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LINKS Project

19 de April de 2022

KA220-YOU

LINKS: Development of the Digital Sovereignty Competences of Youth Workers

LINKS is a project that focuses on digital sovereignty for youth workers. Digital sovereignty is a concept that seeks to provide individuals with the ability to own their personal data and control its use. The aim of the project is to enable organisations working with young people and managing personal or sensitive data to:

Improve and strengthen their knowledge of data protection and help them to monitor and evaluate the use of the data they manage.
Support the goal of digital sovereignty in the EU and to offer NGOs and other groups managing personal/sensitive data a way to limit the risks of abuse or cyber-attacks by protecting their data.

The birth of this project stems from several major concerns:

• The majority of data managed by youth workers is of a personal and/or sensitive nature, as they often work with sensitive groups such as migrants, people with disabilities, minors etc. and thus possess personal and sensitive data (e.g. medical data).

• There is a risk of discrimination due to the processing of such data, which can lead to the undermining of the foundations of democracy (Advisory Group on Ethics, 2018).

• The increase of cyber threats is a major concern for institutions, organisations, NGOs etc. that manage sensitive data.

Based on these observations, it follows that it is essential to protect organisations that have to store and manage personal and/or sensitive data. Furthermore, although the EU GDPR has been implemented in the majority of organisations, it appears that many organisations are still having difficulties to protect their data and are not well aware about digital data protection.

Therefore, the LINKS project will directly and actively support youth workers in developing and improving their digital safety skills and competences through the following actions

The development of an online platform that will include innovative training on digital sovereignty and data protection. The aim is also to increase awareness about the importance of data protection.
The development of a digital game that will enable youth workers (and other organisations) to learn how to protect their own (workers’) data and that of the young people they work with.

Acronym: LINKS

Start date: 01-03-2022

End date: 01-03-2024

19Apr

ePortfolio Migrants Project

19 de April de 2022

KA220-ADU-FEEC4925

ePortfolio Migrants: Supporting migrants in acquiring soft skills to develop employability and entrepreneurship

The ePortfolio Migrants learning tool is an online platform that aims to enhance the social inclusion of newly arrived and long-term resident migrants by supporting them in the development of new soft skills. The overall aim of this project is to foster their social inclusion and to enable them to become more integrated in the labour market.

These objectives have been identified as necessary since observations at the European Union level shows that:

• More than 40% of migrants have jobs that are below their qualification level.

• Migrants have a lower employment rate than nationals

• Migrants have less access to adult education.

That is why, ePortfolio Migrants aims to create a comprehensive application that provides an interactive and flexible soft skills programme for migrants, as well as self-assessment tools to identify areas for improvement and monitor progress. They will have access to a set of interactive and adaptable training modules on soft skills and will be able to define a curriculum depending on the profession and soft skills they wish to target. In particular, the platform will allow them to better understand what soft skills are, but also how their knowledge and experience are linked to soft skills and how they can be enhanced and used in a professional environment (job interviews, setting up and running their own business, developing business networks, etc.).

Thus, this project has several specific objectives (non-exhaustive list):

To provide adult learning opportunities for migrants.
To increase the soft skills of migrants and thus contribute to labour market integration and entrepreneurship development.
Increase the autonomy and self-sufficiency of migrants to navigate life in the labour market environment.
Enhance social, economic, and cultural inclusion.
Support local authorities, NGOs, job centres and employment agencies in developing and assessing immigrants’ soft skills: support local authorities, NGOs, job centres and employment agencies in matching labour demand and supply.
Provide trainers and mentors with the opportunity to transfer and adapt the skills and teaching techniques learned to other contexts and other vulnerable citizens, thus further increasing the opportunities and quality of adult learning in the community.

The partnership of this project is composed of: the EUROPEAN PROFESSIONALS NETWORK (Belgium), The Square Dot team (Belgium), STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (Greece), GIP FORMATION ET INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE DE L’ ACADEMIE DE NICE (France), Gestión Estratégica e Innovación SL (Spain), Learning for Integration ry (Finland), Einurð (Iceland), Exeo Lab Srl (Italy).

Acronym: ePortfolio Migrants

Start date: 01-11-2021

End date: 01-05-2024

Project Website

18Apr

IntegPri Project

18 de April de 2022

KA210-ADU

INTEGRATION THROUGH PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Recognition of prior knowledge (RPL) is a process used to identify, assess and certify a person’s knowledge, skills and competencies – regardless of how, when or where the learning occurred – against prescribed standards for a part (modular) or full qualification (NSW DET, 2009; MQA, 2009; VETA, 2014). In most EU countries there are provisions to smooth refugee children’s entry into mainstream education through special language courses, different types of immersion classes and additional support. Teachers should be able to meet the diverse needs of all students and foster tolerance, respect for diversity and civic responsibility. Whereas most European countries already faced challenges in matching teaching methods and quality with the needs of diverse classrooms, the challenges intensified with the arrival of large numbers of refugee students and their particular needs. According to the OECD (2014, in: Public Policy Management Institute, 2017, p.12) working with multicultural and multilingual students is one of the areas that teachers feel the least prepared for.

The specific objectives of the IntegPri project are:

Strengthen the teaching profession by providing methodology and tools to help teachers assess their refugee/migrant students’ prior knowledge
Promote intercultural education and intercultural dialogue
Enrich teachers’ existing knowledge on differentiation teaching
Promote an inclusive, encouraging, supportive and non-discriminative learning environment
Encourage lifelong learning and professional development
Improving efficiency and flexibility in education systems by allowing alternative learning pathways
Promoting social inclusion and equity for disadvantaged groups

The international partnership of the project is composed of: Finland, Spain and Greece.

Acronym: INTEGPRI

Start Date: 01.03.2022

End Date: 01.09.2023

11Apr

PRO-DIGITA Project

11 de April de 2022

KA210-ADU

PRO-DIGITA is a small scale project that aims to provide both trainers and trainees with the necessary tools to develop their digital skills and transmit them through a new digital/online training approach, thus achieving a real digital transformation in today’s educational field.

Led by Tropicalastral Lda, this project sees the active involvement of three other partner organisations, Geinnova, NazHemASO and Debasu Sala, all of which are active and experienced in training and education sectors.

Through the development of an online course targeting trainers and trainees, the creation of a handbook and a network accessible by them, PRO-DIGITA project will provide the necessary skills to integrate technology in the educational field in order to increase those e-competences that are more and more important in today’s society, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic.

The concrete Objectives are as follows:

To increase the digital transformation of trainers and trainees through the development of the digital capacity, through the development of an ad hoc training course and the mutual exchange of information and expertise through a network;
To improve the competencies of trainers and trainees in online education;
To improve accessibility on online education for adult education.

The small-scale partnership is composed of Portugal, Spain, Lithuania, and Turkey.

Acronym: PRO-DIGITA

Start Date: 01-05-2022

Finish Date: 01-11-2023

08Apr

EMPOWER Project

8 de April de 2022

KA220-YOU

BUSINESS ORIENTED YOUNG WOMEN: HOW TO SUPPORT AND EMPOWER THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCES

The project EMPOWER is conceived as a tool to promote and reboot young women entrepreneurship against unemployment, entry barriers of the sector through the digital training of people in entrepreneurial skills and exchange of good practices, facilitating the learning of business management contents specifically adapted to the needs of the target group advancing and promoting competitiveness, economic diversification, the sustainable development and job creation. Women are the most affected from the Covid-19 pandemic, that have been hit in several aspects of life, included their participation in the labour market.

The specific objectives of the EMPOWER project are:

-To provide employment guidance systems to young women who want to undertake and lead social enterprises or to take up the entrepreneurship world through the production of high-quality materials and tailor-made training with new methods and more effective and individualized tools to support young women;

-To give young women access to relevant networks through the involvement of stakeholders, organizations active in the field and other policymakers at the most appropriate level. Networks are key factors in business success by providing access to information, advice, finance and business contacts;

-To support the priority of advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment (as a key project strategy) through the creation of a business model based on social enterprise with an active role for young women leaders. Therefore, through the implementation of this project we want to reduce the gender disparity between men and women with access to training in order to improve young women self-esteem and confidence;

-To offer to young women the motivation to start a business (alone or with others) an all-in-one program (online contents and tools, workshops, group activities, multi-mentor support) in enlarging their knowledge of entrepreneurship, sustainable management, improve attitudes and foster skills needed to initiate and manage an enterprise, despite the lack of women role models. Participants would become their own entrepreneurial model;

-To supply participants with examples and advice concerning financial supports/methods they can access to set up a business through the aid of associated partners, stakeholders, other policy makers involved in the implementation of the project.

The international partnership of the project is composed of: Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania.

Web of the Project

Acronym: EMPOWER

Start Date: 01.03.2022
End Date: 01.03.2024

WEBSITE

CIRCULO Project

KA220-VET

Using agile learning platforms to infuse knowledge of the circular economy with entrepreneurship

The objectives of CIRCLE are to support VET providers to deliver high quality online education that underpins a bright and sustainable future for learners and the environment, presenting a range of tailored resources that develop circular knowledge infused with entrepreneurship. Led by GEINNOVA, the project team submits an application for funding as they collectively believe that a transnational approach is needed for the CIRCLE project, because the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, especially efforts to support young people and workers to acquire the key skills needed for the green and digital transitions and to access the labour market and secure future employment, is a European level challenge rather than a national issue.

THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE:

1 – develop a set of learning resources in the form of Training Maps and toolkits to enable VET learners to acquire the necessary competences for the green and circular economy;

2 – fostering the entrepreneurial mindset of young people through a series of interactive learning resources that are benchmarked against the Ideas and Opportunities of the EntreComp Framework;

3 – create a new CPD TTT course for VET teachers/trainers to strengthen their competences to digitise learning offers and methods, while providing appropriate guidance and accompaniment measures;

4 – establish a facilitated Europe-wide online network among VET stakeholders to share good practices, build professional relationships and jointly create solutions to current labour market realities.

The partnership is composed of Spain, Ireland, Croatia, Germany, Germany, Portugal, France and Cyprus.

Acronym: CIRCULO

Start date: 01-11-2021

Finish date: 01-11-2023

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SuSTowns Project

INTERREG MED – EU

Enhancing the tourist attractiveness of small and fascinating villages

The INTERREG MED project “SUSTOWNS” – Enhancing SUStainable tourism attraction in small fascinating small TOWNS, has as its main objective to promote the rejuvenation of small fascinating tourist destinations in rural territories and islands, through the exchange of good practices and promoting the development of Sustainable Tourism Action Plans addressed to regional, national and international tourism authorities in the intervention area (MED).

SUSTOWNS focuses on three types of target groups:

1 – Second home owners – These are people with personal or family ties who, usually for work reasons, do not live in the territories concerned and only visit (especially during long holiday periods). The specific objective is to increase the frequency of visits from 1 or 2 times a year on average to 2 additional weekends a year in order to achieve a multiplier effect both on the local economy and on the visibility and strengthening of personal links with these municipalities.

2 – New residents – The objective with this public is to integrate them into the population and to introduce them to all the activities and possibilities offered by the territory in order, on the one hand, to reinforce their links with the population and, on the other hand, to provoke a pull effect.

3 – Pensioners – Attract them and make them residents, as they could find the ideal environment to enjoy a high quality of life.

To achieve this, the project is divided into three phases:

Phase 1: Identification of the people who make up each of the target groups and categorisation by interests.
Phase 2: Creation of direct communication channels with them.
Phase 3: Consolidation of monthly agendas of activities aligned with the identified interests.

The countries involved in the SusTowns project are Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Albania, Croatia and Portugal.

For more information about SusTowns:

Web of the Project

Acronym: SuSTowns

Re-Cultural Heritage Project

KA220-ADU

Reactivation of the cultural heritage: social and economic Development of rural areas

Re-Cultural Heritage seeks to improve community cohesion through educational pathways that support the personal development of teachers, citizens and minorities towards employment and integration into the labour market. In addition, it aims to build an economic development and employment strategy linked to quality tourism and to underline the role that a proper appreciation of cultural heritage can play in regional economic development.

THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE:

1 – Improving employability skills to facilitate the opening up of youth work to cross-sectoral cooperation;

2 – To increase adults’ competences related to job profiles, especially in the social, tourism and artistic sectors;

3 – Ensure new approaches to better support competitiveness in order to fill the lack of employment opportunities, from these rural areas, which is pushing a whole generation into big cities or abroad;

4 – Creation of a network activity on education, entrepreneurship, leadership and equal opportunities;

5 – Improve practices to address the needs of vulnerable groups, with fewer opportunities, to address gaps in learning achievement caused by regional and socio-economic inequalities and to facilitate access to different labour markets;

6 -Increase employment opportunities by adapting them to the post-Covid-19 demand;

7 – Increase the sense of heritage and historical values, especially in rural areas, where heritage is not seen as a means that can be used for prosperity.

For more information, visit the project website:

WEBSITE

The partnership is composed of Spain, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Greece and Austria.

Acronym: Re-Cultural Heritage

Start date: 01-11-2021

End date: 01-11-2023

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