Category: Project Updates

e-VIVA Newsletter 3

e-VIVA stands for “Enhancing and Validating service related competences in Versatile learning environments in Western BAlkan Universities” (e-VIVA). Since November 2019 university partners have been busy with implementing meetings and training activities. A third international training course took place in Essen (DE) in the beginning of March 2020.

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Official start of COMMIT

Our EU-funded project COMMIT (“COMMunIcation campaign against exTremism and radicalisation”) helps to prevent young people (between 13 – 25) in 4 EU countries from extremism, radicalism and terrorism, providing them with skills relevant to co-create counter narratives challenging extremist online propaganda and alternative narratives through promoting democratic values, tolerance and cooperation.

The project adopts a trans-medial approach combining online campaigning and face-to-face activities (workshops, contest, events). COMMIT shall also improve the capacity of university students, media professionals, CSOs, Internet companies and stakeholders to meet the new challenges linked to extremist online propaganda and radicalisation, training them in alternative and counter narratives and their use in prevention of radicalisation through a capacity building programme.

The 2-year project is coordinated by Italy and implemented together with the partner countries Austria, Greece, Netherlands and Belgium.

Coronavirus impact on climate actions and the NE(W)AVE efforts to support renewable energy sector

On 9 April 2020, the environment ministers of 13 EU Member States stressed that Europe must not forget about the persistent climate and ecological crisis when defining its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is clear that the coronavirus has had an impact on climate actions and the European Green Deal.

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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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