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Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe
Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

EWASTER Project will develop and establish a new high-quality interdisciplinary curriculum in E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management sector in Europe creating the link between the production phase and the waste phase of a product and increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as well as the quality and potential of employability and mobility. EWASTER Consortium, supported by the Directives2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and Directive 2012/19/EE on WEEE, will actively collaborate for three years to:• Identify the current qualification routes and the occupational profiles across Europe that are relevant to the field of E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management, exchanging experience, practice and strategies to raise awareness among the actors on the potential of reuse to generate employment and revenue.• Develop a new professional qualification using EU criteria (ECVET-EQAVET) designing skills, knowledge and competencies for E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management professionals to test through innovative VET experience (classroom; open management school; virtual mobility) and work based learning activities (Labs-shadowing)• Provide a Handbook for the final transparent recognition and validation process for the assessment of learning outcomes developed during the Pilot experiences facilitating labour mobility, mutual trust and increased recognition of qualifications at European level within the sector concerned.• Create a new Project Open Web-Area to share information, practice, research, tools and expertise across the sector during and after the Project lifetime.• Provide a VET package of tools and instrument to encouraging and reinforce the VET learners and workers mobility across Europe through the transferability of skills and competencies.• Establish a new E-Waste Recycling and Re-Use management business area in Europe encouraging the conversion from informal to formal business.For more information visit the web page: http://www.ewaster.eu/
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