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Project-IPEC
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Private enterprises make substantial use of projects to manage internal innovation, development projects and external work for clients. Established, larger companies often use a formal project management methodology. In contrast, SMEs are rarely able to employ dedicated project managers, find formal project methodologies, such as Prince2, too sophisticated, too costly and too time intensive for th ...
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Community of Responsible Recreational Initiatives in Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...erprises, organisations and entities with demands in the field of the design and management of projects.
• Eurocrea Merchant is a consulting and training company based in Italy.
• BDF is an international project management agency focused on supporting SMEs and schools in the field of entrepreneurship and internationalisation as well as supporting start-up companies.
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inova ...
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Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: Regional Apprenticeship Alliances for SMEs
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Today when SMEs face problems related to start up, innovation and growth, they find help in a proactive ecosystem of intermediary organizations: Yet the vast majority of these organizations do not currently provide guidance to SMEs on the subject of apprenticeships. RAISE seeks to address this situation by building the capacity of intermediary bodies to develop and operate support structures which ...
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I-STEP
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
I-STEP aims to enhance international entrepreneurial skills and attitude of teachers and students in VET by creating an international dimension to entrepreneurship programmes and strengthening the local and (EU business) network. This offers a solution to EU wide unemployment by enabling young people to create their own employment and become successful entrepreneurs that look beyond country border ...
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Smart Data, Smart Regions
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The volume of data that governments, businesses and organizations manage has grown exponentially and, if turned into actionable, “smart” data, presents vast opportunities to drive productivity, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. The EC 2014 Big Data Strategy recognises that data-intensive sectors of the economy are growing by 40% per year. However, even while the UK, Germany, Ireland and N ...
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Juvenil Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis and Education
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,
Education for children, adolescents and young adults with (JNCL)
The project aim and the main target group:
To improve educational opportunities and non-medical interventions for a disadvantaged and very low frequency group in Europe – children and young people with Juvenil Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (JNCL), also called Spielmeyer-Vogt disease or Batten disease. The disease is characterized by ...
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SKILLS+ - Soft skills development programme for micro-companies in ICT sector
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
Over 99% of ICT firms in Europe are SMEs, of which about 90% are micro-sized companies with 1-9 employees. It's hard to overemphasize their importance to the sector and economy in general, but at the same time there is much to be done to improve competitiveness and sustainability of these micro-businesses. While most of them possess strong technical or so-called hard skills, the soft skills are mu ...
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Training community actors to foster entrepreneurship education
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
The initiative wants to transfer and adapt a model of promotion of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education based on the key concept that education, and in this case entrepreneurship education, happens everywhere, particularly in those environments in which children and young people receives first education (family, school, local community). The original project was developed in Extremadura ...
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Restart Entrepreneurship
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Setting up a business is increasingly easy but keeping it going is much tougher: 50% of enterprises don’t survive the first 5 years and bankruptcies account for 15% of business closures. The recent financial crisis caused a peak in business failure in Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Bulgaria.
Since recognising the need to enable honest, failed entrepreneurs to start over in business in the Small ...
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Streetfood: Opportunities for Regions
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The street food sector is growing fast: NCASS registered 700 new street food businesses last year alone and our partners witness rapidly growing sectors with rising demand for support from young entrepreneurs. Yet, for all its dynamism, the sector is also becoming more crowded and ambitious young entrepreneurs are looking upwards and outwards for further growth opportunities. Viable paths to exp ...
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Food Incubators Transforming Regions
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Food and drink represents the largest manufacturing sector in the EU and encouragingly has sustained positive growth. Even during the economic downturn, levels of employment in the food and drink industry remained quite stable. The majority of the 287,000 EU food companies employing employ 4.25 million people are SMEs or micro-enterprises. While the sector has excellent potential for artisan and ...
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IHEM: Improving the long-term outcomes in children with congenital anomalies by implementing an Innovative Health Educational Module for staff in health care and NGO settings.
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
There is a substantial need for the development of high quality work-based VET in the healthcare sector that works with congenital anomalies. In Europe, 1 one out of 40 pregnancies is affected by a congenital anomalies that can result in medical, social and/or psychological disabilities throughout the lifespan for the affected individuals and their families. When it come to children with disabilit ...
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Teaching and Learning for Life in Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR LIFE IN EUROPE (TELLE), 2015-2017
1. Boosting Professional Profile and Curricula
TELLE is a transnational teacher training project of five active, internationally-oriented and competent local adult educations in five European countries: Finland, Estonia, Iceland, Norway and Germany. The aim of the project is to update adult teachers' professional profile, promote the use ...
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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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Development of entrepreneurship, creativity and teamwork skills for students and teachers in VET
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
During the last years of economic crisis, Cyprus has suffered both recession and unemployment, leading to serious social distress. While various government programmes and initiatives encourage hiring young people, the situation is still very difficult. In September 2015, youth unemployment rate in Cyprus was 32 %. According to psychologists, the consequences of unemployment to young people inclu ...
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Heal - Help to understand the Educational impact of Appearance dissatisfaction in relation to Learning
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
...cial workers, school leaders, special needs teachers, guidance counsellors) managers, policy makers and adult learners. The number of direct participants in the mobilities is foreseen to be 25 from RSBDF. Over 100 in total.
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Job shadowing, teaching assignments abroad, course participation, reflection sessions,
METHODOLOGY;
Job shadowing, course participation, reflection sessions, teach ...
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We Grow Together
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2016,
We Grow Together is a coproduction of five organisations, leaded by passionated people: Youth Spirit, Romania; Foroige, Ireland; IKSZE, Hungary; Boris Divkavic Foundation, Bosnia_Herzegovina and ONE WORLDcitizens, Netherlands.As project partners of We Grow Together we want to make social entrepreneurship accessible for as much as youth as possible between the age of 10-30. We want to help the yout ...
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Face Value: Optimising the psychosocial care for individuals with birth defects in Europe by implementing an innovative training method for staff in health care and NGO settings.
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The rational of the project was shaped at the European parliament meeting “The challenges of health inequalities in the treatment and prevention of birth defects in Europe” in Brussels (9/10/2012) since it was identified that the psychosocial aspects for individuals with disfigurement is less than optimal in many instances across Europe. The validity of idea was further strengthening by the approv ...
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EXPLORE – Innovative and successful outdoor training models for disadvantaged young learners to improve their basic skills, self-awareness and social interaction
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
All over Europe, unemployment figures for young adults (16-25) have become alarmingly high, with recent forecasts not being positive for this group of population in particular. Albeit to different extents, this is also the case for the countries involved in the EXPLORE partnership: NO, AT, DK, IT (EUROSTAT, January 2014). In Italy, to take the most dramatic example, 42% of 16-25 year old people ar ...
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Entrepreneurship in VET: Exploring the European Experience
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,
During the last years of economic crisis, Cyprus has suffered both recession and unemployment, leading to serious social distress. While various government programmes and initiatives encourage hiring young people, the situation is still very difficult. In September 2014, youth unemployment in Cyprus was 34,8%. According to psychologists, the consequences of unemployment to young people include d ...
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Heal - Help to understand the Educational impact of Appearance dissatisfaction in relation to Learning
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,
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Until recently, societal interest in looks has been considered largely benign, however, debilitating levels of appearance dissatisfaction are now normative in resource-rich nations, with extensive and damaging impacts on physical and psychological health (Nichola Rumsey 2012). Although there are examples of research and activism in the field in Europe, many researchers work in ...
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Continuing Internationalization at Tradium - Business & Technical, part III
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,
Tradium has completed a total of 114 mobility exchanges – 96 student mobility’s and 18 staff mobility’s. The overall level of completed mobility’s match that of the given funded mobility grant. The mobility project has had a great deal of changes in relation to the amount of the mobility grants application, that of which was a great deal larger (247 student mobility’s and 35 staff mobility’s).
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Living Labs application for internationalization of start-up companies (Energy & digital economy) (LILA)
Start date: May 10, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2015,
The Lila project aims to support the internationalization of innovative companies in the energy and digital economy. which have been evaluated as key sectors by NWE regions. with the strategic potential of high growth. Lila is based on the Living Labs approach. the European open innovation methodology which involves users in the product development process. For the first time Lila will realize ...
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BDF is a Dutch Business Innovation Center. It has developed a European project called Connessione.Connessione stimulated entrepreneurs to implement an active ‘Work Life Balance’ policy for their employees. A solid balance between work and other activities influence the (personal) life and working efficiency of the employee in a positive way.Within the Connessione project, BDF exchanged innovative ...
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The project aims the development of a quality assurance system based on the Common quality assurance framework to be common to all the partners involved and that can improve the effectiveness of the training systems in relation to the real needs of the companies facing changing productive processes. The partnership, 11 partners in 6 countries, will develop a benchmarking on the current quality ass ...
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RSI: The best way to find your future internshipReady Steady Internship (RSI) aims to support the placement, organization and implementation of internships during the vocational educational training (VET).The project´s ultimate goal is to have more VET students starting an internship which really matches their interest field, skills and competencies. To reach this goal an online internship toolbox ...
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Reasons.Vocational colleges in the agricultural sector in Europe experience problems to deliver well qualified workers to innovative companies in the Bio Based Economy (BBE). In general, teachers do not have the specific training materials at hand, directly related to the new BBE. Most VET colleges (EQF3-4) do not possess the right and specific educational materials that fit the BBE challenge.Outc ...
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The objective of U-COACH was the development of the skills and competencias necesary to integrate and apply Executive Coaching techniques in the human resource and personnel management team processes. Managers, of all levels, and entrepreneurs of European SMEs have obtained, through the creation of a learning methodology, the relevant skills to improve the performance and competitiveness of their ...
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The RESIST project directly confronts thelack of cooperation between VET collegesand SMEs.The RESIST consortium offers you amanual as a hands-on approach tostudent drop-out prevention through SMEinvolvement.We encourage every VET college in Europeto use this manual to get a clear view onhow to organise a series of events wherethe Business World can truly connectwith Vocational Education. These eve ...
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Mirror, Mirror Project aims to develop a teacher training pack that addresses the consequences of negative body image. The project sets itself the aim of lowering dropout rates and increasing completion rates of VET students in partner countries by focusing on precisely those dropout aspects seemingly ignored or avoided by others when addressing the same issue. By promoting awareness about these i ...
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The project will - based on desk-research of the partners and a survey based broad user needs analysis - adapt and develop an innovative training package and on-line platform for entrepreneurship skills targeting unemployed and inactive young and women to be tested and evaluated by the target groups (TGs).
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The objectives of the training program:Our goal is to alter the attitude of both managers and employees of SMEs towards risk assessment as well as to facilitate them to deal with risk assessment in a responsible and affordable way.
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The central aim of the project is to equip VET teachers to teach students the emerging skills of entrepreneurship with a focus on the (start-up) micro enterprise. VET students who finish their studies are usually expected to continue their education elsewhere or start a job. Some former students however start up their own firm. Most teachers are unaware of this next step a student takes after grad ...
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VET students and VET-level employees currently have insufficient knowledge about Clean Technologies and sustainability and how to implement these broad themes in practice in SMEs. The EU has made it clear that investing in these qualities is important for a sustainable Europe. The Europrean Council stated in Dec 2010 that this basis in VET-education is weak in its “Council conclusions on education ...
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WET aims to improve the visibility of professional qualifications in the management of water resources in the EU and to bring different national qualifications systems closer to the main beneficiaries. There is a need to connect the requirements of the employment market and VET with those of official professional qualifications systems. WET aims to contribute by eliminating barriers to the acquisi ...
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QVETIS falls under the fact and necessity of improving the Continuing Vocational Training System through Quality Standards. A comprehensive set of tools and procedures are foreseen in order to build up a Quality Management System to be managed by a wide variety of target groups as beneficiaries: professionals in charge of the design and planification of policies in Education and Training contexts, ...
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The recent economic crisis is unprecedented in our generation. The constant progress in economic growth and job creation recorded during the last decade has disappeared in most EU countries. According to Agenda 2020, one of the pillars for the future of the EU is based on the creation of inclusive growth, which is building an economy with a high level of employment that result in economic, social ...
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The project will construct a comperehensive set of business learning support tools. Via Internet the entrepreneurs will go through an innovative curriculum, tailored to e-tutoring - a negotiated work-based learning. The target groups are seen as young entrepreneurs and micro enterprises & small businesses in high-growth innovation-led sectors. The basic approach is negotiated work-based learning ( ...
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VOTE ALL addresses the dual problem of an ageing cohort of VET teachers and trainers and their lack of motivation to stay on in the profession where they are sorely needed but often under-valued. The problem of early retirement of older VET teachers and trainers is well documented and must be addressed urgently; we propose to prevent this drain of experience, by valorising the knowledge held by th ...
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The K-start project was designed to encourage well experienced senior employees to take on a challenge and engage into the process of transferring their knowledge to younger colleagues or business start-ups. This included improving their HR management and mentoring skills with the help of easy accessible e-book and training programs delivered by project partners. The K-start project developed a da ...
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