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Mentoring Pathways toward Employment

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

...ng is a competencies development based process, combining guidance, counselling and coaching process, which has been proven successful in terms of promoting excluded groups employability and social inclusion. It’s a way to promote and improve employees’ transversal skills using training and work-based methodologies, but also includes sustainable strategies to deliver these services: through course ...
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Making Family Business Transfers SUCCESSful through Education and Training

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

Family businesses are the backbone not only of the private sector, but are supporting entire economies. With regards to the European context, family businesses make up more than 60 % of all European companies. The process of change in ownership, transfer and/or succession within or outside of a family is an extremely crucial moment in the business life of a family SME: ca. 30% of family business f ...
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Self-repairable Zinc-free Weldable Anti-corrosion Primer for the Steel protection (WELDAPRIME)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The global production of steel is in the range of 1400M tons, worth nearly €1trillion. The steel demand in Europe in 2011 was estimated to be 145M tons, of which 39M tons p.a. for the construction sector and 16M tons p.a. for structural steel. Most of this steel is carbon or mild steel (as opposed to stainless steel) which corrodes at a high rate and although there are a significant number of anti ...
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Let's Go! Mobilità Trasnazionali e Formative per i Giovani

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...rise, being this a true learning context (Work-based Learning). The expected impacts are of long-term and they are related to the design of mobility as an active investment of the promoter in social and employment integration policies. Let's Go intends to pursue: the integration of training and transnational mobility in the life project of the beneficiary (in recognition of the mobility in the fo ...
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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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Mediterranean cultural network to promote creativity in the arts, crafts and design for communities regeneration in historical cities (MEDNETA)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Dec 11, 2015,

...rary creative Arts, Crafts and Design (ACDs) to turn them into a leading economic actor in historical cities • To support the communities and creative economic activities which form the urban and social setting of historical cities Expected ...
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-Fairs and Trade Networking (e-F+TN)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The projects aim is to achive stronger regional partnerships and cooperation e-F+TN addresses the global objective of the Black Sea Programme in 3 ways. 1. By establishing a network, across the Black Sea basin, of stakeholders involved in business promotion in order to facilitate the establishment of trade links and commercial exchanges among Black Sea enterprises.2. By strengthening and expandin ...
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Local/ Regional Economic Development Network as decisive leverage point for enhanced competitiveness in the Black Sea Basin regions (LRED)

Start date: Jun 30, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The aim of the project is the building of local LRED main players entrepreneurial and administrative capacities to enhance social, information, trade and other links to local level, as well as between partner countries hence encouraging national governments to scale-up cooperation opportunities and synergize efforts towards better life in the Black Sea Basin. ...
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Facilitating Responsible Innovation in SEE countries  (FaRInn)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

... Responsible Innovation in SEE countries" is to enhance framework conditions and pave the way for a responsible innovation model in South East Europe, which respects the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and better quality of life. Responsible Innovation is a "transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators interact and collaborate, aiming to ethical acce ...
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Launching (g)local level heritage entrepreneurship: strategies and tools to unite forces, safeguard the place, mobilize cultural values, deliver the experience. (SAGITTARIUS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...ges the formation of heritage entrepreneurs: a participatory knowledge platform transfers advanced tools among multilevel actors to protect and use heritage assets by identifying their environmental, social, historic, aesthetic, spiritual and special values; domain specific training certifies individuals with increased capacities certifying professional skills. Implemented pilot actions on a socia ...
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Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society (CE-Ageing Platform)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...ved from cooperation between various partners and their desire to jointly contribute to improved framework conditions in their regions in order to foster economic growth, regional development and social cohesion. It is built on the belief that challenges faced in the cross-cutting issue "ageing" can only be solved in working together. The CE-Ageing Platform aims to jointly develop a CE-Ageing Stra ...
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Using local resources to develop social entrepreneurship (SOCPOD)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2013,

The main objective of the operation is to connect professional and interested public audiences on both sides of the border as well as to improve education of subjects with social-business ideas in Slovenia and Croatia. The object is to support research and development of new business products and services that are commercially interesting, enabling of development of social enterprises and the real ...
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Amber Coast Logistics (ACL)

Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Mar 7, 2013,

ACL is a collaborative project that supports the coordinated development of logistic centres and thus fosters the connection of areas with low accessibility in the southern and eastern Baltic Sea Region (BSR) to the European transport network and international trade flows. The project’s main objective is to improve accessibility and locistic processes both via land and sea to strengthen economic t ...
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Interregional SME Supply Clusters along the Northeast Corridor (BalticSupply)

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

BalticSupply (BS) is a transnational project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and made possible by the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) Programme. The project addresses the problem that very often markets in the BSR are too small and the fact that SMEs encounter a number of access barriers to European supply markets. These barriers cause competitive disadvantages for Baltic SMEs and th ...
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Steering Economic and Social Cohesion in the CADSES Space: Valuing Migration as a Development Tool (MIGRAVALUE)

Start date: Aug 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

...tly considered as a factor contributing to development, it often lacks appropriate support services. Immigrant's home investments rely on individual inventiveness or informal networks, while national social systems fail to deal with cross-border movements. Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are the new EU border countries and Romania, the former Yugoslav countries and Albania have high immigration rates ...
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moting Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Public Bodies in ARCHIMED Zone through Open Source & Free Software (OpenIT)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Mar 30, 2008,

The project OPEN IT will address the problems of high infrastructure and licensing costs regarding software and the continuous need for hardware upgrades (in order to stay current). Main objectives of the project are: 1. Promotion of ICT in SMEs by providing inexpensive IT solutions 2. Development of policies & exchange of know-how in the fields of IT use in public administration 3. Promotion of t ...
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Mediterranean: Myths and Sea (Med.My.Sea)

Start date: May 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project's Med.My.Sea general objective is to strengthen the economic and social cohesion among Mediterranean tourism destinations by the revitalisation and enhancement of cultural and environmental common heritage. A transnational network will be set up among authorities, SMEs and citizens of a cluster of Mediterranean islands and coastal zones. The network will cooperate with the common goal ...
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Cultural thematic route development in rural areas (HERITOUR)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The project's main objective is the protection, thematic organisation and promotion of local cultural heritage in remote/rural/montanious/border areas in forms of regional and transnational cultural routes. This objective is intended to be reached by carrying out the following main activities: Assessment of local cultural heritage Elaboration of feasibility studies and marketing strategies on poss ...
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Sustainable and Effective Entrepreneuships Development Scheme (SEEDS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2007,

The SEEDS partnership aims to build and test a coherent framework for planning and implementing joint sustainable internationalisation strategies and actions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in CADSES, which will enable the effective support of relevant actions. The SME internationalisation process needs to be considered as a part of the general spatial development strategies to serv ...
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Integrating Logistics Centre Networks in the Baltic Sea Region (InLoC)

Start date: Jul 31, 2004, End date: Mar 30, 2007,

As a follow up of the project NeLoC projecz InLoc aimed at further improvement of the networking between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in the Baltic Sea Region. The project also analysed spatial and environmental consequences of logistics centres and aimed at removing bottlenecks in port-hinterland connections. Furthermore, the project tried to improve the compatibility of ...
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ETCS.FC - Euro Trainers coaching Service - Framework and Competencies Development

Due to an increasing need in Europe for modernisation of the education and training systems, it is necessary to improve the quality of trainers and teachers. The aim of this project is to create a specific guidance for trainers called the Euro Trainers Coaching Service: a high quality online guidance service for trainers with a European dimension. This service, based on the principle of one-to-one ...
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EMINTE - Erasmus Mundus India To Europe

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

This project for mobility and collaboration within higher education and research builds on a well-balanced consortium with partners from India and Europe. We have included partners with no or little previous experience as well as with substantial experience from the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) programme. In this way, the project will increase the number of universities that will benefit from EM ...
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EU.EM.NET: European systematic approach for employers’ engagement to anticipate skills requirements and support quality assurance (QA) in VET

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The project is aiming at designing a European systematic approach for employers’ engagement to anticipate skills requirements and support quality assurance in VET through bringing key actors into one EU.EM.NET - network. The project mirrors the real needs for effective and efficient engagement of employers in the overall process of detecting of new skills needed for the future development in the s ...
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L06 - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

...n and expert knowledge, skills and abilities, for establishing the grounds of public and private cooperation and proper administration, for contributing to the political, economical, environmental, social, cultural and educational issues of the 3 SC targeted countries, for establishing actions to eradicate ‘brain drain’ and for creating links between EU and the SC countries.In general, the expecte ...
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Training needs analysis in health & social services — a response to expanding poly drug use

Identifying the training needs of professionals working with drug users : Transdrug is a practical project in which professionals carers in the field of drug addiction shared local information and expertise to produce a set of adaptable tools that would allow addiction care workers to identify their training needs. The project is based on two key propositions – that drug and substance use is a con ...
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GReen procurement And Smart city suPport in the energy sector (GRASP)

...rgy sector while enabling them to better meet their carbon reduction commitments by 2020.In the long term, the change in procurement policies and integrated Energy Plans will have positive impacts on social needs and a greener and more sustainable environment.See more: http://grasp-tmn.eu/GRASP Databases, eGPP tool + LCC • Knowledge DB for SMEs (offered EE/RES solutions)• Solutions DB for PPs (nee ...
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GemCITE

Gender mainstreaming in IT : The aim of this project is to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in adult education, following the principles of gender mainstreaming, primarily in the IT sector This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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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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Guiding From School to Job – Professionalism in the Work With Young People at Risk of Social Exclusion

...fication. Within this process the traditional roles of all vocational pedagogues have been changing regardless to their individual function in a specific national support system – teacher, trainer, social worker, tutor. All vocationally oriented pedagogical work requires a range of guidance skills – counselling, diagnostics of strengths and weaknesses, information management. This is especially tr ...
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ENTERPRISE AS INNOVATION TO CREATE NEW WORK PLACES AT TIME OF GLOBAL CRISIS

The main objective of the project INNOVACREAWORK was to promote the entrepreneurship as one of the key competences in the context of active citizenship and global economy. An innovative programme was transferred to the participating countries in order to support achieving new skills for new jobs and enforcing competitiveness and innovation in the labour market. The programme in question was "APR ...
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Elderly Care Vocational Skill Building and Certification

...agement System (LMS)(b) Enhancement of the “ECV Network” to establish the “ECV Forum” embracing the local community stakeholders of the elderly care sector(c) Adaptation of the “Social Workers Qualification Assessment” developed by the Vilnius University, to cater for the validation of competencies in elderly care (d) Establishment of “ECVC Learning Centres” at elderly care provider organisations ...
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Hairdressing advice (&) internet resources (for) National (&) European Training.

...ns responding to needs for improvements in quality, access to, and accreditation of hairdressing VET in Eastern Europe. This project enhanced employability, young people’s engagement with learning, social equality, business sustainability, workforce mobility and skills shortages. Hair.net has provided training opportunities for aspiring and existing hairdressers thus supporting employability and l ...
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REVIVE - Reviewing and Reviving Existing VET Curriculum

REVIVE project seeks to contribute to European cooperation in QA focusing on defining QA factors in VET services. More specifically, the project aims at methodology application to ensure quality of VET curriculum at institutional level. REVIVE project will aim at applicability of the CQAF criteria at institutional level, as national QA actions cannot be properly ensured without “bottom approach”. ...
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ECVET for recognition of qualifications in construction sector

The idea of the project was result of recognising opportunity to develop ECVET and to improve mobility within construction sector through transfer of innovative methodology that has proved to be successful in different context and seemed highly appropriate in achieving aims of CONVET. Within EU there were industries where levels of competence varied dependent on requirements of countries. In resul ...
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E-commerce for traditional products, women 50+

...ployment among the sensitive target group of women 50+, of underdeveloped regions and/or with minority origin, at their majority with low educational level.• Upgrading of their economic & social status.• Preservation of traditional production of local products.• Promotion of local traditions to inhabitants of other parts of the country or Europe.• Production of products according to EU legislation ...
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Transfer of Employment Suppport Tools for People with Disabilities

...se by the project partners. The consortium is consisting of organisations with huge experiences in the field of education and training for people with disabilities and supported employment as well as social partners and VET training organisations for the target group which were considered to be able to realise the transfer effects and impact envisaged. The whole transfer process was embedded in a ...
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VET Qualification Practice for e-Inclusion

...ment of the network center, workshop planning and promotion of employability and core ICT competences. It has been developed as a flexible and adaptable tool to qualify e-facilitators for social inclusion in selected national contexts. As special aim and main innovation of the project to lifelong learning we consider the transfer process of the existing curriculum to different national contexts, e ...
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