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Grenzüberschreitende Entwicklung von Female Cooperation zur Gleichstellung von Frauen in technischen Berufen (FEMCOOP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

Die Basis einer dynamischen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung sind qualifizierte MitarbeiterInnen in Unternehmen. Der steigende Fachkräftemangel in den naturwissenschaftlichen und technischen Bereichen (laut IV Steiermark ist der Bedarf besonders in den Bereichen Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik, Werkstoffwissenschaften, Metallurgie und Verfahrenstechnik gegeben) macht es erforderlich, neue Wege bei der Be ...
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SCALITY-LEAQUAL - European quality assurance process and label relating to overall care of the elderly

The Scality-Leaqual aims to make an inventory of existing practice in the quality field and to propose a tool for analysing quality assurance which can be used in the 15 EU Member States and candidate countries in order to produce a quality assurance label for care of the elderly. To achieve this, two studies are planned: the first will have a technical focus and will involve collecting as much in ...
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ECFVET in Food - European common framework for vocational education and training in food

The main aim of the project is to develop a common European framework of reference for vocational qualifications in the food industry, by activating transnational cooperation at new levels. Reference will be made to the competence typologies defined by the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and to the instruments of the “Portfolio Europass”. The main target user groups are heads of companies, ...
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Job Open with Sign Language

The Results/Products of the JOS-project:A holistic modular education and training concept for the Deaf in the field of mechatronics including all target groups that are part of the training and employment cycle.Sensitisation and preparation material/teachingunits for deaf people and hearing people. Specific socio-pedagogical training, sensitisation and preparation material/teaching units for train ...
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Eurosigns 2 – European Sign Languages for Professionals

The project is addressing the problematic of deaf people and their lower access to employment possibilities due to lack of communication. The partners have identified that these obstacles derive from the low level or even absence of other sign languages opportunities. The partnership, 6 partners in 5 countries, are already working on a first project in which a common language and learning material ...
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Reducing Early School Leaving by an Integrated Approach

The project sets out to reduce dropout rates in schools and colleges through improving the guidance offered to students and through creating a more attractive learning environment. The project attempts to bring together aspects of education and VET with the social work goals aimed at student welfare and further intends to integrate the existing knowledge and expertise from a range of institutions ...
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METOIM – Measure to Improve: How European Labour Union Associations and Firms Can Better Improve through Self-Evaluation

The METOIM project will contribute to reducing the information and communications gap between vocational training and employment. Project partners will develop, test and introduce a user-friendly, interactive ICT tool, in order to enhance existing information on vocational training (multi-context and multi-sector) aimed at employees, employers and trade unions representatives. Beyond this, the pro ...
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ProVoTrain - Progress in Vocational Training for Rural Development

The overall aim of the project is to promote sustainable development of rural areas by improving the Quality of Vocational Educational Training systems and practices. In order to achieve this the specific aims of the project are defined: 1)To develop the Portofolio of Evidence, a new tool for assessment of student's achievements(experience) gathered in the workplace, either as a contracted worker ...
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PHOENIX – A New Model of Vocational Guidance for Young Disadvantaged Persons

The PHOENIX project will develop a guidance framework and support tools for effective skills measurement in working with underprivileged and disabled young persons. The skills measurement exercise, will allow the proposal of appropriate training and job placement for an individual by considering their starting point and will further allow monitor of the acquisition and development of skills. End p ...
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Fostering the Virtual Mobility within the Metal Sector

Europe is living a stage of great changes, where it is necessary to act firmly on the relation between training and labour market to progress realistically towards the so called Knowledge Society. The economic crisis is showing a sectoral and occupational restructuring in the Metal Sector:In Europe, there are qualification tension in emerging sectors, with scarce offer of qualified manpower and ot ...
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A Step Towards the Light Project

According to the data taken from institutions like İŞKUR (Turkish Employment Organisation), TURKSTAT and especially from TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), which has made a comprehensive research about the living standards of disabled people in Turkey “Turkey’s Disabled Research 2002”, it is determined that seeing disabled people can’t reach jobs, even if they have ...
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MOBI'VET

In the continuity of the Lisbon European Council in 2000 and the Copenhaguen Process in 2004, the ECVET system was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 18th June 2009. It was impulsed by the Europe 2020 strategy, which clarifies the European politic strategy in the field of education and training.MOBI’VET came within the scope of ECVET, European Credit system for Vocational Educat ...
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Perspectives - enhance and validate your skills for a better future

The main objectives of the project were the establishment of a Competence Centres in each country and the development of service offers according to the country specific needs. For the research and analysis of the current situation, each partner involved also educational experts, trainers, public and private organisations as well as enterprises. But the successful funktioning of such Competence Ce ...
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Transfer of innovations for training need analyses to increase quality of further vocational training in the field of children´s day care and early education (DCT)

Four transnational meetings (in Estonia, Finland, Romania, Czech) and meanwhile workshops using mainly on-line communication methods. The DCT is not an ICT-project itself but also an approach representing educational-sociological and political points of view for creating more reasonable methods to find out actual training needs.
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tune in! Combating drop out

Preventing early school leaving was the ultimate goal of the project "tune in! Combatin drop out". It transferred successful drop out prevention methods and approaches (ie competence and labour market oriented work based training, devolopment of social and basic skills, self directed learning approaches and guidance and counselling measures) which had been developed and implemented in the Austrian ...
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VOGS+: Parallel Establishing of European Vocational Guidance Standard Model of the Deaf people, developed under Leonardo da Vinci program of European Union, in Estonia, the Netherlands and Turkey

The essence of the project is to fulfil the gap of adequate guidance for the Deaf by establishing vocational guidance standards based on the “Vocational Guidance Standard for Deaf People” created by the Austrian partner institute within the scope of LEONARDO Pilot Project VOGS. For this purpose the European vocational guidance model for the Deaf will be created, tested and approved in three partne ...
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Time-Well Teachers improve their knowledge of medical wellness in adjoining fields of service

The Transfer of Innovation project TIMEWELL transfers innovative products of the pilot projects VITAL and APHRO into adjoining fields of vocational and further education e.g. hotel business and gastronomy. Modules that include knowledge and methods of holistic health approach were validated by the partners concerning currentness and usefulness for the target groups. Regarding the regional needs an ...
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Transfer of audio-haptic for visually impaired information technology

Sensory impaired (vision or hearing impaired) and mild cognitive impaired people (Aspergers and autistic spectrum, head injuries, etc) often face considerable problems in accessing suitable educational and vocational opportunities. As a result, talking tactile technology (T3) was developed to help such people access the visual and diagrammatic elements commonly used in "many walks of life". T3 h ...
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Multimedia Training Programme at Publicity and Media Field for SMEs

Media means for small to medium enterprises : The project produced a variety of tools. These include a report on SMEs' commerical communications, a training curriculum, a case studies handbook and a glossary of key terms. They will contribute to enabling SMEs to make better use of the media. This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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Quality assurance for VET providers using product lifecycle Management

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

Following the background of the quality indicators recommended by the EQARF framework as well as the CQAF (Common Quality Assurance Framework), the Q-PLM project aims at developing an innovative tool to produce quality assurance for VET providers based on the methods of Product Lifecycle Management. This approach has been in use in other economic sectors for years and allows the impact analysis of ...
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Inclusive practices for learners wih disabilities

Start date: Oct 1, 2003,

The Inclusive Practices for Learners with Disabilities (IPLD) project aimed at drawing the the attention of stakeholders to the specific educational needs of deaf, hard of hearing, blind and deaf and blind adults. Inspired by the European Year of People with Disabilities, the project had three clear goals, namely, to reinforce stakeholder cooperation, to improve awareness-raising on disability (pr ...
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ISO 17024:2003 certification: Qualified Construction Worker ISO 17024:2003

The ISO CONSTRUCT project aimed at the challenging situation in the European construction sector which is basically fully with low skilled and unskilled workers. For these professions / wokrers the current discussions around accreditation and recognition of competences and skills within the EQF and NQFs do not offer any appropriate solution since all approaches for recognition and accreditation of ...
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Unvealing Aversive Discrimination

The issue of Aversive Discrimination has not yet been addressed openly and directly in the field of adult education. Nowadays discrimination is not what it used to be in the past, luckily. In almost all sectors the level of awareness of those who work or volunteer or study in adult education excludes any direct discrimination. This fact is also supported by legislation, ethical principles, awarene ...
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Aversive Discrimination Awarness Training

Aversive Discrimination Awareness Training (ADAT) has an aim to promote the idea ofa formal and non-formal adult education which is really inclusive and accessible to all.The issue of Aversive Discrimination has not yet been addressed openly and directly inthe field of adult education. In almost all sectors the level of awareness of those whowork or volunteer or study in adult education excludes a ...
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ECVET network for Tourism and Catering

The Leonardo da Vinci network ECVET TC-NET is a network project forthe development and elaboration of the ECVET system for the tourismand catering industry in Europe. Tourism and catering is one of the mostimportant economic branches in Europe and provides for more than 7million jobs in Europe, however especially this sector is relying very muchon flexibility and mobility of work force. This is th ...
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Best Practice in Multicultural European Institutions

The project will establish an interactive course and best practice manual for nurses and social educators with the aim of promoting lifelong learning and the acquisition of skills for work in a multi-cultural environment. A CD-Rom will be developed (to be downloadable from the internet or encapsulated as part of a "best practice" package) covering three main themes; how to handle conflict with mul ...
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Competencies for the Knowledge Age: The Employer’s Approach

The project ‘Competencies for the Knowledge Age’ will develop a series of tools to allow the identification and classification of key skills within SMEs and will propose strategies for change to allow the improved management of intellectual capital. The project will concentrate on SMEs in the metal sector and will target managers, owners and human resources & training personnel. Following an initi ...
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Competences for tomorrow´s energies: A qualification scheme for biomass consultancy

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The massive increase in renewable energy production is a declared, unique objective of European policy to reduce CO2 emissions significantly. Among the renewable energies bioenergy already constitutes the highest share in many European countries. The bioenergy sector is thus also increasingly important for the creation of new jobs. Nevertheless, there are significant differences in the bioenergy s ...
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Job Open with Sign Language

Mechatronics training for deaf people
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DECAF - Development of Training Packages Stemming from from a Competence Based Assessment Framework for Non-qualified/Basic Grade Staff Working within Health and Social Care Organisations

Focusing on non-qualified basic grade staff working in health and social care, the project seeks to develop training packages to enhance and aid assessment of employee competencies/skills. The project will make use of a Competence Assessment Framework (CAF), adapted for use in each of the partner countries, to assess employee skills gaps. As work-based training is inherently lacking for basic gra ...
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DEW - Developing Effective Wholesaling

The DEW project will design, pilot and introduce an on-line training course in strategy, management and ICT skills tailored to the needs of SME wholesale business managers and owners. This specialised and flexible learning programme should strengthen the small firms' capacity to face growing international competition. Developments will be guided by an initial review of specialist training and qual ...
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GemCITE

Gender mainstreaming in IT : The aim of this project is to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in adult education, following the principles of gender mainstreaming, primarily in the IT sector This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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NEAT – New European Apprenticeship Tutor

The project aims at focussing on the different roles and figures of apprenticeship tutors and the improvement of their qualification as well as the definition of the profile for a European apprenticeship tutor. The target groups of this project are classroom-, online and in-service tutors. Potential users of the project`s outcomes will be training organisations and schools, Employers Associations ...
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Valiwood - Validation of vocational skills in the European woodworking industry

The main objectives of the project are to identify vocational skills in the woodworking industry, to develop an online tool for the assessment and validation of the vocational skills in the sector and to create sector certificates to facilitate mobility of labour and recruitment of both labour to industry and students to vocational training. The certificates will provide a common European sector ...
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EUROCHANCE - English and German for Visually Impaired People

The EUROCHANCE project will create on-line access to sector-specific English and German language learning modules for blind and visually impaired persons. These modules will be available at intermediate and advanced level and will be targeted at those training or working as telephone operators, administrators, health workers, music teachers, information providers or working in similar occupations ...
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Programming: Blind people in Qualification - ProBiQ

Teaching blind people to programme with the aid of ProBIQ : With the "Programming with Borland C++ Builder 5" product, the ProBIQ project partners have for the first time developed a future-oriented vocational qualification for blind and visually challenged people. The curriculum and the teaching and learning materials are available free of charge on a CD-ROM or on the Internet in the four project ...
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