List of projects:
- Creating of educational services for migrant parents
- Adult Education for women from rural areas in Europe
- PFE Partnership for entrepreneurship
PFE
EN: PFE - Partnership for entrepreneurship
The project aims to:
- Improve entrepreneurial skills of teachers working in VET schools
- Increasing competitiveness, entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of high school
graduates relating to the European market.
- Identification of teaching strategies and teaching methods in the European context of
quality assurance in the entrepreneurial field.
- Improving teaching, linguistic, IT skills, cultural, social and adaptability skills with
respect to commercial services for the participants to the project.
Outcomes of the project:
- website of the project in languages of all partners http://pfeprojectpoland.wordpress.com/
- The comparative study “Entrepreneurial practices in VET schools in the partner countries”
- dissemination materials for the project (leaflet, poster)
- 20 lessons plans about entrepreneurial ship for vocational schools ( 5 per partner)
- Booklet summarising collection of lessons plans, seminar and pilots with some recommendation.
- 4 seminars for teachers of vocational schools ( 1 per partners)
- Final seminar in Lodz summarizing project’s achievements
Project partners:
POLAND
Oświatowiec Łódź is a private educational company, established in 2004. The main area of its activities is educational sector- adult and vocational education. The company conducted research and analyses in that field. Oswiatowiec has experiences in creation and providing different kind of short courses from general education ( soft skills, basic skills) to specialist vocational courses ( real estate, management, hotel management, tourism etc). Oswiatowiec is a competence centre for methodology, technology and organisation of education.
TURKEY
Kastamonu
Kastamonu Industry Vocational High Schoolwas founded under the name of Kastamonu Reformatory to teach craft to orphans and deprived children aged between 7 and 13 in 1869. It is one of the first examples of its kind. It has trained children in the branches of tailoring, printing, shoemaking and carpentry. It has gained a new status as Industrial Vocational School in1976. In 1976-1977, machinery branch was established and in 1980 -1981, electricity branch was established. After ten years, Anatolian Technical High School Electricity and Machinery branches were added. Today, our school continues to operate as Anatolian Technical High School, Technical High School and Vocational High School with Electronics-Electrics, Machinery, Carpentry-Furniture and Decoration, Automotive (Engine), Computer Technologies and Metal-Welding branches.
Izmir
Buca vocational high school has establised in 1978. Buca VHS has got 138 teachers and 2300 students. There are electricity and electronics, it, machine, furniture, building, metal, press tecnologie fields. Buca VHS is the biggest vocational high school in its area. Buca VHS implements full-day training. Educating period is cover 4 years. After school educating, students can pass universirty without a general exam for 2 years academy or with exam for 4 years faculty.
GREECE
The Vocational Evening High School of Chania on the island of Creta in Greece employs 40 teachers, has 350 students and provides specialization sectors in applied technology , management and economics , agriculture, technology of food and nutrition, health and welfare. Our school curriculum leads to a level 3 certification upon graduation and with an extra year practice in work environment to level 4 certification, whereas they may also continue at tertiary education. Studies as well as training help our students to improve vocational skills, enable them to adapt to labor market and develop initiative so as to be actively involved in competitive entrepreneurship.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES:
• Kick of meeting in Lodz (Poland) •
• Creation of the project logo and website
• Creation of the comparative study “Entrepreneurial practices in VET schools”
• 2nd project meeting in Izmir (March 2014) to discuss about the comparative study and decide about topics for lessons plans
• Creation of dissemination plan
• Creation of the project leaflet and the poster
• Creation of the progress report
• Creation of the lessons plan in each country
• 3rd meeting in Chania (October 2014) – the aim is presentation of the lessons plan by each partner
• Organisation of the seminar for teachers in each country
• Organisation and providing pilots for lessons plans with students in each country
• 4th partner meeting in Kastamonu (April 2015) for discussion about pilot implementation and discussion about the structure of the booklet
• Creation of the content of the booklet
• Final partnership meeting and seminar in Lodz (Poland) focused on evaluation of the pilot phase and finalisation of the project– end of June 2015
• Creation of final report
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GRUNDTVIG - Partnership
EN: Creating of educational services for migrant parents
The project idea came from the teachers' and social workers' determination to help children whose parents went abroad for work. The problem of children left at home while one or both of the parents work abroad or in other remote areas severely affected some poorer EU and candidate countries.
The aim of the project is to solve communication problems among the members of families, whose parents migrate for work to other EU countries or to other areas in own countries and leave their children at home. While the European Commission has a number of programs and measures aimed to provide help for immigrants and their children, who arrive together with them, for better integration to the new society: a number of projects, training courses, special schools for migrants' children, the problem of left children while their parents work abroad, is little explored. Official statistics do not give an information about number of children left behind.
We believe that additional education for migrant parents will provide them with necessary knowledge and skills that will help to maintain closer ties with family members left behind.
The aim of the project is to solve communication problems among the members of families, whose parents migrate for work to other EU countries or to the remote areas of the country and leave their children at home. The main objective of the project - to develop training program and educational material, which will help these parents to keep the relationships with left children and other family members as close as possible.
In order to achieve this objective, the project will:
- Perform a research in regions of partners countries (LT,LV,PL,RO,CZ,TR) - in collaboration with government institutions and non-governmental organizations the data on the number of families will be collected; collect the stories of migrant parents' and adult family members' describing the difficulties and problems which they have experienced while communicating with each other remotely;
- Based on the results of research, training program and training materials will be developed, at least for 16 hours training course for migrant parents and their spouses. Training courses will take focus on the psychological aspects of remote communication and will provide additional information about the latest ICT tools;
- According to the prepared educational material, the flexible (face to face, remote, using e-mail, distance learning environments and social networks) pilot training courses for parents migrants' groups (10-15 persons) will be organized;
- Considering the course experience, adjusted educational material for migrant parents we'll publish in e-book in English and in languages of partner countries. The book will be published publicly on the Internet;
- Develop a project web site and publish the current project materials and the final outputs.
Partnership:
- Centrum pro verejnou politiku – Prague, Czech Republic (coordinator)
- Mersin Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu – Mersin, Turkey
- Menedzmenta Holding - Riga, Latvia
- Joniskelio Igno Karpio zemes ukio ir paslaugu mokykla - Pasvalys, Lithuania
- Colegiul Tehnic Metalurgic – Slatina, Romania
- Oświatowiec-Łódź sp. z o.o. – Łódź, Poland
This Project is run within LLP (Grundtvig-Partnership - project number: 2012-1-LT1-GRU06-07134 8)
Duration: 2012-2014
Project Grundtvig - Partnership
“Adult Education for women from rural areas in Europe”
Partners:
- Atarfe City Council ( Spain) – coordinator
- Associazione Eurokom, Gerace ( Italy)
- Oświatowiec, Lodz ( Poland)
- Tosya Genclik Gundemi, Kastamonu (Turkey)
Summary:
The project aims to meet the needs and build the skills of rural women over 45 years and to improve the quality of training provided by the life long learning sector in disadvantages areas of Europe. It also encourages networking across boarders through sharing of knowledge and European best practices amongst different organizations related to life long learning.
The purpose of the project is to increase the learning and awareness of obstacles and opportunities for women’s education and employment in the selected countries, promoting inclusion and assisting a vulnerable social group, often out or not interested in lifelong learning system. Through transnational meetings, the project implies local community and organizations, so that is easier to sensitize them about the varied European context. An illustrated web page, identifying good practice for managing rural lifelong learning, highlights the essential features for success. The web is used to disseminate the contribution made by both staff and learners participating in R-Train to a board range of additional organization in Europe. Through the project good practices, dialogue between participating regions will be fostered and learners will improve their mutual understanding about rural women’s lifelong learning unique characteristics and cultural background, while tolerance towards the other countries and cultures is enhanced.
Background
EU indicators reveal that employment rate of women are lower in rural areas, specially on the age of over 45, combined with low rates of basic qualifications and difficulties and disinformation for lifelong learning access. Their role within these rural community context s is often linked to the family life and care, in opposition with the role of men, linked to public life and work. A success action plan for the empowerment of rural women requires the disseminating of values, structures and process that maintains inequalities in access to political, social and economic resources. Education plays important role in this process, because they have not achieved basic qualifications.
Objectives of the project:
- Facilitate and increase the lifelong learning education of rural women, so that they have alternative learning opportunities and better access to the labor market
- Improving self-perception and self-esteem of rural women over 45 years, affecting their decision to participate in adult education programmes
- Prepare those women over 45, who are not interested in LLL, to access vocational retraining
- Support institutions that work on adult education in the exchange of best practices and methodologies , with other European countries in the field of education and access to employment in rural areas
- Increase mobility of rural women and facilitate their lifelong learning, letting them know that great cultural and social European context
- Reinforce co-operation and mutual actions of training institutions that participated in the project, as well as others what will be added in future
Results of the project:
- Collection of the good practices of lifelong learning education for women from rural areas form partnership counties
- 4 partner meeting connected with organization of local seminars based on the project theme
- Website of the project http://rtrainprojectpl.wordpress.com/
- Network of institutions interested in promoting and implementing lifelong learning on rural areas