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Action Plan EU STEM Coalition
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
To ensure smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth in Europe an ever increasing number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates is needed. Fostering competitiveness while addressing challenges as climate change, energy supply, healthy aging and digitalisation in our knowledge driven European economy, the demand for STEM talent is continuously rising. Whilst the ...
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Quintuple Helix Approach to Targeted Open Innovation in Energy, Water, Agriculture in the South Mediterranean Neighborhood (5TOI_4EWAS)
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
5TOI_4EWAS project will focus on Targeted Open Innovation in energy, water and agriculture societal challenges through a balanced innovation-friendly ecosystem in the Southern Mediterranean Neighborhood (SMN) based on quintuple helix and NEXUS approach. The project will enhance and support regional smart specialization and development by increasing research capacity, effective mobility of young in...
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Qualification, Open Resources & Toolkit for the Work-Based Learning Professional
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,
In this context of high youth unemployment rate in EU, VET with a strong WBL component is a mean enhancing the employment opportunities of youth. It is estimated that the demand for work based trainers and educators will continue to increase, and yet there is no single qualification that brings together the range of skills that these professionals need. Significantly, many occupationally and tech...
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OPEN MIND - gamified platform and open online course in Social Entrepreneurship for female learners and students from diverse fields of study
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,
The OPEN MIND project aims to enhance access to entrepreneurial education and create equal opportunities in the labour market for groups which are disadvantaged and under-represented in entrepreneurship. The project will promote social entrepreneurship, specially addressing women and young people from non-business studies, through an innovative gamified open course in social entrepreneurship. The ...
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Virtual Learning Environment to Coach Interviewees
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
The VeLoCiTy project aims to produce a 3D virtual world learning tool to simulate real interviews, real-life scenarios, and interview processes in order to familiarise Europeans with the diversities in the theories and practices applied across Europe mainly due to different ethnic and cultural backgrounds among the European states. The main objectives are as follows:- To explore and apply traits o...
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Green Entrepreneurs Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Europe needs more young people with green entrepreneurship skills if it is to achieve its EU2020 target of ‘Sustainable growth - for a resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy.’ Delivering this target requires young people with the skills, knowledge and commitment to build a more competitive low-carbon economy that makes efficient and sustainable use of resources, protects the envi...
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Go&Learn - network enhancement
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
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The G&L initiative (www.goandlearn.eu) has proved to be of great interest for participants as well as hosting companies and public bodies sponsoring them. In Italy G&L agencies and workgroups have been set up in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Metropolitan area of Bologna, Umbria, Marche; in the EU, agencies have been set up in Belgium (East Flanders), Germa...
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CULTOUR, overcoming skills gap and fostering mobility in Tourism sector trough the recognition, validation and up-skilling of intercultural competences for tourism jobs
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Tourism is very important for the European economy, accounting for over 5% of EU GDP and employing an estimated 15.2 million persons. The employment in the tourism sector presents also an important percentage of the total employment in the partner´s countries of CULTOUR project; France (10.5), Portugal (18.2), Spain (15.8), Turkey (8.4), Italy (11.6) and Bulgaria (12.2).
Tourism has one of the hi...
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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%).
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Maltese-European Linkages for Internationalisation, Innovation and Technology Transfer (MELIITA)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
The MELIITA proposal will support the smart growth of the Maltese SMEs by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and to contribute to a better and more efficient connection of stakeholders and players along the innovation chain. It namely aims to:• Strengthen innovation capacity and to ensure Maltese beneficiaries of the SME Instrument re...
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PROmoting Management and Entrepreneurial THinking among the career counselors and guidance practitioners in the EU Societies
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
PROMETHEUS is the Greek god that gave fire to the people. His name in Greek means forethought. He stands as a symbol of the human progress and the gift of fire and hope. Hope helps human beings to struggle to improve their lives while fire, as the source of technology, makes success in that struggle possible.
What better metaphor can one find for the nowadays career counsellors and guidance pract...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the...
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Be Positive: A positive psychological approach to enhancing resilience and utilising strengths in European unemployed youth.
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The rationale for the project was derived from the combined experience of health psychology researchers and practitioners who work for organisations providing vocational training and/or guidance counselling at national and European levels. The youth unemployment in Europe had reached a staggering 23.5% in the EU27. In this unemployed youth group, there is also a subgroup named NEETs – Young people...
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Evaluating the soft skills of unemployed youth
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
It is increasingly difficult for young people with low or no formal qualifications to find a job. However, even without formal training or labour market experience, young persons gather social and personal competencies. These “soft” competencies are essential for doing a good job. For some jobs, they may even be the most important elements of qualification. However, employers and those working wit...
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YEP! Youth Empowerment Priorities
Start date: May 4, 2015, End date: Jan 1, 2016,
"YEP! Youth Empowerment Priorities " has been coordinated by the Italian association ICSE &Co. With a total of 14
organisations from Programme and Partner Countries of Erasmus+. This project consisted of a mobility activity of youth workers
to participate in a training course on Human Rights; the participants group was composed of individuals between 18 and 35
years, the gender equal participation...
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Auslandspraktikum 2014
Start date: Jul 19, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2015,
Alongside the AIK Fachschulen gGmbH there will be nine different companies operating together in the EU mobility project Erasmus+ 2014. The individually chosen companies of this years project are located in four different EU states: Spain, France, the UK and Italy. There have been long term partner relationships for the past years with most of the project partners. The AIK Fachschulen gGmbH applie...
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Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,
Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage and in some cases also threaten human health. An increasing number of the major disease problems or threats faced by the livestock industry and zoonoses are of a global nature. The overall aim of the global strategic alliances for the coordination of research on the major infectious diseases of animals is to improve coordi...
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motion of Financing Innovation in South-East Europe (PROFIS)
Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
PROFIS aims at developing new capacities and capabilities in the SEE region to facilitate early stage funding of innovative projects of both individual inventors and spin-off or start-up companies. New services will be developed, introduced and tested at non-profit intermediary organisations which are active in the field of innovation promotion at regional level. The project will provide a state o...
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Making full value of good ideas by leveraging intellectual assets for financing SMEs in SEE (EVLIA)
Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,
Innovation is a key driver of Europe's competitiveness and growth. However, young and innovative SMEs face bottlenecks when trying to grow. They are disadvantaged when it comes to attracting external financing if they cannot find equity since they do not usually have the track-record or collateral often required by financial intermediaries and banks. In today?s competitive markets, the use and pro...
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Baltic Metropolises Accelerating Branding and Identity Building of the Baltic Sea Region (ONE BSR)
Start date: Jun 12, 2012, End date: Sep 11, 2014,
The main aim of the ONE BSR Project is to increase the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by marketing it as one unity. ONE BSR functions as an umbrella project and calls together actors, who market themselves as part of the Baltic Sea Region. In the absence of a strong common brand, the project aims to search for common commercial and cultural characteristics with a concrete hands-on ...
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Innovative transnational governance for the regional coordination of innovation driven key players related to ambient intelligence technologies for independent living of Elderly (SEE_INNOVA)
Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Jan 30, 2014,
Worldwide, the proportion of people aged 60 and over is growing faster than any other age group: this demographic change represents a challenge that needs to be met at transnational level, having a strong impact in the social and health services and in the labour market. The change of economic position of older people within the knowledge economy demands an innovative policy approach strengthening...
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The project "Tandem" is based upon the concept of intergenerational and intercultural learning. It will show to VET teachers how to support learners making non-formal and informal skills transparent and valid for their future professional development.
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MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT LEADERS
Start date: Sep 1, 2010,
The European Training Millennium Development Leaders will take place from 25th of September - 04th of October 2010 in Iasi, Romania. Kasta Morrely project, Millennium Development Leaders, aims to train specialists in public activities and promoting the image from as many countries of Europe using the experience and qualifications of Kasta Morrely specialists in the field of training. This will be ...
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Development of an Interdisciplinary Programme on Climate Change and Sustainability Policy
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Higher Education plays a critical role in making a healthy, just, climate-neutral and sustainable society. It prepares most of the professionals who develop, lead, manage, teach, work in, and influence society’s institutions. HEIs in Middle East, while recognising that their region’s contribution to the damage of the global climate is less when compared to developed regions, they do recognise the ...
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Change Laboratory: Second Floor
Start date: Dec 1, 2012,
''Change Laboratory: Second Floor'' is a platform where 28 young third sector representatives from Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia will meet in Struga, Macedonia and carry out a collaborative learning activity by questioning current ways of thinking, analyzing and modeling social entrepreneurship ...
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Innovation and Development of Academic-Industry Partnerships through Efficient Research Administration in Lebanon (IDEAL)
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
Addressed as a national structural measure within higher education and society and aligned with the Tempus priority of “developing partnerships with enterprises,” the IDEAL project seeks to augment inputs and outputs for research, development and innovation (RD&I) in Lebanon to improve the country's economic strength and global competitiveness. The inputs of concern to the project are summarized i...
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The project “Women in SMEs” aimed to transfer, adapt and pilot an innovative process for validating/certifying the management competences acquired by spouses in non-formal (e.g. in-company training) or informal (through life & work experience) settings. A validation process has been developed by the Swiss Union of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SGV) resulting in a nationally recogn...
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The project aims to contribute to an increase in SMEs competitiveness in the international scene through use of innovative technologies such as e-learning to train SMEs staff in foreign trading with a European prospective, combining relative strength brought by each partner country organisation.Objectives of the project also include; • Increase foreign trade capacities of SMEs staff in both Turkey...
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The CULTOOL project aimed to contribute to transfer structures and tools to support mobility in Vocational Training and University Education, particularly with regard to participation of SME and placements in organizations.
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The transition to a green economy is a mega trend which affects skill needs across many different jobs and sectors. Green skills are becoming an essential part of all jobs, as happened with the ICT skills. That is why the CEDEFOP highlights that "generic skills need to be improved across the entire workforce" and "Understanding the environmental impact of an occupation needs to be mainstreamed int...
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ValoDi, Valorisation of Diversity Skills (LdV/ToI 2009-2011) is a sequel to TforD, Tools for Diversity project (LdV 2006-2008), both of which focus on diversity of people in organisations. Diversity is an increasingly important aspect in any Human Resource and training activities as well as in working with diverse clientele. ValoDi addresses additionally diversity in management and strategic plann...
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The educational and vocational counselling is an effective labour market instrument. A new approach to this counselling as an employment strategy is still in infancy in all EU countries, in particular in transition countries like Latvia and Bulgaria. The project’s products make an essential contribution to the development of a practice-oriented, interactive online tool that helps educational and v...
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Increasing cooperation between enterprises and VET is highlighted in various EU and national policies. The most of the VET organisations are involved in this cooperation, however, they have focused mostly on operating with larger companies. Small and micro enterprises are not properly involved in this cooperation nor benefiting from it, even though approx. 91% of companies in EU can be classified ...
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The tourism is a rapidly growing sector in Europe, the largest employer among all touristic activities, and makes a vital contribution to the economies of communities.The overall objective of the project was to enable young male working in the tourist sector with particular “foreign language learning resistance” to establish their “enjoying language” by increasing their interest and uptake of fore...
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The proposal aimed towards the development of an assessment system for for teachers/trainers, and other working with unemployed people and in particular with the aim to evaluate and accredit non-formal and informal education and training (knowledge, skills and competencies they have acquired through their experience).In the past years, social skills are more and more important to employers all ov...
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Building Capacity for University Management in the ENPI South region
Start date: Oct 15, 2012,
This is a regional JEP in Governance Reform involving ten universities in Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon satisfying the regional priority ‘ University Management and Student Services’ . The wider objective of the project is to demonstrate that good management practices can build sustainable HE cooperation between nations. The project does this by addressing the challenges facing the management ...
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With the enlargement of the European Union and the general global situation, people immigrate to other countries for various reasons. Being an immigrant in a new country brings on certain demands in order to adapt such as learning the new language, culture and society in order to become fully integrated and independent. One of the most powerful ways to independence is employment(1), but for immi...
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How Europe is educating its entrepreneurs : European countries have different entrepreneurial cultures and these differences are reflected in their VET programmes. The aim of ENTREDU is to tackle this patchwork of cultures to bring a clear and up-to-date view of the situation to all developers of enterprise education and entrepreneurial studies at the vocational level. What ENTREDU can provide is ...
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Business training in education : The project aims to foster stronger links between the fields of business and education. It is doing this by creating a database of best practices in the area of work related learning, which are then analysed with a view to creating themed training packages. This project started in 2002 and lasted 18 months.
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The original web-based maritime English learning tool MarEng was finished in the spring 2007 as a result of a transnational Leonardo da Vinci project MarEng. During the first year of its existence, the learning tool was widely taken into use by different user groups (e.g. maritime students and workers) all over the world. However, based on the feedback received, the tool was missing some relevant ...
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