Month: June 2018

Added Value Learning for Preschool and Primary School Teachers & Pedagogical Coordinators

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AVAL is a project with the aim to design, test and implement an innovative practice-oriented learning environment focused ethics and value education. The project approaches a critical thinking approach based on 3 pillars: (1) ethic values (personal values – one “self”); (2) democratic and societal values (as we live in a society –One “self and the others”); and (3) environmental values (as we live on the planet earth). Among the main outputs of the project include a transnational curriculum for the partner’s countries, open educational resources and peer-to-peer learning methods, a collection of innovative practices in 0-6 and 6-11 school education in the field of ethics and values education, and a resource center on ethics, values and critical thinking education aimed at increasing the awareness on the importance of moral obligations and social values so as to strengthen its educational structures in a system of values supported by all relevant stakeholders.

BRicking Adult’s Future Via Empowerment

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Project BRAVE aims to improve the personal motivation and professional skills of unemployed adults through innovative educational methodologies. During the BRAVE life-cycle, adult participants will be supported to prototype their business models and to itinerate them. They will become aware of their powers for the social good and for their personal growth and positioning in society, through an innovative journey from self-development to creative thinking and exploration of own possibilities & potentials. Within the framework of this Erasmus+ funded project, CARDET collaborates with 7 partners, all expert organizations in the field of training, employability and entrepreneurship, from 6 EU countries. Expected outputs include an innovative training programme, a crowd sourcing platform to gain insights on business models, and a MOOC 4.0 for increasing unemployed adults’ skills and competencies.

Adult Migrant Integration Experts

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Project ADMIRE aims to develop a Migrant Integration Expert Curriculum for Adult educators, migrant support workers and members of migrant communities in order to promote empowerment, participation and active citizenship of all migrants. Migrant populations are a growing reality in European society today. The ageing of the European population means that immigration flows into Europe will continue for many years to come, as a positive response to the ageing population of Europe. Successful integration of these migrant communities into civic and political life is essential if a cohesive and inclusive society in Europe is to be achieved. The Migrant Integration Expert Curriculum will address gaps such as the lack of knowledge and participation on the civic and political life of the new countries and network gap between migrant organisations and local communities. This will be accompanied by an Induction Training Programme for adult educators, a Digital Toolbox with useful resources for migrants’ civic, political and social engagement and an e-Observatory of civil and political systems in the six participating countries.

Raising awareness of how radicalization happens for greater individual safety and country security

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Radicalization of vulnerable young people throughout Europe is among the latest challenges and one of the most damaging to the entire European project. Digital and social media are platforms where this threat flourishes and it is essential that the battle to suppress it is targeted at these environments. HEADS-UP is a 2-year project which aims to build the skills of front line educators and parents through in-service training and a series of simulated videos that explicitly demonstrate the on-line threats people in vulnerable positions face. This, together with a practical, user friendly set of simulation resources will enable educators to support young people more effectively by teaching them how to identify and deal with potential radicalization and grooming threats.

Supporting Migrant Women as Integration Leaders

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Project ENGAGE aims to support migrant women’s role as integration and community leaders. Migrant communities have always made a major contribution to the economic development of EU countries and to the cultural diversity which characterizes European society today. Their successful integration into social, civic and political life is important in order to fully harness the economic potential and cultural diversity and achieve a cohesive and inclusive society in Europe. ENGAGE project partners recognized that supporting migrant and refugee women to become integration leaders in their communities can positively impact the integration process. Central to the idea of ENGAGE is the provision of new, bespoke integration curricula and a suite of flexible and adaptable training resources. These resources will support migrant women to become integration ambassadors and leaders in their communities. They will also be helpful for adult educators who are tasked to provide the necessary education, knowledge and skills to migrants and refugees.

Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies

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This project seeks to strengthen the professional profile of both teacher educators and teachers in schools by enhancing their capacity to use digital technologies (mobile devices) in ways that are innovative and promote more engaging and more inclusive teaching methods and pedagogies. Specifically, it includes the development of a mobile app that will enable educators to work more effectively in order to research and evaluate these innovations. Therefore it meets the horizontal priority ‘open and innovative practice in a digital era’ since it explicitly seeks to identify and promote innovative teaching and learning methods with technology.

Improving the Integration of low-Skilled Adults Through Developing Mathematical Skills and Community Support

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The project aims to improve the integration of low-skilled adults and is in line with some of the key objectives and targets of Europe 2020. Specifically, the project objectives are to: (1) improve the integration of low-skills adults through developing their mathematic skills by using problem-solving ICT-based approach; (2) monitor, assess and collect learners’ achievements in order to facilitate the validation of obtained basis skills; (3) extend and develop educators’ competences needed for effective training of the low-skilled; (4) increase engagement of local communities to foster inclusion and integration of low-skilled adults through education and learning. By developing and implementing a training course and toolkit, adult educators will be able to later train adult learners from all backgrounds in developing their mathematical skills.

Get Your 5 A Day- Mindfulness and Mental Wellbeing at Work: Training and Games for Public Sector Managers.

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Mindful Managers aims to develop public sector managers’ skills and competences and positively manage mental wellbeing and build resilience at work using a gamified e-learning tool. Mindful Managers promotes work based learning (WBL) and uses mentoring and coaching at work for training purposes. The project aims to de-stigmatise the discussion around mental health at work and give managers tools and resources to actively support positive wellbeing at work for themselves and their teams. The project is aimed at public sector managers, as statistics show this group is lagging behind in partner countries in a lack of awareness and tools/resources to address psychosocial risks e.g. burnout, at work.

Developing the Employability Skills of Displaced Persons

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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are 65 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. VET providers face considerable challenges in responding to the demands for enterprise skills development training especially for target groups like migrants/refugees where completely different training approaches, are required. The aim of ONDGO is to support the economic integration of migrants through the creation of a tailored migrant entrepreneurship training programme with a suite of flexible and adaptable training resources that will help VET trainers achieve their integration objectives and support learning on the go! The primary initial target groups addressed by the ONDGO project comprise VET professionals, migrant support workers and individuals from migrant communities who are interested in completing the Enterprise Learning and Skills Curriculum.

Early School Leavers: Drop-in

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Early school leaving (ESL) and dropping-out are often seen as the fault of young people. As a result, certain groups of young people remain without basic qualifications and with low skills, which significantly increases the likelihood of unemployment or precarious work. The Drop-in project responds to this need by reintroducing young people, who have dropped out of the formal system in informal and non-formal learning. The project seeks to establish alternative pathways for Early School Leavers and drop-outs towards social inclusion and labour inclusion, by developing and making available a modern, integrated and holistic e-learning and networking platform, tailor-made to the skills and capacities of young drop-outs and ESLs. In addition, the project aims to introduce, pilot and implement new and innovative youth-led methodologies for enhancing ESLs and young drop-outs’ basic and transversal skills.