Category: Project Updates

Welcome to CONVOLUT!

The ERASMUS+ project CONVOLUT (CONsider your skills for VOLUnTeering) follows on from the EU projects CORE, COOCOU, SCOUT, DISCOVER and KISS, which have been successfully implemented to date, with the aim of adapting the ProfilPASS as a competence assessment tool for people at the beginning of retirement. This target group is in transition from employment to retirement, requiring support during this important transition phase. CONVOLUT aims to inspire people at the beginning of retirement to engage in fulfilling and socially relevant volunteer work by giving them impulses and motivating them to self-reflect on their skills and knowledge for volunteer work. The project is coordinated by the DIE and is aimed at counsellors in the participating countries (Germany, Greece, Austria, Sweden, Slovenia, and Spain) who work with the target group and promote their potential for volunteering.

Find more information on the project here: https://www.convolut-profilpass-international.eu/index.php?article_id=127&clang=1

CREATING THE NARRATIVES OF OUR LIVES TO PREVENT “EARLYSCHOOLLEAVING”

The Call to Action is the last result that has been developed within the frame of the project. It A smart document designed to present My Story Map approach starting from the outcomes and lessons learned from the strategic partnership project. Addressed to school headmasters, teachers and educators, this document introduces a collection of specialised resources, developed for multiple purposes, and aimed at preventing and fighting Early School Leaving. Read on in our latest Newsletter:

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Language Learning through Culture and Cooking (LLCC) – A multi-national educational project!

December 2019 saw the project launch and Kick off meeting in the UK at the head office of Community Action Dacorum. This 2-year project brings together partners from the UK, Austria, Greece, Lithuania, Romania and Spain to share their knowledge and expertise to create innovative training products, which will combine the topics of language learning, cookery and inter-cultural dialogue.

This project aims to make a significant contribution to the development and delivery of curriculum and learning materials to support language learning, cultural understanding and cookery to migrants and those new to an area or country. read more

e-VIVA Newsletter 2

ENHANCING AND VALIDATING SERVICE RELATED COMPETENCES IN VERSATILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN WESTERN BALKAN UNIVERSITIES (E-VIVA)

Training agenda was organized based on several key concepts related to the e-VIVA Project such as: team building, design-thinking, service economy, competence-oriented learning andvalidation, blended learning design, validation and the learning platform, prototyping, etc.

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„ALTER – Alternative Safety Nets“ is a new, EU funded project, which aims at maximising the impact and contribution of alternative education or other equivalent institutions  for adult education.

Depending on the provisions in each national context regarding the completion of secondary education by adults who have dropped out of school, both in terms of increasing the quality of courses provided and also in facilitating their access to the labour market through media literacy competences and digital skills.

ALTER will be implemented in Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece and Spain. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. News and more information can be found under: https://www.facebook.com/alter.project/

It was the fourth partner meeting of our EU-project IRENE that took place in Valencia, Spain, end of February this year. Together with our partners from Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Spain we discussed the further procedure in the project. We are currently in the middle of the development phase of the planned learning platform and are very excited to see the final result!

CREATING THE NARRATIVES OF OUR LIVES TO PREVENT  “EARLYSCHOOLLEAVING”

My Story Map pilot workshops were implemented in five partners countries (Italy, France, Spain, Austria and Belgium) and materials produced in previous phases of the project were tested. Read on in our latest Newsletter:

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I-CARE: Culture-sensitive care and support

Even now, caring for people from a different cultural background presents a challenge for many nursing staff. This is especially true when there are language barriers, but also when there is a lack of understanding for other cultures, and the resulting attitude towards medical treatment, care or support often leads to misunderstandings in the interaction between nursing staff and patients or their relatives.

The EU project I-CARE focuses on the intercultural aspects of care. It is not only about patients with a migration background, but also about nursing staff from other cultural backgrounds. In order to strengthen competencies, training courses on intercultural communication and interaction for nursing staff are developed and implemented.

The kick-off meeting for the I-CARE project took place at the end of January in Göttingen. With the involved partners from Germany, Denmark, UK, Italy and Greece, die Berater work together with organisations with whom we have already successfully carried out projects in the health sector several times in the past. All the more reason for us to look forward to productive cooperation in I-CARE!

EKT project aims to improve the development of emerging technologies in order to reform the teaching profession

Education Sciences Faculty of University of Santiago de Compostela hosted the kick-off meeting of this initiative which achieved million euros for its implementation in the last call of the European Commission

Santiago, 21st of January 2020. Education Sciences Faculty of University of Santiago de Compostela hosted on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd of January the kick-off meeting of the project Educational Knowledge Transfer (EKT), a Consortium of Knowledge Alliances coordinated by USC trough the International Office of this institution. Partners from Spain, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium and United Kingdom are also involved in this initiative. EKT will work during three years on the development of collaborative educational methodologies and Smart technological frameworks. The project will work on a strategic triangle involving members of three areas: educational centers (schools and teachers), universities (Education Faculties and researchers) and technology-based companies and technological institutions (specifically those that offer ‘e-learning’ services).

In the opening event of the kick-off metting Carmen Fernández Morante, lead investigator of this project. Víctor Arce Vázquez, Vice-Rector for Students and Internationalization and Nieves Lagares, commissioner of the Citizenship Campus in University of Santiago de Compostela.

Possible implementation of the In-school placement

EKT will work on the development and experimentation of educational collaborative methodologies in a smart and scalable technology framework targeting official initial education studies of teachers in pre-school, primary and secondary education. The results of the project will contribute effectively to improve the learning of future teachers and to follow up their internship at schools, working on the possible implementation of an in-school placement.

Quote from a partner from the project (for instance International Office Director, lead investigator of the project, Vice- Rector for Internatilization) – Higlighting the relevance of EKT for each institution. In our press realease we included an statement from Carmen Fernández Morante.

EKT Consortium is composed by educational centres (universities and schools) and, on the Galician side, in addition to Tecnoeduc research group, Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA) of the USC and the Galician multinational e-learning company Netex. CESGA, in charge of the technological part, will work on the development of a solution which responds to the needs of these institutions in order to create a training model, with diverse learning and collaboration environments. Several communication tools will be developed such as virtual campuses, e-portfolios or mobile applications which will provide students and teachers with a learning and learning collaborative environment, with an efficient and flexible management and follow-up.

European Training on Creativity and Innovation

You can develop ideas about zero waste strategies for tourism, concepts for women entrepreneurs, sustainable urban co-working spaces but also visions about zoos in the future – just within five days. In the framework of the EU-Project CIM (Creativity and Innovation management in Higher Education, cim-project.eu) University teachers and trainers met in Palermo to learn more about teaching approaches in Creativity and Innovation.

Instead of doing Christmas shopping in the second week of December, approx. 40 participants joined the 5-day training to work in teams on innovative and sustainable project ideas, develop concepts and strategies to implement innovation into different contexts. die Berater^® and CATRO Bulgaria were represented by two teams of trainers and students, collecting ideas and inspiration for future leaning projects inside and outside their organisations.