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Development of CBRN training programme for police officers

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Terrorist activities involving the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials constitutes currently a new threat that the European public must consider. That type of terrorism acts may open the door for the possibility of destabilization of the European Union and lead to undermining economic stability, public security and integrity in the EU community.The project CBRN-P...
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Girls Into Global STEM

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The issue of gender bias in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects and careers is a transnational problem recognised by business leaders, higher education and by the European Commission. The issue originates in schools when many girls make critical subject choices that will effectively lock them out from STEM in higher education and employment. This is coupled with the pervasiv...
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An innovative self-improvement approach for the professional development of early educators

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Quality in ECEC is gaining an increasingly prominent position on European and national policy agendas. One of the most important characteristics that has been associated with high quality of ECEC provision, is the strengthening of the skills (professional development) of ECEC staff. The problem that the partnership has identified stands in the fact that the training procedures of in-service educat...
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Boosting adult career management and key competences for inclusion and employability through social media

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

AGEFACTOR project insists on increasing the competences of educators and professionals in the adult education field to promote them for personal and professional branding. In particular, it targets over 50 age group, with an intergenerational approach to provide digital and transversal skills to create social reputation, professional credibility and to be able to increase the opportunity for lifel...
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An innovative toolkit for inclusive decision making policies

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

There is a lot of evidence to support the claim that disadvantaged groups tend to have lower educational attainment, lower participation in early childhood education and lower performance in international assessments. The project iDecide proposes an innovative, forward-looking project, with the aim to support policy makers, school leaders and educators on how to develop inclusive policies and prac...
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BLEND IN - Language, Cultural and Social Orientation for Young Refugees

Start date: Nov 14, 2016, End date: Nov 13, 2018,

Anyone that moves to a country with different cultures, traditions and practices from one’s own can be expected to undergo a significant adjustment period. Refugees accepted for resettlement often come straight out of refugee camps and have little if any knowledge of the societal and economic realities which await them. Like others who have left their homes and resettled in a foreign land, refugee...
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Supporting Integration of Migrant Learners , Asylum Seekers and Refugees

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

The integration of people immigrating presents a special challenge; it is a complex and long-term undertaking. Anyone who is in favour of immigration should make an effort to foster the successful integration of immigrants. Those in favour of immigration are persons closely working with migrants, they represent educational sectors: teachers, trainers, educators; or social and care sectors: volunte...
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Welcome to Universities and Higher education

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

TThis project aims to make it easier for refugees to access higher education. In order to achieve this aim, we need to focus on adult education institutions, which undertake important work in terms of determining competences, qualifications and providing guidance before people start studying, as well as on universities and universities of applied sciences, which can cooperate with adult education ...
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Evaluation environment for fostering intercultural mentoring tools and practices at school

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

Early school leaving (ESL) is an obstacle to the socio-economic growth of the European countries. One of the targets for the EU in 2020, related to education, is to reduce the rates of ESL below 10%. Tackling early school leaving is a stepping stone towards improving the opportunities of young people and for supporting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Young people with a migration backgrou...
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Tackling School Discipline Issues with Positive Behavior Support

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

The need to create effective and inclusive European schoolwide frameworks that promote social inclusion and academic engagement has been at the centre of several European policy reports. With the huge influx of migrants and refugees in European societies and school, inclusion becomes of paramount importance.The success of schools as effective learning environments rests in part on establishing a s...
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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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Empowering Literacy in Adolescents through Creative Engagement with Comics

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

International studies showed that EU students do not perform well in science, math and literacy skills (PISA, TIMMS, OECD). One of the specific priorities of the school education program is to address the low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods and in particular through projects that foster interdisciplinary approaches and the integration of teaching basic skills su...
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MEET: MEtacognitive Educational Training - Disabilities for Ability

Start date: Sep 12, 2016, End date: Sep 11, 2018,

MEET project develops an experimental framework for Early Childhood Education and Care system (ECEC), using the disabilities teaching methods for all the students in the ECEC system. The 2 years’ project we propose to develop an innovative methodology able to empower high quality and accessible ECEC services. It also fosters the assessment of transversal skills, in a Life Skills perspective, in th...
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Future Youth School Forums

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

FYS-Forums is a cross-field strategic partnership creating a model for school led global citizenship youth forums responding to 4 key EU-wide needs: This will address 4 related school needs linked to key EU policy objectives: Need 1: To better motivate and engage EU youth within education, Need 2: To better develop youth transversal skills and competences in EU youth Need 3: For EU teachers to ...
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Training staff in the use of the Arts for the Benefit of patients with LOng-term conditions

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

Chronic diseases are a worldwide burden, causing 36 million deaths each year (World Health Organization, 2013). They are long-lasting conditions, which require regular treatment, administration, management and care, posing staggering socio-economic burdens on societies and health systems around the world. In this context, the use of arts for individuals suffering from long-term conditions can imp...
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Health Communication Training for Health Professionals

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

According to the EU Skills Panorama 2014 “health is forecast to be a growth sector, with a net increase of 1.8 million jobs across the EU between 2013 and 2025”. More specifically the report emphasizes that due to new ways of delivering health care, new roles are being created in the health care sector requiring new and diverse skills. These new and emerging skills include the ability to communica...
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Jobs for Work 4.0 – The Future of Employment

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

Digitization is increasingly shaping the world of work. Algorithms for big data are now rapidly entering domains reliant upon pattern recognition and can readily substitute for labour in a wide range of non-routine cognitive tasks. Advanced robots are gaining enhanced senses and dexterity, allowing them to perform a broader scope of manual tasks. This is likely to change the nature of work across ...
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Digital Tools for Inclusion of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants

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

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, compared with just 280,000 the year before. The scale of the crisis continues, with more than 135,000 people arriving in the first two months of 2016.In order to respond effectively to the current refugee crisis, EU policies are constantly changing. Newly arrived migrants along with their families demonstrate a series of compli...
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Generativity: manage it

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

The title "Generativity: manage it!" focus on a specific methodological reference: generativity describes a self-contained system from which its user draws an independent ability to create, generate, implement or produce new content unique to that system without additional help or input from the system's original creators. The term was coined in 1950 by Erik Erikson to denote a concern for establi...
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Digital, Social and Civic Competences Development for Adult Educators Working with Migrants and Refugees - DiSoCi

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

Europe needs more cohesive and inclusive societies which allow citizens to play an active role in democratic life. Education and youth work are key to prevent violent radicalization by promoting common European values, fostering social integration, enhancing inter-cultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community. According to the crisis the refugees, migrants and etc. diversified g...
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Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Migrants & Refugees

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

EpsiLon is responding to two current and urgent educational needs in Europe i.e. (1) the rise in migrant and refugee numbers (2) the persistent inequality and persecution of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender groups (LGBT). Combined together these two characteristics make LGBT migrants and refugees one of the most vulnerable groups in modern Europe. Our project aims to help address this issue by i...
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Empowering Young Disadvantaged Individuals to Trigger Change in their Communities - You.Change.Com

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

The world is gradually becoming witness to the disenfranchisement of youth. This is partially due to a global unrest in relation to the economic system placing young people at a disadvantaged socio-economic position with heightened youth unemployment, and also due to political distrust, a fall of values and socially-oriented causes as well as reduced belief in bottom-up social change. Similarly, f...
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Beyond Retirement - A Migrant Integration Resource

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

The BRAMIR Project proposes the development and implementation of a multi-layered andragogic framework designed for a seniors target group comprising older workers approaching retirement and recent retirees. This framework will incorporate a bespoke train-the-trainer curriculum, a suite of psychographic profiling tools and a digital toolbox of appropriate teaching resources to enable the redeploym...
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Making Learning Science Fun

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

The aim of the project is to address the challenge of engagement in science as described in through an innovative approach to science teaching and learning and make learning science Fun and Relevant to students’ contexts. The project aims to increase pupils’ motivation and achievement in science and other subjects and to prepare European educators to better engage pupils in science education. The ...
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Climate Literacy - a New Horizontal Theme in Adult and Vocational Education

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

To protect fragile ecosystems and to build sustainable communities that are resilient to climate change, a climate-literate citizenry is essential. It is necessary to raise the awareness and the knowledge about essential principles and fundamental concepts that individuals should understand about Earth’s climate system. Such understanding improves our ability to make decisions that have impacts on...
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Innovation Ecosystems for VET

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

The challenges and opportunities of globalisation and technological development have led to a strengthened emphasis on innovation as a key driver for sustainable economic development. Innovation is essential for the growth of modern societies and it is also central to achieving economic and social development. While innovation is generally recognized as critical to the continuous improvement of ed...
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VALUE - Valuing All Languages to Unlock Europe

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

The VALUE project - Valuing All Languages to Unlock Europe- is a cross-field strategic partnership to provide learners with tools and methods to use both the language of instructions (OCSE) and the language of origin at different levels of competences. This proposal is a response to the need across the EU school systems for an inclusive multilingual and intercultural pedagogy. It will support EU ...
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“Us” and “Them”: dialog, tolerance, collaboration for good coexistence in a multicultural world!

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

Migration Policy Institute’s report “Multiculturalism: Success, Failure and the Future” (Feb. 2012) draws upon Multiculturalism Policy Index: “[…] multiculturalism in the West emerged as a vehicle for replacing old forms of ethnic and racial hierarchy with new relations of democratic citizenship, and there is some significant, if not yet conclusive, evidence that it is making progress toward the g...
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Lifelong Readers 2.0

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

A lifelong learner is first and foremost a lifelong reader. The project dispels the widespread notion (especially amongst parents and educators) that technology is the enemy of reading. LiRe2.0 is based on the opposite assumption: Innovative use of ICT-based, open educational practices and resources that link up informal, non-formal and formal reading/learning, can play a significant role in enhan...
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A Toolkit for Developing, Implementing and Monitoring Adult Education Strategies

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

The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth acknowledges lifelong learning and skills development as key elements in response to the current economic crisis, to demographic ageing and to the broader economic and social strategy of the EU. The crisis has highlighted the major role which adult learning can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults - in part...
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Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults

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

A dynamic economy with an emphasis on lifelong learning must be underpinned by a dynamic education sector and while tackling early school-leaving is one of the priority objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy addressing the skill deficits and building the key competences of the young unemployed already outside the education system is a key objective of ET 2020. Young Europeans without high-value sk...
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Identity and Diversity Picture Book Collections

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

IDPBC is a transnational effort to compile international picture book collections, approaches and activities that address three issues of great importance to contemporary students and teachers across the globe: Inclusion, Diversity and Identity. Picture books have been proved to be extremely valuable educational tools, bringing multiple learning benefits to diverse groups of learners. Educationali...
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Journey to Employment

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

Context/Background Although some countries show improved performance in employment figures - both youth and general - there is still a need to improve these through improved employability skills and methodologies for delivering these. The GET THERE project will use two extant programmes to help deliver these outcomes, taking the ASDAN Employability Curriculum from existing qualification units and ...
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Online Game for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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

Millions of users around the world are gaming regularly. Even though online gaming was primarily designed for entertainment and profit, quite recently it moved beyond private industry and turned into a research field in educational, training and learning disciplines. Gaming is based on interaction, collaboration, active and dynamic learning and an informal educational process that is invaluable. S...
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Developing Adult Educators' Competences to Promote Learners' Life Style Entrepreneurship

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

The project has been developed to solve the issues of low adult participation in life-long learning and high unemployment. This project will contribute to meeting the Europe 2020 goals to increase employment rate by 75% and participation target of 15% in lifelong learning through development of the basic and specific competences of adult educators-practitioners. According to the data of the need...
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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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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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Schools for Future Youth - methods and support for improved youth participation in European school education

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

Schools for Future Youth (SFYOUTH) is a cross-field strategic partnership to develop methods and support for improved youth participation in European school education. This proposal is a response to the need across the EU to increase educational attainment and active civic participation by European youth. It will support EU schools to meet this need by increasing their capacity to use youth parti...
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POLYGLOT-Multilingual education in preschool age

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

Due to the linguistic and cultural reality of a widened Europe (EU 28), multilingual education already at a pre-school age proves to be clearly necessary. More than 50% of Europeans are either bilingual or live in an environment where they are confronted with 2 or more languages, especially people living in border regions, migrants and people whose parents speak a language other than the national...
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