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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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Senior trainees on Coding

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

The project aims at developing digital literacy for elder citizens and especially learning basics on how to program. The Digital Agenda is so much relevant to the EC, that it is one of the 7 pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy, proposing to better exploit the potential of ICTs in order to foster innovation, economic growth and progress across Europe. But, although the ICT is part of daily life for ...
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Learning and assessing soft transversal skills in work-linked trainings to optimize the success of pathways, to prevent from dropouts and to favor employment integration and professional mobility in the long term

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

To succeed in today’s economy, modern society and personal lives, key competences and the related transversal soft skills are considered essential and complementary to formal skills. This postulate has been highlighted by many organizations and taken as a main thematic for this new project called JANUS+.The innovative approach of JANUS+ is however to focus on the importance of soft / transversal s ...
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Level up! Workplace Tutor goes Europe

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

The project "Level-up! Workplace Tutor goes Europe" aims at increased professionalisation and improved qualification of in-company VET personnel as one of the key actors of vocational education. It will work at two levels, a) the practitioners level and b) the political level. At the practitioners level, it will provide an outstanding example of innovative training for in-company training personne ...
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Vulnerable young people accessing and sustaining vocational training and apprenticeships

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

...nd work placements for young people. In particular, there will be a focus on organisations that wish to give particular attention to vulnerable young people. This includes private companies; public bodies; social enterprises that aim to improve the lives of the vulnerable; NGOs that provide VET for their clients; schools that provide VET; prisons that provide VET to young offenders; local authorit ...
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Tell your story

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

Digital storytelling is an adequate means of communicating these experiences. It is defined as a short form of digital media production that allows people to share aspects of their life story. "Media" may include full-motion videos with sound, animation, stills, audio only, etc. which individuals can use to tell a story or present an idea. Digital stories are often presented in compelling, interac ...
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Empowerment for improvement. Successful Intervention and Prevention against domestic violence.

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

...m as DV. Potential long-term benefits from the EMPROVE! Activities and products are expected for counsellors, trainers, DV Survivors, but also for employers, local and national public bodies, Moreover, the impact and the benefits from the EMPROVE! Project are increased by the fact that the project products are designed to live after the project lifecycle has ended. This will be further ensured by ...
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NEW HORIZONS

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

The project New Horizons is addressing the needs of a very specific target and at the same time heterogeneous target group - people who have acquired disability after an accident or illness which is still under investigated at EU level. While a comprehensive quantitative analysis of employment situation of people with various types of disabilities has been published by Eurostat in 2015, the qualit ...
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ROBIN- Reinforcing cOmpetences to Build Inclusion through a New learning methodology

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

...the project: For the development of O1- “Research study on the current methodologies used within second chance programme”, partners will conduct a desk research (current reports, studies, guides) and interview 5 persons directly involved in elaboration of the curricula at national level (e.g decision makers). At the same time, the research will include also an analysis of the best practices at n ...
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Crafting Employability Strategies for HE Students of Languages in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The Employability Task Group of the Association of Higher Education Careers Services (AHECS) launched an employability module in June 2014 entitled ‘Crafting the Present for Future Employability’ as a result of an 18-month process of collaborative planning and design with graduate employers, academic staff and students (http://epublications.snap.com.au/ebook/ebook?id=10038255#/0). The content and ...
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Innovative Strategic Management Games as a teaching methodology for entrepreneurship and business education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

According to the Europe2020 Strategy, Europe should become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. The Europe2020 Strategy conclusions stressed the central role of education and training as the main instrument to increase human capital. MMost of the managers are only partially satisfied with the training of the employees. The main reason why employers consider traini ...
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Communicating Professional Competence

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

...people-focused, as well as operating contexts that span the public/voluntary sector, industry and professional firms, and different balances of interest between official bodies, employers and professional bodies. The project will also meet particular needs in specific industries, for instance to support talent management in the Irish training and development profession, extend competence-based ap ...
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Validation and Motivation for (in)formal Learning in Prison

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

The validation of informal learning is a goal in itself, and should be part of the delivery and assessment of learning activities, particularly in a prison context, where any scope to provide positive recognition has a clear psycho-social value. This validation of informal learning underlines the positive social skills and competences, as well as other key competences relevant to learning and the ...
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Entrepreneurial Mindset for Young Disadvantaged Jobseekers

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

PROJECT BACKGROUND Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing challenges Europe faces. According to Eurostat youth unemployment statistics there were 4,96 million unemployed persons under 25 years old in the EU 28 in December 2014, which amounts to a youth unemployment rate of 21.4 %. While many young people search in vain for employment or apprenticeship positions, existing vacancies are ofte ...
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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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Communication for Professionals - Nursing

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...al nursing contexts. Nursing students will develop video cases (flexible storyboards with voice-over) in an authentic task-based approach based on gamification principles. Scenarios can be studied or used in-service as support tools according to preference/relevance to alleviate immediate needs. The effect of the new pedagogical principles will be measured in in-service migration language learning ...
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Create your Future

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Whilst unemployment in general has increased in Europe, these increases have been disproportionately high amongst young people. And there is a group of people threatened by exclusion from the labour market and society at large which is often neglected: Young people between 15 and 25 years who have survived childhood cancer and are trying to find their way back to life, work and education. Research ...
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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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HALE – Health and Languages for Europe

Due to the more intensive exchange of specialised personnel among western and eastern European countries the need for specific competences has increased. The HALE-project concentrates on building these specific competences for people in health service, medical care and in some domains like occupational health and safety management. The goal of the project is to build the language, communication an ...
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European Workplace Tutor

The project "European Workplace Tutor" aimed at the transfer of an innovative and high-level qualification for in-company training personnel. Based on the outcomes of the former it's time project, it transfered and adapted the training programme "European Workplace Tutor". Issues such as permeability between educational sub-systems were addressed by transferring training content into a dual (unive ...
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CAPCUP - Action Centres towards a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence

The project tackles the issue of violence and would like to implement a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, as stated by UNESCO in its manifesto declaring 2001-2010 as the decade for Peace and Non-Violence. The project aims to address this issue according to a preventive perspective and will both develop and introduce a pilot anti-violence training programme, directed particularly at the teachers a ...
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EGEIS - European Guidance and the Evaluation of Informal Skills - Developing a Standard Curriculum and a Training Model for the Qualification of European Guidance Practitioners

Guiding principles for counsellors : The EGEIS project aims to strengthen guidance systems in use throughout the EU, developing a Standard European Curriculum for guidance counsellors based on current practice and the exchanges of information and experience between guidance counsellors and experts in the field of guidance. This project started in 2003 and lasted 28 months.
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Youth Employment Support

In many European countries integration into the labour market of early school leavers, young people who have failed to complete vocational education and training and other groups of youth with socio-economic and/or personal disadvantages is rather difficult. Most businesses, especially SME, are very reluctant to employ and/or train such young people or give them a second chance for vocational trai ...
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European InfoNet Adult Education II

The main objective of European InfoNet Adult Education (European Information Networkfor Adult Education = InfoNet) is to disseminate information about trends, project andresearch results, the latest developments, best practices and the latest news from themember countries of the European Union. It also seeks at a European level to developand establish European awareness among the network members.I ...
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Adult Educator in Company

The ADEC project aims to train in-house training personnel (from companies employing than 250 staff) to become better trainers. Based upon the fact that many in-house trainers do not currently benefit from formal training qualifications, the project aims to fill this gap by providing improved training opportunities for this professional group. Project partners will initially establish an Internati ...
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FAIRstart

The project targets personnel at orphanage institutions who are often notqualified to offer the necessary professional care, and quite oftenprofessional leadership is lacking. Especially small children are sufferingfrom the lack of even the most basic human contact and care. One of theaims of the FAIRstart project is to address complexity of problems for theorphanage environment as a whole by offe ...
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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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Parents as family vocational adviser for children

The project is set out to offer support to parents to develop their skills and competencestowards the vocational guidance of their children, thus enabling them to assist pupils intheir professional choices. Also the project advocates the concept of peer-parents withinparents education. The project partnership is aiming to:- develop a training course (30 hrs) available on CD-Rom, accompanied by tra ...
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WIKI-SKILLS : Empowering and fostering social, professional, cultural and civic skills though pedagogical use of Wiki technologies and methodologies.

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

...eir domain use wikis for internal collaboration, and 18% of enterprises worldwide. Wikis are not only used into Wikipedia, but as collaborative tools for projects in public administration, training bodies and private enterprises. In fact Wiki, being the simplest database that could possibly work, is one of the most innovative pedagogical tools in knowledge society, for all 4 LLP sub-programmes. ...
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BASIC WEB 2.0 SKILLS BY LEARNING IN FAMILY ENVIRONMENT

...te character of the designed models, but also on othertarget groups, as the project aims at developing products that are transferable andwhich can represent the basis for other studies and educational models.
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EduCoRe : Educational Counselling during Rehabilitation

EduCoRe addresses the educational needs of adults who, after an accident or illnesssuffer from physical deficiencies which threaten their employability and participation insociety. EduCoRe will provide educational and vocational counselling services andtraining in (inter-)personal skills for patients in medical rehabilitation centres.This counselling and training will support them:• to make thorou ...
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ComNet: Competences for Networking in European Education

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ICT competencies and pedagogical application skills for teachers

...ion of 75 primary and secondary school teachers and teacherstudents during the pilots• the systematic involvement of the partner country’s educational system key bodieswith the clear aim to promote the incorporation of ICTeacher training in the curriculumsof initial and further teacher training• the composition of the partnership, including three initial teacher training universitiesand an in-serv ...
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COMMPACT - Language ommunity and training material for Polish and Czech language with focus on business topics

The project COMMPACT, based on the previous project "SME-in-Dialogue" (duration 2003-2006) , has made continously several progressive improvements and adjustments with regard to methodology and didactics to provide state-of the-art blended learning offers and training materials. The old fashioned straight learning scenario is replaced by new flexible sate-of the-art learning forms and courseware. ...
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High-level qualifications for in-company trainers. Transfer of the innovative further training concept

The objective of the project “It’s time. European vocational training workplace tutor for company training supervisors“ was to transfer the elements of the innovative “workplace tutoring“ further training approach developed in Germany to European partner countries and to develop the training in Germany further by incorporating new ideas from the partner countries. Useful learning arrangements thro ...
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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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VAluing experience Beyond university (Valoriser les Acquis Buissonniers)

...f social and human Sciences, human resources, education sciences and e-learning) and experts in lifelong learning in 5 European countries: France (University of Evry Val d'Essonne and Iriv), Austria (DieBerater), Greece (Hellenic Open University, Ireland (University of Limerick) and Slovenia (University of Ljubljana). The main tangible results proposed by the VAB project will be: a pedagogical too ...
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Life Long Learning to Achieve Pedestrian Priority and Safety in Antalya City Centre

Pedestrians are among the unprotected road users who interact with traffic of high speed. This makes them vulnerable and they suffer the most severe consequences of accidents. In big cities like Antalya the safety of roads can be improved. The vocational trainings and traffic regulations are two of the fields that require rigorous attention. Linking policy to practice, traffic safety has to be con ...
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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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