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Basic skills training as strategy for vocational training in companies

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The European work life is changing rapidly. Key word is a development from manual production to modern automatized and digitalized production, and a grooving mismatch between vocational education and training (VET) and the labor market.BASIC SKILLS IN WORKING LIFE focuses on the growing gap between industry demand for competencies and skill levels in the workforce. For employees with weak basic s ...
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SCHOOL MOBILITY MANAGER

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

In Italy really recentely a national law is establishing guidelines in order to foster and implement in the educational system institution (Schools) a new figure: the “School Mobility Manger”. Despite a spread interest and numerous practices developed by public and private bodies regarding MOBILITY MANAGEMENT especially in northern Europe and in the main European capitals, The FIGURE of MOBILIT ...
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MOVING Languages - Mobile Virtual Learning for Languages

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

...n and business management.Italy: I.D.E.A., a no-profit association, with a long-standing experience in vocational and educational trainingAustria: BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH, main activities comprise the development of innovative training programmes for young (+16) individuals and adults, many of them disadvantaged and with migration background, on co ...
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KEEP-ON

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

School dropout rate in Spain is nearly 24%, the highest among European countries. According to EUROSTAT school dropout rates in the countries of the consortium are: Spain 23,6%, Portugal 18,9%, Greece 10,1%, and France, Belgium and Austria have less than 10%. The Europe 2020 strategy sets out the target of reducing school drop-out rates to less than 10%.Drop Out phenomenon, quitting students from ...
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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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Open Educational Resources for development of an innovative MOOC on advanced textile quality control

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

LEARNINGTEX MOOC aims to support textile companies through employees training and skills updating. A need on the sector has been detected and textile companies demand more experienced and trained workers on topics like woven fabrics and quality control of defects. In this sense, during this project more than 70 OER will be created which will be shaped into a MOOC about woven fabrics and defect det ...
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Amélioration Continue de l'Evaluation de l'Employabilité

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

The European reference framework for Quality Assurance for providers of VET (EQAVET) adopted by all European countries has been designed by targeting the following objectives:- Employability- Correspondence between the supply and demand for skills and qualifications on the labour market- Better access to VET in particular for vulnerable groups-In Europe several positive and effective initiatives ...
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Empowering teachers and trainers to cope with religious diversity and boost intercultural education in Europe

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

Europe is facing some major its major challenges since the end of the WWII. From the effects of the radicalization and the extremism, to the crisis of the refugees and the asylum seekers or the discrimination of some migrant communities, the question about how to foster the social cohesion and to fight against discrimination is in the middle of the debates in an increasingly culturally diversified ...
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Financial Education for Future Entrepreneurs

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

FEFE is a cross-sectoral co-operation which will develop the financial literacy and entrepreneurial mind-sets of learners across VET and HE contexts. Through FEFE, learners will develop key entrepreneurial skills: the ability to make better financial decisions, be better able to understand and access alternative sources of finance and be more willing to trade across international boundaries. Dev ...
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Training rural farmers in the use of mobile applications for agricultural activities

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

The acquisition of basic digital skills has been identified as one of the principal adults´ training needs to acquire to match the requirements of today´s changing labour markets. This is important particularly in rural areas where the spread of ICT has been lower than in urban areas, therefore rural citizens find more difficulties in order to access ICT training. There are many mobile application ...
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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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Through Entrepreneurship Education towards improving the quality of VET

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

The aim of the project is education for entrepreneurship, respectively entrepreneurship in secondary technical and vocational schools in the South Bohemia Region and exchange of experience with foreign partners – Latvia and Portugal. The Czech Republic has so far paid attention to entrepreneurship education in secondary schools only with economic focus. A new priority for European companies aimed ...
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Fast Lane to the Labour Market

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

The repercussions of the unstable situation in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Syria since 2011 have been felt ever more strongly in Europe, too. 3,88 million people fled from Syria alone in 2014. The refugee crisis reached a tentative climax in 2015, during the first half, as many people were seeking asylum as during the whole of 2014. The high number of refugees from these areas of confli ...
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Wellness Instructor VET Course

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

The WELVET project is based on transnational cooperation effort of VET providers and economic actors in the field of wellness tourism. The project's main intellectual output, a C-VET course for the emerging "wellness instructor" job, is addressing a pressing need of the European wellness tourism industry, namely the lack of trained staff to deliver high quality customer service. The WELVET project ...
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Developing Innovative Didactics for Workplace Training

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

As a concept, workplace learning incorporates a diverse set of scenarios and practices some of which are more regulated and controlled than others. While apprenticeships are generally very structured programmes with clear learning milestones that can be measured and assessed other popular models like internships, job shadowing and service-learning voluntary work offer less in the degree of certain ...
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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE IN CLIL

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The European Commission considers workers and citizens’ free mobility one of the most important right to be encouraged, because it represents an essential component of common labor market, in order to stimulate the economic growth and to fight against unemployment. Given the context of severe economic crisis that characterized Europe at this historical juncture, and the consequent difficulty of in ...
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Virtual Vocational Education and Training

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The main aim of the “Virtual Vocational Education and Training – VIRTUS” project is to develop an innovative, fully functional virtual vocational education and training centre, which will provide appropriately designed modular certified courses in: 1. Tourism and Hospitality Services 2. Social Entrepreneurship, corresponding to regional growth potential and skills needs and targeting at increasin ...
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Let the Hopes Blossom

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

European Commission published a report concerning early school leaving in November 2014. According to this report, the EU average rate of early leavers from education and training is now 11.9%, the EU average rate among boys is 13.6% whereas it is 10.2% among girls (Eurostat). Turkish Confederation of Employer Association has interpreted the average rate of early school dropout in Turkey as 37% (3 ...
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Experience For Training

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

The economic crisis continues to bring a range of widespread challenges: many people have lost or are losing their jobs, and youth unemployment is at record levels. Areas of existing deprivation are the most vulnerable to the risk of poverty and social exclusion: 16.4% of the European Union's population (approx 80 million people) live below the poverty threshold and Eurostat estimates that 23,815 ...
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Let's learn how to learn!- Raising awareness to the importance of and providing an innovative solution for the inclusion of the training of learning skills in existing higher education curricula

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

Being successful today, apart from possessing factual knowledge, requires ‘soft skills’ and certain personality traits that are not taught at universities, like Ability to Learn Quickly, Positive Attitude/Motivation and Loyalty. There is a skills gap, or rather a training gap between the skills graduates have and the skills employers seek in their employees. Higher education institutions and emplo ...
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Teachers’ Professional Development

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

The basic aim is To reinforce professional development of teachers of students up until 7 years old through an online course, in order to effectively promote positive behaviors in classroom and future school attendance and achievement. Objectives: • Educate teachers regarding the processes and methods of teaching. • Provide teachers with valuable non-formal education methods in working with childr ...
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GREEN MENTOR Fostering green entrepreneurship through an innovative ECVET curriculum for the new professional profile of Mentor for Green Entrepreneurs

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

New companies, especially SMEs, represent the most important source of new employment in Europe: they create more than 4 million new jobs every year. To bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe in general, but the countries of GREEN MENTOR project in particular (Spain, Austria, Hungary and Ireland), need more entrepreneurs. The transition to a green economy offers great ...
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Social Entrepreneurship Training via ICT Learning Environments

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

If it is to make a success of the Lisbon strategy for growth and employment, Europe needs to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people, encourage innovative business start-ups, and foster a culture that is friendlier to entrepreneurship and to the growth of SMEs. The important role of education in promoting more entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours has become widely recognised. Th ...
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Ready for future: Equipping teachers with future skills

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

The gastronomic sector will suffer from a shortage of staff in the near future (Lecture about future perspectives of the labour market, Dr. Helmrich- National Agency Germany 2013) on the one hand and on the other hand it needs initiatives to help fulfil the European 2020 strategy by fostering smart and sustainable growth. The empowerment of young people through the development of skills and compe ...
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Fit for Business Growth

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

Please provide a short summary of your project. Please recall that this section [or part of it] may be used by the European Commission, Executive Agency or National Agencies in their publications. It will also feed the Erasmus+ dissemination platform. Be concise and clear and mention at least the following elements: Context/background of project; objectives of your project; number and profile of p ...
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MenTalk: Alternative language learning techniques for male learners active in the tourism sector

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

The objective of the MenTalk project is to develop and offer a language learning curriculum, training material, didactic guidelines and platform directed to men in rural areas who are active in - or want to offer - alternative tourism services. The rationale behind the project is on one hand the need for promoting language learning within the EU, as a means for professional development and enhance ...
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Count me in too! VET for people with disabilites through cultural institutions.

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

Count Me In Too! Takes its starting point in the belief that no citizen in Europe should be discriminated against in training or employment because of disability. In times of economic difficulties there is more than ever, a need for finding new ways to make better use of the diverse resources of organisations and people. This includes people who are more specially disadvantaged because of certain ...
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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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B-Learning: Curriculum Design for Blended Learning

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

Widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools requires not only competent use of technical tools, but also a new kind of understanding of why, how and when technologies support students learning. In schools today ICT is rather used for the development of lower than higher level skills of students, and innovative practices in schools are fragmented and do not provide ...
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PRO PULSE + : Impulse a new generation of production schools with Erasmus+

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

PRO PULSE+ project Matching skills and labour market needs: Impulsing a new generation of production schools for providing second chance environments addressed to low skilled young and adult unemployed with Erasmus+ Everywhere in Europe, countries are facing the challenge of higher unemployment rates, which especially hit fragilized publics of youngsters (less 29) and seniors (more than 45) who ha ...
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Tourism training the trainers

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

• Context/background of project; Tourism is one of the fastest growing and most profitable industrial sector in Europe and accounts for consistently larger share of GDP. Despite great expectations of continuing growth of the tourist sector as a base for economic stability, there is a lack of recognition concerning skills of employees. In order to meet the requirements of a competitive tourist se ...
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E.U. - COUNTRY ARTISANS

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

Considering the importance the EU gives to education and training beeing essential to unlocking the potential of people, regardless the age or the backgrounds, our organization propose the project EU COUNTRY ARTISANS designed to follow the identified needs at the organizational level and the social needs identified at the regional level. We want to develop our organization's activities locally an ...
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LINK-Inc. Fostering equity and inclusion in Work-based Learning by equipping trainers and mentors with innovative approaches to address cultural and ethnic diversity in VET

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

In today's highly competitive labour markets, the experience gained through Work-based Learning (WBL) opens doors to later jobs. Youth unemployment rates in European countries with a strong tradition of WBL, such as Austria (9.0%), are lower than in countries with less developed WBL systems, like Bulgaria (21.6%), France (25.2%), Portugal (34.5%), Italy (42%) or Spain (51.4%). Work-based learning ...
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Vocational Education & Training Standards in Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Safety at Heights

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

Project Background: The VET-Safety project has been designed to the meet the needs of people involved within high risk work at height (WAH) activities particularly within the agricultural & environmental sectors of industry. The latest UK statistics indicate that the highest workplace fatalities occur within this sector. Previous project partner research also reported related health & safety conce ...
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LIGHTHOUSE Supporting lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility

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

LIGHTHOUSE Supporting lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility is an innovative project aiming to develop and provide access to new methodologies for career guidance and counselling in Europe. LIGHTHOUSE will be base on the develop an innovative model for supporting lifelong learning and ...
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Adult Educational guidance and information service

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

Participation in adult education represents an attitude of lifelong learning which serves different objectives for a variety of people. Irrespective of the age, origin, social or economic background, adult education must be accessible, transparent and visible. However, some adults are struggling to find their way through the adult education scenery and cannot see the wood for the trees. The aim of ...
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Strategy To Raise Awareness and Improve, Generalize and Help Tackling European Needs for BASIC SKILLS

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

STRAIGHTEN BASIC SKILLS Strategy To Raise Awareness and Improve, Generalize and Help Tackling European Needs for BASIC SKILLS Improving the accessibility of learning opportunities for adults, especially for low qualified employees and long term unemployed, with a view to training needs of workplace basic skills is one of the core areas of the European education policy. In the past a lot of project ...
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Use of Triple Bottom Line sustainability framework in rural wine entrepreneurship

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 30, 2017,

Wine SMEs in the rural areas of Europe already feel the market pressures as international competition intensifies and economies fail to support growth. The future of these SMEs is more in doubt when you consider that the market protective measures will soon be lifted while the cost of material and energy continues to increase. SMEs in remote rural areas are running into a deadlock and will be math ...
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UP- skills Transparency for qualifications and future skills for the hotel and tourism industry

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 30, 2017,

Europe faces the challenge to fight rising levels of unemployment. Too many young people leave school too early and adults are often only equipped with low skills, which increases the risk for (future) unemployment even further. Current figures, especially from Spain and Italy show that a percentage of 43% young adults are currently unemployed. But also in other European countries the percentage o ...
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Roboedukacja sposobem na rozwój przedsiębiorczości wśród młodzieży - Robotics and logic games as the key for youth to the entrepreneurship and success in the labour market

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Mar 14, 2017,

The project “Robotics and Logic games as the key for youth to the entrepreneurship and success in the labour market” is an innovative approach developed by 5 partners’ Organisations from six EU countries. The project’ main office and the project manager will be seated at the Leader’s headquarters. The idea of developing strategic partnership is a result of the analysis of the situation of young ...
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