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Shortening distance to education / labour market for migrant and refugee women though gender-sensitive counselling and local cooperation strategies
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
...ove accessibility of migrant/refugee women to adult education and gender-sensitive counselling to enter labor market". In December 2011 three partners of this application, FU-Uppsala, Dimitra and Revalento, started a Grundtvig project “EU Integration Agent” – Innovative Guidance Methodology for Integration of Low-skilled Immigrants into Adult Education (igma). The goal of igma was to develop a met ...
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Promoting quality culture in VET
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
Background The issue of quality and quality management in VET constitutes one of the major fields for development for the last 40 years and in European Union a lot of resources have been devoted to increase the quality of VET. More than 50 different models have been developed within LLP-program, focusing on different aspect of Quality management in VET. Despite all the effort, the experiences show ...
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Education - Employment Partnership for VET in the fashion sector
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,
ContextThe Bruges Communiqué for 2011 - 2020 underlines the importance of investing in people’s skills and ensuring they remainrelevant to labour market needs. Moroever, it is pointed out that today's pupils and students will still be in the beginning of theircareer in 2020 with at least 30 years to go in their professional live, and some of them in occupations that do not exist today andothers pe ...
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The expansion of the EU-approaches to providing the partner-countries higher education quality assurance Expanding Quality Assurance
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The project is aimed at development of quality assurance model for the higher education (HE) "Quality Management & Common Quality Assurance Framework"(QM&CQAF). It is oriented to enhancement of interaction between universities and national labor markets and to dissemination of this model in the Project member-countries. The Common Quality Assurance Framework (CQAF) implemented in the sphere of voc ...
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EQAVET in practice
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Rationale behind this proposal
The recent economic developments have shown the importance of having a highly skilled workforce. The Member States, in their recent Council conclusions on the role of education and training to economic recovery and growth, have highlighted the importance of strong vocational education and training (VET) systems in attaining a high level of skills relevant to the labo ...
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Shortening Distance to Labour Market for young people with risk for unemployment and social exclusion - Distance Education for Coordinated Measures by Regional Stakeholder Networks
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Annual Growth Survey (AGS) from 2014 shows that the unemployment among young adults within the age 18 – 30 years is one of the main socioeconomic problems in the European Union since economic regression 2009. It reached 23.4 %-more than twice as high as the adult rate, with some 5.7 million young people affected. Young people that have only completed lower secondary education bear the highest risk ...
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Methodology for Early Warning detection of risk for Early School Leaving (ESL)
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Problem
5.6 million Young people (18-24) in Europe are early school leavers (ESL). Without the shield from unemployment that is education (ILO 2012), these are 5.6 Million young people at heightened risk of poor participation in the labour market and social exclusion over their entire life course. Exposing 13.5% of all young people in this age group to this increased risk is not only an immense wa ...
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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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"EU Integration Agent" - development of the European Professional Standard for effective counselling of the low-skilled into labour market through adult education
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
National market research in partner countries has indicated that (except for the Netherlands) all partner countries lack higher (professional) education in counselling. Generally, there is neither demand nor professional standard for this kind of work. Consequently, the counsellor is usually a person with any education in social sciences and probably completed short training course. Those counsell ...
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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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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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Pathway from EQAVET to NQAVET
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,
The reasonConsidering that all of the elaborated quality models within the LLP until now have been developed based on CQAF and later EQAVET, the promoters find it difficult to find enough national legitimacy for the result. Since quality issue by provider is also used as argument for accountability for efficient management, they tend to rely on so-called recognised quality certificates like ISO, ...
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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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Expanding the quality ‘spirit’ of VET (Q &VET)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
ReasonThe issue of quality and quality management in VET constitutes one of the major fields for development for the 40 years and in European Union a lot of resources have been devoted to increase the quality of VET. More than 50 different models have been developed within LLP-program, focusing on different aspect of Quality management in VET. Despite all the effort, the experiences shows that it ...
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"EU Integration Agent" - innovative guidance methodology for integration of low-skilled immigrants into adult education
Start date: Dec 1, 2011,
77 million of people in Europe are low-skilled and those with the lowest educational attainments are the least likely to participate in learning. Immigrants are overrepresented in this group, which decreases their chance for integration. Many studies on the low-skilled in the EU claim that the most effective way for guidance to adult education/labour market is through mobilizing all relevant stake ...
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