Description

The project aims to address the increasing disconnection between formal education and training and the world of work because of the emergence of new job roles due to the quickening pace of the adoption of ICT in the museum sector. Mu.SA addresses directly the shortage of digital and transferrable skills identified in the museum sector and supports the continuous professional development of museum professionals.

A set of emerging job role profiles will be composed from the competences identified by the analysis of needs and training offers. For each of them, a modular VET curriculum will be designed, applying a specific VET methodology based on learning outcomes and principles of adult education that realizes new approaches to education and competence development that capitalize on the full potential of various learning settings. A repository of digital OERs will be developed, to support the acquisition of more than 40 digital and transversal competences. Using these, a MOOC for acquiring the basic competences of job role profiles and a Specialization Training Course including e-learning and face-to-face lectures and a work based learning phase will be offered. Training will be delivered via an online platform that stimulates sharing and exchange of knowledge, experiences and best practices. Communities of practice that ensure sustainability of results beyond project end will be formed.

European instruments (EQF, ECVET, EQAVET and DigComp) will be applied improving transparency and recognition of qualifications, validation of non-formal and informal learning and lifelong guidance. Job role profiles will be mapped to ESCO and eCF, and after their evaluation to NQFs of the participating countries.

Project outputs will directly benefit museum professionals and unemployed in the cultural sector, as well as the museums themselves. Indirectly, the project will contribute to raising the quality of life of the general public, by enabling museums to offer enhanced cultural experiences.

Description

When launching the 2013 Communication Opening up Education the Commission highlighted that, despite many investments and initiatives in the field, between 50% and 80% of students in EU countries never use digital textbooks, exercise software, broadcasts/podcasts, simulations or learning games as tools to learn. Furthermore school teachers do not consider themselves as ‘digitally confident’ or able to teach using digital solutions at their full potential.

The project partnership involves 5 higher education institutions and 2 teachers training associations, all with a strong experience in preparing teachers of the future. Through their experiences they have identified in Videogames and Apps the two aspects in which there is the highest gap between the existing and potential educational added value and the capacities of teachers to make full use of it.

The objectives of the V4T project are:

• Investigate the state of art as far as educational videogames are concerned, analyzing their characteristics and technical solutions, as well as their didactic potential.
• Explore in depth the methodological, pedagogical and also skills and competences assessment aspect of the use of videogames and apps for educational purposes.
• Provide future teachers with a comprehensive reflection on the innovation of didactic methods through the use of videogames and apps for mobiles, and on the issues related to the assessment of competences, skills and knowledge according to the principles of the ECVET and ECTS systems, applying them to educational Videogames.
• Provide future teachers with the basic knowledge of programming languages in order to make them autonomous in developing educational videogames and apps for mobile.

The project will be implemented in Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Lithuania and directly address:

• Higher education lecturers in Faculties of Education
• Future teachers

Description

Population ageing in Europe will continue with accelerating pace in the next decades. This trend requires societal adaptations regarding education and training, work, family life and social protection. One such adaption is intergenerational learning (IGL), which brings people from different generations together, to share activities, learn and understand each other better. Together Old and Young project or TOY (www.toyproject.net) (2012-2014) was unique amongst European IGL projects with its focus on including children in the early childhood years (0-10 years) in IGL activities with older adults (65 +). TOY research and pilot actions demonstrated that intergenerational facilitators are crucial to the success of intergenerational projects and initiatives.

TOY-PLUS is the logical next step in TOY, creating training opportunities and sharing knowledge about intergenerational learning principles and practice to ensure the implementation of meaningful and quality intergenerational experiences between young children and older people.

The objectives of the TOY-PLUS project are as follows:

• Develop, test and disseminate an innovative online curriculum and methodology in IG work for practitioners in early childhood education and care (ECEC), social care and community work
• Develop and test an IG certificate of quality (TOY Quality Stamp) with agreed standards for local authorities and educational institutions

The project will be implemented in Italy, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the UK and directly address:

• Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practitioners
• Social Care practitioners
• Community development workers
• Staff of local authorities

Description

The aim of the icare project is:

• to improve the level of soft and ICT skills of formal and informal caregivers
• to improve the level of knowledge and skills of informal caregivers regarding patient care (basic skills) & their own health and safety
• and, as a result, to improve the well-being of the caregivers and the quality of the services provided to the patients

The target groups of this project are:

• Scholars of nursing school, VET organizations, nurses, and social educators
• Informal caregivers (migrants, patients’ relatives etc) working at home.

Description

BRIGHTS will promote Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in formal and non-formal Education with the help of digital storytelling (DS) techniques, leading to more socially inclusive education and training policies and practices in Europe. It will increase awareness and knowledge on GCE among educators, trainers, policy makers and the civil society, and will give young people real opportunities to challenge discriminations, value cultural diversity and become active citizens. This will led to the establishment of the first European Community on GCE.

BRIGHTS’ objectives are:

• To build teachers’ and trainers’ capacity to implement GCE with young people using digital storytelling techniques, and
• To empower young people to develop social, civic and intercultural competences as well as critical thinking, media literacy, creativity and digital skills. In practice, young people will produce digital stories on Global Citizenship topics

The project will be implemented in Belgium, Croatia, Greece and Italy and directly address:

• Secondary school teachers and trainers (e-facilitators, youth workers, cultural mediators etc.) working in formal and non-formal educational settings (schools, Telecentres, Youth Centres, NGOs etc.) with young people.
• Young people (13-19 years old), including youngsters at risk of marginalisation
• Education and training policy-makers and stakeholders

Description

“DIVERSITY IN ADULT EDUCATION” (DIVINA EDU) project is an EU funded project under Erasmus+ strategic partnerships, aiming to provide specific skills and tools for adult education trainers and staff in order to manage diversity in adult education institutions. The project pursues the following objectives:

• To raise awareness and provide information on diversity issues in adult education.
• To promote the personal development of adult educators and other stakeholders in adult education.
• To promote the creation of a safe and equitable learning environment in adult education that will facilitate individuals to take full advantage of the learning opportunities offered to them.
• To prevent adult bullying and other forms of discrimination in education, thus promoting equity and social cohesion.
• To build on accumulated experience and disseminate good practices, in order to further advance diversity management in adult education.

Description

In the Europe 2020 Strategy, the European Union establishes as a priority a sustainable growth and a competitive economy based on emission reduction and the creation of new skills. The green development is an aim shared by all the EU political ideologies, both on economic and social levels, together with education and training, hence the growing request for educational programmes aiming at the development of new competences.

In the perspective of a post – financial crisis it becomes strategic at European level to provide instruments and measures to encourage the uptake of green jobs and stimulate young people to new employment prospects. The SEM@Schools project aims to contribute to this objective by focusing on two main areas, which are considered at the base of the green economy: energy and construction. According to a strategy based on the “learning-by-doing” the young participants in the project will have the opportunity to analyze, under the guidance of industry experts, the energy efficiency of their school buildings and define the consequent improvement strategies.

The project aims to promote the orientation of young people through an academic apprenticeship that helps the students to be in a position to increase their skills and to make them aware of the opportunities for employment related to the energy sector. The aim of the project is therefore to raise awareness about training facilities on the themes of the green economy and to train young people from different European countries on the new professional profiles related to the energy in the construction sector.

The project will involve 80 schools from 5 European countries: Italy, Latvia, Spain, Romania, UK, with 10,000 students informed, 1500 involved in the experimentation, and 200 teachers and 25 companies active in the energy sector.

Description

In the increasingly multicultural European societies, understanding and trust between people of different origin is a major need. As part of the EU integration policy, intercultural mediators have been trained and employed throughout Europe in order to help remove linguistic and cultural barriers in the social, educational and health sector. The benefits from intercultural mediation for immigrants have been widely recognized by all stakeholders. However, no clear picture exists so far on the experience accumulated in Europe in this field, nor is intercultural mediation treated as a distinct profession. This leads often to poor service quality and inefficient use of resources. The project TIME – Train Intercultural Mediators for a Multicultural Europe is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership for innovation and the exchange of good practices in VET.

Training providers, regional authorities, social services, healthcare institutions, and NGOs working with immigrants will have access to modular training programs for intercultural mediators that meet European standards. Local and regional needs for mediation can thus be met in a tailor-made and reliable way, empowering both professionals and immigrants.
Intercultural mediators in all partnership countries will profit from the free training material available at the project website and from the efforts made to promote the professionalization of their occupation. Researchers and policy makers will profit from the presentation of good practices at European level and the holistic approach to intercultural mediation adopted by TIME.

Final Conference

Hellenic Open University, with the support of Olympic Training and Consulting (project co-ordinator), organizes the international conference “Intercultural Mediation in contemporary Europe: challenges and possibilities”, in the context of multi-lateral project “TIME: Training Intercultural Mediators for a Multi-cultural Europe” (http://www.mediation-time.eu). The conference will take place on September 8 & 9 2016, in the Airotel Stratos Vassilikos hotel, 114 Michalakopoulou str., Athens, Hellas.

The conference is the third in a series of events organized by the DAISSy research group  of the Hellenic Open University (http://daissy.eap.gr) during the past years. It is addressed to researchers and practitioners of IM and associated disciplines, including among others social workers and researchers who interact with immigrants, members of immigrant communities, personnel of educational institutions, training centers, NGOs and voluntary organizations, employees of public administration and local authorities.

The conference will promote exploitation of the results of project TIME (Training Intercultural Mediators for a Multicultural Europe), which was funded under Erasmus+, aiming to identify and discuss challenges, explore possibilities, exchange knowledge on practices and interventions and present successful IM policies.

You can find more information about the conference here.

Description

The European Commission stresses the importance for the sustainable use of Natural Resources. The EU is working to mobilise public opinion, decision-makers and market operators and to set minimum energy efficiency standards and rules on labelling for products, services and infrastructure.

The project ÉPOQUE promotes a smart specialisation of prospective teachers, scientists and engineers through an environmental portfolio which can be fully integrated to the university syllabuses. It creates a new generation of green professionals in the context of higher education modernization agenda connected to SMEs and enterprises (including schools). Moreover, the direct involvement of schools during the project validation can act as a catalyst towards the sensitisation of the teachers for sustainable use of natural resources, with a concrete focus on energy, while it promotes the prompt awareness of young pupils on energy issues.

Description

The school bullying phenomenon cannot be underestimated because its effects on the students and their families are devastating. It has become an epidemic in our society and this fact has prompted a variety of studies across Europe and globally. The main objective of the SONET-BULL project is to develop a training platform that will provide teachers, teacher trainers and other stakeholders with accredited training material on school bullying, and enable them share their experiences with peers. In this project, we propose to combine modern pedagogical approaches (eLearning and peer learning) with crowdsourcing and widely used technological means (Internet, social networking, mobiles) in order to provide timely and continuous support to the entire community of stakeholders in dealing with school bullying. To create the conditions of a serene learning and efficiently manage the problem of bullying, it is necessary to foster tight cooperation between all key stakeholders, to whom this project is addressed:

• Teachers;
• Teachers’ educators and trainers;
• School principals, counsellors and psychologists;
• Parents;
• Parent associations;
• Regional and local educational authorities;

Conference

The DAISSy research group (http://daissy.eap.gr) of the Hellenic Open University organizes the International Conference on Anti-Bullying Practices on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, during hours 9.30 – 17.00 at the AMALIA HOTEL, 10 Amalias Av., Athens (located opposite to the National Gardens).

The conference is organized in the context of the transnational project «SONET-BULL – Using ICT networking tools with peer learning and crowdsourcing to train school communities to counter student bullying» (http://www.sonetbull.eu/), which is coordinated by HOU.

The Conference will present the project main outcomes: training outline, educational material, learning objects and online peer-learning results, as recorded on the platform, through individual or group projects. Emphasis will be given to the presentation of best practices and educational activities such as those implemented by teachers – members of the Network. The Conference will also discuss contemporary anti-bullying approaches and theories, as well as the exploitation prospects of project results.

The Conference is addressed to members of the educational community (directors of schools, teachers, parents), managers responsible for planning and implementation of educational policies (at Regional offices and School Divisions, School Counselors, persons responsible for scientific and educational guidance), mental health specialists, students and researchers in humanities fields and generally to any person interested in the issue of school bullying.

You can find more information about the conference here.