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Learning Intercultural Storytelling

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Disadvantaged groups like refugees or people with migration background have fewer opportunities to articulate themselves and have only little chance in being heard or listened in the new society where they live. Nowadays, integration of this group in the hosting communities is a continuous growing issue whichis receiving the specific attention for involving refugees in every aspect.The general aim ...
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Empowerment for improvement. Successful Intervention and Prevention against domestic violence.

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

Recently, the real face of Domestic Violence in Europe became clearly captured for a first time, in a survey, that involves participants from all 28 European states and reflects the experiences of 42 000 women across EU. The data from the survey dreadfully shows that one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. This project aims at addressing this crucia ...
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INTENT - Intercultural competences and development for new target groups

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

BUPNET has carried out many training courses at local and regional level that have been funded primarily by the German ESF. Up to now, the staff members involved in this type of courses have not worked in a European context and have a great need for developing new competences that would enable them to become involved in the development and provision of European and international courses. Moreover, ...
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European Experiential Learning Lab on Soil Science

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

The project at a glance: 2015 is the International Year of the Soils (IYS). On this occasion the project EELLSS offers a “European Experiential Learning Lab on Soil Science” which aims at: o interlinking natural sciences with “soils” as a practical, concrete and “living” lab and innovative learning field o combining scientific knowledge and skills with state of the art learning technology o creati ...
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Silver Age Silver Sage Initiative

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

The ageing of the EU population and workforce represents a great challenge to societies and economies, requiring relevant changes in labour markets. SASSI intends to focus on empowerment of the ageing workforce, developing innovative training strategies that can be applied both in continuous professional development (CPD) for 50+ employees and in VET programmes for adult job seekers. The idea is ...
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Validation System in Lifelong Learning Experiences of Youth Volunteering

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The theme of recognition and validation of learning outcomes from informal or non formal settings is commonly understood as one of the most important challenges for educational and training sector nowadays. One of the most powerful informal learning contexts is represented by the volunteering sector where people have the opportunity to experience different situations, putting into practice their ...
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PROMOTE - Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships in Europe

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The project aims at promoting and validating social, personal and organisational key competences such as entrepreneurship, civic competences and learning to learn with the help of an innovative, self-directed learning approach at the interface of higher education and business.Social and personal key competences are hardly to be acquired in lectures, frontal teaching and self-learning.The ideal lea ...
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IT based Methodology for Promoting, Assessing and validating Competence oriented learning and Training

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

IMPACT - IT based Methodology for Promoting, Assessing and validating Competence oriented learning and Training The Validation of Learning Outcomes in Informal and Non-formal Learning (VINFL) is one of the top priorities on the European Educational Agenda. Frameworks and instruments like EQF, ECVET, EUROPASS and others are about to be largely implemented in the member states to facilitate transpa ...
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Enhancing Inter-cultural Learning in European Enterprises

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

EU is making significant effort to eliminate the barriers to labour mobility, both by integrating the legislative basis and upgrading systems to allow more jobseekers to be aware of vacancies in other EU countries and to make it easier for employers to find people with the right qualifications and experience to fill their vacancies. However, most of the enterprises in European countries do not ne ...
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Creating competences for a circular economy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The acronym ThreeC project stands for: Creating Competences for a Circular Economy. The project ThreeC aims at integrating the concept of the Circular Economy as an attractive new learning field in European school education. The “Circular Economy” refers to the concept of saving natural resources and to reuse and recycle them. It is a more profound approach than the solely technical (end-of pipe) ...
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COMBINE: Converting Organic Matters from European urban and natural areas into storable bio-Energy (COMBINE)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The utilisation and development of environmentally friendly technologies are key factors for the achievement of the ambitious aims of EU to increase the share of renewable energies. The ener-getic utilisation of biomass has an important role. as in contrast to other renewables (wind/PV). biomass is storable and it is possible to produce storable bio-fuels. However. at present the energy productio ...
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PROmoting the Validation of Informal and Non-formal Learning and the Development of Key Competences for Professionals in Vocational Education

PROVIDE aimed to merge two approaches, i.e. LEVEL5 and KCAE, and to transfer the emerging approach to the professional practice of educational staff in vocational training (teachers, trainers, tutors and school/institution managers etc.) More precisely, a competence based learning system for educational professionals was developed that allows for acquiring and validating key competences in differe ...
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Languages Behind Bars

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

The rationale of this project is based on the high numbers of foreign national prisoners in European prisons, and the fact that prison authorities often do not take into consideration the special communication needs of foreign national prisoners (Femke Hofstee-van der Meulen, 2008). LBB is a multi-lingual, cross-cultural learning programme that incorporates not only the education of foreign-natio ...
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Grow Entrepreneurship Potential in VET Institutions

The importance of entrepreneurship for economic growth, employment and social cohesion is widely recognized across Europe and manifested in numerous strategic documents in the last decade. As the most recent Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan of the European Commission shows, entrepreneurial skills are among the most important transversal skills of the 21st century which support growth and business ...
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ComNet: Competences for Networking in European Education

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Active Citizen Training Network

Informal, lifelong and everyday learning is valued as increasingly important in Europeansocieties. Informal learning is dependent on the life contexts of the learners and it isoften individualised. This means that a standardisation in terms of contents (topics),learning objectives and envisaged outcomes (competences) is nearly impossible due tothe very varied life situations and needs of the benef ...
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INTEGRATION - Intercultural Dialogue for a Multicultural Society in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2004,

Faced with a changing demographic and cultural breakdown in society, the Integration project addressed an increasing need to educate organisations on the emergence of, and the need to accept and contribute to, an increasingly multicultural society. Working directly with social and third sector bodies, steps were taken to improve intercultural competency and intercultural dialogue with staff encour ...
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ABCD - Advanced Blended-learning Competences and Didactics

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

The ABCD project responded to an identified need for new didactic concepts and approaches for adult educators working specifically in the fields of e-Learning or blended-learning. Following an initial analysis phase, partners worked together to develop and test a new training course aimed at - new or existing - course designers and practitioners which targets enhanced blended-learning provision. T ...
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Validation of Informal Learning in Grundtvig Projects and Partnerships

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

In European Grundtvig actions (projects, partnerships and other mobility actions, networks) stakeholders from different countries gather under a multinational umbrella to develop new approaches, projects, products and services. Unquestionable, in contrast to collaboration on the national level activities in these transnational teams require not only stronger efforts in terms of resources (time, pe ...
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Hattrick: Football-Learning-Integration

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

Integration into education and training systems, the labour market and society at large of people with a migration background is still a major challenge in Europe. Migrants tend to be significantly lower educated than the average population, much more often affected by unemployment and excluded from many social activities. Particularly young male migrants have a high risk of becoming ealry schoo ...
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Promoting Awareness for Cooperation and Training in the Field of Domestic Violence

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

Violence against women crosses all socio-economic levels, age, groups, races, religions and countries. Studies reveal that in Europe at least one in every four women has been beaten or otherwise abused in their lifetimes. Despite the increased attention to the issue and many positive developments in policy and practice, violence against women is still widespread and has not led yet to a common Eur ...
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Health Box: Integration of Health Issues in Adult Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

Adults who are socio-economically disadvantaged, with a low level of education and those with a migration background belong to the groups of adults most at risk of acquiring a physical or mental lifestyle disease, which “include Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, asthma, cancer, chronic liver disease or cirrhosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, metabolic ...
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Climate-Friendly Management in European Schools

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

CLIMES is a practical learning project aiming at climate-friendly management in European Schools.By combining innovative learning approaches and instruments on curricular and extracurricular levels with state of the art management techniques the project contributes to promote transversal key competences in European school education.CLIMES is consisting of a multi-stakeholder partnership of organis ...
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Validation of Informal Learning in Mobility Actions

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

The European Quality Charter for Mobility puts major emphasis on the recognition and certification as well as on evaluation of mobility action learning outcomes.Mobility learning in the adult learning context consists (also) to a large extent of informal learning activities of the learners outside their habitual living and formal learning contexts.There is certainly a lack of validation of mobilit ...
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GINCO TOOLS & TRAINING

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

Professional development of adult education staff is a key element in raising the quality of non-vocational adult education throughout Europe and has been promoted and supported by the Grundtvig programme for many years. The activities of the Grundtvig International Network of Course Organisers (GINCO) revealed a number of needs coming from Grundtvig course organisers. These GINCO findings are con ...
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RIVER: Recognition of Intergenerational Volunteering Experiences and Results

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

2011 is the European Year of Volunteering. Undoubtedly, senior volunteering makes a substantial contribution to social cohesion and welfare, and is an important contribution to active aging.RIVER aims at promoting senior, intergenerational volunteering by helping to make senior volunteers’ competence development more visible. It aims at adapting Level 5, a comprehensive methodology for validating ...
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Validation of service related skills and competences with an innovative IT-based Assessment and evidencing system

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

Service related skills and competences like client orientation, team work, interactive management techniques are becoming competitive factors in the service economy. These competences are mainly being acquired by learners in different professional, educational and life contexts, be it in extracurricular school activities, societal learning (active citizenship) or simply by learning-by-doing at the ...
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