Category: Project Updates

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.

“Everyone loves stories and everyone has a story to tell.”

This is why storytelling and its digital version have found their place in social networks for several years: Facebook,
Snapchat, Instagram allow you to put content in a “story”. Read on in our latest Newsletter:

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The 2nd training course on renewable energies arranged within the NE(W)AVE project has recently come to an end.

At St.H, in Palermo and at Heliotec, in La Vall D’Uixo, the learners coming from Italy, Greece and Denmark improved their knowledge and competences on renewable energies through the expert guide of their company mentors. During 2 weeks through classes, visits and workshops, the participants have not only learnt more about green energy but also boosted their soft skills, such as their communication and intercultural skills, improving their technical English and getting used to work and share ideas with people from other countries.

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My Story Map – News 9/19

On My Story Wall (mystorywall.eu) we created an online exhibition of our story maps. These maps were developed by the participants themselves (early school leavers).

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My Story Map – News 8/19

During the first semester of 2019, all partners have carried out a series of workshops in collaboration with different entities in order to prevent early school leaving.

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My Story Map – News 6/19

From the 12th to the 18th of May, staff members and representatives of all the six partner organisations of the project gathered together in the ancient Flemish city of Bruges, Belgium.

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My Story Map – News 4/19

The members of the consortium behind My Story Map developed, during the first year of the project, a research about the topics of early-school leaving and the use of storytelling and digital story mapping in its prevention.

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