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Month: May 2018

Generativity: Manage it!

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 The project focuses on the direct impact of maximizing the capacity in fund-raising, on project management cycle and on the adoption of innovative ICT solutions. The outputs of the project consist of: (a) Five training modules base on EU guidelines and innovative PCM tools, for a successful approach to funding opportunities and sustainable project development. (b) Online tutorials in all partner languages to support beginners and professionals to learn, acquire and improve IT skills to succeed in effective and sustainable projects. The project aims to reinforce active citizenship of participants, making them actively responsible for empowering new skills and competences, for inquiring and addressing the social changes in the world of work, participating in social learning and active inclusion.

Jobs for Work 4.0 – The future of employment

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Technological progress has been described as the virtuous creative destruction with its latest iteration, rapidly reaching levels of sophistication not previously though possible. This process has been accelerated with globalization and the international competition to adopt these technologies as they are seen advantageous to growth have been obscuring, disturbing questions about the future of work in a world run by machines. CARDET, in collaboration with the main relevant institutional stakeholders in Cyprus and partners from 6 EU countries participate in the project Work 4.0. The project aims to develop a web based informational toolkit, along with a mobile app that would provide specialized knowledge to relevant institutional stakeholders that can lead to a more informed career development plan based on the most recent, evidence based data on the progression of skills necessary for the worker of the 21st century.

Digital Tools for Inclusion of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants

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The conflict in Syria and the ongoing violation of human rights and poverty in Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, as well as Kosovo are leading people to search for a better future outside of their home countries. There is an increasing need to prepare all adult education providers (AEPs) in the most affected EU countries to initiate relevant programmes with the newly arrived migrants and refugees. Living in a digital era, digital tools are necessary for developing social, civic, intercultural competences, media literacy, combating discrimination and segregation, as well as reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners with disadvantaged backgrounds. The “Digital Inclusion” Project aims to provide AEPs with digital tools for education and training of new migrants arrivals so as to improve their basic skills and key competences for better inclusion to the EU society on the basis of transnational cooperation.

Empowering Young Disadvantaged Individuals to Trigger Change in their Communities – You.Change.Com

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 The world is gradually becoming witness to the disenfranchisement of youth. This is partially due to a global unrest in relation to the economic system creating a more complex societal equilibrium, placing young people at a disadvantaged socio-economic position with heightened youth unemployment, and also due to political distrust, a decline in values and socially-oriented causes as well as reduced belief in bottom-up social change. At the same time, the role of youth in development and decision-making is marginalised and/or undervalued and so the gap between local, regional, national and international development and youth engagement widens. The purpose of YouChange is to recruit young people with fewer opportunities to act as ‘change makers’ in their communities to conceive and carry out local strategies for socio-economic development, utilizing disused spaces (land recycling).

Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Migrants & Refugees

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The EpsiLon Project is responding to two current and urgent needs in Europe: (1) the rise in migrant and refugee numbers (2) the persistent inequality and persecution of Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gender groups, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+). Combined together these two characteristics make LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees one of the most vulnerable groups in modern Europe. This project aims to help address this issue by increasing the knowledge, skills and awareness of all those adult professionals and volunteers who come in contact with the migrant/refugee LGBTIQ+ community. EpsiLon brings together key partners from 5 case study countries to develop a training programme for professionals and volunteers working with asylum seekers and refugees in asylum centres, camps, other shelters and in local communities.

Girls Into Global STEM

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The issue of gender bias in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects and careers is a transnational problem recognised by business leaders, higher education and by the European Commission. The issue originates in schools when many girls make critical subject choices that will effectively lock them out from STEM in higher education and employment. The “Girls Into Global STEM” (GIGS) project aims to increase the employment potential of all young Europeans, but especially girls, by improving their interest and engagement in STEM subjects through linking these to a wider awareness of global issues. The project will facilitate much of this work through the development of digital skills and especially through the collaborative authoring of eBooks.

Development of CBRN training programme for police officers

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Terrorist activities involving the use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) materials constitute a new threat and the risk of using them as a tool has evoked an urgent need for undertaking numerous countermeasures. Police officers from local patrol units are those responders who arrive to the action scene first. While police provides training for conducting operations in CBRN environment to special anti-terrorism units, those units arrive at the scene of action later. The general aim of CBRN-POL project is to create a modern, multidisciplinary CBRN training curriculum and educational materials for police officers. The scope of the educational programme shall meet the demand for safe, responsible and effective behaviour of police officers on scene of intentionally induced incident involving CBRN materials. This project will increase the capacity of police officers for detection, management of crisis and mitigation of CBRN risks not only in the partner countries but also in the other EU countries.

Modernizing and Enhancing Indian eLearning Educational Strategies

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Project MIELES aims to support a network of Indian HEI to develop and implement institutional strategies for elearning. Many development cooperation interventions focused directly on ICT infrastructure (Digital India, for example) or on the provision of online course content. Few projects have addressed the need to support HEI to utilise ICT infrastructure and online course content, and to enable leadership and staff to do so, in a cross-institutional way. An international consortium of partners will work with Indian partners to help them develop strategies for elearning. MIELES is also designed to provide a collaborative platform to address a relevant issue for the development, reform, democratization and modernization of the higher education system in India and to reinforce Indian-EU higher education collaboration.