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Empowering Literacy in Adolescents through Creative Engagement with Comics
Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
International studies showed that EU students do not perform well in science, math and literacy skills (PISA, TIMMS, OECD). One of the specific priorities of the school education program is to address the low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods and in particular through projects that foster interdisciplinary approaches and the integration of teaching basic skills su ...
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Jobs for Work 4.0 – The Future of Employment
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Digitization is increasingly shaping the world of work. Algorithms for big data are now rapidly entering domains reliant upon pattern recognition and can readily substitute for labour in a wide range of non-routine cognitive tasks. Advanced robots are gaining enhanced senses and dexterity, allowing them to perform a broader scope of manual tasks. This is likely to change the nature of work across ...
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Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Factory floors are progressively being replaced by creative communities whose raw material is their ability to imagine, create and innovate. In this new digital economy, immaterial value increasingly determines material value, as consumers are looking for new and enriching "experiences". It is widely accepted that there is a profound shortage of coherent entrepreneurship training programmes throug ...
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Career Management Skills - A New 'Literacy' for Sustainable Employment
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The development of guidance services for adults within the workforce is a topical concern. Dramatic changes in work structures and social organization have occurred that are placing demands on adults to rethink their careers on an on-going basis. Added to this, are current EU policies that emphasize the need for continuous education for future economic and social mobility in an increasingly compet ...
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Green Entrepreneurship Training - Underpinning Prosperity
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
There is little doubt that the development of the green economy can make a significant contribution to restoring Europe’s economy to growth by harnessing new business and employment opportunities that green businesses offer and many countries are looking to green growth as the way out of the current economic crisis. The global market for environmental goods and services is vast and it continues to ...
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Beyond Retirement - A Migrant Integration Resource
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
The BRAMIR Project proposes the development and implementation of a multi-layered andragogic framework designed for a seniors target group comprising older workers approaching retirement and recent retirees. This framework will incorporate a bespoke train-the-trainer curriculum, a suite of psychographic profiling tools and a digital toolbox of appropriate teaching resources to enable the redeploym ...
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ReEntry – Supports for Refugee Entrepreneurs to Create Normality in a Difficult Surrounding
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,
One of the four common EU objectives of the Education and training 2020 (ET 2020) framework to address challenges in education and training systems by 2020 is to enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training.The recent refugee’s wave has brought over one million refugees to Europe, and the influx will continue also in the years to come. Apar ...
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Youth Counselling against Radicalisation – a Holistic Approach to Support Vulnerable Adolescents
Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,
...Human Potentials: focus on counselling for young people with learning disorders and aspects of discrimimation and racism as driving force of radicalisation dynamics.
MEATH Partnership (IE): family counselling activities for social inclusion
ALDAIMA (ES): a collaborative organisation of the Andalusian regional government for family integration and protection of children and adolescents
ZDK (DE): sp ...
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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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From Push to Pull: ECVET and transparency instruments go Business - Modern Human Resource Management with European transparency instruments
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
"At the moment ECVET is too conceptual and far from easy to implement. Moreover there is a huge gap between companies and the education sector in relation to timescales." (ECVET Magazine, 11/2013 as consequence of the annual ECVET forum 2013). This statement of the workshop held with representatives of all European countries on the involvement of companies into the ECVET and whole transparency ins ...
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Creative Approach to Key Competence Building for Marginalized Young Adults
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
A dynamic economy with an emphasis on lifelong learning must be underpinned by a dynamic education sector and while tackling early school-leaving is one of the priority objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy addressing the skill deficits and building the key competences of the young unemployed already outside the education system is a key objective of ET 2020. Young Europeans without high-value sk ...
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Practical implementation of main transparency tools - EQF, ECVET, EQAVET - in European VET organisations
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
In times of striking economic crisis in Europe, education and training are more in the spotlight than ever, as policymakers are looking for clear responses to challenges faced by the Member States. All over Europe, national VET system and VET organisations are making considerable efforts to face these challenges and are undergoing developments to ensure that VET qualifications meet the highest qua ...
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Harnessing the Learning Assets Within the SME Business Community
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
When SMEs succeed, Europe succeeds. ‘SME’ is a little acronym but it covers a huge diversity of companies, sectors and circumstances. Hidden within this large universe of companies across Europe are the champions of tomorrow. Since 2008 Europe has been suffering the effects of the most severe economic crisis it has seen in 50 years: in the majority of EU Member States small and medium-sized enterp ...
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ECVET based Agricultural Entrepreneurship Training Programme for young Roma and other disadvantaged unemployed
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
"The Europe 2020 strategy sets a headline target of 75% of people in the EU aged 20-64 to be in employment, compared to a current rate of 68.8%. For Roma, the employment rate is significantly lower, with a gap of around 26 percentage points according to World Bank research covering Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and Serbia." (European Commission: Roma Integration – 2014 Commission Assessment: ...
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New didactical models for initial VET training of young disadvantaged persons to reduce drop out
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship is one of the four core objectives of the ET2020 strategy and all member states are asked to emphasise the equal opportunities in access to the education systems. The reduction of drop outs and low performers in the education systems and especially in the initial VET systems is a core indicatore for this objective. The benchmark for the drop ...
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Entrepreneurship open learning for job creation
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
In the actual social and economic context, there are financial difficulties for the development of businesses ideas and create new enterprises, but there is also a lack of efficient articulation between entrepreneurial spaces organizations, research and education institutions, development agencies and potential entrepreneurs.
This partnership has a European inter-regional character (organizations ...
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Creating European standards for open education and open learning resources
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
The main aim of the project EU-StORe - European Standards for Open Education and Open Learning Resources is to conceptualise and implement a European inventory of open learning resources, to analyse open learning scenarios and open learning resources, and to create shared common European standards and guidelines for open learning.
Open education and open learning resources are actually one of the ...
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ple + (People +)
Start date: Jul 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2005,
The aim of the project is to target members of the public left behind due to a digital divide, in particular those on low income and opportunity. The project will provide training and skill enhancement
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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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The project “Work Harmony” has been finalized to transfer the results, in terms of innovation of product and process, from theIMPLANTA project, in the field of the community initiative EQUAL. The general aim of the project consisted in promotingthe implementation of new models of organization of labour and social facilities, encouraging the conciliation of work andfamily life. This topic is parti ...
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According to the European Commission (Supporting the Teaching Professions for Better Learning Outcomes, 20.11.2012), the role of teachers and trainers is crucial in the modernization of VET with special focus on their professional development and status in society. The future dominated by change presents news challenges for both teachers and trainers in VET, involving new pedagogical, curriculum d ...
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As Europe's knowledge economy develops, the issue of continued participation formany low-skilled workers represents a significant challenge. In reality, many of thepeople who need up-skilling most are excluded from lifelong learning and unacquaintedwith the opportunities that exist to acquire and develop required skills. The globaleconomy has largely made extinct the notion of a "job for life" or ...
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One of the last phenomena that draws our mind back to the Second World War era isabout to manifest itself as history and modernity continues on an unstoppable collisioncourse. The offspring of post-war 'baby boomers' are about to retire en-masse acrossEurope. In an Information Society, where knowledge is the prize commodity, thehaemorrhage of knowledge about to unfold will have a significant impac ...
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Social Networking for Senior Citizens
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
With 130 million regular users in 2008, if Facebook were a country it would be the 10th largest in the world. However, only 0.38% of Facebook users are over the age of 65 years, with only 1% over 55 years. 181 million Europeans visited social networking sites in 2007; only 1.3% were over 55 years; undisputable evidence of the enduring 'Digital Divide' in society. While some experts argue that the ...
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EXTENDING WORKING LIFE - Pedagogy Assisting Workforce Transition
Start date: Oct 1, 2009,
Europe is getting older. In 2007, 35.2% of the EU's 495 million people were over the age of fifty . The old age dependency ratio in Europe is expected to approximately double from an initial 25% in 2004 meaning that by 2050 there would be about one inactive person for every two of working age. The size of the aged population is expected to grow not only in relative but also in absolute terms with ...
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Learning the Business of Eco-Tourism
Start date: Nov 1, 2009,
Eco-tourism is a segment of the tourism industry that is growing rapidly in popularity. The importance of eco-tourism as an agent for economic growth in remote areas of Europe and in areas witnessing declining income and opportunities through conventional agriculture means it is imperative appropriate educational supports are developed to encourage and enhance its potential. Since it is destined t ...
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Women Technology Entrepreneurs
Start date: Jan 1, 2010,
The ICT sector is the major source of new innovations that fuel competitiveness. It is the bedrock of the modern economy and the single most important source of growth accounting for 40% of EU productivity. As career pathways that were 'born digital', technology careers are potentially free of any historic gendered division of labour and women in the technology sector have fared better than in tra ...
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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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B-Entrepreneur: BEST PRACTICES IN ENTEPRENEURSHIP AT EU LEVEL
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
B-Entrepreneur general aim is to support the access to the most innovative and validated best practices in training and education in the field of entrepreneurship developed in the framework of the LLP, especially focused on the target groups and valorisation best practices. The project will contribute to reach the EU2020 and the Entrepreneurship Action Plan regarding the need of education in this ...
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Sheherazade, 1001 stories for adult learning
Start date: Dec 1, 2011,
Content, language and performance turn stories into genuine products of their culture. In a multicultural Europe, it is absolutely necessary that bridges are built between the different cultures. Storytelling provides the ideal vehicle for competence acquisition, empowerment and social inclusion and to stimulate the intercultural dialogue. The Sheherazade project introduces storytelling and the ...
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Under My Wing - Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
Entrepreneurship drives innovation, competitiveness, job creation and growth. It allows new innovative ideas turn into successful ventures and can unlock the personal potential of individuals. Research shows that Europe does not exploit its entrepreneurial potential when compared to America. About four million more young people were out of work in 2010 than at the end of 2007, and the youth unem ...
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BALANCE - health coaching for adult education professionals
Start date: Oct 1, 2012,
The current societal debate is characterised by terms such as burnout, anxiety and mental stress caused by a constantly accelerating economy and society and high workload. Even if adult learning in Europe varies greatly by country and region there are quite a lot similarities adult education staff has to manage: a steady change of and mostly very heterogeneous participants, enormous changes in lea ...
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Alphabets of Europe
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
The AlphaEU project focuses on the Key Activity 2 priority: “Promoting early language education.” It aims to promote the acquisition of multilingual awareness and language skills of pre-schoolers in various European countries, by developing, piloting, and implementing digital alphabet books and alphabet-related games and interactive activities. Targeted alphabets/languages include: English, German ...
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online tool for self eValuatIoN of key competences in adult AGE
Start date: Jan 1, 2013,
Key competences, assumed as a reference model for education and training in Europe (2010 Joint Progress Report ), are often acquired and developed in non-formal and informal contexts; this makes them not assessed nor recognized and consequently not used by adults for their personal and professional improvement. It lacks a culture of key competences, and their value is not enough valorised. This ...
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Parents Informal Networks for Early Childhood Learning
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,
It is an accepted fact of life that most rural areas are underserved where the provision of many core social and educational services is concerned. Regardless of any economic constraints or policy deficits the on-the-ground, physical presence of certain services in all areas is unsustainable. Geography and demography discriminate and the decisions of policy makers and service providers are influen ...
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Mobile Devices App for Documentation and Recognition of Informally Acquired European Key Competences during Transnational Mobility Stays
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
M_APP focuses on the challenges informal learning causes when it comes to its documentation and reporting because, practically, it can occur anywhere and at anytime in our lifetime – and we are rarely equipped with documentation instruments at these moments in time. Nevertheless, informal learning in adult life is considered as one of the most crucial factors in LLL, therefore making it more trans ...
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Social Electricity Online Platform
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
Increasing energy demands and rising costs increase the concerns about rational energy management. Predictions denote that by the year 2030 the global demands will more than double, while prices for domestic energy consumption are becoming unaffordable. A core problem that hinders the awareness of European citizens about the implications of energy consumption is the absence of green ICT infrastruc ...
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