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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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Empowering entrepreneurial skills and unleashing potential of unemployed seniors.

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

Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges that Europe is facing in the context of economic crisis in which we are submerged. One of the most affected groups of population suffering from unemployment is senior workers. People over 50 are generally characterised by the acquired knowledge and extensive professional experience but, at the same time, face huge difficulties to re-enter the labour ma ...
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CERF – Certification Standard for European Reference Framework Key Competences

End date: Aug 6, 2015,

The European Reference Framework (ERF) identifies and defines, for the first time at the European level, those eight (8) Key Competences (KC) that citizens require for their personal fulfillment, social inclusion, active citizenship and employability in our knowledge-based society. The Member States’ initial education and training systems should support the development of these Key competences fo ...
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Rational Management of Biotic and Abiotic parameters in hydroponic cultivation of tomato and lettuce (HYDROFLIES)

Start date: Oct 14, 2012, End date: Oct 14, 2014,

Οι αναμενόμενες εκροές του έργου περιλαμβάνουν τα εξής:- Δημιουργία τριών πιλοτικών θερμοκηπίων για την συνεχή εκπαίδευση και εφαρμογή τεχνικών υδροπονίας στην Κρήτη και Κύπρο- Εφαρμογή και προσαρμογή νέων τεχνικών υδροπονίας (π.χ. NFT και επιπλέουσα υδροπονία) και βελτιώσεις σε υπάρχοντα συστήματα.- Ανάλυση των προβλημάτων που αντιμετωπίζουν οι παραγωγοί σε υδροπονικές καλλιέργειες λαχανικών στην ...
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"Scientific sYnergisM of nano-Bio-Info-cOgni Science for an Integrated system to monitor meat quality and Safety during production, storage, and distribution in EU" (SYMBIOSIS-EU)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"The SYMBIOSIS-EU project will bring together 14 partners from 6 EU countries (plus one each from NZ and US) to study meat safety & quality. The overall aim is to identify and quantitatively evaluate practical and easy to use chemical, biochemical and molecular indices and establish their applicability as quality monitors for inspection of meat safety and quality. The project will apply a multidis ...
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"Future Crops for Food, Feed, Fiber and Fuel" (4F CROPS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

"As different sectors – food, feed, fiber, and fuels – compete for land, the yielding potential of the future non-food crops has to be as efficient as possible in order to minimize the competition for land. The main objective of the proposed 4F CROPS is to survey and analyse all the parameters that will play an important role in successful non-food cropping systems in the agriculture of EU27 along ...
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Generalised architEcture for dYnamic infraStructure sERvices (GEYSERS)

End date: Jan 1, 2010,

GEYSERS vision is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional business operations. Optical network infrastructure providers will compose logical infrastructures and rent them out to network operators; network operators will run cost-efficient, dynamic and mission-specific networks by means of integrated control and managem ...
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Methodological Toolbox for Development of New Skill for Future Jobs

A mismatch between skills demand and supply has high economic and social costs and contributes to structural unemployment. Early identification of future skill needs will enable VET- providers to forecast what skills will be in demand in future, so as to ensure a better fit between jobs and skills. In its policy document “New skills for New Jobs” the Commission states that early identification of ...
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SMART LANGUAGES (NEEDS ORIENTED) TOOLBOX FOR EUROPEANS

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

Objective is to create a language learning tool that is based on USER NEEDS. The tool will use a structure of a pyramid with 4 levels:Language-Need-Thematic Section-Methodological tool. The philosophy of the tool is that the user has a specific need to satisfy in a specific language eg going on holiday or doing business with another country or watching a documentary. Once this need is identified, ...
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Certification of Mentors and Tutors

In Certi.MenTu, the focus was on the field of workplace learning in the vocational sector. The main purpose was to transfer the very positive experiences and results from the previous project “IWOLTE”, where a learning system for vocational teachers in training institutions and supervisors in companies had been developed. A similar approach had been developed in the project “EOF-European Outplacme ...
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Innovation Agent

Opening new doors for innovative women : Reports on the technology available to SMEs, current implementation levels and the situation of women in SMEs contributed to the creation of the innovation agent professional profile and the training of a group of women to fit this profile. The creation of this profile will help to even out the distribution of men and women in the field of technological inn ...
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ENTERPRISING COMPETENCE - EU (ECEU) – Opportunity Ready: Promoting enterprising competence in Europe

ECEU “Enterprising Competence – EU” will try to detect the enterprising competences (knowledge, abilities, and skills), developed in non formal and informal areas, by women of different groups in 10 European countries, helping to generate self-employment and employment. The proposed tools will create a rigorous process of identification and validation of those competences. A European identificatio ...
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European Outplacement Framework – EOF Vocational Support for People with Difficulty on Employment Access

Unemployment is regarded as a major deficit in a labour society, which restricts professional and social development. Professional qualification is an opportunity to resolve this deficit and it also supports unemployed people in order to guarantee their sustainable integration into the labour market. However, professional qualification is not the only significant factor for successful employment b ...
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Practical Methodology for Aquiring Key Competences of European Reference Framework through Continuous Vocational Education and Training

The European Reference Framework (ERF, 2007) identifies and defines, for the first time at the European level, the Key Competences (KC) that all citizens require for their personal fulfillment, social inclusion, active citizenship and employability in our knowledge-based society. The acquisition of KCs is of particular importance in VET to facilitate individual pathways from VET to constantly chan ...
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Validation of Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Learning: The case study of Personal Assistants

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

Based on the EU policies related to the recognition of qualifications, EUPA's main objective is to develop a model for the recognition & validation of the qualifications of a sector based on learning outcomes. The sector of Personal Assistants (PAs) has been selected (as a case study) for the following reasons: 1. PAs often do not have academic qualifications which makes the validation of other sk ...
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Operational model of "Common Quality Assurance Framework" at VET-provider level

Background The project was a response to the need expressed by VET-provider for a European approach to quality assurance in Vocational Education and Training. The partnership in this project had since end of 2008 highlighted that lack of a basic common European QA standard for VET constitutes a barrier to transparency and mobility within EU. During a research in the field attention was paid to Com ...
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Learning for Equality and Empowerment - Learning For ALL

A main problem identified in several EU countries is the fact that employment market is not easily accessible to everybody. Some of the disadvantaged groups to whom the employment market is not accessible are early school leavers, low skilled persons, ethnic minorities, women etc. Due to the above, several other problems occur such as social exclusion & poverty. The main aim of this project is to ...
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Developing the professional skills of the future sports instructors in accordance with the EQF

The project aims at improving the theoretical and practical education of the stakeholders involved in vocational education by an exchange of practices carried out in the countries of the participating institutions. The participants will familiarize themselves with the national qualification framework of the countries involved to determine the professional standards of the sports instructors they h ...
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Common Quality Assurance Framework-VET, a provider online model

In 2006, the Helsinki Communiqué underlined the need to further develop and implement common European tools specifically aimed at VET, with regards to Common Quality Assurance Framework (CQAF) in VET. The framework contributes to quality improvement in VET and to increased transparency of VET policy developments between Member States, thereby promoting mutual trust, mobility of workers and learner ...
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EUROPEAN CULTURAL LEARNING NETWORK

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

The project conception arises directly from the fact that the Cultural Learning Sector is a largely unmapped and un networked, despite the fact that the Creative and Cultural Industries are a major European employment sector. Therefore the creation of a European VET Cultural Learning Network that responds to EU Policy challenges, the rationale of LLP and LdV, partners’ priorities and sectoral need ...
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