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Juggling Motherhood and Profession

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

In all Member States, female labour market participation is lower than males’. Data also show a direct correlation between childbearing, care tasks, conciliation and employment: half of the women population exits the work market after child birth. Within such framework, for the more vulnerable and poverty-stricken female segments of the population (e.g. low income, low educated, dealing with socio ...
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BLEND IN - Language, Cultural and Social Orientation for Young Refugees

Start date: Nov 14, 2016, End date: Nov 13, 2018,

Anyone that moves to a country with different cultures, traditions and practices from one’s own can be expected to undergo a significant adjustment period. Refugees accepted for resettlement often come straight out of refugee camps and have little if any knowledge of the societal and economic realities which await them. Like others who have left their homes and resettled in a foreign land, refugee ...
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MiGreat! Supporting Migrants into CVET

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

Over the last decades, migration flows increased in most EU Member States. Migrants from third countries account for around four percent of the total EU population, according to the European Commission. Europe is confronted with an ageing population and a shrinking workforce – which will lead to labour and skills shortages that will challenge economic growth prospects. Consequently countries that ...
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ScienceLit: Scientific Literacy for all!

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

The European Union has the challenge to advance towards more responsible and impacting science, looking for innovative links between science and people. Making science more attractive for young people, enrolling citizens in research or promoting formal and informal scientific education are, for instance, some of the objectives under the Horizon 2020 programme. Likewise, the European reference fram ...
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Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Migrants & Refugees

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

EpsiLon is responding to two current and urgent educational needs in Europe i.e. (1) the rise in migrant and refugee numbers (2) the persistent inequality and persecution of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gender groups (LGBT). Combined together these two characteristics make LGBT migrants and refugees one of the most vulnerable groups in modern Europe. Our project aims to help address this issue by i ...
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Empowering Young Disadvantaged Individuals to Trigger Change in their Communities - You.Change.Com

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

The world is gradually becoming witness to the disenfranchisement of youth. This is partially due to a global unrest in relation to the economic system placing young people at a disadvantaged socio-economic position with heightened youth unemployment, and also due to political distrust, a fall of values and socially-oriented causes as well as reduced belief in bottom-up social change. Similarly, f ...
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Educational Materials for Practitioners providing Opportunities for vulnerable Women’s Employability and Resilience

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Aug 30, 2018,

In times of economic difficulty such as the current European recession, Support Services for vulnerable adults and particularly for women across Europe, are often cut and 2015 is no exception to this. Statistics continue to paint the bleak picture of the issues facing vulnerable women which may prevent them from becoming economically or educationally active. 1 in 4 women across Europe experience d ...
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Training in community mental healthcare

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Nov 1, 2017,

: Support mental health professionals in entrepreneurial activities and provide them with advanced clinical, social and management skills required for sustainable evidence-based mental healthcare innovation across Europe. Provide support for shifting partner countries’ hospital based models to community based models in mental health. The project will bring together higher education bodies and acti ...
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Migration & Gender: Vocational and Educational counseling

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

According to Eurostat statistics, in 2012, there were an estimated 1.7 million immigrants coming to the EU from outside countries. In addition, 1.7 million people previously residing in one of the EU Member States migrated to another Member State. Thus, about 3.4 million people immigrated to one of the EU-27 Member States. Among them, a variable percentage from 51% (Italy) to 43% (Germany) were ...
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Gamify Your Teaching – increasing vocational competences of entrepreneurship Teachers with the use of gamification

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

More than 5 million people under 25 are unemployed in EU today. According to “Rethinking Education” initiative (2012), in order to build “skills for the 21st century”, efforts are needed to develop skills such as entrepreneurship, which should be given particular attention, since they enhance employability of people. Entrepreneurship is included in national curricula to VET of many EU countries bu ...
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Online Game for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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

Millions of users around the world are gaming regularly. Even though online gaming was primarily designed for entertainment and profit, quite recently it moved beyond private industry and turned into a research field in educational, training and learning disciplines. Gaming is based on interaction, collaboration, active and dynamic learning and an informal educational process that is invaluable. S ...
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CARE 2 WORK

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Images of the young carer can be traced as back as the 11th century. Whilst novels, and media images, tell us something about the changing nature and experience of young carers in Europe, surprisingly little knowledge has been gained from research or official statistics. So, whilst there is considerable literature which focuses on the lives and needs of informal carers in the community, most of th ...
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Family Training to Support their Marginalized and Disadvantaged Members

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

FamilEU envisions developing a digital training toolkit for adult trainers and professionals who already work in the areas of family care for many years. The aim of the FamilEU is to equip the social workers and other relevant practitioners in areas of social welfare, provide training to family member, in order in their turn to provide a peer to peer support to members of their families who are ...
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Combating inequalities through innovative social practices of, and for, young people in cities across Europe (CITISPYCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

This project builds on research that shows the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on young people across Europe, including excessively high rates of youth unemployment and threats to the social provision enjoyed by previous generations. This is compounded by the 'coming of age' of the descendants of recent migrant communities - who now form significant proportions of the young populati ...
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