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Digital Cultural Ambassadors for more intercultural dialogue!

In a strongly connected world the importance of real intercultural dialogue and the knowledge about other continents and countries is every day more important.

The Erasmus+ project DICA is trying to form digital Cultural Ambassadors that will give new insights in different cultures based on individual stories.

We asked in Austria 8 persons, what means culture for them and how their origin is influencing their identity.

Based on the individual stories we are creating now animated videos, that will give insights in various cultures.

Stay tuned for more news coming soon!

SLACC – the project website is published

We are happy to announce that the official website of the SLACC project is now open to the public. At https://slacc-project.eu you can find information about the project and the partnership in several languages. In the future, all results and materials will also be shared there. What is SLACC about? SLACC is a project funded by Erasmus+ and aims to disprove myths and fake news about climate change.

The goal of SLACC is to improve critical thinking skills among young people and provide them with the communication skills that are necessary to identify fake news about climate change. SLACC aims to prepare young people to become climate ambassadors and protect our planet from destructive actions.

Successful Erasmus+ Multiplier Event

The event „With Erasmus+ projects: Digitisation. Sustainability. Entrepreneurship. Labour market “ at TOP-Lokal, Vienna on 13 October 2022 was jointly organised by die Berater, ipcenter.at, VHS and ÖJAB and registered as part of #ErasmusDays 2022. 42 EU project managers, experts, trainers, coaches and programme managers in adult education and vocational education and training took part.

At this informal meeting results and experiences from EU projects in three thematic areas were presented and discussed how these outcomes could be integrated into professional practice.

Three topics were discussed:

• Digital competences for the labour market and social participation
• Learning for sustainable development, with focus on the Erasmus+ projects
• Skills development for entrepreneurship and the labour market

Our focus was on the Erasmus+ projects ILDE, SUM, Missing Entrepreneurs and Cur8.

In addition, experiences from the projects YouEU, Care4Carers, TUTOR and Creative Change were informally brought into the discussions.

Afterwards, there was a networking buffet to exchange ideas how innovation needs in adult and vocational education and training can be met through future projects and cooperation.

Welcome to our VET-ECOoking project!

The Erasmus+ project VET-ECOoking – Module for VET Degrees on Gastronomy on “Sustainable Cooking” will be implemented from 2021 to 2023. The partnership includes partners from Germany, Austria, Greece and Portugal.

This project aims at accomplishing the following main objectives:

– Create a training module on “Sustainable Cooking” for VET students in the field of cooking;
– Develop hard and soft skills of VET students to prepare sustainable, high-quality gastronomy and raise awareness for the importance of fighting climate change;
– Better prepare the VET students to address the challenges at the workplace, with a focus on the greener dietary options;
– Increase of the notoriety of VET in the field of cooking; and
– Use cooking as a departure point to raise awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (namely no.s 2, 3, 6 and 12).

Check out our project website for more information

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Final Conference and Exhibition:

With a sense of fulfilment and joy, we met in Göttingen in September 22 for the final conference of our Climate Box project. On the topic of “Open learning and development spaces for sustainability and local development”, we joined other exciting projects and local initiatives under the umbrella of REVEAL – a European network that promotes open, competence-based learning.

More than 100 European and local guests were able to exchange ideas and get inspired about climate change and sustainability in a highly interactive programme with an exhibition of 25 exhibits, workshops and panel discussions.

The hybrid-guided exhibition presented a well-coordinated mix of state-of-the-art sustainable products and services, SDG management formats, educational opportunities, heritage conservation initiatives and much more.

The virtual part of the exhibition can be visited here.

“Unbox It” – was the motto once again at the Climate Box exhibition stand. Packed in boxes, visitors found small entertaining climate-related tasks that got them thinking and discussing.

Climate Box coordinator Sabine Wiemann after the event: “An absolutely successful conclusion to our successful project. With this event, we have certainly also set an example of how conferences can become an active and activating event that offers space for exchange and creative ideas. And in terms of sustainability, it also offers something to look at afterwards – the online exhibition.”

For more information on the Climate Box, please see the project website or contact Franziska Steffen (die Berater^®, bridges to europe, project management and consulting): f.steffen@dieberater.com.

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