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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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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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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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“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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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,
...s) and the Institute of Education (UK).
It is based on the partners experience that when delivered effectively, these approaches help schools by:
- Creating more engaging curriculum and using learner centred pedagogies: using real life global issues to inspire, and informal youth/adult methods to inform pedagogy, e.g. Future Workshops
- Engaging and motivating youth: global issues interest youth ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Career Planning for Dynamic Economies
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
...eer guidance it is generally referred to as a service; advice and/or direction provided by an expert for the benefit of students. Career guidance in school education environments is generally centred around the final years of the 2nd level academic cycle and concentrates on supporting the most appropriate transition for students from school into higher education, 3rd level, tertiary vocational edu ...
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Science and Technology International Cooperation Network for Gulf Cooperation Countries aiming at the promotion of bi-regional dialogue (INCONET-GCC)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
"INCONET-GCC aims to develop and support the bi-regional dialogue by bringing together policymakers and stakeholders of the GCC and EU Member States. It aims to create a dialogue and action platform to identify common interests in research areas, set up S&T priorities, support capacity building activities, and enhance the interaction between different cooperation instruments of the EC and EU Membe ...
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Adults with a Learning Disability – Observatory of Best Practice
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
The aims of the project are (1) to support improvements in the quality and accessibility of education and training for adults with a learning disability by identifying and validating best practice approaches; (2) to promote increased use of the best practice resources identified by raising awareness of the resources and presenting them in one central online portal or observatoryThe objectives of t ...
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Community Learning Social Networks - Harnessing Educational Assets & Addressing Educational Needs
Start date: Nov 1, 2011,
With over 500 million registered users, if Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest in the world. The growth of social networking is a global phenomenon; in a relatively short time-frame it has become an accepted part of everyday life. The willingness of people from all social and economic sectors to engage in this virtual community continues. Facebook and its other social networking c ...
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Digital Latin Quarter
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
As Europe moves towards a more coherent, more equal, more unified entity protecting its rich and varied cultural and linguistic diversity will become more difficult. Looking forward, there is one thing that every European citizen can be sure of: the media will play an increasingly important role in the lives, perspectives and attitudes of society of the future. The youth of today are the guardians ...
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METER - Monitoring, Evaluating & improving e Trainers Competences in a lifelong learning environment
The project is concerned with a specific theme, lifelong e-learning, and with a specific target group, teachers and trainers: its main subjects are the new categories in VET systems, the new psycho-pedagogical methods in delivering knowledge, the present technological and instructional media, actual competencies and know how of trainers and teachers, online classroom and tools. The partners concen ...
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BADGE aimed to transfer and adapt an innovative support programme - Diversity in Business Workshops - developed in the UK, and that enabled female start-ups experiencing double-disadvantage to gain valuable soft skills and competences to assist them in starting up their own business. The purpose of the transfer was to strengthen the position of women entrepreneurs in the face of a difficult econom ...
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