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Basic skills training as strategy for vocational training in companies

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The European work life is changing rapidly. Key word is a development from manual production to modern automatized and digitalized production, and a grooving mismatch between vocational education and training (VET) and the labor market.BASIC SKILLS IN WORKING LIFE focuses on the growing gap between industry demand for competencies and skill levels in the workforce. For employees with weak basic s ...
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TeamMate360

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The so-called ‘digital revolution’ is changing the world in which we live and work. Trends such as home-working and globalisation are contributing to increased use of remote teams. The London Global Leaders’ Summit reported that more than a third of executives expect that over 50% of their full-time employees will work remotely by 2020 (LBS, 2014). Teams are becoming increasingly geographically di ...
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SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

In Italy really recentely a national law is establishing guidelines in order to foster and implement in the educational system institution (Schools) a new figure: the “School Mobility Manger”. Despite a spread interest and numerous practices developed by public and private bodies regarding MOBILITY MANAGEMENT especially in northern Europe and in the main European capitals, The FIGURE of MOBILIT ...
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MOVING Languages - Mobile Virtual Learning for Languages

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

...xperience in the fields of social research, education and business management.Italy: I.D.E.A., a no-profit association, with a long-standing experience in vocational and educational trainingAustria: BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH, main activities comprise the development of innovative training programmes for young (+16) individuals and adults, many of the ...
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KEEP-ON

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

School dropout rate in Spain is nearly 24%, the highest among European countries. According to EUROSTAT school dropout rates in the countries of the consortium are: Spain 23,6%, Portugal 18,9%, Greece 10,1%, and France, Belgium and Austria have less than 10%. The Europe 2020 strategy sets out the target of reducing school drop-out rates to less than 10%.Drop Out phenomenon, quitting students from ...
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Visualize: An innovative training concept for strengthening the tolerance and soft skills of young people

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...essions, short interviews, state of the art reports, international training of the trainers, implementation of piloting courses, online exchange spaces and will result in a short guidebook, including best practices, training paths, experiences and recommendations in order to share it with the wide public. It will therefore make use of all resources and tools nowadays available, meaning online and ...
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MiGreat! Supporting Migrants into CVET

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...s confronted with an ageing population and a shrinking workforce – which will lead to labour and skills shortages that will challenge economic growth prospects. Consequently countries that make the best use of their migrant population have the best prospects to develop.Many migrants arrive in Europe from third countries or travel from country to country within Europe with complete, partial or init ...
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Open Educational Resources for development of an innovative MOOC on advanced textile quality control

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

LEARNINGTEX MOOC aims to support textile companies through employees training and skills updating. A need on the sector has been detected and textile companies demand more experienced and trained workers on topics like woven fabrics and quality control of defects. In this sense, during this project more than 70 OER will be created which will be shaped into a MOOC about woven fabrics and defect det ...
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Amélioration Continue de l'Evaluation de l'Employabilité

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The European reference framework for Quality Assurance for providers of VET (EQAVET) adopted by all European countries has been designed by targeting the following objectives:- Employability- Correspondence between the supply and demand for skills and qualifications on the labour market- Better access to VET in particular for vulnerable groups-In Europe several positive and effective initiatives ...
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Empowering teachers and trainers to cope with religious diversity and boost intercultural education in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Europe is facing some major its major challenges since the end of the WWII. From the effects of the radicalization and the extremism, to the crisis of the refugees and the asylum seekers or the discrimination of some migrant communities, the question about how to foster the social cohesion and to fight against discrimination is in the middle of the debates in an increasingly culturally diversified ...
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Financial Education for Future Entrepreneurs

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

FEFE is a cross-sectoral co-operation which will develop the financial literacy and entrepreneurial mind-sets of learners across VET and HE contexts. Through FEFE, learners will develop key entrepreneurial skills: the ability to make better financial decisions, be better able to understand and access alternative sources of finance and be more willing to trade across international boundaries. Dev ...
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Training rural farmers in the use of mobile applications for agricultural activities

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The acquisition of basic digital skills has been identified as one of the principal adults´ training needs to acquire to match the requirements of today´s changing labour markets. This is important particularly in rural areas where the spread of ICT has been lower than in urban areas, therefore rural citizens find more difficulties in order to access ICT training. There are many mobile application ...
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Career Management Skills - A New 'Literacy' for Sustainable Employment

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The development of guidance services for adults within the workforce is a topical concern. Dramatic changes in work structures and social organization have occurred that are placing demands on adults to rethink their careers on an on-going basis. Added to this, are current EU policies that emphasize the need for continuous education for future economic and social mobility in an increasingly compet ...
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Violence in Dating for Youth

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Recent studies reveal that 1 student of 5 used violence on her girlfriend and 1 girl of 2 is inclined to forgive him. Violence in dating contexts has been recognized recently as a worrying social problem. Such violence in young people takes prominence, not only for its consequences on physical and mental health, but also because aggessive behaviours can be transferred to the adult stage. Dating in ...
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Through Entrepreneurship Education towards improving the quality of VET

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The aim of the project is education for entrepreneurship, respectively entrepreneurship in secondary technical and vocational schools in the South Bohemia Region and exchange of experience with foreign partners – Latvia and Portugal. The Czech Republic has so far paid attention to entrepreneurship education in secondary schools only with economic focus. A new priority for European companies aimed ...
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Fast Lane to the Labour Market

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...a tutorial video teaching the implementation of said methods. These products shall be brought forth by means of the following project build-up: 1) A state of the art analysis will be made, best practices collected 2) Drafting the Outputs 3) Testing the material in six pilot projects with 120-140 refugees 4) Evaluation 5) One Teaching Activity 6) Adaption of the material.It is an indispensable nec ...
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Wellness Instructor VET Course

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The WELVET project is based on transnational cooperation effort of VET providers and economic actors in the field of wellness tourism. The project's main intellectual output, a C-VET course for the emerging "wellness instructor" job, is addressing a pressing need of the European wellness tourism industry, namely the lack of trained staff to deliver high quality customer service. The WELVET project ...
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Developing Innovative Didactics for Workplace Training

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Mar 30, 2018,

As a concept, workplace learning incorporates a diverse set of scenarios and practices some of which are more regulated and controlled than others. While apprenticeships are generally very structured programmes with clear learning milestones that can be measured and assessed other popular models like internships, job shadowing and service-learning voluntary work offer less in the degree of certain ...
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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE IN CLIL

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...opics such as: how to write an effective curriculum vitae, how to write an effective cover letter, how to behave during an interview, what are the most common employment contracts, what are the best job searching channels, how to deal with money/salary issues. Each partner will produce the material in its own language, and the material produced will train participants from the other partnership’s ...
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Virtual Vocational Education and Training

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The main aim of the “Virtual Vocational Education and Training – VIRTUS” project is to develop an innovative, fully functional virtual vocational education and training centre, which will provide appropriately designed modular certified courses in: 1. Tourism and Hospitality Services 2. Social Entrepreneurship, corresponding to regional growth potential and skills needs and targeting at increasin ...
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Let the Hopes Blossom

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

European Commission published a report concerning early school leaving in November 2014. According to this report, the EU average rate of early leavers from education and training is now 11.9%, the EU average rate among boys is 13.6% whereas it is 10.2% among girls (Eurostat). Turkish Confederation of Employer Association has interpreted the average rate of early school dropout in Turkey as 37% (3 ...
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Experience For Training

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

...ting all partners’ contact details. They will then be spread further thanks to the website, mailing list, leaflets and associated activities, carried out by Aspire I Limited for UK, EVT in Italy, BEST for Austria, AID for Belgium, SPI for Portugal and Innovative Educators Association for Turkey. Partners' European networks will be used as dissemination channels and mainstreaming action at Internat ...
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Let's learn how to learn!- Raising awareness to the importance of and providing an innovative solution for the inclusion of the training of learning skills in existing higher education curricula

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Being successful today, apart from possessing factual knowledge, requires ‘soft skills’ and certain personality traits that are not taught at universities, like Ability to Learn Quickly, Positive Attitude/Motivation and Loyalty. There is a skills gap, or rather a training gap between the skills graduates have and the skills employers seek in their employees. Higher education institutions and emplo ...
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Teachers’ Professional Development

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The basic aim is To reinforce professional development of teachers of students up until 7 years old through an online course, in order to effectively promote positive behaviors in classroom and future school attendance and achievement. Objectives: • Educate teachers regarding the processes and methods of teaching. • Provide teachers with valuable non-formal education methods in working with childr ...
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GREEN MENTOR Fostering green entrepreneurship through an innovative ECVET curriculum for the new professional profile of Mentor for Green Entrepreneurs

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

New companies, especially SMEs, represent the most important source of new employment in Europe: they create more than 4 million new jobs every year. To bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe in general, but the countries of GREEN MENTOR project in particular (Spain, Austria, Hungary and Ireland), need more entrepreneurs. The transition to a green economy offers great ...
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Social Entrepreneurship Training via ICT Learning Environments

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

If it is to make a success of the Lisbon strategy for growth and employment, Europe needs to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people, encourage innovative business start-ups, and foster a culture that is friendlier to entrepreneurship and to the growth of SMEs. The important role of education in promoting more entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours has become widely recognised. Th ...
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Natura 2000 Action Programme (PAN LIFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Background The geographical position of Calabria at the extreme south of Italy as well as its long coastline overlooking the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas means that it has some of the richest biodiversity in Italy and Europe. It boasts 69 habitats of (European) community interest, 18 of which are priority habitats, and has 185 marine and terrestrial Natura ...
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Ready for future: Equipping teachers with future skills

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

...partnership is composed of five partners: The lead partner CET as a high school offers career professional development programs including vocational directions such as tourism, catering and commerce. BEST, as a provider of continuous training, vocational qualification and career services, will contribute to the project with its experience related to the creation of innovative training programmes f ...
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Fit for Business Growth

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...fferent bodies of knowledge (i.e. Wellness programmes, High Performance Work Practices and High Growth Business Coaching) to synthesise a Fit for Business Growth Model and methodology. By adopting best project management practices, the latest blended learning techniques and practices and this new model, partners aim to be an ‘exemplar’ project that will act as a ‘demonstrator’ project for future E ...
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Improve Your Emotional Skills

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

What do adolescents and young people need to be successful in life? The most common answer is a "good" educational background. Academic performance is thought to be the main goal of the path of education and it is currently in the forefront of public consciousness. However, teachers and trainers who work with youth on a day-to- day basis and who witness their progress and their struggles, know t ...
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MenTalk: Alternative language learning techniques for male learners active in the tourism sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The objective of the MenTalk project is to develop and offer a language learning curriculum, training material, didactic guidelines and platform directed to men in rural areas who are active in - or want to offer - alternative tourism services. The rationale behind the project is on one hand the need for promoting language learning within the EU, as a means for professional development and enhance ...
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Count me in too! VET for people with disabilites through cultural institutions.

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Count Me In Too! Takes its starting point in the belief that no citizen in Europe should be discriminated against in training or employment because of disability. In times of economic difficulties there is more than ever, a need for finding new ways to make better use of the diverse resources of organisations and people. This includes people who are more specially disadvantaged because of certain ...
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Practical implementation of main transparency tools - EQF, ECVET, EQAVET - in European VET organisations

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

In times of striking economic crisis in Europe, education and training are more in the spotlight than ever, as policymakers are looking for clear responses to challenges faced by the Member States. All over Europe, national VET system and VET organisations are making considerable efforts to face these challenges and are undergoing developments to ensure that VET qualifications meet the highest qua ...
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B-Learning: Curriculum Design for Blended Learning

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools requires not only competent use of technical tools, but also a new kind of understanding of why, how and when technologies support students learning. In schools today ICT is rather used for the development of lower than higher level skills of students, and innovative practices in schools are fragmented and do not provide ...
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PRO PULSE + : Impulse a new generation of production schools with Erasmus+

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

PRO PULSE+ project Matching skills and labour market needs: Impulsing a new generation of production schools for providing second chance environments addressed to low skilled young and adult unemployed with Erasmus+ Everywhere in Europe, countries are facing the challenge of higher unemployment rates, which especially hit fragilized publics of youngsters (less 29) and seniors (more than 45) who ha ...
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Tourism training the trainers

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

• Context/background of project; Tourism is one of the fastest growing and most profitable industrial sector in Europe and accounts for consistently larger share of GDP. Despite great expectations of continuing growth of the tourist sector as a base for economic stability, there is a lack of recognition concerning skills of employees. In order to meet the requirements of a competitive tourist se ...
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E.U. - COUNTRY ARTISANS

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Considering the importance the EU gives to education and training beeing essential to unlocking the potential of people, regardless the age or the backgrounds, our organization propose the project EU COUNTRY ARTISANS designed to follow the identified needs at the organizational level and the social needs identified at the regional level. We want to develop our organization's activities locally an ...
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LINK-Inc. Fostering equity and inclusion in Work-based Learning by equipping trainers and mentors with innovative approaches to address cultural and ethnic diversity in VET

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

In today's highly competitive labour markets, the experience gained through Work-based Learning (WBL) opens doors to later jobs. Youth unemployment rates in European countries with a strong tradition of WBL, such as Austria (9.0%), are lower than in countries with less developed WBL systems, like Bulgaria (21.6%), France (25.2%), Portugal (34.5%), Italy (42%) or Spain (51.4%). Work-based learning ...
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Vocational Education & Training Standards in Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Safety at Heights

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...loped a framework for common European VET competence standards. These standards can be adapted & developed further for use within the WAH occupations. At the same time this project aims to facilitate best practice & high quality instruction amongst VET providers & skills trainers of WAH courses across Europe & beyond, exchanging knowledge, innovations & expertise in the process. Project Objectives ...
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LIGHTHOUSE Supporting lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

LIGHTHOUSE Supporting lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility is an innovative project aiming to develop and provide access to new methodologies for career guidance and counselling in Europe. LIGHTHOUSE will be base on the develop an innovative model for supporting lifelong learning and ...
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