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Smart Technologies for Innovation in Teacher Training

The EKT Project started in November 2019. Due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, its duration had to be extended by half a year until April 2023.

A lot of work has been done by the project partners: They carried out preliminary research, developed a methodological framework, produce several versions of the EKT Platform, tested and improved it in two piloting cycles in Austria, England, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, and implemented a wide range of dissemination and promotion activities in the education and research sector.

In the two remaining months, the project results are now being polished, finalised and proudly presented to the project’s target audiences.

Register for the EKT Final Conference and have a look at the EKT Newsletter.

Curious Curation Conference Recap

Online Event and Final Conference for the Critical Curation and Collaboration in Learning project Cur8

On Thursday, 9 March, 2023 we had the pleasure of hosting the Curious Curation Conference online from our headquarters in Vienna. The conference aimed to explore the topic of learning content curation for upskilling and reskilling, and the critical digital competences needed by educators for this task. We were delighted to welcome more than 50 learning and development professionals from all over Europe and we were particularly happy to see many educators from Ukraine join us, too.

The Cur8 project team was on-site to present the context of learning content curation as well as some of the material that has been created as part of the project. We also used innovative tools such as Mentimeter and Slido to allow participants to actively engage in the conference. Moreover, we were proud to announce the public launch of the Cur8 Learning Experience Platform and Toolbox and encourage our readers to take a look and explore the many resources available on the platform.

We would like to thank all the presenters and attendees for making the event a success!

Those who missed out on the conference, a documentation of the conference including all slides is available via the conference padlet.

Don’t forget to connect with the Cur8 project on LinkedIn to stay up to date.

The Cur8 project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The Curious Curation online conference is organized by the Cur8 Consortium and hosted by die Berater®.

Recently the new Erasmus+ project EPICURIOUS has started!

In the next two years this project wants to give young people new possible career opportunities by introducting them to the Creative and Cultural Industries!

We will help young people to further develop the skills that they need to work in this interesting field!

Am 9. März diskutieren wir live über Contentkuration für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung!

Wir laden Sie herzlich zur interaktiven Online-Konferenz Curious Curation am 9. März 2023 ein. Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache von 15.30 bis 17.30 Uhr über Zoom statt.

Die Curious Curation-Konferenz richtet sich an Expert:innen aus den Bereichen Lernen, Entwicklung und Erwachsenenbildung und gibt Einblicke in innovative Methoden zur Gestaltung von Lernangeboten. Die Online-Veranstaltung bietet außerdem die Möglichkeit, einen Einblick in die neue Cur8 Learning Experience Platform und Toolbox zu erhalten. Die Präsentationen umfassen:

•  Learning Content Curation (Hilary Hale, Apricot Training Management Ltd, UK)
•  Competences for Critical Curation (Sabine Wiemann, BUPNET Bildung und Projekt Netzwerk GmbH, DE)
•  Empowering Learners and Stimulating Curiosity (Olga Mineva, blinc eG, DE)

Bitte reservieren Sie hier Ihren freien Platz.

Das Cur8-Projekt wird durch das Erasmus+ Programm der Europäischen Union kofinanziert. Die Curious Curation Online-Konferenz wird vom Cur8-Konsortium organisiert und von die Berater® durchgeführt.

Erfolgreiches DICA Meeting in Granada!

Am 9. und 10. Februar fand in Granada ein Meeting des DICA Projektteams statt.

Ziel des Meetings war es, die nächsten Schritte im Projekt zu besprechen – mit besonderem Blick auf das bald startende Piloting, wo die entwickelten Videos einem breiterem Publikum gezeigt werden sollen. Mach mit uns eine Tour rund um die Welt und entdecke die unterschiedlichen Kulturen

>  Jetzt auch NEU auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/world_cultures_eu

Successful DICA Meeting in Granada!

On 9th and 10th of February, the DICA Meeting took place in Granada.

The DICA project team has met to discuss the next steps in the projects, especially the upcoming piloting, where the developed videos will be shown to the general public. Come with us on a tour around the world and discover various cultures!

> Now also NEW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/world_cultures_eu

Curious Curation – Join us on March 9, 2023!

We are pleased to invite you to the interactive online conference Curious Curation on 9 March, 2023.

The event will take place via Zoom online room, 15:30-17:30 CET.

Designed for Learning and Development Professionals, the event will focus on providing new insights to shape your own teaching and learning practices.

The Curious Curation conference will also be a great opportunity to get an insider’s view of the newly-launched Cur8 Learning Experience Platform and Toolbox.

Presentations include:

+ Learning Content Curation (Hilary Hale, Apricot Training Management Ltd, UK)

+ Competences for Critical Curation (Sabine Wiemann, BUPNET Bildung und Projekt Netzwerk GmbH, DE)

+ Empowering Learners and Stimulating Curiosity (Olga Mineva, blinc eG, DE)

Please reserve your free spot here.

The Cur8 project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The Curious Curation online conference is organized by the Cur8 Consortium and hosted by die Berater®.

Launch of the MOVE UP project

The MOVE UP project consortium held their Kick-off meeting in Perugia, Italy on February 6th and 7th 2023, marking the beginning of our exciting journey!

The MOVE UP project will develop a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for unemployed or inactive mothers with low qualifications who need/are willing to (re)access education and/or labour market, offering the opportunity of assessing, validating and further developing their prior learning, by enhancing the competences they gain because of their role of parent.

This approach offers the opportunity of discovering, assessing, recognising, possibly validating, and further developing the competences they acquired thanks to the motherhood experience, therefore mostly through informal learning and daily activities. The outcome of this process is

thus the opportunity to make value out of these competences to facilitate their participation in training and in the labour market, and as active citizens.

The focus of this path for upskilling is on the Personal, Social and Learning to learn competence (PSL), that has already proven to be an effective driver for developing other key competences for lifelong learning. They have been selected, together with the basic competences, as it includes several skills that women acquired or further develop while becoming mothers, as better adapting to change, coping with uncertainty, getting involved, managing tasks, solving problems.

The specific objectives of the MOVE UP project include the following:

• Prototyping an innovative outreach strategy and guidance measures which can overcome gender bias and stereotypes
• Allowing the identification and self-assessment of their Personal, Social and Learning to Learn competence (PSL)
• Developing, testing and piloting innovative and integrated tailored learning provisions based on the individual needs for upskilling and designed accordingly to existing frameworks
• Allowing the recognition and paving the way for validation of both PSL competence and basic competences
• Providing a permanent framework to ALE stakeholders for setting up effective and renewed policies and provisions, thus contributing to a more gender equal labour market freed from stereotypes related to maternity role

Stay tuned for more updates on MOVE UP!