomes from informal or non formal settings is commonly understood as one of the most important challenges for educational and training sector nowadays.
One of the most powerful informal learning contexts is represented by the volunteering sector where people have the opportunity to experience different situations, putting into practice their ...
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PROMOTE - Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships in Europe
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
The project aims at promoting and validating social, personal and organisational key competences such as entrepreneurship, civic competences and learning to learn with the help of an innovative, self-directed learning approach at the interface of higher education and business.Social and personal key competences are hardly to be acquired in lectures, frontal teaching and self-learning.The ideal lea ...
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...f social and human Sciences, human resources, education sciences and e-learning) and experts in lifelong learning in 5 European countries: France (University of Evry Val d'Essonne and Iriv), Austria (DieBerater), Greece (Hellenic Open University, Ireland (University of Limerick) and Slovenia (University of Ljubljana). The main tangible results proposed by the VAB project will be: a pedagogical too ...
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...ion of 75 primary and secondary school teachers and teacherstudents during the pilots• the systematic involvement of the partner country’s educational system key bodieswith the clear aim to promote the incorporation of ICTeacher training in the curriculumsof initial and further teacher training• the composition of the partnership, including three initial teacher training universitiesand an in-serv ...
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INTERtool
Start date: Oct 1, 2006,
The INTERtool project focused upon intercultural competence development amongst adult educators, and those working upon European projects, with the goal of increasing the level of successful participation in European-funded development projects. To this end, a series of virtual and face-to-face training tools were developed and tested, by project partners, covering topics such as intercultural com ...
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Peer to Peer Support Fostering Active Aging
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
The European Union’s population structure is changing and becoming progressively older. As Europeans live longer and healthier lives, the European Unions is promoting policies to involve older persons more in society and to keep them active. Active ageing is defined by the WHO as ‘The process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as ...
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online tool for self eValuatIoN of key competences in adult AGE
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
Key competences, assumed as a reference model for education and training in Europe (2010 Joint Progress Report ), are often acquired and developed in non-formal and informal contexts; this makes them not assessed nor recognized and consequently not used by adults for their personal and professional improvement. It lacks a culture of key competences, and their value is not enough valorised. This ...
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Ask Dad and/or Mum. Parents as Key Facilitators: an Inclusive Approach to Sexual and Relationship Education on the Home Environment
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
Family learning is the learning between different generations that happens inside families. The term refers to the sharing of information, thoughts, feelings and experiences between parents and children. Much family learning goes on informally, however organized and planned activities can be of great help, especially on topics on which parents don’t feel confident or lack adequate knowledge. Par ...
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Health Box: Integration of Health Issues in Adult Education
Start date: Jan 1, 2010,
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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ICT-Go-Girls! Promoting Entrepreneurship among Secondary School Girls through ICT.
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
...less motivations in becoming future entrepreneurs. We believe that ICT can provide a flexible and potential motivational environment for empowering these young women in their future choices, their studies and jobs. There is a need to add knowledge to secondary school girls' enthusiasm and teach them to develop their critical thinking together with their imagination. This will result in new and us ...
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The main objective of European InfoNet Adult Education (European Information Networkfor Adult Education = InfoNet) is to disseminate information about trends, project andresearch results, the latest developments, best practices and the latest news from themember countries of the European Union. It also seeks at a European level to developand establish European awareness among the network members.I ...
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The project "European Workplace Tutor" aimed at the transfer of an innovative and high-level qualification for in-company training personnel. Based on the outcomes of the former it's time project, it transfered and adapted the training programme "European Workplace Tutor". Issues such as permeability between educational sub-systems were addressed by transferring training content into a dual (unive ...
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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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e-hospital - e-learning opportunities for adult patients during hospitalisation in health-care institutions
Start date: Oct 1, 2005,
Exploring the possibilities for lifelong learning for long-term hospital patients, the award-winning eHospital project aimed at introducing informal, e-learning activities for hospitalised adults. Partners worked together to design and pilot a series of local e-learning activities, evaluating the effects of learning activitiy on the personal and social development of patients and upon the process ...
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...te character of the designed models, but also on othertarget groups, as the project aims at developing products that are transferable andwhich can represent the basis for other studies and educational models.
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International Coordinator Training for Intercultural Education and Diversity
Start date: Nov 1, 2010,
...f practitioners to develop collaboratively new content and a course curriculum. It will then trial a pilot course, after evaluation to be included in the LLP catalogue. This will include follow-up studies with attendees, their students, other staff members plus the impact of the training on school policy. The course will be distinctive in that teachers from Third European countries (involved in C ...
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EduCoRe addresses the educational needs of adults who, after an accident or illnesssuffer from physical deficiencies which threaten their employability and participation insociety. EduCoRe will provide educational and vocational counselling services andtraining in (inter-)personal skills for patients in medical rehabilitation centres.This counselling and training will support them:• to make thorou ...
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In many European countries integration into the labour market of early school leavers, young people who have failed to complete vocational education and training and other groups of youth with socio-economic and/or personal disadvantages is rather difficult. Most businesses, especially SME, are very reluctant to employ and/or train such young people or give them a second chance for vocational trai ...
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Validation of Informal Learning in Mobility Actions
Start date: Jan 1, 2011,
The European Quality Charter for Mobility puts major emphasis on the recognition and certification as well as on evaluation of mobility action learning outcomes.Mobility learning in the adult learning context consists (also) to a large extent of informal learning activities of the learners outside their habitual living and formal learning contexts.There is certainly a lack of validation of mobilit ...
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The project is set out to offer support to parents to develop their skills and competencestowards the vocational guidance of their children, thus enabling them to assist pupils intheir professional choices. Also the project advocates the concept of peer-parents withinparents education. The project partnership is aiming to:- develop a training course (30 hrs) available on CD-Rom, accompanied by tra ...
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Project Actors Capacity Training in Caucasus
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
...underfunded: Only 0.18% of GDP was spent on research in 2008 and not more than 0.2% in 2009, without significant increase in following years. The majority of doctoral students self-finance their studies.In European universities more and more work is dedicated to offering Master programmes, trainings and workshops in postgraduate departments in order to apply for international project funding. Also ...
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Hattrick: Football-Learning-Integration
Start date: Dec 1, 2009,
Integration into education and training systems, the labour market and society at large of people with a migration background is still a major challenge in Europe. Migrants tend to be significantly lower educated than the average population, much more often affected by unemployment and excluded from many social activities. Particularly young male migrants have a high risk of becoming ealry schoo ...
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Validation of Informal Learning in Grundtvig Projects and Partnerships
Start date: Dec 1, 2009,
In European Grundtvig actions (projects, partnerships and other mobility actions, networks) stakeholders from different countries gather under a multinational umbrella to develop new approaches, projects, products and services. Unquestionable, in contrast to collaboration on the national level activities in these transnational teams require not only stronger efforts in terms of resources (time, pe ...
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