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Empowerment kit for Immigrant Women with Low Educational/Working Experience

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

EU has lately experienced large inflow of immigrants from non-European countries where women account for 45 % of migrants with an employment rate 16.9% lower than of women of EU nationality (Employment in Europe 2008). Among this group there is a large number of women with low educational/working experience, dependent on social welfare (Eurostat, 98/2008). During several years this partnership ha ...
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Vocational integration support - adaptation of innovative approaches of European supporting initiatives for the disadvantaged and the identification of their development potential for national structures of the project and for the partner countries

There are increasingly difficulties for young people with low or no formal qualification to get in employment. Nevertheless, those people still possess social and personal skills which are required at the labour market. For some jobs, such soft skills are even more important than formal qualifications.However, in many contexts assessing and certifying competencies is still a challenge. Such certif ...
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Info4Migrants

...ation in Austria, Business Foundation for Education, a guidance organisation in Bulgaria, Learnwell Oy, an adult education provider and online educational resource developer in Finland, and Folkuniversitetet a vocational education and guidance centre in Sweden. The partnership reflects a good cross section of expertise in the fields of language, guidance, vocational training and research. All part ...
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LINK - Career Services for Better Jobs

The dynamic labor market situation in the enlarged European Union –aging, diversity and mobility of population, multiple transitions in the lifespan, gender issues, etc.– requires new skills, more complex knowledge and a holistic approach from the career practitioners in order to better understand the needs of citizens and provide them with quality services.Bulgaria, Poland and Spain are facing si ...
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Learning Outcomes in Quality in Education and Training

Recently the issue of quality management has been applied to almost every sphere of professional activities, including education. The quality in education and training affects on the one hand the operation of the organisation, management, cost efficiency, etc and on the other hand the organization's product, i.e. the relevance, quality and impact of learning outcomes. However, the significant expe ...
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Enjoy language within tourism

The tourism is a rapidly growing sector in Europe, the largest employer among all touristic activities, and makes a vital contribution to the economies of communities.The overall objective of the project was to enable young male working in the tourist sector with particular “foreign language learning resistance” to establish their “enjoying language” by increasing their interest and uptake of fore ...
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Foundations for Work

Young migrant workers with low qualifications and workplace skills have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis. Among immigrants, they are most likely to experience difficulties acquiring and retaining employment. A range of VET initiatives now exists for immigrants, yet their generic nature and focus on ICT means they are particularly unsuited to the young male workers who are most at ...
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Train the Trainer to Engage NEETs

While the low level of labour market participation of young people is not new, the scale it has reached in the current economic crisis is startling-particularly in relation to the disengagement of young people ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET). If it persists it will lead to long term unemployment, a growth in discouraged workers; and ultimately serious consequences for the economi ...
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Assessment of Social Skills for better possibilities for employment

The proposal aimed towards the development of an assessment system for for teachers/trainers, and other working with unemployed people and in particular with the aim to evaluate and accredit non-formal and informal education and training (knowledge, skills and competencies they have acquired through their experience).In the past years, social skills are more and more important to employers all ov ...
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Coaching Skills for Adult Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

This project aims at rising awareness of what coaching is and finding (through research&piloting) the most effective way of applying it in adult education context. Although the aims and objectives of adult education and coaching are very similar there is very little research in Europe on application of coaching in adult education. Understanding the adult learning theory shows how coaching can be a ...
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Learning Coach in Adult Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2012,

The value of adult learning to employability and mobility is widely acknowledged across the EU, but at present adult participation in lifelong learning varies greatly and is unsatisfactory in many EU countries. According to several studies, to increase participation in adult learning requires learner centered approaches and better tools for adult educators and career guidance practitioners. Usua ...
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Developing Validation of Adult Education Trainers

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

Adult education is a central pillar in the European lifelong learning policy, but in most European countries the qualifications of adult education trainers are mainly based on informal and not formal learning and not formally recognized. For these reasons, the development of systems for validation of competences (i.e. systems that can check the practitioner is able to carry out the key activities ...
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Job Club +

Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

The project aims at developing, testing and disseminating at European level an effective and sustainable methodology to increase the employability of Low-skilled Long-term unemployed people (LTU) by providing key-training and guidance. The major aim of increasing the employability of those people encompasses the objectives of upskilling, educating and empowering them via a range of complementary a ...
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Developing Intercultural Competence on the Workplace

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

KAZI means ‘work’ in Swahili, a language spoken by 80 millions people in sub-Saharan Africa and by many migrants to Europe. According to Eurostat (2012) there are nearly 4 million people migrating every year in the EU. The Europe 2020 Strategy (2010) and the Stockholm Programme (2010) set out the effective integration of legal migrants. The European Agenda for the Integration of Third-Country Na ...
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Mothers and children in L2

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

This project is addressed to migrant women with preschool age children. The project will design and pilot a methodology and tools aiming at facilitating learning L2 in mothers thanks to interactions and content related to their children. The tools will be a 50 hours course the young mothers will attend with their children and a series of videos. The course will be attended jointly by the mothers a ...
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Silver Sidekicks

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

It has been well documented that Europe's population is ageing fast. One aspect of active ageing is the continued access of older people to political and civic processes. This contributes to ensuring that the voice of older persons is heard and that the needs of older persons are considered when policy matters are debated in local, national and EU contexts, while also helping to broaden the parti ...
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Family Learning And Migrant Engagement

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

The blazing fires of the riots in Wandsworth, London in the summer of 2011 were a harsh example of the social unrest affecting much of Europe as it faces the challenges of the economic crisis. The riots were partly racially motivated - when times are hard, migrants and ethnic minority (EM) groups can be seen as a threat to scarce resources. Migrants and even members of ethnic minority groups livi ...
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