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Using Challenge – based Learning to Support the Civic, Social and Economic Integration of Migrant Communities

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New pathways of youth to labour market through lifestyle self – employment. The ENTRADA project proposes to develop and test a suite of online, challenge-based, educational resources designed to address carefully selected civic integration, social integration and economic integration themes and support the acquisition of essential key competences. The main aim of this project is to promote quality youth work in order to foster lifestyle self-employment of youth people with fewer opportunities and mainly of NEETs. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of youth workers to organize non-formal learning on youth lifestyle self-employment and uses new methods to motivate NEETs to become self-employed, be integrated in the labour market and develop youth competences.

ViRAL Skills Report for VR Applications in Adult Education

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The Viral Skills: Fostering Virtual Reality applications within Adult Learning to improve low skills and qualifications project has complete its first output, a viral skills report titled ViRAL Skills Survey Report of VR Applications. The report provides important information about VR technology and its applications in its aim to promote and facilitate its use in adult education, especially for low skilled and low-qualified adults.

The report lays down basic information such as key terms related to VR, while explaining concepts such as Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality and discussing their suitability with adult education. Moreover, it provides a SWOT analysis (about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) for the main hardware and software VR systems on the market, evaluating their suitability to be applied in adult education. The report also includes the main results and recommendations from the project’s national country reports for the use of VR applications in adult learning.

The ViRAL Skills project is a prime example of CARDET’s inventive approach to education that involves the development and utilization of ingenious solutions and tech-centric educational tools to further learning and skill advancement. The design and implementation of the project aligns and furthers the Centre’s commitment in carrying out initiatives, actions and projects that use innovative approaches and enterprising solutions to the address societal challenges and benefit society.

You can find the ViRAL Skills Survey Report of VR Applications in the following link:

https://www.viralskills.eu/en/vr-digest/

Έκθεση του έργου ViRAL Skills για εφαρμογές Εικονικής Πραγματικότητας στην Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων

Το έργο Viral Skills: Προωθώντας Εφαρμογές Εικονικής Πραγματικότητας στην Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων για ενίσχυση δεξιοτήτων και των προσόντων έχει ολοκληρώσει το πρώτο του παραδοτέο, μια έκθεση εικονικής πραγματικότητας με τίτλο ViRAL Skills Survey Report of VR Applications. Η έκθεση παρέχει σημαντικές πληροφορίες σχετικά με την τεχνολογία εικονικής πραγματικότητας και τις εφαρμογές της, με στόχο να προωθήσει και να ενισχύει την χρήση της στην εκπαίδευση ενηλίκων και ιδιαίτερα ατόμων με χαμηλές δεξιότητες.

Η έκθεση παρουσιάζει χρήσιμες πληροφορίες όπως βασικούς όρους που σχετίζονται με την εικονική πραγματικότητα, ενώ επεξηγεί έννοιες όπως η Εικονική Πραγματικότητα, η Μικτή Πραγματικότητα και η Αυξημένη Πραγματικότητα και αναπτύσσει την καταλληλότητά τους στην εκπαίδευση ενηλίκων. Επιπλέον, η έκθεση παρέχει μια ανάλυση SWOT (σχετικά με τα Πλεονεκτήματα, τις Αδυναμίες, τις Ευκαιρίες και τις Απειλές) για τα επικρατέστερα συστήματα συσκευών και λογισμικού Εικονικής Πραγματικότητας στην αγορά, αξιολογώντας καθ’ αυτό τον τρόπο την καταλληλότητά τους για εφαρμογή στην Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων. Τέλος, η έκθεση καταγράφει τα κύρια αποτελέσματα και τις συστάσεις από τις εθνικές εκθέσεις των χωρών στις οποίες πραγματοποιείται το έργο, όσον αφορά τη χρήση της τεχνολογίας Εικονικής Πραγματικότητας στην Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων.

Το έργο ViRAL Skills αποτελεί ακόμη ένα δείγμα της καινοτόμου προσέγγισης που ακολουθεί το CARDET σε θέματα εκπαίδευσης η οποία βασίζεται στην ανάπτυξη και χρήση έξυπνων λύσεων και τεχνολογικών εργαλείων που συμβάλουν σε πιο αποτελεσματική εκμάθηση και ανάπτυξη δεξιοτήτων. Ο σχεδιασμός και η εφαρμογή του έργου ενισχύουν και ευθυγραμμίζονται με τη αφοσίωση του Κέντρου να υλοποιεί πρωτοβουλίες, δράσεις και έργα που χρησιμοποιούν καινοτόμες προσεγγίσεις και επιχειρηματικές λύσεις για την αντιμετώπιση κοινωνικών προκλήσεων προς όφελος της κοινωνίας.

Μπορείτε να βρείτε την έκθεση ViRAL Skills Survey Report of VR Applications στον πιο κάτω σύνδεσμο:

https://www.viralskills.eu/en/vr-digest/

DiCultYouth Map Digital Skills in Cultural sector

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The DiCultYouth project has successfully completed its first output, mapping digital skills in the cultural sector. The output is a comparative analysis of data collected by the members of the consortium in Cyprus, Luxembourg, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. The analysis will serve as the project’s framework to its next steps that aim to develop and further synergies between the sectors of culture, education and technology to help enhance digital skills and employability of young people.

In order to map digital skills in the cultural sector, the project’s team has conducted research and collected a set of good practices which are currently implemented in the cultural sector, as well as data from young people and cultural institutions, and interviews with specialists in the cultural sector.

The University of Novi Sad collected the data and prepared the national reports and analysis, with whom the two important outputs of the project, an e-Learning training course and an online game, will be developed.

With those two outputs, the project aims to help vulnerable young people with a background in humanitarian studies seek for career opportunities in cultural heritage related fields.

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CARDET expertly implements M-Easy’s Training Material

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CARDET held, on the 28th of November a workshop to test the training material developed by the project so that trainers can take advantage of its tools to engage their local community. The workshop was hosted by the Frederick University in Limassol and was attended by a mixed group featuring 22 adult educators and students in the field of education.

The workshop commenced with an introduction to the project, its objectives and the tools developed and delivered. Consecutively, the facilitator made a presentation of Europe’s 2020 strategy highlighting the importance of lifelong learning and project’s such as M-easy that seek to support individuals in enhancing their skills and knowledge in fulfilling its set goals. This presentation, set the ground for a group discussion that allowed participants to voice their opinions and share their views.

Following, the participants were divided into groups, each given a separate story to read and discuss internally. Having been given sufficient time to thoroughly explore the different aspects laid out by the stories they were called into the plenum and each group presented the story it discussed. During each presentation the groups discussed the aspects they have observed as being important in the integration process of each of the individuals along with the role education and training opportunities played.

Afterwards, the group dedicated a session for the participants to acquaint themselves to the website of the project and more specifically to it training course, e-guide. The workshop was concluded by a reflection session that allowed the participants to share their thoughts and views about the workshop, the project and the issues covered over the course of the seminar before they were asked to fill in the evaluation forms and were given their certificates of attendance.

AppHop entrepreneurship project’s kick off meeting in Victoria

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Aiming to reinforce entrepreneurship education, the consortium of the AppHop – Randomizing Entrepreneurship Training Through Breakout Challenges on Smartphones project held its first meeting in Virginia, Ireland on the 12th and 13th of November 2019. In the meeting, representatives of the participating organizations discussed aspects of the early stages of the project. The project brings together a consortium of organizations from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Poland, and Portugal.

AppHop is an Erasmus+ KA2 project and over the course of the two years that it will run, it will create a curriculum, designed and developed into learning material that will guide users through breakout challenges, inspired by the 15 most popular smartphone apps. Each of the 15 apps selected will address one of the 15 competences identified in EU’s EntreComp Framework that aims to facilitate entrepreneurship.

The project will also develop a training programme to help vocational education tutors incorporate the resources of the project in their trainings to build entrepreneurial competence more effectively.

CARDET, the project’s partner in Cyprus, will take part in the development of the breakout challenges and will develop online tools such as the project’s website where all digital breakout resources will be located for public use.

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Conference: ‘ Youth Radicalization – National and European Framework’

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The Ministry of Justice and Public Order (MJPO) in collaboration with the CARDET research organization is holding a seminar on Tuesday, November 26 at 8:30 am on “Youth Radicalization – The National and European Framework”. The conference will be held at the Journalists’ House (12 RIK Avenue, Aglantzia) and aims to present and discuss the data, challenges and measures taken to combat radicalization of young people at national and European level.

The conference will feature introductory speeches by the Director General of the Ministry of Justice and Public Order (National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator) Mr Andreas Assiotis and Assistant Chief of the Police Mr Christos Mavris. Consecutively, representatives of the Ministry of Justice and Public Order and the Prisons Department will present the National and European framework on radicalization, as well as the measures being taken in prisons in our country. Following, representatives of CARDET will present the conclusions drawn from the research they carried out for the radicalization of youth in Cyprus and across Europe, as well as how the Internet can be a field and a means of radicalization. The conference will conclude with a panel discussion with the participation of the MJPO Representative Mr Andreas Andreou, the Deputy Chief Officer of the Department of Prisons Mrs Athina Demetriou, the Ethnologist and Co-Founder of Geopolitical Cyprus Mr Yiannis Ioannou, and Youth Board of Cyprus Senior Youth Officer Mrs Maria Christodoulou.

The conference is part of the ‘Youth Empowerment and Innovation Project’ co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme. It is also part of the measures taken by the Ministry of Justice and Public Order to keep its staff, and the public at large, informed to strengthen the prevention of radicalization, which is a key pillar of the National Counter-terrorism Strategy.