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Preparing professional drivers for their role within the fourth industrial revolution and its innovations within road transportation.

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

There are major changes within and related to the professional driving profession ahead of us that need to be prepared and supported by vocational education and training in order to reach its full potential but also to avoid a further increase of already today’s major deficits of skilled workers in this field that belonged continuously to the Top Ten jobs employers are having difficulty filling ov...
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School-to-Work Transition for Higher education students with disabilities in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

This project proposal completely addresses regional priorities for JP in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, concretely the priority “Developing the Higher Education sector within society at large, University-enterprise cooperation, entrepreneurship and employability of graduates”. The Trans2Work project is designed as a complementary with EquiED (http://www.equied.ni.ac.rs/en/) in ...
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Empoderamiento Laboral de Personas Maduras en la Era Digital

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

Based on a successful methodology to support labour integration of low-skilled mature workers implemented in Spain, which has adressed 900 people in the last two years with a insertion rate of 41%, we aim take this experience at European level enriching and expanding it with the experience to other participating countries. Taking as starting points the materials and methodology used in the Labor...
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HealthCareEurope: Fostering transparency and recognition of prior learning within geographical mobility of professionals in the health care sector

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

More than any other sector the health care sector is already today dependent on the mobility of workers from across Europe and even on an international scale in order to overcome skill shortages that are strongly influencing this sector in EU Member States. So far the mobility of skilled workers is strongly hindered by highly complex and time consuming validation and recognition processes and by m...
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"LIKE" GENDER EQUALITY

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

Equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union. The Europe 2020 strategy brings out gender equality as a lever of economic growth, employment, social cohesion and sustainable development.In this context, the Recommendation CM/Rec (2013)1 of the European Committee of Ministers to member States on gender equality and media points out that : "The media are centrally p...
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The Digital Workplace: skills for a changing work environment

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

The purpose of this project is to promote an innovative organization approach for working, meeting the needs of a market and labour world that is more than ever globalized, digitally embedded and ever changing. As physical boundaries tend to dissolve, the traditional workplace transform itself in wherever and whenever the worker can be: at office, at home, at the airport, at someone else’ office ...
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Improving Professionals' Skills in work based learning

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project IM.PRO.VSK. WBL (Improve Professional Skills Work Based Learning) aims to face training needs and professional upgrading of teacher/tutor in the school and workplace tutor in the enterprise. These two figures work as guide and support for Work Based learning (WBL), an European priority mentioned in several strategic documents and confirmed in Riga Conclusion in June 2015. The project ...
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Competitiveness through Engineering CNC EURO vocational certificate

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 1, 2016,

The project´s aim was to bring the CNC machine tools operators training competence to the European level in the whole Baltic region by creating new innovative CNC machine tools operators training curriculum for the Baltic countries based on the DEKRA Akademie´s unique CNC training concept and working out 6 new study materials for CNC machine tools operators training. Furthermore, the project incre...
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Dual Training Mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The aim of the project Dual Training Mobility is to continue the development and the transfer of the model of Dual education that is common in Germany, to the Greek context and system of Vocational Training. At the same time we aim in continuing the operation of the existing schools, plus giving the opportunity of visiting and getting in touch with the German and the English environment to more st...
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Cargo Securing to prevent cargo damages on road, sea, rail and air (CARING)

End date: May 16, 2015,

A study on fatal accidents of professional drivers in Finland (Laapotti & Peräaho 2011) has revealed that the risks in loading and securing of cargo comprised 12 % of all vehicular risk factors. This was more than the proportion of risks connected to tires and brakes together (10 %). Europe is an area where goods and products can move around freely, without any checks at the national borders. Thi...
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Metaframework for Logistics

In a number of previous projects (Central, Eucolog, Prolog,Novalog, Eurotranslog, ProfDRV), the connection between vocational qualifications and relevant transparency instruments has been examined. The METALOG project has analysed these previous results and summarized them systematically (see Products "Synthesis Report"). Based on these results, work process analyses have been conducted in logisti...
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Application of Apprenticeship in the Vocational Integration of the Socially Disadvantaged Youth

Socially disadvantaged young people often do not have access to the high quality VET due to their failures in the system of general education and other reasons. These young people present important potential reserves of human capital and their vocational integration is important both from the social and economical point of view. Apprenticeship can become very effective in achieving this goal. T...
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Connect the TEachers to reach and teach the NEt GENeration

Prompt Education – the initiator of Tenegen project – accredited in 2005 a three module training program in Hungary to develop teachers’ e-learning competencies. The course was delivered in typical e-learning 1.0 approach implemented in Moodle LMS with “traditional” online course components.Hundreds of Hungarian teachers took part in the training during the years, and gained basic competences in d...
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Further Development & Transfer of Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks (MatchingFrames)

One of the greatest challenges for the implementation of the national and the European Qualification Frameworks (EQR) is the assignment of qualificational profiles to the individual levels according to comparable principles. This should be envisaged in a way to safeguard comparability and transparency of differently structured qualificational profiles. Therefore the main target of the project was ...
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ECVET – compatibility of competencies. Sector related credit point system as a basis for the compatibility of competencies in the automotive sector.

The automotive industry is shaped by innovations, ever fiercer competition and global suppliers. As strategies are developed to cope with the complexity of this business, employees face growing demands to adopt systemic, networked and interdisciplinary modes of thought and action. At the same time, process-oriented work structures require that employees exercise a high degree of self-management an...
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ECVET for Virtual Learning Professions

e-Learning has been around us since the Internet emerged. The beginning in programmed instruction and computer-based training has expanded to encompass distributed learning environments and virtual communities of practice. The introduction of new, interactive, web-based technologies, such as social media and smartphones have also had their impact on the idea of e-learning. Technological and educat...
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Apply approach and methods for linking qualifications to the eCompetence Framework, European Qualifications Framework (CEC) and ECVET developed within EQF Code to internet-related services professions: EQF iServe

Rationale of this project is the growing skills shortage in internet-related jobs in several European countries (e.g. Germany, Hungary, Switzerland). This skills shortage could be overcome by employing practitioners from other European member states. However, this is hampered by the lack of transparency and comparability of qualifications for these professions at European level. Due to the great d...
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Exploiting the TIPTOE plAtforM by transferring ECVET and EQF semAntic tools in a Multi-sectoral perspective

The TAMTAM project has operated a sectoral and geographic transfer of TIPTOE project results: from commerce to ICT, fashion/textile, mechanics/mechatronics and energetic efficiency/green building; from the Netherlands to Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom. The construction and the intelligent grow of a common European space for lifelong learning (Lisbon p...
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EURO TRANS LOG

The project concerns the level of qualification V in transport and logistics in all countries. Existing certifications for these jobs show a variety of situations with no common definition of required competencies. As a consequence on the employers’ side, national certifications do not respond to the companies’ needs and to the life long learning issues (continuous training, recognition of profess...
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PROMETEO - PROmoting Mobility and transparEncy for forTh lEvel lOgistics and transport qualifications

The project was implemented in a time of significant social, economic and environmental change, and it tried to respond to the main developments of the transport and logistics sector. The growing importance of logistics and transport both from an environmental point of view, both from the point of view of businesses' competitiveness created the need of training professionals able to understand th...
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Validation of self-aCquired learning and cREdits trAnsfer in web design and compuTEr animation

Often people engaged in creative fields such as web design (WD) and computer animation (CA) have gained their knowledge, skills and competence through a kind of informal learning (IL). Gradually validation of IL has become a EU priority in the field of VET being “seen as a way of improving lifelong and life-wide learning”. Although addressed to a different extent in various EU countries, the issue...
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Support structures for ECVET and EQF application in Europe

Although successfully piloted in a variety of national and European projects and initiatives, the application of EQF and ECVET principles into the different European vocational education and training practices is a challenging task that needs facilitation and support in order to overcome existing misconceptions and uncertainty towards these European transparency instruments at a practical VET leve...
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IMPROVING HEALTH AND SAFETY OF FREIGHT TRANSPORT DRIVERS

Transport sector is one of the most important sectors in Europe. It provides about 4.5 million jobs and generates a turnover worth about 1.6 % of EU gross domestic product. However, transport sector is unfavorable in almost all potential risk dimensions, compared with the average of all other sectors. Thus, the sector is at risk in terms of ambient conditions (noise, vapours, danger, vibrations, h...
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Mobile learning for the promotion of entrepreneurial culture and mobility in the road transport sector.

Road transport sector (freight and passengers) has a central role in the continued growth of EU’s economy. In 2008, created more than 5 mill. jobs and the turnover was about 432,331 mill.€ (Statistical pocketbook 2011, EC). However, the current economic crisis is affecting the sector considerably. The crisis has cancelled out 6 years of growth (Trends in EU Road freight transport-Eurostat).The EU ...
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engAGEnt - Development and validation of a curriculum for vocational AAL education

Reason for the projectConcepts of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) comprise assistence systems, methods and other solutions for elderly and handicapped people to live self-determined in comfort in their environment. Due to the demographic change, which is affecting all European countries similarly, the AAL sector is growing rapidly, creating new jobs for qualified employees Europewide. Thus joint Eur...
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E.R.M.E.S. Enhancing Resources for Mobility Experiences and Strategies

In the EU there is a longstanding tradition in support of learning mobility by means of different programmes. Since 1992, the EC has grant-aided transnational mobility for young people. The LLP defines a 2009-2011 priority as expanding learning mobility in EU and worldwide. Despite these persistent efforts the overall percentage of young people which actually engages in transnational mobility acti...
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Embedding ICT/Multimedia Standardisation Initiatives into European Vocational Training Development Strategies

Socio-economic change of the last years is characterized by globalisation of economy and by the arising information society. Both developments have produced new demands on training and education: New job profiles have come into being, requiring new content of training, traditional job profiles have to be modified as basic IT skills have to be included, and new technologies have created new possibi...
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VET Stakeholders of the Automotive Sector

Today’s automotive sector is characterized by steadily ongoing workprocess innovations, by the development of global delivery networks, andby increasing competition. This yields a lot of requirements for theemployees in terms of flexibility to cover the needs of this ever-changingworld of work, or, in other words, the ability to cope with complex workrequirements which can only be determined prope...
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Professional driving - more than just driving!: Qualification requirements and vocational training for professional drivers in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Today the road freight and passenger transport sector provides jobs for more than 4.5 million EU-citizens and already since 1976 (Council Directive 76/914/EEC) professional driver training is considered to be a matter of European interest. During the past decades qualification requirements changed and increased fundamentally for professional drivers because of changes in work organisation, new tec...
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Developing qualification profiles for jobs in Ambient-Assisted Living

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

Rationales of this project are the demographic change and the resulting increasing demand for geriatric care on the one hand, as well as the increasing individualisation of society on the other hand. Concepts of ambient-assisted living (AAL) have been developed in several European countries during the last decade and include concepts, products and services aiming at connecting technology and socia...
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Preparing and keeping professional drivers qualification up-to-date for their changing job requirements with multimedia-based learning

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

The occupation “professional driver” ranges in Europe under the top ten jobs employers are having difficulty filling with qualified employees. At the same time this occupation is characterised by a fundamental increase of qualification requirements during the past decades. This situation is especially challenging due to the rather low level of professional qualification within this occupation, a m...
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