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Improved Safety for Electricians
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
The numbers of work related accidents in EU differ a lot, e.g. according to the standardised incidence rates (per 100,000 workers) of fatal injury at work, excluding road traffic accidents and accidents on board transport in the course of work for 2012 (Eurostat, ESAW, 2012) Denmark is about the average in the EU, but still double the numbers from GB. Similar numbers are found in Spain, Cyprus, an ...
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Measuring Return on Investment from EU VET mobility
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
The Education and Training 2020 Strategy wishes for a challenging 6% rate of VET students involved in a mobility experience abroad, compared to the current 0,7%. ROI-MOB springs from the idea that quality can increase quantity. But what is quality?All people say work experiences abroad are useful, enriching, favour employability, development of one’s skills, etc.. What are such statements based up ...
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Growing the Market in Accessible Tourism
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,
Accessible tourism is about making it easy for all people to enjoy tourism experiences. According to the UN, an estimated 650 million people in the world live with disabilities. Together with their families, that means that about 2 million people are directly affected by disability, representing almost one third of the world's population. More people have access needs; for example, older and less ...
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Technology for helping older people remaining active and fully integrated into society.
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. Economic development and the improvement in some environmental conditions have resulted in a continuous increase in life expectancy across Europe during the last century and places the EU-28 among the world leaders for life expectancy, reaching 83.3 years for women and 77.8 years for men (Eurostat). Technology has the potential to enable older peopl ...
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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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Development of curricula on Accessible Tourism for VET Tourism Courses
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
Facilitating tourism experiences for persons with special needs is an essential element of any policy for the development of responsible and accessible tourism. Staff in any touristic venue plays an important role in reducing potential barriers in access or in mitigating unforeseen difficulties. Training in disability awareness and customer care can minimize the barriers encountered by persons wit ...
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Developing life and employability competences through mobility
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...employees and policy influencers. Four national and two international multiplier events will be held to encourage wider use of the e-learning materials in VET and HE organisations and businesses. EfVET will promote the project across Europe through its 1500 members, links with EU networks and involvement in EC consultations.
The project will benefit learners from different disciplines to be be ...
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SHare, Improve, develop: today’s excelleNce for tomorrow’s HVET
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The European Union needs competences, innovation, balanced and integrated territory development in order to boost its growth. Indeed, innovation is not only a linear process, a result of R&D activities. On the opposite, more and more innovation sprouts in broad, multi-sectoral socio-economic contexts, strongly application-oriented, and through complex processes, integrating top-down (based on econ ...
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Partnership for more effective WBL in VET
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
One of the main EU challenges regarding reducing youth unemployment is to ensure that the developed skills of the future workforce meet the needs of the workplace. Work-based learning uses the workplace as a powerful learning environment that highly contributes to this aim.The overall aim of the project is to make work-based learning more effective so that it results in a win-win situation for bot ...
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Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: Regional Apprenticeship Alliances for SMEs
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Today when SMEs face problems related to start up, innovation and growth, they find help in a proactive ecosystem of intermediary organizations: Yet the vast majority of these organizations do not currently provide guidance to SMEs on the subject of apprenticeships. RAISE seeks to address this situation by building the capacity of intermediary bodies to develop and operate support structures which ...
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Mainstreaming Student Entrepreneurship
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Europe needs more entrepreneurial citizens: creative, confident individuals who innovate to solve problems and convert ideas into value across enterprises, organizations and the public sector. Recent years have seen substantial growth in the number of VET institutions offering entrepreneurship education, but engagement levels are very low and programmes still focus on the “how to run business” a ...
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Europakaufmann und European Business Baccalaureate Diploma
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,
As a VET college with a focus on business located in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region with global players such as BASF, SAP and IBM an international orientation is essential for a distinctive profile of our college. It also gives us a competitive edge compared to upper secondary education in colleges providing general education. Continuation in creating this international profile is crucial. H ...
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Job Placements app
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
Recent European studies and partners experience have shown a shortage of soft skills among the students entering the labour market. The current labour market needs require new approaches and methods to get the necessary qualified work force. The aim of the project is to reinforce these skills through the direct application of the innovation model and tool, JOPAPP (job placements app), in the imple ...
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Careers Advice and Pathways to Employment
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Since 2008, the EU economy has experienced the deepest, longest and most broad-based recession in its history since the 1930s (European Commission 2009).The average youth unemployment rate in most Member States is more than twice as high as the rate for adults. Almost 5.4 million young people under 25 are unemployed in the EU-28 (EC May 2014), representing an unemployment rate of 22.8% i.e. more ...
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Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...loited amongst our two target groups – VET and HEI providers – by leading pan-European organizations, namely the European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (EfVET) and the European University Continuing Education Network (EUCEN).
The intended direct impact of the project can be summed up in bringing VET and HE educators to the point where they are willing - and able - to “th ...
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E-MOTIVE. European Mobility Through Innovation in Virtual Education
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The E-MOTIVE project aims to promote cooperation and mobility among higher VET centers working in the following manner:
- During the first half of the project, partners (VET centers or associations of VET centers) will define a cooperation methodology to be applied by higher VET teachers and higher VET students. On the basis of this methodology, partners will also develop a manual to be applied sp ...
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European Business Baccalaureate Diploma for All
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...mplementing the diploma at the moment in school education. The university will work as the evaluator of the products (diploma and accreditation process). The association of Vocational educators, EfVET, will work with dissemination and the association EBBD e.V. owns the accreditation process and is needed for the development process.
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A national dissemination event for schools and teachers w ...
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Intergenerational Mentoring for Entrepreneurs
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The recession has impacted unfavourably on the employment levels of younger people in the EU; in several countries this is now over 50% and rising. Older workers who become unemployed are more likely to slip into economic inactivity, especially women and the lower-skilled. Older workers have different skills and competences compared with other generations; without their participation in working li ...
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Promoting Mental wellbeing in VET
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Vocational education and training in Europe can have a positive effect on mental wellbeing. Promoting Mental wellbeing in VET is a Strategic Partership project which is based on developing pedagogical innovation and the exchange of good practice in Mental health promotion, focusing on teachers, tutors, directors and students in VET. In addition the target group includes in-company trainers. Skills ...
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Go Green & Care
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
...reen Care education will help to solve this problem arisen from the working life sources.
Project will organise transnational project meetings and workshops disseminating its actions and results via EfVET communication channels to make information available for all. Activities arranged are participating teachers and managers from the organisations and entrepreneurs and representativies from diffe ...
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DIGITAL SECOND CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
DISCO focussed on the quality improvement of second chance education, targeted at the NEET-group. The development of an online knowledge and quality centre was positioned centrally. In this centre digital assessment tools, good practices and trainings are made available. In that way DISCO focussed on the quality of curricula/tools, the quality of teachers/trainers and the organizational setting in ...
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Transnational Business Groups
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
1. This project, related to entrepreneurism, is about helping students create their own business by taking full informed responsibility for the decisions and respecting ecology, regional identity but global market. They will do so after attending, with their teachers, an online training course about virtual companies management. The important point is that it will promote European business cooper ...
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EBBD BRiDGES 2
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,
As a VET college with a focus on business located in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region with global players such as BASF, SAP and IBM an international orientation is essential for a distinctive profile of our college. It also gives us a competitive edge compared to upper secondary education in colleges providing general education. Continuation in creating this international profile is crucial.
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EBBD BRiDGES
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015,
... hope they will further promote mobility activities for learners, increase their motivation and statisfaction in their daily work. A considerable boost of innovation is induced by participation at EfVET conferences (see vgl. http://www.efvet.org/), which is why we want to go to this year's conference in Porto.
Besides EBBD in our upper secondary vocational education department we agreed upon mobi ...
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The needs analysis confirms that there is little professional training for the city guides and that the situations at the national levels differ very much. The project therefore aims at 1) developing an educational program for specific, practice oriented and with a theoretical section; 2) adapting the training course toward a web based package because of the low numbers of participants per educati ...
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The project promoted and exploited CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) in Catalan, Czech and Irish language VET contexts, building on the development work in nine other languages through the original UK-led POOLS project (2005-7, winner of 2009 European Silver Award for Innovation and Creativity in Lifelong Learning) and subsequent ES-led TOI to 3 more languages via POOLS-2 (2009-2011). The ...
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The StorySHOP project has been implemented by 6 partners organisations each of which contributed to the project objectives with their specific knowledge, experience and expertise:Seed association is an expert in technologies, communication and education: The association was actually born from the belief that an adequate use of ICT and e-learning technologies can make a difference in education and ...
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...l analyses and the model European training scheme. Further dissemination will take place through the featured European partner, the European Forum for Vocational and Technical Education and Training (EFVET), and through previously established partner networks.
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Employment opportunities for VET students and jobseekers are presently at a premium in most EU states. As competition for contracts is fierce, the student or jobseeker has to demonstrate excellence not only in their technical field but also in key interpersonal and work related skills. Given the current economic situation, VET graduates and skilled jobseekers have two positive options. They urge ...
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VET has a unique position between more theoretical higher education and practice. It is typically an operator, who could have the skills both to understand the research information and implement it to the practice. Especially in rural areas the VET’s role has also changed from the traditional educator to important regional expert organization and developer. VET is an important link to the experti ...
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Students with proven entrepreneurial characteristics should be stimulated to continue after graduation. There are difficulties for this group of starters in fact: colleges take care for students and not for entrepreneurs (after graduating) and support organisations (mainly) support entrepreneurs (registered at the Chamber of Commerce) and not students. The project aims to bridge this gap in suppor ...
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...on CALL.The project consortium comprised VET colleges, universities, and organizations from BE, CY, DK, ES, MT, PT and UK all involved in language teaching. Dissemination was planned with EfVET as dissemination partner (reaching VET teachers and policy makers), participation in VET and language teacher conferences, through quarterly newsletters, and the project website www.languages.dk (which can ...
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MOVET explores a practical approach to a system ECVET. The modules for students end with an especially designed assessment of learning outcomes. Training providers, companies, competent bodies and other protagonists of vocational education validate the acquired learning outcomes as relevant for the training profile and award credit points. A memorandum of understanding of all involved partners ser ...
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The training course, which exists in its first form, will be piloted by 3 partner countries, evaluated, adapted, and re-tested by 3 further partners. It will then be re-evaluated and written in its final form.
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Aim: The aim of the i-learn project is to set up a Trans-European Online Creative Arts Centre. This will be a secure online learning environment which will allow partner countries and their online tutors and students to deliver training materials within a sound and secure pedagogical course management system. Objectives :- 1: - To develop an online centre for the development of a secure online cou ...
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Young migrant workers with low qualifications and workplace skills have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis. Among immigrants, they are most likely to experience difficulties acquiring and retaining employment. A range of VET initiatives now exists for immigrants, yet their generic nature and focus on ICT means they are particularly unsuited to the young male workers who are most at ...
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In 2006 6 European partners started with a pilot project International Operation Agent. The most important aim of the project was to develop a training course for teachers in VET who are active in the field of internationalization. These teachers are called International Operation Agents. Based on a survey the partners developed and piloted an internet based training course, consisting of 6 module ...
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The project aims at identifying the intercultural competence areas of those vocational teachers who are responsible for the international activities of their respective vocational institutes; designing criteria and tools for assessing such intercultural competence; and developing/transferring it into the profile of an "International Operation Agent" by designing and piloting a relevant internet ba ...
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EURO PATHS, a language learning programme, was specifically developed for extra-occupational, international practical training internships within the framework of an EU-sponsored LEONARDO project. Language teachers and teamers from Denmark, Finland, Germany and Slovakia all contributed to its development.It offers an opportunity to learn a foreign language while focussing on job-related content ma ...
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