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Financial Education for Adults
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The project was developed against the background of growing interest financial education and evidence of low levels of financial literacy among the general adult population, and the widespread acknowledgment that consumers need to be skilled to make the right decisions and to protect themselves from making costly mistakes. Many national and international surveys have demonstrated consumers' genera ...
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Breaking Barriers - Embracing Literacy through Digital Media
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
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Literacy is a key competence that ensures social cohesion and personal fulfillment. Adults with difficulties in understanding the written word in both print and digital forms face barriers to actively participate in society. Furthermore people struggling with reading and writing difficulties may hide their needs and this makes identifying learning needs more challenging.
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Provehicle 3
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,
The context/background of project our project is the needs of a flexible workforce that can respond to increased competition and rapid technological change by enabling vocational training and education (VET) to respond and adapt to the demands of the labour market. The consortium wants to carry out this project in order to meet the demands created by the increased international competitiveness by ...
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ACER VETPRO4
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,
...pertise through practitioner visits to other VET providers across the European Union. VETPROs 1-3 gave 96 lecturers and managers from 12 of ACER’s member colleges (Further Education, VI Form and Adult Community Colleges) the opportunity to visit European counterparts in Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden ...
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Erasmus+ mobilities for Hordaland 2014
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,
International cooperation is an integrated part of Hordaland County Council’s (HCC) strategy for regional development (International Strategy, 2013-2016). The strategy aims at creating a sustainable, attractive and competitive region, and give young people international competence, experience and shared responsibility. The region faces challenges concerning climate and energy, sustainable developm ...
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Cargo Securing to prevent cargo damages on road, sea, rail and air (CARING)
End date: May 16, 2015,
A study on fatal accidents of professional drivers in Finland (Laapotti & Peräaho 2011) has revealed that the risks in loading and securing of cargo comprised 12 % of all vehicular risk factors. This was more than the proportion of risks connected to tires and brakes together (10 %). Europe is an area where goods and products can move around freely, without any checks at the national borders. Thi ...
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Co-ordination and integration of higher education and the labour market around the South Baltic Sea (COHAB)
Start date: Jun 30, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,
It has been recognized by the project partners that the interregional labour market mobility is not very well-functioning in the South Baltic Sea region. Bottleneck situations in the area requiring qualified labour from other countries have not really improved the labour market mobility and the project partners believe that a project is needed in order to establish the barriers of this lacking mob ...
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Competitive Entrepreneurship By Lifelong Learning And Business Cooperation (COOP EDU-SHIP)
Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2013,
Business ineptness and poorly equipped life-long learning centres are the main cause for dissatisfaction among region’s entrepreneurs. The aim of the project is to enhance the competitiveness of Latvia–Lithuania border regions by eliminating the obstacles to its development. Therefore, business and education support centres will be created by renovating premises of life-long learning institutions ...
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Safe and Reliable Transport Chains of Dangerous Goods in the Baltic Sea Region (DaGoB) (DaGoB)
Start date: Dec 9, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,
Initially it was thought that over 200,000,000 tons of Dangerous Goods (DG) per year moves in BSR (plus over 100M tons in NW Russia) mostly through densely populated areas, imposing real health and safety risks to people and environment. After the data gathering and reporting in DaGoB, the actual figure is close to 1,000,000,000 tons in the entire BSR region, which was substantially more than anti ...
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at the moment the project is in the start phase, data elevations for the production roughly curriclium and coarse purposes as well as the target group are raised in the partner lands and are gathered by the coordinator and combined, the Hompage is switched and the first Round table will take place on 13.12.05
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Die Förderung der Gesundheitsvorsorge und Prävention ist ein klares Ziel der Gesamteuropäischen, aber auch jeder nationalstaatlichen Gesundheitspolitik, dessen schnellstmögliche Umsetzung – besonders vor dem Grund der explodierenden Sozial- und Gesundheitskosten von den unterschiedlichsten ExpertInnen immer vehementer eingefordert wird. Diese Umsetzung vor dem Hintergrund des gesellschaftlichen Wa ...
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Die Förderung der Gesundheitsvorsorge und Prävention ist ein klares Ziel der Gesamteuropäischen, aber auch jeder nationalstaatlichen Gesundheitspolitik, dessen schnellstmögliche Umsetzung – besonders vor dem Grund der explodierenden Sozial- und Gesundheitskosten von den unterschiedlichsten ExpertInnen immer vehementer eingefordert wird. Diese Umsetzung vor dem Hintergrund des gesellschaftlichen Wa ...
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We have seen the intrinsic potential of Lean and we recommend VET organizations to work with Lean implementation from the co-workers and the management perspective when it comes to: Lean tools, a common and visual system of working with Lean and Culture. Lean tools: The management has of course the over-all responsibility for getting a Lean implementation started and has to work actively to keep t ...
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mTransition provided VET learners with pastoral and academic support through an innovative learning mobile app. The app is an individual learning & development planning tool, incorporating social media functionality to enable a tutor and learner to negotiate then execute an individual learning plan (ILP). mTransition built on the achievements of an Interreg funded project (mCommunity 2011-2013) th ...
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The Recognition of Prior Learning Outcomes was a common issue in the national systems of the UK as well as the partner countries with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority [QCA] Recognition of Prior Learning [RPL] Claiming Credit for the Qualifications and Curriculum Framework [QCF]. The Project piloted these Guidelines in the VET Teacher and Trainer Sector using the Lifelong Learning UK S ...
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The learning association “PACT” has had as a principal purpose the improvement of the continuous training for the employees in Local and Regional Public Administrations. An International dialogue has been carried out among European Institutions in order to make easier the development and the transfer of innovate activities in this area. These activities have been fixed to analyze in an exhaustive ...
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The project concerns the level of qualification V in transport and logistics in all countries. Existing certifications for these jobs show a variety of situations with no common definition of required competencies. As a consequence on the employers’ side, national certifications do not respond to the companies’ needs and to the life long learning issues (continuous training, recognition of profess ...
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The Quality Boost in Tourism -project is transferring innovations between providers of quality trainings and systems in tourism. There is a clear need to improve the current tourism service quality training, and with this project the development can take a step further to include European level common parts or tools in the tourism training. Each country already has its own training and material fo ...
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A professional team from five countries is developing a multi-media computer supported test. The results of the test will be provided to the participating job seekers in order to allow them to position themselves better in the job market.
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The project addresses the processes and systems of validation of non-formal and informal learning, responding to the needs of employees and job-seekers to have recognition of their competencies acquired during their working life. The tourism sector has been chosen as a target sector because of the increasing number of individuals working in tourism sector (hotels) in Lithuania and other EU partner ...
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The project built on the results of two previous projects, “Peer Review in initial VET” (AT/04/C/F/TH-82000) and “Peer Review Extended” (EAC/32/06/13, LE-78CQAF), both of which promoted the development of a promising and innovative instrument for the external evaluation of VET Providers, Peer Review. A common European Peer Review procedure was developed for initial VET (ISCED 3/4) and tested in ei ...
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Dyslexia is a difficulty in the acquisition of reading and writing that affects 10% of the population. The difficulties are lifelong, and there is a strong genetic component. This means that not only are there many dyslexic children, but also the main care providers, the parents, are often dyslexic too. Support for the dyslexic individual is very variable across Europe, with some countries supplyi ...
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Introducing learning to the workplace : The project identified a need for training in basic skills amongst workers. It has therefore produced a curriculum and training materials which have been evaluated by employers and trades unions and can be used in the workplace. This project started in 2001 and lasted 30 months.
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The project aims to meet the training needs of health and social service professionals working with disabled persons, in particular staff who are responsible for training in Assistive Technology (AT) centres. The project focuses on developing professionals' skills in using AT with disabled persons as part of a lifelong learning process. Project partners will undertake a review of training practic ...
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Rural youth takes on the media : The Grassroots project targeted rural young people wishing to make a career in the media. The young people learnt the practical skills required to make films, but also developed a sense of self worth by seeing that their own lives were rich in content for documentary films. The interactive handbook provides an Internet platform for international dialogue and reflec ...
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Validation of service related skills and competences with an innovative IT-based Assessment and evidencing system
Start date: Jan 1, 2012,
... of learning outcomes with the help of an individualised five level reference system based on 3 dimensions (cognitive, activity related and affective). LEVEL 5, applied in 50 learning projects in Adult Education since 2007, evidences competence developments by means of a visual metaphor (a cube with increasing volumes) and delivers a certificate with meaningful descriptors. In VITA the LEVEL 5 sys ...
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Project aims at improving the quality of and access to continuous training programmes for teachers and trainers. Specific objectives arte the identification of new skills and competences required by teachers and trainers, to compare continuous teacher-training models in different countries, to identify non-formal learning with a view to validation. Target groups are VET planners and decision-maker ...
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at the moment the project is in the start phase, data elevations for the production roughly curriclium and coarse purposes as well as the target group are raised in the partner lands and are gathered by the coordinator and combined, the Hompage is switched and the first Round table will take place on 13.12.05
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The project is addressed to Adult Education, aiming at providing new learning opportunities for all adult learners. It aims at creating good quality unconventional learning methodologies, capable of constantly renewing the basic skills of E. U. citizens and enabling them to deal with the challenges of the changing world. This partnership has brought together Learners, Educators and Adult Educatio ...
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...th the portfolio, in order to use it as a planning and training tool.To identify the level of competence, SKILLS will design a questionnaire and validate itwith the target groups, who are young adults, adults and minority groups with basiceducational level, socio-educationally disadvantaged in 5 countries: ES, IT, PL, FI, UK.It will produce a computer application adapted to those profiles to be us ...
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The low participation in adult education especially in the Eastern and Southern regionsof Europe is a challenge. The euroCALL project is designed to develop, support andlink together new centres or sites for nonformal free adult lifelong learning in countrieswhere such centres are highly needed and with weak adult education traditions. TheeuroCALL project is based on a strong synthesis of the Scan ...
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...udies carried out in Switzerland and all over Europe, have shown that risks of unemployment and marginalisation from the labour market are correlated with a lack of qualification.In particular, young adults who prematurely interrupt their training cycles (“drop out”, early school leavers and etcetera), face serious difficulties to integrate themselves in a stable manner in the labour market.Despit ...
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PELLEA - Portfolio Evaluation in Life Long Learning Improving Employability of Adult Learners
Start date: Oct 1, 2003,
Partners worked together to investigate and further develop the practice of portfolio evaluation, particularly in the realm of adult education, with a particular focus upon ICT training. Activities included a state-of-the-art reflection upon portfolio evaluation practices, development and testing of a portfolio evaluation method and online tool (including practice-oriented assignements) and the tr ...
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LENA - Learning in the Post-professional Phase
Start date: Oct 1, 2004,
Project partners from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and the UK worked together to develop and promote a new approach to learning specifically targeting older adults. Acknowledging a shift towards learner-centred education, partners agreed upon a pan-European approach that engages older people at every step of the learning process. Project activities centred round the ...
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InfoNet Adult Education
Start date: Oct 1, 2005,
The InfoNet Adult Education network began in 2005 and has since continued to escalate both in terms of membership and activities. Bringing together key adult education journals and publications alongside large national and international education and training bodies such as the EAEA and UNESCO, the network forms the backbone of the European Infonet platform aimed at improving the flow of informati ...
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Mentoring for Adult Education Leaders: Skills to Promote Participation, Gender Balance, Inclusion
Start date: Nov 1, 2011,
To achieve ET2020 benchmark of 15% for adult participation in lifelong learning, one of the strategies should be improving the skills of those who can influence participation: adult education leaders.The aim of Lead-In project was to improve the skills of adult education leaders to lead in more people into the world of non-formal learning, i.e., to increase participation, especially, participation ...
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As the population ages over the upcoming years, the supply of labour will decrease. The needof qualified work power is anticipated. Meanwhile, the number of migrants in Europeancountries is increasing. Migrants with a vocational qualification and adequate language skillsare needed in the labour market. The key idea of this Leonardo da Vinci Transfer ofInnovation project CIVET - Counselling Immigra ...
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Outreach, empowerment and diversity
Start date: Dec 1, 2011,
...ing together 16 organisations from 14 countries. Our aim is to tackle the need for outreach to marginalised groups, especially migrants and ethnic minorities, for the development of more diversity in adult education, and especially the inclusion of learners’ voices, and for the empowerment of its learners to become active European citizens.We want to - provide a collection and analysis of good pra ...
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