ESTEEM - Empowerment through study training enabling Education and Mentoring"
Duration: 24 months
Start: 01 November 2007 Finish: 31 October 2009
Leonardo da Vinci Programme
Project concept:
The idea of ESTEEM project is to return learners, people from minority ethnic groups, unemployed people and others who experience social and economic disadvantage. These people are often marginalised in their access to training and employment. And there is usually a mismatch between their needs and requirements and the provision of education and training for employment.
In this respect Lifelong learning provides opportunities for more people to obtain the skills and qualifications they need to enter the labour market. The key to successful engagement with this process is the ability to get into employment. However, certain groups are less able to do this, because of economic disadvantage, structural barriers to their participation, limited educational experience, ethnocentric attitudes and cultural insensitivity. The ESTEEM project is aimed at empowering these groups by helping them take more control of the development of their learning.
Aims:
The main goal of ESTEEM is to empower disadvantaged people, in developing their own learning and in identifying their employment and training potential. It will do this through a supported assessment process, and by giving learners direct involvement in programme development and delivery.
• To encourage the participation of disadvantaged people in Vocational Education & Training, particularly in social work and social care, and at pre-entry level and in volunteering.
• To enhance personal development, and encourage participation and contribution of disadvantaged people.
• To develop a user-friendly assessment process which will have value to learners, training providers and employers.
• To support learners in the acquisition and demonstration of knowledge, skills and competences, enabling them to enter the labour market.
• To use the ESTEEM project to promote partnership and co-operation across a wider range of training institutions, social partners, municipalities and regions, and providing greater opportunities for participation and training.
Target groups:
• Disabled people and people with learning difficulties whose access to employment is restricted to low paid, unqualified work, or no work at all;
• People from lower socio-economic groups who lack equal access to qualification;
• People excluded from training and the workforce because of cultural differences and ethnicity;
• People returning to learning, especially those with limited secondary school experience;
• People with mental health difficulties whose experience of training and employment may be disrupted.
Outcomes and products:
The ESTEEM project will use the Preparation for Social Work and Social Care programme developed in the APT project (Improving access for disabled people to professional training in social work and social care, through preparation, blended learning and mentoring support.), which was designed as a flexible approach for encouraging entry to further and higher education for disabled people and other disadvantaged groups. The new ESTEEM project will enhance learners’ experience of them by extending their applicability and their adaptability.
• The Preparation Programme will run in new sectors, in new regions, and with new service user groups, and will be promoted in new countries. It will be available in English, Bulgarian and Greek.
• The Programme will support students in developing a personal learning portfolio that they can carry into future training and employment.
• The acquisition of enhanced learner’s skills and abilities will be ensured by specially designed Learner Oriented Quality Assurance Process (LOQuAP). It helps to match learner needs with programme design and format. The individual quality assurance portfolios will be developed within the frame of LOQuAP.
Partnership:
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK - Beneficiary (coordinator) of the project;
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria;
e-ISOTIS , Greece;
The University of Malta, Malta.
ENEVA - ENHANCE EFFICACY THROUGH VALORISATION
Duration: 24 months
Start: 01.10.2007 End: 30.09.2009
KA 4 - Multilateral projects: Dissemination & exploitation of results
Official web site: www.eneva.eu
Consortium:
TUCEP Consortium, Italy - Beneficiary (coordinator) of the project
EMA, Belgium
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria
CV2, Grenaa Business College, Denmark
SERFA University, France
ASL 3, Italy
Pragma Engineering, Italy
Social Innovative Network, Austria
Aims:
• To produce a specific dissemination action devoted to the issues of disabled people;
• Development of an internet portal consist of thematic results in the field of disability coming from projects in LLL.
• Development of a Logical framework evidencing the interactions/congruity of these results at practical and political level.
• Monitoring based on the results of the projects and the influence of the products to socio-cultural relationships between the disabled people, their expectations, the quality of the services and the existing barriers for integration in the community.
Targets:
• Disabled people and their families;
• Disadvantaged people;
• Organisation of disabled people;
• Social organisations;
• Service organisations;
• Educational institutions;
• Policy makers;
• Job centers;
• Medical and rehabilitation centers;
• Community organisations.
Expected Results:
• Valorisation Methodology for dissemination and exploitation of the results based on past project combined through specific criteria;
• ENEVA web portal;
• International workshops in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Italy;
• Specific system for evaluation of the valorisation process, based on the quality indicators and guidance for exploitation of the results;
• Focus the attention to the social and policy makers towards integration of the disabled people in the community.
EPDP - An Educational Platform for Physically Disabled People in Designing / Manufacturing of Supporting Equipment
Start: 01.12.2007 Finish: 30.11.2009
Leonardo da Vinci Programme - Transfer of Innovation
Official web site: www.epdp.eu
The main objective of the project is to establish an educational platform which provides theoretical and practical training for physically disabled people in designing/manufacturing/testing/selecting/repairing of supporting equipment such as wheelchair, prosthesis, elevators, etc.
Aims:
• Enabling the participation of disabled people in every level of production process for supporting devices/equipment.
• Optimization of the current levels of processes by considering the feedback from disabled users.
• Improving the chance of disabled for employment in medical industry offering high income standards.
• Establishing an information and interaction web which is operational among European Union countries in the subject of intelligent selection, development, manufacturing, testing, usage, changing and exchanging of physically disabled people supporting equipments.
• Founding a hard and soft documentation centre fulfilling the steps explained above, and pressing & distributing these documents in English, German, and French.
• Providing an internship opportunity in an educational platform including a certificate program targeting disabled people in an institute such as MEYRA from Germany.
• Providing the test systems increasing the level of user security, and their standards which are prepared by physical disabled people.
• Establishing the test centre and necessary educational framework to perform real simulations with computers.
Target group(s):
Physically Disabled People, Disadvantaged Groups, Designers & Managers of training programmes.
Partners:
TAGEM Kopisan Ltd.;
Uzuner GmbH, Germany. ;
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria ;
Gr.T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania ;
Sakarya University, Turkey;
Disabled Administration Board of Turkish Government;
Disabled Confederation of Turkey ;
Smiling Faces Disabled People Training Rehabilitation and Workplace Centre ;
Adapazarý Merkez Municipal, Turkey ;
FAZ Electric A.Þ. Turkey
e-ACCESS II (Supporting Vocational Education and Training for Disadvantaged User Communities)
Funded under Leonardo da Vinci, transfer of Innovation
1 November 2007 – 31 October 2009
Official web site: www.eaccess2learn.eu
Partnership:
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)
Marie Curie Association (BG)
N.S.F. Cyberall Access Ltd (CY)
e-ISOTIS (GR)
University of Thessaly (GR)
ASSOCIATION “H FOUNDATION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING OF DISABLED PEOPLE” (RO)
The e-Access II Project provides the technical infrastructure (tools and services) and the training for developing and sharing of Accessible e-Training Resources and e-Training Courses that can be reusable between different e-Training Platforms and Programmes.
Important: uses ATutor
Aims and Objectives:
Represent already applied training processes in a formal and technically reusable way using the international specifications and standards (namely, the IEEE Learning Objects Metadata Standard and the IMS Learning Design Specification), so as to enable e-Training Providers with similar needs around the world to exchange innovative e-Training paradigms and practices and evaluate their application in a local/national context.
The main outcome of the e-Access II project will be:
(a) the transfer of know-how across Europe on producing accessible e-Training Resources and Courses and providing e-Training services to People with Disabilities,
(b) the validation of the e-Access key results/outcomes in different European Settings and
(c) the transfer of innovative e-Training practices across Europe.
Expected Results:
• Training Material on Methodology for designing e-Training Scenarios (CD-ROM and online)
• Generic e-Training Scenarios (CD-ROM and online)
• Training Material on Guidelines for the development of accessible web-based training content (CD-ROM and online)
• Training Material on the use of the e-Access Accessibility Metadata Authoring and Repository Management Tool (ASK-eAccess-AccLOM-RM) (CD-ROM and online)
• Training Material on the use of the e-Access Learning Designer Toolkit (ASKeAccess-LDT) (CD-ROM and online)
• Project Web Portal (online)
• Repository of Accessible e-Training Resources (online)
• Repository of Accessible e-Training Courses (online)
• Metadata Repository of Accessible e-Training Resources (online)
• Metadata Repository of Accessible e-Training Courses (online)
• Validation Plan (CD-ROM and online)
• Validation Report (CD-ROM and online)
Target groups:
• e-Training Content Suppliers, that is, the entity responsible for designing and developing independent eTraining Resources in the form of "Learning Objects".
• e-Training Course Suppliers, that is, the entity responsible for designing e-Training Courses as a synthesis of a number of appropriately selected e-Training Resources (from the pre-existing Repository of Learning Objects) based on a predefined e- Training Scenarios (Course Plans) that reflect the e-Training Design of this particular e-Training Course, so as to meet the e-Training needs of the targeted user group.
• e-Training Services Providers, that is, the entity responsible for designing e-Training Programmes as a synthesis of e-Training Courses and delivering e-Training services to their end users, which is visually impaired people and people with motor disabilities.
ETTAD - "Enabling Accessible Adult Training"
Enabling Accessible Adult Training (ETTAD) - Programme Grundtvig
Start: 01 December 2007 End: 30 November 2009
Official web site: www.ettad.eu
ETTAD will enable teachers and trainers to help the integration of disabled people into adult education by removing unintended barriers to their entry and successful participation. Such improvements will open to disabled people a wider range of opportunities for learning and personal development and so be a major step to reduce discrimination against them. Full accessibility for disabled people to adult education requires adjustments in teaching, learning and assessment: teachers and trainers are best positioned to do this, although they normally lack experience and expertise to achieve it.
ETTAD project will transfer to adult education, through a process of thorough review and adaptation a resource with a very successful track-record in tertiary education. The project will raise awareness of, and enable staff to respond to, increased participation in mainstream adult education of people with disabilities. This is a measure that has been proved to be a powerful combination in stimulating change in tertiary education.
Aims:
• To enable teachers and trainers in adult education better to meet the needs of their disabled students, and help providers of adult education to open opportunities for the participation of disabled people in adult education and so to improve their overall participation rate.
• To conduct a programme of needs research in each partner country that will identify the list of core learning activities representative of adult education and other user-variables.
• To develop, on the basis of this research, a revised online package (building on the SCIPS and Qatrain products) that will be adapted to meet the needs of adult education.
• To develop national websites with versions of this revised online package, each fully translated and adapted to meet the national context and any specific national requirements.
• Drawing on the research, to transfer and develop a toolkit of resources concerned with the support of disabled students suitable for use in adult education and to translate and adapt such resources to create national toolkits of resources, one for each partner country.
• To produce national promotional guides for users in each partner country.
• To ensure that the outcomes of the project are maintained after the formal end of the project and that they continue to provide support for adult education after the funding period.
Targets:
• Teachers and trainers in adult education;
• Disabled people;
• Disadvantaged people;
• Course developers;
• Managers in education providers;
• VET providers;
• Policy makers;
• Providers of training for teachers and trainers;
Intended Results:
Within the project the following results will be achieved:
• A report synthesising and presenting the operation and outcomes of the research programme from all partner countries.;
• Pilot promotional version of ETTAD online resource in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey;
• Pilot version of ETTAD toolkit in participating countries;
• Development and Production of Promotional guide;
• Development of project website;
Partners:
University of Worcester, UK - Leading Partner
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria;
University of Ioannina, Greece;
The H Foundation, Romania;
Kavrakoglu Management Institute, Turkey;
QATRAIN 2 - "Quality and Accessible Training 2"
Start: 01 November 2007 End: 30 October 2009
Official web site: www.qatrain.eu
Qatrain 2 will enable teachers and trainers to help the integration of people with disabilities into mainstream VET by removing unintended barriers to their entry and successful participation. Such improvements will open a wider range of opportunities and qualifications for people with disabilities, widening career options and offering a major step to reduce discrimination against them. Full accessibility to mainstream VET requires adjustments in teaching, learning and assessment. Teachers and trainers are best positioned to do this.
The impact of the project will raise awareness and enable staff to respond to increased participation in mainstream VET by people with disabilities, which has been shown to be a powerful combination for change in tertiary education.
Aims:
• To conduct research in each country to identify a set of core learning activities representative of non-tertiary VET in order to develop a revised online SCIPS/Qatrain package for non-tertiary VET.
• To develop 4 versions of this revised package, each translated and adapted to meet its national context, and organised to enable VET staff to access material directly relevant to their work, in ways that will be directly usable in both initial and in-service teacher-training for VET staff.
• To produce a support toolkit that will enable VET providers and individual VET staff, to identify their training needs in relation to the provision of access for people with disabilities.
• To ensure that VET staff and people with disabilities have an appropriate, continuing, role in the development of the project and the materials it will produce.
• To develop, adapt and translate a module about the teaching of enterprise as both an introductory tutorial for the online package and to help improve the employability of people with disabilities.
• To ensure that the outcomes of the project are maintained after the formal end of the project and that they continue to provide support for VET once funding for Qatrain 2 is exhausted.
Targets:
• Teachers and trainers in non-tertiary VET
• People with disabilities
• Disadvantaged people
• Course developers
• Managers in VET
• VET providers
• Policy makers
• Providers of training for teachers and trainers
Intended Results:
The following results will be produced within this project:
• A comprehensive online searchable resource in United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania.
• A promotional resource in Turkey.
• An online toolkit for identifying needs and promoting awareness in United Kingdom, Romania, Bulgaria Greece and Turkey.
• A guide to European Policies concerning disability and VET.
• A module in entrepreneurialism that will also provide an introductory tutorial for the Qatrain 2 resource.
• A report synthesising and comparing research results from the needs research programme in the partner countries.
• A promotional guide for the Qatrain 2 resource.
Partners:
University of Worcester, UK - Lead Partner
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria
University of Ioannina, Greece
The H Foundation, Romania
Kavrakoglu Management Institute, Turkey
OASIS - Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation
Funded under FP7 IST, Integrated Project, THEME ICT-2007.7.1 ICT & Ageing
1 January 2008 – 31 December 2011
Partnership:
1. PHILIPS FIMI s.r.l.
2. Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport / Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Informatics & Telematics Institute
3. Asociación Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas
4. Planung Transport Verkehr AG
5. Mizar Automazione S.p.A.
6. The European Older People’s Platform
7. SIEMENS S.A.
8. VODAFONE-OMNITEL ITALIA
9. MOTOROLA GmbH, PRRC Physical Realization Research Center –Europe
10. IBM CESKA REPUBLICA, SPOL. s r. o.
11. PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES
12. Centro Ricerche Fiat Società Consortile per Azioni
13. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
14. Universität Bremen
15. University of Newcastle upon Tyne
16. SingularLogic S.A.
17. DOMOLOGIC Home Automation GmbH
18. ANCO S.A. Agencies, Commerce & Industry
19. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
20. Marie Curie Association
21. CONNCEPT SWISS
22. EWORX S.A.
23. University of Pisa
24. Intelligent Traffic & Transport Applications SA
25. ATAF SpA
26. ATC ROM S.r.l.
27. Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia
28. NETSMART S.A.
29. Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey
30. Tsinghua University / Institute of Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tsinghua University
31. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Life Supporting Technologies
32. Innovalia Association
Aims and Objectives:
How will OASIS address this?
Independent living and Socialising
–Placing attention to the nutrition habits of the elderly (WP2.2).
–Increasing the level of physical activity of the elderly (WP 2.3).
–Ensuring that the person maintains his/her cognitive skills (WP2.4).
–Empowering and encouraging the social relationships of the elderly (WP2.5).
–Monitoring the elderly users’ health status (WP2.6).
–Assisting the elderly to manage their home environment efficiently (WP2.6).
–Stimulation of communicating and undertaking social activities through the social relationships platform (WP2.5: Social relationships and recreation platform, A2.5.3: Collaborative Web Experience, and A2.5.4: e-learning and Infotainment, A2.5.5: Recreation for the Elderly)
–Brain and skills trainer of WP2.4
Autonomous mobility:SP3: Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications
–Providing elderly people with customised transport information (WP3.2)
–Multimodal trip information and planning services, and especially the route guidance systems (WP3.3)
–Personalised travel manner (WP3.4: Personal mobility).
Workability
–Smart workplace environment
»Smart workplaces applications, Design of smart workplace environment and infrastructure
»(A)synchronous communication offered by OASIS - Supported tools and Technologies for flexi-work of elderly, Implementation of smart workplace applications
»Teaming up (virtually) of an elderly employee with a younger one, offering the means for cross fertilization between different age groups who have different but complementary areas of expertise.
Getting the services
–Ontology framework
Subprojects:
• Open system reference architecture, user interfaces, platform and tools
• Independent living applications (ILA)
• Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications
• Integration, Pilot sites and Demos
• Horizontal Activities
Target groups:
• Elderly, with and without disabilities
• Elderly home
• Sheltered homes (service flats)
• At home
Expected Products:
• A new Architectural Framework, called “COF-Common Ontological Framework” or “OASIS hyper-ontology”
• An Open Reference Architecture, composed by the COF and its support tools (Content Connector Module-CCM and other ontology management modules)
• OASIS Platform, composed of the new Open Reference Architecture, enriched by an AmI Framework (a multi-Agents platform) and the Interaction Platform (allowing automatic UI self-creation for new connected services and self adaptation to the device used, the context of use and the user needs and preferences).
• Wide range of connected applications (over 12 different service types), all integrated within the OASIS Platform
• Pilots test-bed, consisting of 4 sites Europewide (in North, Central, South and East- Europe) and all potential test environments per site: Living Labs for technical verification and iterative development, Sheltered Homes for assisted living and user communities related real-world applications and Independent Living, namely private homes, for real world applications.
VALIDATING MENTORING 2 (VM2)
VM2 is a European project aiming to promote and mainstream mentoring programmes as a tool for career development of people who are in a disadvantaged position in the open labour market.
The project will last for 24 months.
Start 01.10.2007
End: 30.09.2009
The project is partially funded under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission, Measure: “Transfer of Innovations”.
Visit the official project website:
www.VM2-project.eu
About the project:
Validating Mentoring 2 (VM2) is a continuation of 3 successful previous LdV projects: ‘EODPE’, ‘Validation of mentoring’ and ‘Access to professional training for people with disabilities’. It aims to build on the achievements of these projects.
The current project will respond to the needs of disabled people and other disadvantaged in the job market by developing systems for the recognition of their non-formal and informal learning. This is particularly important for the representatives of these groups because, compared to their peers, they lack formal qualifications and this diminishes their employability.
By establishing new mentoring programmes for disabled people, older people and young people at risk in 3 countries, the project will transfer the principles and practices of effective, high quality, mentoring and validation, based on the Code of Practice for Mentoring, which was developed within the first Validation of Mentoring project.
In support for the transfer, VM2 will elaborate and evaluate comprehensive systems for the self-assessment of mentoring programmes.
Project objectives:
VM2 has the following ambitious objectives:
• To establish new mentoring programmes in 3 countries (Bulgaria, Turkey and the United Kingdom) for new target groups (older people and young people at risk);
• To adapt and transfer the Code of Practice as the basis for these new programmes;
• To refine the Code of Practice, using the evaluation of the pilots and data from other programmes;
• To develop a precise and sustainable self-assessment system completing the Code of Practice;
• To monitor, test and review the mentoring programmes within VM2;
• To develop and promote the self-sustained continuation of the overall validation process.
Target groups:
The VM2 project is oriented towards the following target groups:
• Disabled people
• Young people at risk of unemployment, involvement in crime or social exclusion
• Older people disadvantaged in the job market or in danger of social exclusion
• Enterprises and other bodies, positive towards disabled and disadvantaged people
• Training providers, public bodies and other social organisations that organise mentoring programmes
• Organisations seeking accreditation of prior experience or learning (APEL).
The target sectors of the project are:
• Tourism and Hospitality
• Service sector
• Public sector
• Education and training sector
Project outcomes:
The VM2 project will seek to recognise a wide range of outcomes for both mentee and mentor, including the range of competences that may be developed along with changes in attitudes and awareness of social difference.
VM2 will also develop additional innovations as an enhancement of the Code of Practice of Mentoring in the form of a procedure for implementing a comprehensive, guided, self-assessment exercise.
The possibility of creating a European Quality Mark in Mentoring will also be explored.
Within the VM2 project the transnational team of experts will develop 3 guides which may be used to implement, monitor and evaluate mentoring schemes. These will include: “A Guide for mentoring promoters”, “A Guide for Mentors” and “A Guide for Mentees”. The Guides will be available in paper-based, web-based and CD-ROM format.
In order to draw the attention of the employers to the work potential of disabled and disadvantaged people, project partners will contribute to a virtual “Social Employers Network” available on www.disadvantaged-employment.eu
Partnership within the project:
This project was established by a consortium of partners from 4 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey and the UK) plus one European network:
Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria – Beneficiary and coordinator of the project
PhoenixKM, Belgium
Workability Europe (WE), Belgium
Bolu Guidance and Research Centre, Turkey
Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, UK
The Centre for Inclusive Learning Support at the University of Worcester, UK
VALIDATION OF MENTORING
(Link to project website)
This is a transnational project funded under measure C, thematic actions, within the frames of Leonardo da Vinci programme of the EC. The main goal of the project is to support the work carrier of the young disabled people through incorporating and validation of the mentoring programmes. The process of validation will facilitate the recognition of the acquired practical skills during those mentoring programmes. A certificate which is recognized in the participating European countries will be obtained by each participant in order to prove it to his / her potential employers.
Project duration:24 months
Start:01.10.2005
Finish: 30.09.2007
Partners:
9 partners from 5 countries:
* Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria
* “Euroconsulting”Ltd., Bulgaria
* Municipality of Sliven, Bulgaria
* e-ISIOTIS, Greece
* H Foundation, Romania
* Dobrovita Plus, Slovenia
* Slovenian Association for Mental Health, Slovenia
* University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, Slovenia
* French & Burt Ltd. UK
Target groups:
* Employers;
* Disabled people;
* Other disadvantaged in the labour market;
Users:
* Employers, to include personnel / human relations staff;
* Disabled people;
* Other people disadvantaged in the labour market;
* Careers advisors;
* Policy makers;
Target sectors:
* Service sector;
* IT sector;
* Restaurants and hotels;
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ACCESS TO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR DISABLED PEOPLE (APT)
(Link to project website)
This project is finance supported by Leonardo da Vinci Programme, European Commission, procedure “B” – “Pilot projects”
Project duration: 24months
Start: 01.10.2005
Finish: 30.09.2007
Partners:
4 partner organizations from 3 countries:
* De Montfort University (United Kingdom),
* Marie-Curie Association, Plovdiv (Bulgaria),
* Centre for Social Services, Municipality of Sliven (Bulgaria)
* University in Malta, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy (Malta)
* Kummissjoni Nazzjonali Persuni b’Dizabilita’ (Malta)
Target groups:
* Training providers / Universities;
* Disabled people;
* Employers;
* Sectoral organisations;
* Local authorities;
* Disabled professionals caucuses;
Target sector:
* Social work
Beneficieries:
Sectoral organisations;
Local authorities / employers;
Disabled employees group;
Training providers / Universities;
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