Skilling Up Educators for Today‘s and Tomorrow Labor Market

The knowledge, skills and attitudes of each of Europe‘s 6 million teachers are of great importance. The quality of their teaching has a direct effect upon learner‘s attainment. The demands made on educators/teachers, which is our target group, are increasing and changing. They are called on to play a key role in modernizing education. To do that, they need to develop their own knowledge and skills.

The project will create and propose:

• Open Multilingual collaborative platform with Digital and Soft skills courses consisting of 6 modules each for study in English, Lithuanian, French, Greek, Swedish, Bulgarian for 60 hours.
• A set of lesson scenarios or lesson plans compiled in e-book (50 lesson samples).
• Innovative informal training program for professional development of elderly educators, applicable at European level.
• State of the Art Report about informal digital and soft skills training for educators in partner countries.
• 1 short-term staff training in soft skills (total 15 persons).
• 1 multiplier event in partner countries (total 5 events & 120 participants).
• 1 international pilot training in soft skills (15 participants).
• 4 national pilot trainings in soft skills (20 participants each; total 80 participants).
• 1 international pilot training in digital skills (30 participants).
• 5 national pilot trainings in digital skills (20 participants each; total 100 participants).

More about the project you can find at its webpage: https://skillsup4educator.eu

Web-based Training Tools for Health and Safety (WBTTH&S) is a two-year-long project of the Lifelong learning programme and the Leonardo da Vinci programme - Transfer of Innovation. Тhe project is funded with the support of the European Commission.

The organizations involved are the following:the Spanish workers cooperative organization Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Trabajo Asociado (COCETA); the families association Associação Nacional para a Acção Familiar (ANJAF) and the development NGO Associação Portuguesa de Saúde, Higiene e Segurança no Trabalho para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional (APSHSTDC) from Portugal; the cooperatives and mutual institute Istituto Nazionale di Formazione della Lega delle Cooperative e Mutue (Inforcoop) and the media organization Oltremodo, from Italy; the education and training enterprise from Bulgaria Balkanplan;and the Group For European Integration (GIE) from Romania.

The project, financed by the European Commission, will finish at the end of September 2015 and includes: a research phase, the development of training tools that will be accessible on the Internet, the evaluation of the tools and - at a later stage - the transfer of innovation in the services sector throughout the European Union.

Most of the organizations have already participated last year in a successful Project with similar goals in the specific sector of cleaning in offices and institutions.

According to European data, the rate of accidents in the social sector, as a domestic worker or as an assistant for elderly or sick people, is 34% higher than the EU average in other areas.

Main objectives of the project:

• Cross-national research on the risks in the social service sector

• Development of web-based training tools for health and safety on the workplace

• Evaluation of the training tools

• Transfer of innovation between the social service enterprises in the European Union

The online based training tools include eight videos plus one additional introductory video, describing the different risks at the workplace for people, working in the social service sector. There are useful guidelines and advises for health and safety.

The project website is http://www.wbtths.com/

Balkanplan has developed a platform with educational videos in Bulgarian language available at http://hs-wbtt.balkanplan-bg.eu/