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The REBUS project website is online

News from our REBUS project: The website is online!

The project aims at developing, testing, validating and mainstreaming holistic and needs driven open learning modules to promote entrepreneurship competences of ICT and engineering graduates at the interface of academic education and learning in practice business contexts.

For more information visit us: rebusproject.net

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Conference invitation: Health Care Communication in Intercultural Settings

We would like to invite you to the conference

„Health Care Communication in Intercultural Settings: from Challenge to Success“

Kardinal König Haus
Vienna, 7 June 2017

At this conference, healthcare, language and communication experts will present their research findings in health care communication and share their practical experiences with successful language training as prerequisite for integration.

The conference is organized by GOING INTERNATIONAL in cooperation with die Berater as part of the project „Nursing on the Move“ and funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. The project developed an e-learning platform for nurses with scenarios, video cases, strategies and tips that will guide (pre)professional nurses to more appropriate and more effective foreign language communication in a clinical setting.

You can expect scientific lectures, a panel discussion with health and communication experts talking about their experiences, and hands-on workshops.

Pease find the conference programme here.

The conference will be held in German and English.
Participation is free of charge.

Registration: Please send an e-mail to office@goinginternational.org
Registration deadline: 17th May 2017

Register soon – the number of participants is limited!

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna!

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International Request for Entre-You Training

International Request for Entre-You Training

Find here all the information about our training programme!

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SASSI Awards 2017

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SASSI Awards 2017 seek good practice in age-sensitive approaches to Continuous Professional Development!

Across Europe demographic trends and labour market policies aimed at delaying retirement, are leading to an increase in the average age of the workforce. People are wanting to, or having to, work for longer than ever before. This is a cause for concern for both employers and older workers if skills, and therefore productivity and employability, deteriorate with age.

The goal of the SASSI project is to give people the opportunity to maintain a productive working life by focusing on the updating and upskilling of this ageing workforce. It seeks to identify evidence of good practice in terms of HR strategies and workforce development initiatives for older workers and learners from across Europe – highlighting these as exemplars for others. It also aims to provide Trainers and Employers with a range of skills, tools and techniques to help them support older learners and workers more effectively.

We are seeking submissions of innovative workforce development strategies that

  • maintain and improve the motivation and productivity of older workers;
  • enhance inclusion and age-diversity whilst supporting an organisational vision;
  • create positive organisational effects.

Who can apply:

HR and training departments or line managers of with people management responsibilities, or external support agencies

More information and online application:

http://www.sassi-project.eu/news/sassi-awards-2017/

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It takes two to get refugees employed

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Many of the refugees who have been arriving in Europe in the past two years got the legal title to stay and are now emerging in the labour markets. Various integration programmes to prepare them for employment are in place: vocational qualification assessment programmes, language courses, European value and integration courses, general labour market qualification, orientation and insertion programmes, informal counselling and support centres, refugee volunteering schemes, to list but some of the most common integration measures. die Berater is providing several programmes of this kind.

These programmes are no doubt needed and a pre-requisite to successful entering the European labour markets. But they are not enough. Many companies and organisations which are expected to employ refugee immigrants are reluctant to do so. According to the Austrian Employment Service (AMS) only 15% of those refugees who have arrived in Austria between 2015 and mid 2016 with a positive asylum decree have managed to find a job.

Not only need refugees be prepared and qualified, also their prospective employers need information, support and encouragement to employ refugees. The project REST, developed by die Berater together with partners from Germany, Greece, Italy and Bulgaria and funded by the European Union’s AMIF programme, will develop suitable training and counselling offers for employers in the next two year. The project has just started with a kick-off in Kassel, Germany.

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News from our LikeHome project: The website has launched!

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LikeHome is a collaboration project between nine organizations from seven different European countries to foster the inclusion of newly arrived migrants and refugees to a host country´s education and training systems, to the local economy and society in general.

For more information, visit us: likehomeproject.com

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Learn. Play. Share.

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Online Games for Strategic Management or Business Simulators are especially useful for skill development. Rather than offering traditional paper-based or online static courses, Virtual Games can offer an incredibly immersive and engaging environment where users “learn by doing”.

Bearing this in mind, a partnership of European entrepreneurship enthusiasts has gathered to develop BGame, an innovative European-funded project in which serious gaming and virtual reality are used to improve skills needed in the 21st century companies.

The objective is to develop an innovative learning tool, the BGame game, where players (managers, representatives from SMEs and entrepreneurs) can select among 8 business scenarios and lead their company towards successful internationalization. The game is complemented with e-learning resources that help players take decisions in any round as it presents detailed explanations of the topics of the game, such as strategic management, international marketing, foreign markets, finances, among others.

Get more info: bgame-project.eu

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Entrepreneurship Education goes (South) East

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Entrepreneurship Education goes (South) East

How to change the mindset of young people studying engineering or Information Technology in post- communist countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and Russia? How to make these students more innovative and daring, how to encourage them to consider – yes, risky! – careers as entrepreneurs instead of aiming at safe but rather unpromising jobs in the public sector? These young people are the ones who can make crucial contributions to the development of their countries, but often enough they are reluctant to do so.

These questions were intensively discussed in the kick-off meeting of the EU project REBUS – Ready for Business, hosted by die Berater® in Vienna. In the next three years REBUS will develop and implement new forms of entrepreneurial learning in the countries mentioned above. Entrepreneurship cannot be learnt in class-rooms, but through practice-oriented learning like project, mentoring programmes, internships of transnational mobility. These practical activities will be accompanied by blended learning and validation through the well-proven Level5 approach which will make the acquired competences visible to the students themselves and to prospective employers.

More information about this exciting project to follow…

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VALLEY European Award – Promoting initiatives for validating learning outcomes in volunteering

valleyIn the framework of our VALLEY project we are looking for innovative initiatives and activities that promote the development of competences in an innovative way and include practical cases or at least ideas on how learning outcomes and competence developments within volunteering work can be assessed and evidenced also beyond the walls of formal education.

  • Are you working with volunteers?
  • Do you support them in validating their competences acquired or do you have an innovative idea?

The VALLEY-prize is an award given to the most innovative and promising European initiatives and projects that:

  • Send and/or host volunteers in their organisation
  • Focus on enhancing the learning dimension of volunteering work in Europe
  • Reflect on/consider ways of measuring and documenting volunteers’ development in relation to competences

Award ceremony in Marseille, France

We want you to be creative and present your learning projects in an innovative way. All ideas should take into account competences’ dimension. The three best contributions will be invited to the Award Ceremony in Marseille (France) on Thursday 16th February 2017. Moreover, you will receive a certificate and your idea will be published in newsletters and articles!

More information about participation, award criteria and submission: valley-eu.org/award

VALLEY is …

a 2-year project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme (Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships in the field of Youth). VALLEY aims to enhance the learning dimension of volunteering work through the development of a new approach to promote volunteering among young people as a resource of personal empowerment.

Information about the project : valley-eu.org

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ComProCom: Project Progress

ComProCom: Project Progress

ComProCom is running according to the agreed schedule. Six “National Reports on the Current Situation relating to national competence standards and their use”, referring to Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Ireland, Germany and Greece, were delivered in December 2015. Τhe Synthesis Report titled “Models and uses of ‘competence’ in six EU countries’ VET systems” was completed in January 2016.
The second partners’ meeting was held on 2 – 4 February 2016, in Dresden (DE) and the third meeting on 8 – 9 June 2016, in Clane (IRE). The first multiplier event took place in London (UK) on May 6th 2016, coordinated by SLD.

The partnership is working towards the development of the five competence frameworks on the basis of an innovative methodology. Contact us for our second newsletter!