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Projets
Treffen der Generationen - Modellprojekt zur Entwicklung der generationsübergreifendenden Computerbildung
27 Janvier 2003
The project aims at giving senior citizens acces to the ICTs and adresses young adult to be trained for their role as teachers
Computer literacy and the know-how to deal with new media continue to become a basic characteristic qualification deciding the individual's role in an information society. Nowadays dynamics of modernisation set senior citizens at a specific risk of marginalisation.
Their knowledge is aging faster than themselves. From the point of view of young adults senior citizens run the risk to be no longer regarded as partners in a process of life-long learning.
Traditional role models include older people transferring experience to the younger generation. In regard of the subject of ICT knowledge senior citizens run the risk of being neglected if they don't overcome the traditional role model.
The project ''Meeting of generations'' intends to change the roles in the learning process between older and younger people. Generation crossing forms of learning will be developed and tested with mixed groups of young adults and senior citizens.
The main target group are senior citizens but young adults benefit as well due to the improved social competence they have to develop if they are going to play the role of a teacher.
The target group of senior citizens is growing in most west-European countries and combines characteristics that identify them as a ''hard to reach'' group for adult education.
The envisaged outcomes include:
- curricula for cross-generational workshops
- workshops to be conducted at partners' sites
- web-site with an online education offer
- a training module and handbook to prepare young adult for their role as teachers
Their knowledge is aging faster than themselves. From the point of view of young adults senior citizens run the risk to be no longer regarded as partners in a process of life-long learning.
Traditional role models include older people transferring experience to the younger generation. In regard of the subject of ICT knowledge senior citizens run the risk of being neglected if they don't overcome the traditional role model.
The project ''Meeting of generations'' intends to change the roles in the learning process between older and younger people. Generation crossing forms of learning will be developed and tested with mixed groups of young adults and senior citizens.
The main target group are senior citizens but young adults benefit as well due to the improved social competence they have to develop if they are going to play the role of a teacher.
The target group of senior citizens is growing in most west-European countries and combines characteristics that identify them as a ''hard to reach'' group for adult education.
The envisaged outcomes include:
- curricula for cross-generational workshops
- workshops to be conducted at partners' sites
- web-site with an online education offer
- a training module and handbook to prepare young adult for their role as teachers
Projets
Intercultural Competence for Europe
27 Janvier 2003
It will develop specifically tailored courses and workshops that will lead to recognised qualifications in community work and in adult education in a multicultural society.
European Intercultural Competence Programme (EICP) is a transnational initiative, whose main objective is to promote civil dialogue, understanding, tolerance and shared values through a learning interface that brings people together form all sectors of life.
Target groups are representatives of minority ethnic groups, voluntary and community organisations, local authorities, the police, employment/welfare services and religious groups.
Moreover, it will undertake capacity building measures for minority groups and local providers so that they could develop appropriate policies, structure and system that would fit the demands of our diverse communities.
It is expected that 380 people will directly benefit from the programme and over 68 agencies and groups will be involved in the process throughout the partnership.
Furthermore, it is believed that a huge number of people will have access to materials and documents through the programmes, websites and from other sources of publicity.
The project also intends to mainstream the training process through dialogue and negotiations with policy makers at national and regional levels.
Target groups are representatives of minority ethnic groups, voluntary and community organisations, local authorities, the police, employment/welfare services and religious groups.
Moreover, it will undertake capacity building measures for minority groups and local providers so that they could develop appropriate policies, structure and system that would fit the demands of our diverse communities.
It is expected that 380 people will directly benefit from the programme and over 68 agencies and groups will be involved in the process throughout the partnership.
Furthermore, it is believed that a huge number of people will have access to materials and documents through the programmes, websites and from other sources of publicity.
The project also intends to mainstream the training process through dialogue and negotiations with policy makers at national and regional levels.
Projets
Orientierungs-Bildungs-und Integrations Service für Migranten
27 Janvier 2003
The project aims at giving inmigrants access to training and adresses trainers working with this group of people, by means of the ICTs
Le but de ce projet de deux ans est de proposer un module de formation pour immigré(e)s:
- initiation et développement de l'offre et de la demande de formation(s) pour une intégration culturelle et sociale
- formation interculturelle pour formateurs et conseillers d'adultes travaillant avec des étrangers
Le groupe cible est donc les immigré(e)s, des pédagogues et des formateurs pour adultes.
Les points forts sont :
- renforcement de la motivation individuelle et de la confiance en soi dans le domaine de l'apprentissage
- information sur les besoins en formation et sur les possibilités offertes
- promotion de l'égalité des chances et de l'accès au savoir
- nivellement du déficit de formation.
La coopération européenne vise à permettre un échange interculturel ; par ailleurs, toutes les phases du projet trouveront un écho sur Internet.
- initiation et développement de l'offre et de la demande de formation(s) pour une intégration culturelle et sociale
- formation interculturelle pour formateurs et conseillers d'adultes travaillant avec des étrangers
Le groupe cible est donc les immigré(e)s, des pédagogues et des formateurs pour adultes.
Les points forts sont :
- renforcement de la motivation individuelle et de la confiance en soi dans le domaine de l'apprentissage
- information sur les besoins en formation et sur les possibilités offertes
- promotion de l'égalité des chances et de l'accès au savoir
- nivellement du déficit de formation.
La coopération européenne vise à permettre un échange interculturel ; par ailleurs, toutes les phases du projet trouveront un écho sur Internet.
Projets
New and Motivational Approaches to Life Long Learning ( Nye og motiverende angrebsvinkler pa Livslang Læring)
27 Janvier 2003
The project aims at give disadvantaged grups of people access to lifelong learning
The basic idea of the project is to use the Job Rotation model in order to:
- break the fact that 75% of marginalised social group are not motivated to start any form of educational training because of too many bad experiences with the educational system;
- make the persons from these groups more suited to the current employment market;
- to give marginalised adults (unemployed, ethnic groups etc.) access to lifelong learning and to current job experience in order to be able to obtain fixed employment in the long term.
Job Rotation model:
1. An employed person often possessing only a limited education receives continued training out of the work place in order to upgrade his or her skills;
2. Meanwhile this person is replaced by an unemployed person that after short introduction training in the necessary skills will be able carry out the required job functions;
3. This process creates a positive situation:
- the employed person obtains new job related qualifications that can be put into practise immediately;
- the company has no loss of production whilst the employee is away for the course, and it receives an employee returning from the course, who is better qualified and thereby able to optimise production;
- the unemployed person gets contact with the working environment and fresh practical job experience, which can serve as a useful platform to obtain (fixed) employment later.
In the analysis phase the partners will on an ongoing basis be electronically interconnected through a restricted part of the EU Jobrotation data base. The phase will be finished on a seminar on which the model concepts for the coming pilot courses will be finalised. The pilot courses with persons from the selected target groups will be run in the following testing phase.
- break the fact that 75% of marginalised social group are not motivated to start any form of educational training because of too many bad experiences with the educational system;
- make the persons from these groups more suited to the current employment market;
- to give marginalised adults (unemployed, ethnic groups etc.) access to lifelong learning and to current job experience in order to be able to obtain fixed employment in the long term.
Job Rotation model:
1. An employed person often possessing only a limited education receives continued training out of the work place in order to upgrade his or her skills;
2. Meanwhile this person is replaced by an unemployed person that after short introduction training in the necessary skills will be able carry out the required job functions;
3. This process creates a positive situation:
- the employed person obtains new job related qualifications that can be put into practise immediately;
- the company has no loss of production whilst the employee is away for the course, and it receives an employee returning from the course, who is better qualified and thereby able to optimise production;
- the unemployed person gets contact with the working environment and fresh practical job experience, which can serve as a useful platform to obtain (fixed) employment later.
In the analysis phase the partners will on an ongoing basis be electronically interconnected through a restricted part of the EU Jobrotation data base. The phase will be finished on a seminar on which the model concepts for the coming pilot courses will be finalised. The pilot courses with persons from the selected target groups will be run in the following testing phase.
Projets
Einführung von Informationstechnologien in den Europäischen Gesundheits- und Sozialsektor
27 Janvier 2003
The main aim of the project is to give groups of disdvantaged people better access to adult education using ITC-oriented learning concepts.
Nine institutions working in the field of education and in the social (or so called third) sector will co-operate in the Project IT'S SOCIAL. The partners come from Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Portugal and the UK and provide services for different groups of disadvantaged people: disabled, women, refugees, socially disadvantaged young adults, unemployed and senior citizens.
A number of training modules will be developed which meet the needs of the target group to take advantage of a life-long learning process. Special emphasis is given to the improvement of social competence and learning on demand.
As an innovation tool for the learning process, a virtual platform will be established including an interactive and co-operative teaching and learning environment. Participants will be able to download tailor-made training modules. Specific e-learning techniques will be developed that use the potential of online distance learning for customising the training modules for the special needs of different disadvantaged groups.
Methodology and didactics will support the development of social competencies for the target group.
Project management will be subject to an innovative approach of internal process control and quality management.
A scientific evaluation will also be conducted.
The results of the project will be documented and published on a project's web-site in 4 to 6 European languages.
A number of training modules will be developed which meet the needs of the target group to take advantage of a life-long learning process. Special emphasis is given to the improvement of social competence and learning on demand.
As an innovation tool for the learning process, a virtual platform will be established including an interactive and co-operative teaching and learning environment. Participants will be able to download tailor-made training modules. Specific e-learning techniques will be developed that use the potential of online distance learning for customising the training modules for the special needs of different disadvantaged groups.
Methodology and didactics will support the development of social competencies for the target group.
Project management will be subject to an innovative approach of internal process control and quality management.
A scientific evaluation will also be conducted.
The results of the project will be documented and published on a project's web-site in 4 to 6 European languages.
Projets
From Theory to Nursing Practice, Innovative Clinical Training Process to Facilitate Vocational Integration
26 Janvier 2003
The project aims at improving the quality of vocaional training and skills of nursing staff by means on the ICTs.
The CLINIPASS project is targeted at nursing care students who are unable to cope with real situations and for salaried nursing personnel who have to address the constant development of medical technologies and increasingly specialised hospital services. Inter alia, these situations are caused by deficiencies in training, where the role of professional practice is being increasingly reduced.
The partners wish to put in place an innovative training process which will facilitate the vocational integration of student nurses and improve the quality of vocational training and skills of nursing staff who need to be retrained. A 'clinical skills laboratory' will be created as a learning environment.
Besides improving skills, it will include simulations of real situations and a multimedia corner with creation of a database of the main nursing care courses and graded tests. Case studies and records of clinical scenarios will be interpreted and analysed.
This training will also be supported by a CD-ROM (EN, FR, PT) and an Internet site (EN, FR) and will be disseminated throughout Europe via publications in professional reviews and congresses.
The partners wish to put in place an innovative training process which will facilitate the vocational integration of student nurses and improve the quality of vocational training and skills of nursing staff who need to be retrained. A 'clinical skills laboratory' will be created as a learning environment.
Besides improving skills, it will include simulations of real situations and a multimedia corner with creation of a database of the main nursing care courses and graded tests. Case studies and records of clinical scenarios will be interpreted and analysed.
This training will also be supported by a CD-ROM (EN, FR, PT) and an Internet site (EN, FR) and will be disseminated throughout Europe via publications in professional reviews and congresses.
Projets
European Foundation Certificate in Banking
26 Janvier 2003
The EFCB project will design, develop and introduce a standard, foundation-level certificate across the European banking industry.
The project aims to work with young banking personnel (at the start of their career), in addition to individual employers from the banking sector and professionals from national bank training institutes, in the introduction of a European foundation-level certificate in Banking
Due to the wide-ranging partner base (20 partners across 17 countries) there will be certain supplementary elements of the certificate, which might change (from country to country), however there will be a core curriculum which will be taught across the range of partner countries.
The core curriculum is expected to include; introduction to financial services, banking practice and operations, accounting, economics, marketing/selling, information technology, law and management/supervision. The certificate will be offered through a range of different distance-learning methods with certain partners further considering web-based learning options.
Acceptance of the proposed common certification model is further guaranteed with each of the project partners representing a lead organisation in European banking thus having direct impact upon the sector.
Beyond development for the banking sector, the outcomes of the project might then be considered and adapted for use within other sectors (i.e. insurance) where there might be an overlap in subject matter.
Due to the wide-ranging partner base (20 partners across 17 countries) there will be certain supplementary elements of the certificate, which might change (from country to country), however there will be a core curriculum which will be taught across the range of partner countries.
The core curriculum is expected to include; introduction to financial services, banking practice and operations, accounting, economics, marketing/selling, information technology, law and management/supervision. The certificate will be offered through a range of different distance-learning methods with certain partners further considering web-based learning options.
Acceptance of the proposed common certification model is further guaranteed with each of the project partners representing a lead organisation in European banking thus having direct impact upon the sector.
Beyond development for the banking sector, the outcomes of the project might then be considered and adapted for use within other sectors (i.e. insurance) where there might be an overlap in subject matter.
Projets
Creation of a European Career Management Training Foundation
26 Janvier 2003
It aims at developing an e-learning plaform to develop training courses in the fields of career management, career coaching and outplacement.
The ECMTF project will design and introduce a series of training courses for those seeking, or already undergoing, initial or continuing training, particularly in the fields of career management, career coaching and outplacement.
Of the three courses to be developed, the first will be addressed to senior, more established instructors, whereas the remaining two will be addressed to new practitioners or those considering entry to the profession.
All of the courses will be based upon current certification criteria for career management professionals as established by the International Board for Career Management Certification (IBCMC Europe). Activities will involve initial analysis of existing training, definition of up-to-date skills profiles (to meet current industry needs), adaptation of requirements for certification, introduction and piloting of the three training courses and development of an e-learning platform for final course output.
The proposed result is a certified vocational training course available through an electronic learning environment (e-learning). A dedicated project website will be established to act both as a common platform for partner communication and as the final vehicle for training output. Further dissemination is planned via electronic mailings and the circulation of project reports (CD-Rom format) to a wide range of relevant national and regional bodies across the partner countries.
Towards the end of the project, the results and achievements of ECMTF will be presented at an international conference for the industry, in addition to the hosting of a specialist press event.
Of the three courses to be developed, the first will be addressed to senior, more established instructors, whereas the remaining two will be addressed to new practitioners or those considering entry to the profession.
All of the courses will be based upon current certification criteria for career management professionals as established by the International Board for Career Management Certification (IBCMC Europe). Activities will involve initial analysis of existing training, definition of up-to-date skills profiles (to meet current industry needs), adaptation of requirements for certification, introduction and piloting of the three training courses and development of an e-learning platform for final course output.
The proposed result is a certified vocational training course available through an electronic learning environment (e-learning). A dedicated project website will be established to act both as a common platform for partner communication and as the final vehicle for training output. Further dissemination is planned via electronic mailings and the circulation of project reports (CD-Rom format) to a wide range of relevant national and regional bodies across the partner countries.
Towards the end of the project, the results and achievements of ECMTF will be presented at an international conference for the industry, in addition to the hosting of a specialist press event.
Projets
Knowledge Centre for Employment Improving Measures and Training for People with Learning Disabilities
26 Janvier 2003
It will enhance the information available regarding European support programmes to assist people with learning disabilities in their integration into the labour market.
LABOr is a project financed by the Leonardo programme of the European Union and run by EASPD and sixteen other organisations throughout Europe. The project grew out of the need to bring together material on training and employment measures for people with learning disabilities and to improve the flow of this information across borders. There are training and employment schemes that cater for the needs of the disabled in general, but little specific information is available on the employment situation of people with learning disabilities.
The LABOr partners collect information on legislation, on labour market policies, on methods and approaches, but also on case studies, on good examples, on measures, schemes and processes that worked, on individual success stories. They carry out interviews with different stakeholders because the partners want to look for information on the places where it can be found best: with people with learning disabilities, with service and training providers, with employers, with authorities.
Once it is gathered, all material will be edited by a scientific team before it is made available on the virtual, website-based Knowledge Centre, which will become the main source of information for the stakeholders who are directly involved in the integration process of persons with learning disabilities.
The website information will be in English, French, German and Dutch and is based on the material from the interviews and on scientific review of good practice. It will contain:
-descriptions of methods of training or supporting people in jobs for providers;
-signposts to relevant legislation and practical experiences for employers;
-models of training and employment policies for authorities;
- guidance on getting help with finding a job for people with learning disabilities, along with information on the work experience of others;
-specific success stories and relevant examples of good practice for all stakeholders.
Visitors can forward questions, ask for advice or participate in an interactive forum. A helpdesk provides all types of advice and solutions to specific problems. Support in consulting the Knowledge Centre will be organised locally with the project partners.
The information gathered with the different stakeholders and available on the Knowledge Centre will be used to support providers in fine-tuning their training and employment services, to advise the local, regional, national and European authorities in order to increase the opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become employed.
The LABOr partners collect information on legislation, on labour market policies, on methods and approaches, but also on case studies, on good examples, on measures, schemes and processes that worked, on individual success stories. They carry out interviews with different stakeholders because the partners want to look for information on the places where it can be found best: with people with learning disabilities, with service and training providers, with employers, with authorities.
Once it is gathered, all material will be edited by a scientific team before it is made available on the virtual, website-based Knowledge Centre, which will become the main source of information for the stakeholders who are directly involved in the integration process of persons with learning disabilities.
The website information will be in English, French, German and Dutch and is based on the material from the interviews and on scientific review of good practice. It will contain:
-descriptions of methods of training or supporting people in jobs for providers;
-signposts to relevant legislation and practical experiences for employers;
-models of training and employment policies for authorities;
- guidance on getting help with finding a job for people with learning disabilities, along with information on the work experience of others;
-specific success stories and relevant examples of good practice for all stakeholders.
Visitors can forward questions, ask for advice or participate in an interactive forum. A helpdesk provides all types of advice and solutions to specific problems. Support in consulting the Knowledge Centre will be organised locally with the project partners.
The information gathered with the different stakeholders and available on the Knowledge Centre will be used to support providers in fine-tuning their training and employment services, to advise the local, regional, national and European authorities in order to increase the opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become employed.
Projets
Accreditation and Certification of Work-Related Qualifications during Job Placements
26 Janvier 2003
The project aims at recognising and certifying skills and competences acquired in transnational work placements in the hotel, catering and administration sectors.
PRACTICERT will develop, test and disseminate a conceptual framework and series of templates for the recognition and certification of skills (including language skills) and key competencies acquired in transnational work placements, in the hotel, catering and administration sectors.
The project both recognises and builds upon the existing activities of EUROPASS. Following initial analysis of the involved sectors, as regards existing certification practices, new methods and materials for certification and accreditation will be developed by the partnership.
The materials will be particularly aimed at trainers and assessors and will provide both content and evaluation criteria, as regard the assessment of training undergone abroad. The material will form actual training modules to be produced in EN and all partner languages (DE, FR, IT & PL) and will be output in the form of a 'Manual on Accreditation & Certification', also containing templates of materials and outline descriptions of assessment procedures.
Dissemination of the project results and training materials is planned through the broader framework of the related TransNet project, which encompasses all EU Member States, plus a number of associated countries.
Further promotional activities will comprise articles in relevant press and journals, awareness raising through partner internet sites and promotion through a number of regional and/or national events across the partner countries.
The project both recognises and builds upon the existing activities of EUROPASS. Following initial analysis of the involved sectors, as regards existing certification practices, new methods and materials for certification and accreditation will be developed by the partnership.
The materials will be particularly aimed at trainers and assessors and will provide both content and evaluation criteria, as regard the assessment of training undergone abroad. The material will form actual training modules to be produced in EN and all partner languages (DE, FR, IT & PL) and will be output in the form of a 'Manual on Accreditation & Certification', also containing templates of materials and outline descriptions of assessment procedures.
Dissemination of the project results and training materials is planned through the broader framework of the related TransNet project, which encompasses all EU Member States, plus a number of associated countries.
Further promotional activities will comprise articles in relevant press and journals, awareness raising through partner internet sites and promotion through a number of regional and/or national events across the partner countries.