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QUICK: Innovative SMEs by Gender and Age (Quick-IGA)
Start date: Sep 19, 2011, End date: Mar 27, 2014,
The following findings are the background of the project: a) The number of persons in employable age in the BSR countries decreases by up to 20 % until 2030.b) The increasing lack of skilled workers will limit innovation and growth of SMEs.c) While equal opportunities for women and elderly in the workplace are comparably high in Scandinavia, it must be improved considerably in countries south of t ...
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Qualification, Innovation, Cooperation and Keybusiness for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR QUICK)
Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,
SMEs represent 99% of all enterprises in BSR and provide up to 70% of all jobs, being an important economic but also socio-cultural factor. SMEs present the biggest potential for job creation also in future. QUICK aims at unleashing this potential to its full extent by addressing the following challenges undermining the competitiveness of the BSR SMEs:- limited benefit from innovation processes an ...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises in the Baltic region have a strongly growing demand for corporate successors, managers and professionals. The skill requirements of SMEs grow, there is an increasing demand for international experience. Ensuring a qualified talent is for the SMEs a question of survival and thus the most importont support task. As an important contribution dual study programs, th ...
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Unification of Marine Education and Training
Start date: Dec 1, 2010,
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) developed the first standard for Vocational Education and Training(VET) programmes for merchant navy officers (STCW) in 1978. A series of model courses for these programmes was introduced in 1991and were amended to include specific requirements in 1995. The standard was reviewed in 2003 and changes are being considered in 2010 in Manila. Despite these ...
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The MarTEL Plus Project built upon the previously completed and widely successful MarTEL project, which implemented a series of English language tests for Cadets, Officers and Senior Officers in the Merchant Navy, incorporating the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP).The project transfers knowledge, generated during the previous project’s lifecy ...
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Continuing/Higher Education in Research Methods Using Games - CHERMUG
Start date: Jan 1, 2012,
There has recently been much interest in using digital games for educational purposes. It is hoped that the motivating features evident in entertainment games will also engage students in learning. However games also offer methods of learning that are active, situated, problem based, interactive and socially mediated. This project aims to develop and evaluate a computer game to support students in ...
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The International standards for maritime education and training (MET) currently in place were introduced in 1995 (IMO STCW-95). Since 1995, there has been rapid revolution in design of ships and the equipment used in the navigation and propulsion systems on board these ships and yet there has been no serious attempt to revise the STCW and/or the International model courses such as IMO 7.03, 7.04, ...
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This project intends to establish a set of standards by transfer of innovation from existing English language standards and maritime English model courses such as International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) Standard Maritime Communication Phrases. This Project therefore is a maritime language competency assessment project for English language.Shipping is perhaps the most important of the world’s i ...
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Integrated Maritime Promotion ACTion
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
The IMPACT project will promote the results of a number of completed maritime vocational education and training (MVET) projects which directly address particular problems or deficiencies in MVET throughout Europe, and represent innovative use of ICT in lifelong learning. Initially, IMPACT will disseminate and transfer the innovative practices developed in several selected LLP projects to MVET prov ...
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