ECILP – European Certificate for Intercultural Learning Professionals

ECILP – European Certificate for Intercultural Learning Professionals

Implementation period: 01-10-2020 – 30-09-2022
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2020-1-DE02-KA202-007583

Project description:

The project’s core aim is to enable recognition, transparency and comparability of qualifications and learning outcomes of IC (intercultural) service providers (i.e., IC trainers, advisors and coaches) through developing and establishing a framework of binding professional standards, regulations for the accreditation process and a self-assessment tool for IC providers. Such a framework will offer transparent, evidence-based, comprehensible and reliable guidelines for decision-making to clients, learners, IC service providers and institutions offering intercultural training qualifications. The regulations and self-assessment tool will provide information about the level of current qualification and guidance for achieving accreditation.

The results of the project will be elaborated to support its aim. Among others, there will be three Intellectual Outputs:

  1. ECILP – Set of Standards for European Certificate for Intercultural Learning Professionals
  2. GRR – Governance, Regulations and other Requirements for the ECILP Accreditation Process
  3. ECILP online self-assessment and validation centre

TARGET GROUPS

The main target group are VET trainers and VET providers already providing, or aiming to provide, professional intercultural services.

Project website: https://ecilp.erasmus.site/

Partners:

  • Coordinator: SIETAR Deutschland e.V. – Germany
  • Assist Gesellschaft für Unternehmensberatung und Personalentwicklung mbH – Germany
  • I.B.I. Intercultural Business Improvement b.v. – Netherlands
  • CWEP – Poland
  • LABC S.R.L. – Italy
  • Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant – Netherlands
Cub@Work – Cultural Unconscious Bias in the workplace

Cub@Work – Cultural Unconscious Bias in the workplace

Implementation period: 01-10-2020 – 30-09-2022
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2020-1-DE02-KA202-007418

Project description:

The project’s main aim is to develop competences of SMEs managers and recruitment staff in understanding, recognising, reflecting on and managing the unconscious bias and validating those competences in order to enable SMEs to recruit suitable personnel. The main objective will be achieved through developing the vocational education tool – CUB@work system.

Current partnership consists of 8 partners from 6 EU countries (DE, DK, PL, IE, IT, ES), covering wide range of expertise and experience related to the scope and aims of the CUB@work project. Current partners were chosen for their commitment, experience in the field of VET and/or intercultural training in their own country, experience in work VET learners, access to them and their theoretical and technical knowledge.

The expected project’s results are both, tangible and intangible.

  • The Unconscious Bias management toolbox – including 6 components providing tools for allowing self-assessing own unconscious bias, testing, analysing and gaining knowledge

and skills and validating them

  • CUB@work online training course – including 4 training modules aiming ad rising vocational competences of entrepreneurs and recruitment staff

Target groups:

  • Management and recruitment staff of SME,
  • VET trainers and public officials responsible for VET policy.

Project website: https://cubatwork.erasmus.site/

Partners:

  • Coordinator: assist Gesellschaft für Unternehmensberatung und Personalentwicklung mbH– Germany
  • LABC – Italy
  • Co&so – Italy
  • Instalofi Levante – Spain
  • Institute of Technology Tralee – Ireland
  • Krajowa Izba Gospodarcza – Poland
  • CWEP – Poland
  • Brainlog – Denmark
VISE – Virtual Integrated Startups Ecosystem

VISE – Virtual Integrated Startups Ecosystem

Implementation period: 01-10-2020 – 30-09-2022
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2020-1-DK01-KA202-075044

Project description:

Understanding the significance of the EntreComp framework, partnership wants to use it as a reference for achieving the aim of the VISE project, which is to strengthen entrepreneurship competences of start-uppers and wannabe entrepreneurs in the field of 3 most needed areas of entrepreneurship (according to EntreComp framework) together with taking up digital technologies to strengthen their business activities.

The project will produce one main result: Virtual Integrated Start-ups Ecosystem but on the way to produce the final version of the ecosystem, smaller results will be elaborated. These are: methodology of research together with the tools (questionnaires and focus groups scenario), report from the research, set of questions, quizzes, mini-scenes for the assessment tool and the assessment tool itself, mechanism for creation of the roadmap and the roadmap, content of 6 training modules, curriculum of the course and e-learning course itself, testing plan and report.

Target groups:

  • Startuppers/wannabe entrepreneurs/startups
  • Companies, networks of companies, VET providers and VET Trainers (organisations that provide VET learning or have access to start-ups and entrepreneurs, as stakeholders.

Project website: https://vise.erasmus.site/

Partners:

  • Coordinator: BrainLog – Denmark
  • Markeut Skills Sociedad Limitada – Spain
  • CWEP – Poland
  • LABC – Italy
  • Panepistimio Thessalias – Greece
  • CKE – Poland
  • E&D Knowledge Consulting – Portugal
FLYie – Female Legends Youth innovation and entrepreneurship

FLYie – Female Legends Youth innovation and entrepreneurship

Implementation period: 01.09.2019 – 31.08.2021
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-2-CY02-KA205-001601

Project description:

The international, Erasmus+ project “FLYie- Female Legends Youth innovation and entrepreneurship” is promoting the values of gender equality in the field of innovative and social entrepreneurship through game-based activities.

The OBJECTIVES of “FLYie” project are to:

  • promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young girls and women (age 16-24)
  • bring out the significant role of women in Entrepreneurship and support them to identify their skills and competences, in order to succeed in developing their own sustainable (Social) Enterprises
  • fight stereotypes against women entrepreneurs
  • inspire young girls and women through role-model education to follow business-management careers and take the risk of founding their own enterprise.
  • enhance acquisition of key skills and competences of young girls and women
  • enhance youth educators, youth coaches, career advisors and relevant professionals’ skills in dealing with social inclusion.

Project website : www.femalelegends.eu

Partners:

  • Citizens In Power (CIP) – Cyprus – Coordinator
  • Challedu -Greece
  • Centrum Wspierania Edukacji i Przedsiębiorczości (CWEP) – Poland
  • Logopsycom – Belgium
UPthEM – Upskilling Pathways for Employability

UPthEM – Upskilling Pathways for Employability

Implementation period: 01.11.2019 – 30.04.2021
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-BG01-KA204-062299

Project description:

The UPthEM project amis to explore the diverse national experiences in supporting disadvantaged groups to introduce an innovative UPthEM training programme to empower employability and employment prospects of disadvantaged people. The partnership would like to focus on these target groups and engage them in a successful career path either as employed or as self-employed entrepreneurs.

Aims of the project:

  • To elaborate UPthEm training programme to empower employability and employment prospects of disadvantaged people.
  • To shot 40 videos (8 per country) with successful motivating stories of disadvantaged people.
  • To train 25 (5 per country) adult educators to implement the programme.
  • To engage 50 adults (10 per country) from disadvantaged groups to explore the benefits of the programme through online dissemination activities and 5 multiplier events.

Project outputs:

  • UPthEm training programme
  • An audiovisual collection of good entrepreneurial practices for disadvantaged adults

Target group:

Our project will target adult educators and adults with disadvantaged backgrounds with special attention to the unemployed ones.

Further, based on the experience of each partner, we agreed to target adults facing: sociocultural difficulties – related to experiencing discrimination because of gender, ethnicity or religion, economic – related to unemployment and poverty and geographical – citizens living in small towns or rural areas, where the employment opportunities are limited and the rate of long-term unemployment is higher in comparison with other regions, disabled people.

Partners:

  • Know and Can Association (Coordinator) – Bulgaria
  • ADES – Romania
  • CWEP – Poland
  • ADRM “Danube” – Bulgaria
  • STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE – Greece

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UPthEMProject

Entre-Forward: Enhancing Entrepreneurship Skills

Entre-Forward: Enhancing Entrepreneurship Skills

Implementation period: 01.09.2019 – 31.08.2022
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-FR01-KA204-062880

Project description:

The Entre-Forward project focuses on upskilling people and showcase the importance of developing entrepreneurial skills. Also, the project aims at promoting innovative approaches to strengthen the cooperation between industry and education towards entrepreneurship and propose innovative practice-based methods, where students are involved in project work and/or in motivational activities.

The objectives of the project are summarized below

The top priority of Entre-Forward is to extend and develop the competences of trainers and other persons working with adults, as it is crucial for them to develop a specific set of competencies. Thus, the main objectives of this project are:

  • to promote entrepreneurship, initiative-taking and creativity, especially among young people
  • to foster the importance of innovation, creativity and the ability to plan and manage processes.

Target groups:

Direct:

  • young people and adult students who are interested in developing their entrepreneurial skills and enhance their personal development, to either boost their employability as an employee or start their own business
  • educators, trainers and guidance practitioners, who will improve their skills, knowledge and methods in order to provide personalized and suitable support to young people.

Indirect:

  • education and training institutes, policy makers, public and private stakeholders.

Project website : www.entre-forward.eu

Partners:

  • Coopérative d’Initiative Jeunes – France – Coordinator
  • ISON Psychometrica – Greece
  • Centrum Wspierania Edukacji i Przedsiębiorczości (CWEP) – Poland
  • União das Freguesias Gondomar (S. Cosme) Valbom e Jovim – Portugal
  • Studio Risorse – Italy
  • DEP Institut – Spain
CTV – Complex Toolbox for Volunteers on preparing and running international projects

CTV – Complex Toolbox for Volunteers on preparing and running international projects

Implementation period: 01.10.2019 – 30.04.2022
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-IT02-KA204-063430

Project description:

The project focuses on empowerment of low-skilled adult learners, volunteers engaged in activities in voluntary organisations, which are understood as all those non-profit organisations that engage volunteers and provide voluntary services of any kind.
As result of the project low-skilled adult volunteers will upgrade their competences in preparing and managing European projects, enhance their digital skills, intercultural competence and sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. Voluntary organisations will be able to strengthen their position in the region, gain new sources of funding, run more effective operations and establish new, international networks.

Objectives:

  • to improve and extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of volunteers;
  • increase inter-regional and transnational cooperation and develop and reinforce European networks especially of those voluntary organisations that are not part of EVS/ESC;
  • increase the capacity of voluntary organisations to operate transnationally;
  • develop digital learning materials and tools in particular OER and support the effective use of digital technologies in education and training.

Target groups:

Low-skilled adults who work as volunteers of those voluntary organisations that are not part of EVS, that operate in small communities, work on local and regional levels and are not aware of possibilities that EU funded projects could bring them.

Project outputs:

  • OER for adult volunteers including practical Toolbox on various aspects of cooperation within EU projects;
  • Interactive e-catalogue of good practices.

Partners:

  • CSVnet – Roma, Italy (coordinator)
  • CWEP – Rzeszow, Poland
  • Valencia Innohub – Valencia, Spain
  • assist GmbH – Paderborn, Germany
  • EUROPEAN VOLUNTEER CENTRE – Brussels, Belgium

Website: https://ctv.erasmus.site/

Gen-Z: Developing competences and opportunities for social media entrepreneurship

Gen-Z: Developing competences and opportunities for social media entrepreneurship

Implementation period: 01.09.2019 – 31.08.2021
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-UK01-KA202-061407

Project description:

Gen-Z project aims to join efforts for empowering this generation to become social media entrepreneurs and at the same time developing their key competences and employability skills. A further by-product of this project will be to enable linkages where Gen-Z beneficiaries will be able to support other businesses with their own capacity to use social media to improve their businesses.
A key aspect to achieve this is to ensure that we also equip VET professionals so that they have the confidence and acquire the necessary know-how to teach social media business to VET learners Gen-Z.

In the course of the project, the project partners will develop four intellectual outputs:

  1. Social media entrepreneurs profiles.
  2. Training curriculum on social media businesses.
  3. In-service training.
  4. Gen-Z hub.

We believe that by making the project’s outputs digital, open and freely available to all, the resulting learning, skills and outcomes to be deployed is massive, not only in partners’ countries but also across Europe and generate longer term benefits for other generation z youngsters, educators and educational providers.

Project website : https://genz-project.eu

Partners:

  • Coordinator – West Lothian College – United Kingdom
  • Institute of Entrepreneurship Development – Greece
  • Instituto Para el Fomento del Desarrollo y la Formacion – Spain
  • Mindshift Talent Advisory lda – Portugal
  • Center for the Advancement of Research & Development in Educational Technology –Cyprus
  • Evolve Global Solutions Ltd – United Kingdom
  • CWEP – Poland
  • The Rural Hub CLG – Ireland
4 EXPORT – Apprenticeship training for internationalization activities

4 EXPORT – Apprenticeship training for internationalization activities

Implementation period: 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-ES01-KA202-063864

Project description:

The objective is to assist SMEs in the development of apprenticeship programs, mainly interdisciplinary, aimed at facilitating internationalization through the establishment of cross-border business activities. In order to achieve its goals, the project will develop a Curriculum programme for the in-company tutors (SMEs) of internationalisation activities (MOOC – massive open online course), an interactive web platform which will include the MOOC and a Self-Directed Learning Guide to support in-company trainers in using the curriculum programme and MOOC for teaching apprentices about internationalisation activities.

Assumptions:

  • Develop new and innovative methods in education and training
  • Develop interdisciplinary apprenticeship in the EU
  • Improve skills related to internationalisation
  • Increase opportunities for internationalisation
  • Increase the learning participation in the adult field, as well as the take of initiative and the employability
  • Improve the relation between education, training and the international business world
  • Foster the assessment of key competencies, in particular entrepreneurship
  • Promote Education and Culture in Lifelong Learning to raise cultural awareness and shared values through internationalisation

Target group:

The project targets workers in SMEs, and more specific, in-company tutors who will provide apprentices with the latest innovative capabilities and skills related to interdisciplinary apprenticeship in an international environment.

Partners:

  • FYG CONSULTORES – Valencia, Spain – Coordinator
  • CCS DIGITAL EDUCATION LIMITED – Dublin, Ireland
  • CWEP – Rzeszów, Poland
  • ERIFO VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAINING – Rome, Italy

Website: https://4export.erasmus.site/

Fb: https://www.facebook.com/4EXPORTEU/

EAST – Entrepreneurship as Self-employment tool. Skills and qualifications within ECVET

EAST – Entrepreneurship as Self-employment tool. Skills and qualifications within ECVET

Implementation period: 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2019-1-RO01-KA204-063042

Project description:

The main objective of EAST project is to develop a training itinerary for entrepreneurship / small businesses management following ECVET recommendations and thus applicable in different countries. The EAST qualification will describe the units and learning outcomes corresponding to the entrepreneur profile, and determine the required knowledge, skills and competences to become an entrepreneur. It will allow flexibility in the training pathway thanks to assessment solutions and a modular structure. It will be summarised in a Europass Certificate Supplement to make it easily understood over Europe.

The objectives of the EAST project are the following:

  • Promote high quality entrepreneurship and self-employment over Europe,
  • Define a profile of entrepreneur with associated knowledge, skills and competences,
  • Develop a proposal for the application of ECVET system to non-formal and informal entrepreneurial education, with the definition of a Europass and learning pathway that fits to the learning outcomes system,
  • Set up recommendations for the application of ECVET in continuous learning in partners’ countries,
  • Establish and promote methods of e-learning and app-learning, as well as the use of OER thanks to an online platform,
  • Promote mobility in adult learning and contribute to the European Area of Skills and Qualifications.

Target group:

The main target groups are unemployed people, women and men, including migrants and people at risk of social exclusion, that are seeking for new opportunities in the changing labour market of the post-crisis era. They lack preparation to reach an entrepreneurial profile, and are lost among a large offer of training without clear awareness of their training needs and possible pathways. No age limit is applicable; however, EAST expects to target people aged 30-49 with a medium or long work experience, which consists of the largest block of active population potentially interested in self-employment.

Partners:

  • Asociación Valencia Inno Hub – Valencia, Spain – Coordinator
  • Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi – Łódź, Poland
  • Center for Social Innovation CSI – Nicosia, Cyprus
  • KENTRO EPAGELMATIKIS KATARTISIS DIAS EPE – Karditsa, Greece
  • STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIĘBIORCZOŚCI – Rzeszów, Poland
  • AMIStaDeS – Fai Amicizia con il Sapere – Rome, Italy
  • Centrum Badań nad Globalną Gospodarką – Poznań, Poland

Project website: https://east.erasmus.site
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EASTProjectUE/