Category: Project Updates

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.

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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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Programme

Invitiation to the CIM Conference: How to avoid a learning lockdown online

Join us at the 10th REVEAL Conference on the 10th and 11th December 2020

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 10th REVEAL conference, this year hosted by the consortia of the projects CIM, PITCH and Job Bridge on December 10th and 11th, 2020.

Accelerated digitalisation has brought challenges and opportunities for activities in all sectors. How can we foster the visual, swift and expansive potential of online tools whilst preserving the collaborative, creative and social prospects that face to face interactions provide? How could those innovative digital formats contribute to solving some of the issues caused by the COVID-19 crisis?

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Updates from our LLCC-project

After almost a year, the project Language Learning through Culture and Cooking (LLCC) has entered a key phase when it comes to the successful implementation of this new and innovative EU-funded project. It tries to combine the topics of language learning, cookery and intercultural dialogue creating a totally new training programme.

Right now, the project partner’s from six partner countries are working on the development of new training materials that will be tested on our first transnational training in January. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will organise this event with trainers from all partner countries as an online format.

We are looking forward to further developing this interesting project where we try to make language learning more innovative!

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FSEPS – Our second Webinar!

Read the ALTER project’s nationals & transnational reports!

The reports offer interesting insights from the primary and secondary research carried out in all partner countries

Key findings from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain.

The ALTER project’s Transnational Report has been published on our website, consolidating the results from all partners’ National Reports that are also uploaded on the website’s “reports” section! The reports offer interesting insights from the primary and secondary research carried out in all consortium countries (Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain) about the existing web-based professional profiling methodologies & practices, as well as the existing level of digital skills & competences of adults attending alternative educational institutions.

More specifically, the transnational report summarizes the desk research and stakeholder’s interviews (50 in total) on how digital and social media are used for job search at transnational level and, in addition, discusses the key findings reached through organized focus groups and online surveys with:

a) educators of adults (58 in total), expressing opinions about their level of digital skills and
b) adults having dropped out of school and attending alternative educational institutions (96 in total).

The Transnational Report is available in English, while its executive summary is translated in all partners’ languages.

Our second Newsletter contains more details.