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JAKIN II - Transfer and full development of the formal and non formal training assessment tool

08-09-2011

JAKIN II - Transfer and full development of the formal and non formal training assessment tool, within new trends and needs of business.


In the context of more globalized markets, companies don’t only compete for goods and services, but also for strategies. Knowledge management becomes a crucial value-added factor as knowledge represents the intellectual capital of a company.



One of the most important bases for strategy development is employment training. Formal and non-formal training actions are not a short term cost but a long term investment. Companies have to assess which training methods are appropriate for their needs and evaluate them from the perspective of knowledge management.


JAKIN II is an assessment tool based on the original tool JAKIN which was elaborated to evaluate the training needs and activities in companies and offer suggestions on improvement. JAKIN is available on CD-Rom and has introduced qualitative and quantitative training assessment indicators which can be used to evaluate the strategic management as well as a company’s capacity to generate intellectual capital (human capital, structural capital and relational capital). JAKIN is based on the Jakin Model of Intellectual Capital (JMIC), which contains the main indicators a company’s performance depends on.



The main objective of this project is to redesign and extend the JAKIN tool due to the changes, advances and new necessities that have appeared. JAKIN II is going to incorporate every kind of stage associated with the assessment of formal and non-formal training and add indicators associated with new trends. It is designed as management tool for all types of companies, especially for small companies and companies linked to innovation processes.



Target Group:


The new assessment tool will address companies (from a cross-sectoral perspective), especially small enterprises with problems in the management of human capital.



Product:



The main result will be an assessment tool (JAKIN II), available online, that improves the knowledge management in small and medium enterprises (SMEs)



EU-Programme: LLP, Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation
Coordinator: Confederación Empresarial de Vizcaya, Spain
Duration: December 2010 – November 2012
Website: www.jakin2.eu


Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Jakin-II


Co.N.E.Ct Coordinators :  Grando Silvia,  Giacomi Valter

Restart Transfer of Innovation Project

06-05-2011

The Restart Transfer of Innovation project will be delivered through the Leonardo LLP programme and will commence on 1st October 2010, running for two years. It aims to develop the quality and attractiveness of VET systems and practices throughout Europe by ensuring that they are responsive to the very specific needs of a group known to be at high risk of social exclusion: lone parents.


It will target support at lone parents that face particular difficulties in the labour market actively involving them in the project to transfer qualifications across Europe.  Research reveals that while most lone parents want to work they often face a complex combination of personal and structural barriers: low self-esteem, lack of affordable childcare, fear of moving off benefits and the need to update skills and gain work experience.


To respond to these difficulties, a cross-sectoral partnership in Northern Ireland developed Restart during the EU EQUAL programme. Restart is an accredited programme combining group work, individual life coaching with a work placement to develop participants’ self-esteem and employability. Practical help with applying for jobs, advice on personal finances, arranging childcare and transport help strengthen participants’ confidence about taking the major step of returning to work.


The Restart Transfer of Innovation project\\\'s main aim is to transfer this innovative programme to Cyprus, Italy, Poland and Norway. The partners are Gingerbread NI, Possibilities NI, DEL, CONECT,  Associazione NET (Italy), WSINF (Poland),  NOVA (Norway), INDEX (Cyprus). CONECT’s role will to disseminate the project findings.


Project objectives include: research carried out into the situation of lone parents in each country; the establishment cross-sectoral Stakeholder Forums, ensuring the involvement of policy and practice professionals who can support this transfer;  adaptation, accreditation and translation to suit each country\\\'s language, welfare, employment and VET systems; and piloted and evaluated with 10 lone parents in each country. Dissemination will include a case study film, best practice report, project report and a final event in Brussels involving DG\\\'s and other key practice and policy players. Valorisation options include commercialisation, e-learning adaptation, conversion for use with other disadvantaged groups and ECVET accreditation.


The envisaged impact is that each partner country will be able to offer through their VET system an accredited return to work training and support package for lone parents seeking a return to work and a group traditionally disadvantaged in the labour market to achieve greater equality of access to sustainable employment across the EU.


 

SuperMom Kick-Off – EU project for single parents !

12-04-2011

 


Supermom Kick-Off project is an innovative program addressed to single and unemployed parents in 5 countries of European Union: in Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Poland. The program involves basic vocational training in media sector and personal competences training, and shooting a film by participants. Single parents make a joint effort to produce this film, it will be created on the basis of their experiences.


The aim of the project is to support and activation single parents, who are one of the most exposed to poverty, unemployment and social exclusion groups. Poverty affects also children from these types of families. Development of personal and vocational skills, involvement in common enterprise and establishing contacts with others will help single parents to discover their self-esteem, and the effect of it will be developing their own resourcefulness.


In addition, possibility of presentation by their self-produced film to the wide spectrum of society will be one more crucial factor. It gives an opportunity to overcome stereotypes on single parents. It enables exposing of public debate concerning practical solutions for single parents in overcoming everyday difficulties as well. 


A final effect of the program, aside from the produced film, will be publishing a course manual as well.


 


Roots of the project


SuperMom Kick-Off program grows on the basis of three previous projects: Empower 1, Empower 2 and Supermutti. Empower programs were directed to recognition of specific needs of single parents and supporting them in coming back into the labour market or continuation of education. The aim of Supermutti was to product a film with single parents before and behind the camera. In practical workshops the participants learnt different professional skills needed in the film and media sector, what enhanced their self-esteem.


This project is funded in the EU Lifelong Learning Program Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation.


Duration of the project: 01.10.2010 - 30.09.2012.


 


Partners


• Germany: wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnützige GmbH www.wisamar.de


• Germany: Helden wider Willen e.V. www.eexistence.de


• France: CNA-Cefag www.cna-cefag.eu 


• Italy: Associazione NET www.associazionenet.it


• United Kingdom: Possibilities NI www.possibilitiesni.com


• Poland: Wyzsza Szkola Informatyki www.wsinf.edu.pl


 


Course of the program


1. Creating a small group ensuring circle of support and motivation leading to desirable life changes.


2. Leading empowerment workshops dedicated to personal competences development (such as self-esteem building, analysis of personal resources, elements of communication, self-presentation and moving around labour market).


3. Leading training film workshops (script writing, acting, make-up, sound, camera, digital postproduction, marketing).


4. Working in small group being aimed at original professional film shooting and its marketing and distribution.


5. Parallel creating films by single parents in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and United Kingdom – and will be edited in one film.


6. The film presentation during international session dedicated European single parents in Paris in 2012 and distribution during film festivals, in art galleries, etc.


 


Contact :


Project\\\'s web site : www.supermom-kick-off.eu


To gain more information, please, contact with:


Sabine Mahhou / wisamar (Germany)


sabine.mahhou@wisamar.de


 


 


 

European project REDECCOM for sustainable communication !

04-11-2010

REDECCOM Project – Identifying and developing skills for sustainable communication
Supported by the European Social Fund in France under Innovative Transnational
Actions 2010 as part of the “Competitiveness and Employment 2007-2013”
Programme


 


Objectives: Develop skills compatible with sustainable development


REDECCOM project aims to develop the skills of graphic arts, visual
communication, advertising, web-marketing and multimedia professionals,
so that they can develop towards responsible communication, capable of
reducing the environmental impact of design, manufacture, production,
dissemination and/or promotion of communication objects.


The project’s objective for the first year is to focus, as a
priority, on upskilling level IV and V trainees (from the CAP vocational
training certificate to the Bac Pro in the French system), which are
more specifically centred on the fields of graphic and multimedia
production. Next, the idea is to develop skills related to responsible
communication and reducing of environmental impact across all
professions in the graphic chain, from design to dissemination.
Ultimately, the centre will be capable of providing training for the
five hundred young people and one thousand adults who come each year.


Partnerships


Two European learning centres are involved in this project:
> the Haute Ecole Libre Mosane (HELMO), a higher learning institute in Liège, Belgium, which offers training in Marketing
> the Lepido Rocco vocational training centre in Motta di Livenza, Italy, which offers courses in electronics and computing.

In France, the CNA-Cefag:
> is mobilising its Development & Europe, Engineering training and Multimedia departments
> enjoys NovaSIRHE sustainable development consultancy services
> is developing dialogue with a network of stakeholders working in vocational education, communication and the environment.


Action: Create and disseminate sustainable development training modules in the communication professions

In France, the idea is to design, produce and disseminate distance learning modules. The first modules cover:
> sustainable development awareness-raising for visual communication professions
> attitudes and habits that can reduce the environmental impact of graphic manufacturing activities.

At the European level, cooperation includes sharing methodologies,
knowledge and experience, particularly during study visits. The aim is
to compile requirements and practices so that sustainable development
can subsequently be mainstreamed into communication, marketing and
multimedia training.

The e-learning training modules will be disseminated to French networks
(regional training centres, pooling of GIFOD training resources) and
European partners (Belgium, Italy and CONECT Network of integration
stakeholders).


 


For further information / Contact
> Partner websites: www.cnacefag.eu ; www.cfacom.org ; www.lepidorocco.com ; www.helmo.be

>    Project  Coordinator: Marie Rouffort - mrouffort@cna-cefag.org
CNA Cefag – 80, rue Jules Ferry – 93170 Bagnolet – France

Lone Parents Building Confidence and Accessing Training

05-04-2011

Between 2008 and 2010,


lone parent support organisation, Gingerbread Northern Ireland has led a
Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme project aimed at developing best practice
among those working with lone parent beneficiaries across the EU.


The project -
‘Empower: lone parents building confidence and accessing learning
(Reference:GRP/08/59C)’ – created a learning partnership between Northern
Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Germany. It was set up to
exchange knowledge and best practice about working with lone parents.
One-parent households are a group identified by the European Commission and in
many European countries’ National Action Plans as highly vulnerable to poverty
and social exclusion. The project particularly focused on raising awareness of
the barriers facing lone parents trying to access education and employment,
which contribute directly to difficulties entering the labour market and
associated social exclusion and poverty.


The partners were
drawn from a range of organisations working with lone parent clients in the
public, private and charitable sectors. In addition to Gingerbread NI, they
included SHIA-V, a German lone parent organisation, Caritas Vilnius, a charitable
organisation supporting vulnerable groups in Lithuania, as well as further
education providers: Anniesland College in Scotland, WSINF in Poland and ASIMAG
in Spain. All partners shared an interest in improving their understanding of
the needs of this group and particularly in helping to facilitate their access
to learning and employment opportunities.


 

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