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OnBoard

2025-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000358740

The OnBoard project: Improving Onboarding Processes in European SMEs

OnBoard is an Erasmus+ initiative designed specifically to help European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) optimize their processes for welcoming and integrating new employees. The project was created with the aim of reducing staff turnover and promoting more resilient, productive, and cohesive work environments.

What does the project consist of?

The success of a company depends largely on how it integrates its new talent. OnBoard offers direct support to HR managers, team leaders, and trainers, providing them with the tools they need to integrate new employees effectively while strengthening the organizational culture.

Main objectives

To achieve real transformation in SMEs in the European Union, the project focuses on:

-Improving practices: Developing personalized onboarding methodologies tailored to the reality of SMEs.

-Hybrid learning: Connecting theoretical training with work practice through online courses (MOOCs), blended activities, and on-the-job learning.

-Digital tools: Creating a collaborative platform and a digital toolkit to facilitate performance monitoring and talent retention.

-Inclusion and diversity: Promoting employability and gender equality in continuing education within the company.

-European cooperation: Encouraging knowledge exchange between SMEs, vocational education and training (VET) centers, and universities across Europe.

Expected results

Through international collaboration, the OnBoard project will deliver the following results:

  1. Research report on current onboarding needs in SMEs.
  2. Structured training program for leaders and HR staff.
  3. Technical manual specifically for VET training providers.
  4. MOOC course accessible online.
  5. Digital toolkit for the practical implementation of onboarding processes.

Acronym: Onboard

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Her Voice Geinnova Mujeres Democracia
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HER Voice

2025-1-NL01-KA220-ADU-000362047

HER Voice: Empowering women to participate, lead, and build inclusive communities through active participation in democracy.

HERVoice promotes the strengthening of democratic structures and active civic engagement through adult education, working from neighborhood centers and community organizations. The project focuses on empowering women with limited access to social and economic opportunities due to factors such as their socioeconomic situation, immigration status, or systemic discrimination. By reinforcing knowledge of democratic principles, critical thinking, and personal development, HERVoice contributes to greater social inclusion and the strengthening of community capacity and cohesion.

To achieve its main objectives, HERVoice will carry out the following actions:

  1. Analysis of community needs
  2. Conducting secondary research (desk research) on existing policies, good practices, and available resources in order to assess the challenges and needs of local neighborhood centers and community organizations.
  3. Training workshops and visit to Brussels
  4. Organization of four workshops focusing on EU values, democratic participation, critical thinking, and media literacy, along with the development of guidelines for the implementation of political engagement activities at the local level. These actions will conclude with a study visit to Brussels for the participants, which will include a guided tour of the European Parliament, a meeting with an EU official, and visits to the Parlamentarium and the House of European History.
  5. Promotion of local political dialogue
  6. Development of political engagement activities by coordinating visits to local political institutions or inviting public representatives to engage in dialogue with participants, creating practical opportunities for citizen participation.

 

The HERVoice project aims to achieve the following results:

  1. Training and empowerment
  2. Training 10 community organizations and empowering 150 women to encourage their active participation in civic life.
  3. Practical experience
  4. Gaining direct experience in democratic processes by carrying out 10 local political activities, 5 dialogues with policy makers, and a study visit to the European Union.
  5. Capacity building
  6. Strengthening confidence, critical thinking, and active citizenship, culminating in an EU conference and the development of policy recommendations.

 

The project partners are based in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Romania, and Cyprus.

Acronym: Her Voice

Start date: November 1, 2025

End date: October 31, 2027

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Soul Food

KA220-ADU-8E9C92E7

Soul Food pathways: Skills, Opportunities, Empowerment and Learning of Migrant Women through Food

Soul Food is an initiative that promotes social inclusion through culinary education and cultural exchange, focused on empowering migrant women to close skills gaps and foster their social and labour integration. Using digital and blended learning methodologies, the project seeks to dismantle cultural and language barriers, creating inclusive environments that favour equity and equality. This project is part of the Erasmus+ programme and involves partners from several European countries committed to inclusion and empowerment through education.

Soul Food’s approach is based on the belief that cooking, as a universal language, has the power to bring people together, transcending cultural differences and generating mutual understanding. Through this initiative, it seeks not only to offer job training opportunities, but also to provide a space where migrant women can express their cultural identity and connect with the local community in a meaningful way.

The Soul Food project has several main objectives:

  1. Firstly, it seeks to increase the integration of migrant women through the development of professional skills, citizenship competencies and social inclusion. The project offers personalised educational pathways, especially in culinary skills, to reduce skills gaps and labour market shortages, fostering a sense of belonging and active participation in the community.
  2. Another key objective is to promote the self-sufficiency of migrant women by providing them with the necessary tools to access employment opportunities and improve their quality of life. In addition, Soul Food focuses on improving the competencies of educators to effectively support a diverse student population, using digital tools and innovative methodologies. The training of educators is crucial to ensure that migrant women are adequately supported during their integration and learning process.

 

The project expects to achieve the following results:

  1. Modular Curriculum: Focusing on culinary skills, citizenship and digital learning. This curriculum includes modules on personal development and citizenship to promote the social integration and empowerment of migrant women. The modules are designed to be flexible and accessible, allowing participants to learn at their own pace and tailor their training to their specific needs.
  2. Cultural Exchange and Community Building: Organisation of workshops and cooking-based events to facilitate cultural exchange and the creation of inclusive spaces where migrant women can interact with the local community. These events not only aim to teach cooking skills, but also to foster a sense of belonging and build meaningful relationships between participants and members of the host community.
  3. Training of Educators: Development of digital tools and guidelines for educators, designed to improve the quality of education and enable the replication of innovative practices in the field of migrant integration. The training will focus on inclusive methodologies and empathy-based learning approaches, which are critical for working with vulnerable and diverse populations.
  4. Creation of Digital Learning Environments: Development of digital platforms that facilitate online learning and interaction between migrant women, educators and the community. These platforms will include multimedia educational resources and interactive modules to foster engaging and effective learning, ensuring that migrant women have access to modern tools to enhance their digital competencies.

 

The project partners are Austria, Sweden, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Acronym: Soul Food

Start date: 01-09-2024

End date: 31-08-2026

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CulTMed

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CulTMed: Sustainable cultural tourism in the Mediterranean

Cultural tourism is a key sector for the EU economy, especially in the Mediterranean basin, where a wealth of cultural and natural heritage is concentrated. However, cultural tourism faces numerous challenges, such as loss of authenticity, over-commercialisation and negative environmental impact. CulTMed is presented as an innovative solution to address these challenges, promoting a sustainable and green approach to preserve cultural heritage while improving the quality of life of local communities. This project aims to turn cultural tourism into a sustainable development tool that respects both host communities and the environment.

The CulTMed project has several main objectives:

  1. Firstly, it will enhance the capacity of professionals and stakeholders in the cultural tourism sector through training and development of key competences. To this end, innovation networks will be fostered to enable the transfer of good practices between the different professionals and organisations in the sector.
  2. One of the main pillars of the project is the elaboration of a Best Practices report and the creation of a Digital Resource Library, which will serve as an accessible knowledge platform for all those interested in sustainability in the field of cultural tourism.
  3. CulTMed also seeks to actively involve local communities in the creation of more sustainable tourism models, ensuring that these communities benefit directly from tourism development. Furthermore, the project focuses on inclusion, gender equality and diversity, ensuring that all stakeholders have the opportunity to participate and contribute to the outcomes.

As part of the expected outcomes, the project will develop four distinct curricula, each focusing on an aspect of sustainable cultural tourism. These curricula will be designed to provide specific training to enable professionals and organisations in the sector to improve their skills and knowledge in sustainable practices:

  1. Sustainable Cultural Events: This curriculum will focus on how to organise and manage cultural events in a sustainable manner, minimising environmental impact and promoting responsible practices.
  2. Archaeological Site Tourism: This curriculum will address best practices for managing archaeological sites with a sustainable approach, ensuring heritage preservation and promoting respect for history and the environment.
  3. Museums/Galleries and Sustainability: This curriculum will teach how museums and galleries can adopt sustainable practices, both in exhibition management and daily operations, to contribute to sustainable development.
  4. Local Communities and Sustainable Cultural Tourism: This curriculum will focus on how local communities can engage in and benefit from sustainable cultural tourism, ensuring that tourism development is inclusive and equitable. CulTMed will also implement Living Labs, which will act as experimental spaces where new ideas and approaches to cultural tourism can be tested in less popular local communities. These Living Labs will allow local communities and other stakeholders to collaborate in the development of customised solutions that respond to their specific needs. In addition, a series of events involving policy makers, sustainability experts and community leaders will be organised to disseminate the project results and ensure their adoption at regional and European level. In this way, it is expected that the good practices collected, taught and tested will contribute to promote significant changes across EU society, fostering a more inclusive and environmentally friendly model of cultural tourism.

 

The project partners, committed to the vision of achieving a sustainable transition in the EU, are Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Portugal.

Acronym: CultMed

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Geinnova-Proyecto-NextSmes
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NextSMEs

KA220-VET-7D8AF0E8

Next Generation SMEs: promoting succession planning for family-led businesses

The NextSMEs project aims to provide current and future owners of small and medium-sized family businesses (SMEs) with the knowledge and tools necessary to ensure the continuity, sustainability and success of their businesses beyond the third generation. In this context, the project focuses on responding to the specific needs of these businesses, addressing challenges related to succession, market adaptation and long-term business sustainability.

To achieve this goal, NextSMEs will develop a vocational education and training (VET) programme specifically designed for family SMEs. This programme will offer a balanced mix of skills and learning opportunities with practical and personalised content, aligned with the demands of the evolving labour market. The project will also seek to modernise the vocational training system to make it more attractive and innovative, using participatory and co-creative approaches, and to improve the processes of recognition and validation of competences through micro-credentials, which will enable a more dynamic and professional environment for these family businesses.

NextSMEs addresses three key priorities of the Erasmus+ programme:

  1. Adapting vocational training to the needs of the labour market: The project develops a flexible, learner-centred VET programme specifically designed for current and future owners of family SMEs. An online course is proposed to address current and future challenges of these enterprises, including professionalisation, decision-making, succession and internal conflict resolution. This approach aims to prepare family entrepreneurs to face the demands of the labour market, ensuring that enterprises remain competitive and sustainable in a constantly changing business environment.
  2. Increasing flexibility of opportunities in vocational education and training: NextSMEs aims to close existing gaps in access to training for working-age adults and family business owners through innovative and adaptive educational approaches. The project will conduct a participatory SWOT analysis to identify the specific training needs of these businesses, and from there, develop a curriculum that addresses issues such as business succession, financial sustainability and family conflict management.
  3. Contribution to innovation in vocational training: The project promotes the creation of a digital training curriculum that will be offered as an open educational resource (OER) and integrated into VET programmes at European level. This will enable VET providers to adapt their methods and content to the specific needs of family SMEs, fostering innovation and long-term sustainability.

Concrete outputs of the project include a transnational report on the situation of family SMEs in Europe, a training curriculum with micro-credentials covering crucial aspects such as succession planning, financial management and professionalisation, and an online educational platform where SME owners will be able to access the training modules and participate in local pilot activities to test and validate the contents. In addition, a strategic plan for succession planning and conflict resolution in family businesses will be developed, together with a cross-cutting plan for sustainability, dissemination and monitoring of the project’s impact.

The project partners are Germany, Cyprus, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

Acronym: NextSMEs

Start date: 01-09-2024

End date: 31-08-2026

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WELLDONE PROJECT

GEINNOVA is excited to announce about our new project, WELLDONE, inspired by the EU’s campaign for healthier workplaces. The project comes at a time when the way we work is changing a lot because of new technology, more people wanting to work from home. Studies show that around 30% of workers in Europe now work this way, and while it offers more flexibility and a better balance between work and personal life, it also brings new challenges.

WELLDONE aims to help HR professionals, managers, and team leaders learn how to make working from home or in a hybrid model (mix of home and office) better and safer for everyone. The aim is to teach them how to create good work policies, assess risks, and train for safe remote work practices. Tips and insights from the Healthy Workplaces Campaign to help workers set up their home offices in a way that reduces risks and makes work more enjoyable will be used.

The Project focus is on:
Managing the Project: Working closely with all partners to make sure everything stays on track.
Hybrid Work Toolkit: Making a toolkit full of resources to help companies implement good hybrid work policies and overcome challenges like feeling isolated or working too much.
Training Program: Creating a training program for HR professionals and managers on how to make digital work better for everyone’s well-being.
E-learning Portal: Building an online learning hub where HR professionals, managers, and anyone interested can find resources to help with digital well-being and effective hybrid work environments.
Spreading the Word: Plan to make sure people learn about our project and benefit from it. Using a clear and attractive design for our materials and stay active online.

GEINNOVA is working in collaboration with a variety of partners, including companies experienced in hybrid work, HR associations, training organizations, universities, chambers of commerce, NGOs, government agencies, and workers’ groups. All helping to make this project useful for different kinds of workplaces.

GEINNOVA is leading the way in adapting to new ways of working, aiming to create healthier and more productive work environments for the future. More updates coming on this exciting Project!

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Musiclink Project

We are happy to announce our newest project collaboration Music Link. The Music Link project will be led by FUNDACION GARCIA ESTEBAN. The project will support teachers, trainers and tutors (TTTs) to meet the challenges of language and culture difference in the classroom brought about by the sudden and dramatic influx of Ukrainian refugees and other immigrants lacking local language and cultural knowledge.

The project has been commenced on the starting date of 01/09/2023 and will be ongoing for 18 months until 28/02/2025. The project lump sum is € 60 000,00.

Music Link will develop supports to equip the TTTs with innovative, bespoke music-based teaching methods and resources that can also be distributed beyond the primary TTT learner group.

The general objectives of the project are:
-to develop and deliver training in innovative music-based teaching methods to a target group of  TTTs to aid them in promoting intercultural dialogue, facilitating understanding and inclusion
-to make the Music Link outputs further available to learners via an online platform
-to create a resource to both facilitate the sharing of outputs and inform a potential future upscaled project.
-ensure effective distribution and evaluation of project outputs to maximise impact and sustainability.
-facilitate networking and capacity building for partners

Expected results
While the expected results are to develop and pilot methods with a focus group, then deliver to 30 TTTs. Launch an online platform with 100 TTTs or related organizations. Hold a final live-streamed event reaching 50 educators, publish 2 articles. Create a downloadable toolkit including a digital workbook, project summary, and a 10-minute video documentary showcasing project implementation. Implement a dissemination plan targeting 300 stakeholders, conduct ongoing evaluation, achieve a 70% satisfaction rate from TTTs. Strengthen partner organizations, promote intercultural dialogue, address challenges posed by the war in Ukraine, and ensure sustainability of project outputs through an online platform.

Partners
The management of the Musiclink project led by FUNDACION GARCIA ESTEBAN is in collaboration with EurAV European Audio Visual Company Limited by Guarantee based in Morington, Ireland; and in Gestión Estratégica e Innovación SL based in Zaragoza, Spain.

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HEIDI Project

We at GEINNOVA are ecstatic to announce our collaboration on the new HEIDI project. HEIDI focuses on addressing challenges encountered by immigrants in self-evaluation, integration and inclusion in the labour market, and connecting with stakeholders. The main interest groups for dissemination include adult immigrants, adult education centres, career guidance service providers, employers, government agencies, immigrant representative organizations, policymakers, researchers, academics, NGOs, and labour market representatives.

HEIDI Objectives
The general goal of the project is to prepare and integrate adult immigrants into the labour market by providing support fitting with EU employment guidelines. There is a subset of activities/strategies this project concerns itself with:

Digital platforms to enhance opportunities for skills assessment, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of everyone’s capabilities.
Career support mechanisms for immigrants and employers, focusing on transforming soft skills to align with the dynamic demands of the labour market.
Community of engaged stakeholders, including education centres, career guidance providers, employers, governmental agencies, and immigrant associations.
Strategies to promote the integration and inclusion of adult immigrants within the labour market, emphasizing the role of digital transformation in facilitating seamless transitions.
Collaboration with public sector entities in support of immigrant integration and inclusion.
– Ensuring that the ultimate beneficiaries receive direct support and wider audience contributes.

Target Group
The target group of this project include adult immigrants, education centers, career guidance providers, employers, governmental agencies, and immigrant associations. All these beneficiaries have a role in and benefit from the project’s distribution and communication strategies in the way to maximize impact of the project.

Partners
The dissemination of the project is in collaboration with other organisations. FURIM, Ludwig – Maximillian University of Munich, Vidipost, Vienna Association of Education Volunteers (VAEV), Panevezys, and Studium. In collaboration with these highly esteemed organisations and institutes the GEINNOVA’s leading role in completing the HEIDI project ought to be a success in aiding adult immigrant enter the labour market.

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STAY CONNECTED

GEINNOVA is excited to announce a new project, STAY CONNECTED. It is a Project with the Project lump sum being at 250 000,00 euros. The project comes at a time when the way we work is changing a lot because of new technology, more people wanting to work from home. So from the 1st of December 2023 until the 30 of November 2025 we will work towards the goal of offering more flexibility and a better balance between work and personal life.

STAYCONNECTED aims to train master trainers to implement the curriculum with HR professionals, managers, and team. Additionally, the STAY CONNECTED project will develop and deliver a toolkit on hybrid work. Enabling a viable way to work from home or in a hybrid model (mix of home and office) for everyone. Furthermore, it is a goal to provide an e-learning platform and open educational resources. Lastly, come with a training package to be implemented to promote digital inclusion in the workplace, for all workers.

The STAY CONNECTED objectives:
– Empowerment of staff to be active participants whether onsite or teleworking, in a hybrid work context.
– Establishing of workplace norms ensuring all people in the organization are aware of them and have the support and training needed to follow them
– Developing innovative, high-quality learning material/resources for managers and HR professionals to promote social connectedness in hybrid work
– Building the ability in managers/HR practitioners to promote digital and social inclusion of all staff in hybrid work

The Project is led by BULGARIAN-ROMANIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, however they are working in collaboration with a variety of partners from countries including Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. All helping to make this project useful for different kinds of workplaces.

GEINNOVA is the spanish representative in this project contributing to adapting new ways of working, aiming to create healthier and more productive work environments for the future. More updates coming on this exciting project!

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SHE@CYBER

SHE@CYBER aims to enhance cybersecurity in Europe by developing practical tools for SMEs and microenterprises. Additionally, it seeks to promote “gender parity” in cybersecurity, enabling women and disadvantaged groups to transition into new roles.

This will be achieved through:

– The curriculum and roadmap,

– Innovative training and learning materials,

– Train-the-trainer pilots, and

– The digital learning platform that will integrate all outcomes.

Implementation: What activities will you carry out?

SHE@CYBER will initially develop a roadmap for a diverse cybersecurity workforce, followed by Interactive Learning Resources, Cybersecurity Training, the toolkit, and a train-the-trainer workshop.

By completing all deliverables, the consortium will achieve the flagship result of bridging the diversity gap and producing skilled cybersecurity professionals for a safer digital Europe.

The main project outcomes are:

  1. Foster the exchange of cutting-edge cybersecurity knowledge among training providers, certification bodies, and enterprises,
  2. Alleviate the cybersecurity skills shortage,
  3. Lay the groundwork for an alliance between industry and educational stakeholders to jointly develop training solutions and bolster security in the European Digital Economy,
  4. Provide solutions to safeguard the European economy and society by addressing the gender gap in cybersecurity.