Welcome to GROOVE!

The ERASMUS+ project GROOVE (DiGital tRansfOrmatiOn of the Vet sEctor) has just started. VET is an integral part of education providing lifelong learning systems equipping individuals with skills responding to the needs of the economy but also with skills important for personal development and active citizenship. The European Commission emphasizes the need of VET to become more fit to the digital age since VET will play a crucial role in helping people to find jobs after the Coronavirus crisis.

Therefore, the GROOVE project aims to build the capacity of VET providers/trainers to digitize, modernize their practices and build the low-skilled adults’ digital literacy skills and fill the gap between the demand for, and supply of, a digitally competent workforce through adjusting the VET sector to become more resilient to rapid technological and labour market changes

DigiVET

DigiVET is an Erasmus+ project that develops and implements e-learning resources for the VET sector. The main aim is to strengthen the competences of teachers and VET professionals in the design of e-learning. Maren Satke, (die Berater) has summarised in an article how the person-oriented perspective must be taken into account when creating online learning.

Creative Change – More Creativity for EU-funded Projects

How do you bring more creativity into EU-funded projects? By learning from creative people! The EU project “Creative Change” combines person-centred methods from adult education and culture. Through exchange, we want to learn from each other and thus bring more innovation and creativity into our projects. Interested in ideas and inspiration? Join the Creative Change Space on Facebook!

Are you a #CreativeChanger? Contribute in our FB group.

This is a place to connect, share, find good practices, and identify ideas to address challenges from an innovative & creative project management perspective.

What is The Creative Change Space?

This is one of the 3 project´s outputs which will result into a platform, a virtual environment for all those interested in learning and exploring innovative, and creative ways in project management. It will include learning resources as well as networking opportunities among EU-Project managers in the context of adult education.

Any suggestion or good practice to share?

Culturally sensitive care: I-CARE project piloting starts

The training materials for the project “I-Care – Culturally Sensitive Care in Social and Health Care” are ready – so nothing stands in the way of the test run! In cooperation with Volkshilfe Upper Austria and Senecura, we are piloting the training materials on the topic of intercultural competence in social and health care.

What does cultural diversity mean in social and health care? What challenges does it bring with it, what opportunities can organisations and professionals use for their everyday work?  The I-CARE training includes eight learning modules on various topics of intercultural competence: How does cultural awareness develop, what pitfalls lurk in intercultural communication? What do I need to know about different traditions and customs that can affect everyday care?

With the health facility Senecura and Volkshilfe Oberösterreich, we were able to win partners for the piloting of the I-Care trainings in Austria. From January to the beginning of February, training sessions will take place in which professionals from senior care and mobile care will train their intercultural competences.

The I-CARE project team is looking forward to an interesting exchange and feedback on the developed materials!

Integration project MILE on the home straight

At the end of November, the project MILE- Migrants Integration in the Labour market in Europe, funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union (AMIF), will be completed. die Berater® stepped in as a new Austrian partner in the transnational project about a year ago.

The project team in the Innsbruck branch of die Berater® took on the task of developing and implementing a programme for 130 migrants that included skills assessment, soft skills training, digital literacy training, job application training and internship placement, working closely with regional integration stakeholders and businesses. Not an easy undertaking in times of pandemic and lockdowns and only a short time window due to the project’s subsequent entry.

In the end, these requirements were successfully mastered, not least due to the intensive cooperation with business, labour market and integration institutions and NGOs in Tyrol. So successfully that now numerous potential participants had to be turned away due to the end of the project.

The project results will be presented at a closing event in Innsbruck on 26 November 2021 and discussed with all interested parties in the context of the integration system in Tyrol.
Click here to register.

A direct insight into the experiences of the migrant MILE participants with the Austrian labour market is provided by two Videos we produced.

DigiVET #Newsletter Issue n.1 ready for you!

Digital competences for teachers in vocational education and training are the focus of the project. With the first newsletter you will get a first insight into the project as well as the first project activities!

Read more: Newsletter

https://digivet-project.eu/

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Welcome to the final newsletter of the project ALTER – Alternative Safety Nets!

Learn more about what we have achieved so far & join us in the “home stretch” of our Erasmus+ project!

The ALTER project ends this August after 24 months of fruitful cooperation among partners from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain.

Learn more about what we have achieved so far, even under the current Covid-19 pandemic, and join us in the “home stretch” of our project, taking part in the pilot testing of our e-learning platform, and attending our info-days and final conference!

Enjoy our newsletter!

Creative Virtual Cooperation – Become part of the European initiative!

The EU projects “Creative Change” and “The ONE project” both aim to make cooperation and communication in EU-projects more creative, innovative and thus more sustainable.

If you would like to bring a breath of fresh air into your project management, subscribe to our newsletter  or join our community on LinkedIn.

die Berater is coordinator of the project partnership Creative Change  –  a mixture of adult education organisations and culture-creating and mediating institutions. We want to inspire each other and collect and test new approaches for the management of EU projects. The motto is: Moving away from a strict process orientation towards a human-centred approach! Make room for design thinking and the increased use of creativity techniques in different phases of project work!

Creative Change invites EU project managers from all over Europe to join us on our common journey towards more creativity and innovation. In the project, we are collecting different tools and methodologies and we develop an online Creativity Space to explore and learn about them.

Start thinking outside the project management-box and learn more at creative-change!

Hunt For Europe Newsletter 1 released

On 9 June 2021, a webinar presentation of the “Hunt for Europe” project was held. The webinar involved our stakeholders, i.e. 40 teachers of the partner countries who will be involved in the test with their students next year. It’s a mix between learning the language and learning aspects of everyday life, customs, and traditions of a country, with a view to total integration, the most important objective of the project.

Read more about the current state of development in our first newsletter.

The project is funded by the “ERASMUS+” programme. Our international partners are: EnAIP Piemonte (Italy), LudusXR (Denmark), Wisamar (Germany), Centre 4 Education (Spain), Vardakeios School of Hermoupolis (Greece), MTU (Ireland).

Why are intercultural competences so important in healthcare?

In everyday care, people from different cultures come together. In their daily work, healthcare staff often have to master challenging situations.

Especially in intercultural encounters, it is different knowledge, different attitudes, reservations, etc. that lead to misunderstandings.

In the Erasmus+ project I-CARE we are developing various materials on the topic of intercultural/transcultural care and making them available to all those working in social and care professions.

Through more intercultural competence, nurses gain more confidence in dealing with diverse patients/client groups. Knowing how to react correctly and concrete tips for dealing with delicate situations contribute to better mutual understanding and thus reduce stress in everyday work. In the end, everyone benefits – patients, staff and not least the entire organisation.

More information about the I-CARE project