Category: Project Updates

First Call of the New Erasmus+ Programme Imminent – Let’s Get Started!

We are still waiting for the first call for proposals of the new Erasmus+ programme 2021-2027 being published. It is expected for the end of this month. The period for project writing will be short, so a lot of projects proposals have already started to be prepared.

With many of you we have successfully cooperated in previous programme periods and do hope to continue our cooperation in the new Erasmus+ programme. And with many other recipients of our newsletter we would like to start working together.

We are keen on discussing with you new project proposals, especially around our thematic priorities (cf. also our profile):

• Innovative responses to digital transformation
• Learning and working for sustainability
• Taking everybody on board
• Caring for the older generations
• Opening up opportunities for young people
• Unfolding human potentials
• Safeguarding health, integrity and wellbeing

For more information on our activities in these areas please have a look at our profile.

And in the next few weeks, we will send you more details about our seven priorities.

We will also bring into any Erasmus project our wide experience in strategic project development, transnational project management, communication and dissemination, as well as our MediaCompetence department’s know how with regard to online learning, content creation or gamification.

All topics mentioned above play important roles in Erasmus. And of course also in other funding programmes we will also be active in: Horizon Europe, the Interreg programmes, AMF, ESF, Rights and Values, Creative Europe…

Let’s start the new EU funding period with exciting projects together! Get in touch with us!

NEWSLETTER #1 – WELCOME TO THE COMMIT PROJECT!

How to create a Social Media campaign focussing on alternative strategies against extremism and radicalisation?  The COMMIT project (COMMunIcation campaign against exTremism and radicalisation) is ready for the next phase!

In the next months we are going to deliver our Workshops to young people and university students – they will help us to create the campaign on different Social Media platforms. In this newsletter we inform you about all these activities ongoing in our project!

Newsletter #1

MILE – Networking of Stakeholders for the Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market in Tyrol

Representatives of the regional government of Tyrol, the regional refugee agency, the City of Innsbruck as well as associations and initiatives working on the integration of migrants accepted the invitation of die Berater® to a first networking meeting which was held online due to the pandemic. After taking over the role of the Austrian project partner in the transnational AMIF project MILE, the project team of die Berater® informed the Tyrolean integration stakeholders about the status of the project and the labour market trainings that started on 1 February. A second MILE course starts on 1 March.

The stakeholders responded very positively to the project and pledged their support in promoting the measures. In the coming months, a total of 130 migrants and people with a refugee background will take part in competence assessments, soft skills training and training in digital competence, receive support in their job search through application coaching and gain experience in the Tyrolean labour market through internships.

Further information on the project can be found in the projectfolder and on the project website.

The “Alternative Safety Nets” Project keeps moving forward!

The ALTER website has been launched in all partner languages. The Nationals & the Transnational Reports are available online

Our innovative 2-year Erasmus+ project “Alternative Safety Nets – ALTER” keeps evolving as our team members from our highly qualified partners in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain continue finding creative ways of working together, despite the various difficulties and challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE & FACEBOOK PAGE

The ALTER website is already “on air” at https://alterproject.eu and is available in all partner languages. Its content includes the following:
• About: Learn more about the project, its objectives, main target groups, activities and outputs
• Partners: Meet our team that consists of Beşiktaş District Directorate of National Education (Turkey/coordinator), die Berater (Austria), Symplexis (Greece), Know and Can Association (Bulgaria), Magenta Consultoría Projects S.L.U (Spain), EU Activities Centre/EUAC (Turkey).
• Reports: Explore the nationals and transnational reports carried out by all partners
• News & events: Stay up-to-date with our project’s latest news and join us in future events
• Contact form

In addition, the ALTER Facebook page is also available at https://www.facebook.com/alter.project, offering related news and updates about the project.

For detailed information read our ALTER’s Press Release.

e-VIVA project news

Philosophy, Digital Marketing or Mechanical Engineering – in the e-VIVA project, universities in the West Balkans are testing new approaches to knowledge transfer in various courses of study. The focus is on methods of creative thinking and innovation and the validation of personal competencies.

From May to October, all partner institutions organised staff, students and SME’s trainings to share the information on the e-VIVA project activities and inspire their academic communities to use the competence validation tools and practices at their daily teaching and learning activities.
The partner institutions also took the opportunity to organise several events to promote the project.

Read more about all activities in the 4^th Newsletter!

Has the EU banned kebabs? Does the EU want to boycott national products? Is there really a European tax on air conditioning?

It seems clear the answer to all these questions is no. They are all parts of myths and fake news circulating on Twitter, Facebook and many other online newspapers across Europe. In recent years, we have been spending more and more time on the web. We use it to work, to communicate, to have fun but, above all, to inform ourselves. It is not always easy to identify the true news from the false ones.

This fact, together with the growing of anti-European movements are more and more frequent to read fake news about Europe and its institutions.

As European Union constantly faces different manifestations of Europhobia, unmasking EU myths becomes more and more important to keep the EU united. Facts checking help not only to unmask the EU myths but as well to better understand the EU processes.

Based on these points, the MEGA project aims at enhancing critical thinking and media literacy of young people by analysing and unmasking Europhobic myths.

In order to achieve this goal, six organisations from Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Cyprus, and Lithuania working with young people from all over Europe, have been cooperating, developing these tools:

• EU myths and success stories
  A report on widespread Europhobic myths and success stories of the EU.

• EU learning games
  Online gamification environment presenting the beliefs and myths on the EU

• Guide
  promoting and explaining methods and tools aimed to implement educational activities for young people.

EU myths and success stories

EU myth or Euromyth usually refers to invented stories or distorted facts about the European Union (EU) and the activities of its institutions. The EU is accused of nonsensical EU legislation, bureaucracy and all difficulties and challenges arising from global trends.

A research conducted in each partner country through social media produced a compilation of 145 EY myths along with the explanations with facts and useful links where correct information can be found and 60 success stories along with shortcomings of the EU. Myths are grouped into topics such as legislation, policy, religion, culture, migration, finances, functioning of the EU, health care, democracy, Brexit, and then into countries. Success stories of the EU are grouped into general achievements and country-specific stories.

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MILE – Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market in Times of Corona

die Berater® has taken over the role of the Austrian project partner in the transnational AMIF project MILE. The main project activities are being carried out in the Innsbruck branch of die Berater®.

We contact employers to provide voluntary internships to learn about the labour market, organise matching with job-seeking migrants, conduct competence assessments and soft skills development activities, provide technical training and support migrants when entering the labour market. To achieve sustainable impact, we network and work closely with integration and labour market actors in the project.

All this is now to be made ready for take-off in a short time, the first courses are to start in February…. No easy task for the project team in Innsbruck in view of the lockdown and contact restrictions. But the first participants have already been recruited and networking activities are in full swing.

Further information on the project can be found in the projectfolder and on the project website.

Cooking Through the Pandemic

Despite a global pandemic we are focusing on our transnational project developing various innovative material to be used by trainers throughout Europe to engage with teaching languages through Cooking and intercultural dialogue.

Training Guidelines on how to deliver the Course

We are currently working on two manuals that will give trainers useful tips and strategies on how to deliver our LLCC language course. Manual 1 is a guide to the delivery including adapting to online teaching, Manual 2 is a supporting manual for supplementary help and guidance.

Download Newsletter 2

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EKT – Educational Knowledge Transfer – NEWSLETTER 1 – DECEMBER 2020

EKT – Educational Knowledge Transfer is a three-year project co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

In the Knowledge Alliance for Higher Education partner institutions from six EU countries with different profiles participate and contribute to the work:  on the one hand, technology companies that offer e-learning services and resources, and on the other hand, educational institutions with a stake in Initial Teacher Education (ITE).

read more – Newsletter 1

NO ALTERNATIVE FACTS – Virtual Conference: Wednesday 2nd December 15.00 – 18.00 CET

Tackling Intentional Misinformation in Digital Technologies through the development of Critical Thinking Skills and Media Literacy.

Young people today are growing up in a globalised world where they are processing information from a wide variety of sources; where ‘Fake News’ is big news and where it’s difficult to tell what is real or deliberately made up to misinform!

We all need critical thinking skills to navigate potential pitfalls when consuming news or searching for information, particularly when using online sources and social media. Media literacy is also crucial for sustaining democracy by knowing which information sources to trust and which media are trustworthy.

Tackling Online Disinformation: An Educational Approach
Virtual Conference: Wednesday 2nd December 15.00 – 18.00 CET
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