YOTE Project First Newsletter

YOTE projet newsletter No1 | June 2014 YOTE projet newsletter No1 | June 2014

NEWSLETTER N°1PROJECT NUMBER: 540327-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-LEONARDO-LMP

This project is funded with the financial support of the European Commission. This publication reflects only the views of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”

YOUTH ON THE EMPOWERMENT

Welcome

YOTE PROJECT DESCRIPTION

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KICK OFF MEETING IN GRANADA

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PRESENTATION OF THE PARTNERS

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YOTE PROJECT MEETINGS

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ISSUE 1 / JUNE 2014

Welcome to the YOTE Project

Newsletter, which will inform

you about the progress of our

project activities throughout

the duration of the project

(24 months). We will do our

best to make it informative and

interesting.

The scope Newsletter of the YOTE, Youth On The Empowerment Project will be

issued every 3 months in order to inform and promote the results and outputs

of the YOTE project.

The first issue of the YOTE Project Newsletter is dedicated to the description of

this project, the kick-off meeting in Granada and also the presentation of the

partners’ organizations of this partnership.

The newsletter will also

be available on the

project website at :

www.yote.eu

YOTE projet newsletter No1 | June 2014

Work Packages of the YOTE project:

Management (from month 1 to 24): Partner 1: Docete Omnes Fundación (Granada – Spain)

WP1

Building the meth-odology (from month 2 to Month 9) theory/practices/ Mobility program: Partner 3: Volk-shochschule Hannover (Hannover – Germany)

WP2

Developing the web-site & digital tools (from month 4 to 12): Partner 2: Karriere Club (Vienna, Austria);

WP3

Training course for students (from month 12 to month 18):

Partner 5: Association for Educa-tion and Development of Disable people (Kavala - Greece)

Partner 1: Docete Omnes Founda-tion (Grenada- Spain);

Partner 4: Eurocultura (Vicenza – Italy);

WP4

Analysis of results (from month 18th to 21st) Partner 6: AIFED (Granada – Spain).

WP5

Exploitation of results (month 5th -7th, 11th – 13th, 16th to 23rd (14th month) Partner 4: Eu-rocultura (Vicenza – Italy) ;

WP6

Dissemination of the re-sults (from month 6th to 24th):

Partner 2: Karriere Club (Vienna, Austria)

Partner 7 : Bureau Régional des Colonies de Vacances de Sousse BRCV (Sousse – Tunisia).

WP7

Quality/Evaluation Plan (months from 7th – 8th, 12th – 15th, 19th - 20th, 23rd – 24th) Part-ner 1: Docete Omnes Foundation

WP8

YOTE Project descriptionThe Youth On The Empowerment “YOTE” is Leonardo Da Vinci multilateral project. Duration of the YOTE project is 24 months. The project idea consists on developing an innovative methodolo-gy based on “units of competence” that vocational students (from 17 to 24 years) will acquire as a training course.

This new methodology will include activities of non-formal education, which will improve vocational train-ing students, personal development in regards to their capacities, and psychological maturity that pro-vide a better social integration or employability according to the Strat-egy 20/20.

To validate the methodology, the 7 partners involved (6 from Euro-pean Union and one third coun-try) will promote the use, test and implementation ECVET by applying it to the qualification of the course according to the ECVET guide-lines.

The expert selected by each partners country from some previous research (Euroempleo 115), some documents of European Commission and European Council, their own experience, and literature...will develop a methodology structured as “Units of Competence” follow the EFVET Guidelines to have the possibility to recognize the learning outcomes(WP2).

The Methodology will be adapted as a “digital tool” and hosted in the project website (WP3), and it will be trans-ferred to the vocational students as a “training course” (WP4)

The results will be analyzed (WP6) and published in a research

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First transnational kick-off meeting in Granada – Spain 11th -14th March 2014The kickoff meeting of the Leonardo da Vinci Project for Transfer of Innovation YOTE (Youth On The Empowerment), reference number 540327-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-LEONARDO-LMP, was held in Docete Omnes Foundation in Granada, Spain, between 11th

and 14th of March 2014. 10 members from 6 countries have taken part in this meeting.

The 7 partners organisations of the consortium are :

Docete Omnes Fun-dación (Grenada- Spain): Project coordinator;

Karriere Club (Vienna, Austria);

V o l k s h o c h s c h u l e Hannover-´ (Hannover – Germany);

Eurocultura (Vicenza – Italy);

Association for Education and Development of Disabled People - ASEDDEDIPE (Kavala - Greece);

Asociación de Innovación Formación y Empleo para el Desarrollo Sostenible - AIFED (Granada – Spain);

Bureau Régional des Colonies de Vacances de Sousse BRCV (Sousse – Tunisia).

All the partners took part in the firt kickoff meeting except part-ner 6.

The first project meeting began with a welcome re-mark delivered by Maria José Martinez & Fátima Carmona, representative of the host partner institution – Docete Omnes Foundation.

The kickoff meeting allowed the participants to :

- Present the partner organisations.

- Explain the work packages.

- Clarify the tasks of each part-ner.

- Fix deadline of achievement of each task.

- Visit the Docete Omnes Fun-dación head quarter (training rooms, administrations, special-ised rooms, libraries, outdoors animation spaces ).

It is expected that all organisa-tion take part in all upcomming project events.

All participants wish successful and fruitful results for the YOTE project.

PS: The next meeting date will take place in Hannover, Germa-ny from 24th to 27th of June 2014. It will be mainly dedicated to the methodology.

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PARTNERSHIP

The project’s coordinator

Docete Omnes Foundation Granada-Spain

ROLE IN THE YOTE PROJECT

The Docete Omnes Foundation partner will be responsible for WP1 Project Management & WP8 Quality/Evaluation Plan. It will participate in all other WPs. It will also participate on WP4 Training Course, WP7 Dissemination and WP9 Exploitation in its own country.

Old people homes. Many elderly peo-ple are cared for by our professionals.

European Programs Department:

Since 2008 our centre is as well working on several European Pro-jects within the Long life Learning Programmes. In those almost forty years of experience, this foundation has coordinated and participated in various different investigation pro-jects about different areas related to education, such as research about key skills, teachers formation, coun-selling to employability from our formation centre, and many others European projects.

Its branches extend in different direc-tions. Among the activities that take place within the Foundation are:

Blanca Paloma Training Centre: It has had thousands of students with various skills trained within its classrooms, both in regulated training: occupational training and continuing education. Nowadays, we make a great effort to adapt our train-ing expertise demanded by the world of employment, in order to provide our stu-dents with the key to their employability.

Complejo Social Padre Villoslada. At pre-sent includes: An occupational centre, founded in 1982 to serve people with mental retardation, which now also in-cludes people with mental illness and others in the risk of social exclusion. The occupational centre group a number of workshops for the development of life skill and employment, and each adapted to various demands of different learning needs.

Docete Omnes Foundation (Gra-nada, Spain) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. It is an edu-cational and public interest institu-tion by virtue of a Ministerial Order.

The Foundation is a social complex working in two branches, one voca-tional training, and an educational centre. Since 1968, we are an active centre in the development of in-novative policies, training teachers, developing research projects, etc... In those more than forty years of ex-perience, we have had teachers of all levels in our classrooms to be trained and formed. This experience is the support of the project.

Nowadays, the foundation is a large organisation of one hundred and eighty workers, among them, at least thirty teachers and experts of high level of experience whose opin-ion will be relevant for the program we present.

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The Karriere Club partner will be respon-sible for WP 3 website & Digital Tool, WP 7 Dissemination of Results; they will par-ticipate in WP Dissemination and Exploi-tation results in its own country.

Karriere club Vienna-Austria

Karriere Club (Wien, Austria) is an independent service centre which acts as a trusted advisor to its clients providing full range of career management, develop-ment, and training programs. Our team consists of different highly-qualified specialists –economists, educationalists, psychologists, psy-chotherapists, specialists in data processing and linguistics. We work with people from 14 to 60 years’ old. Many of them are people from disadvantaged target groups (el-ders, slow learners, people without education, disabled people, people with social needs,).

Karriere Club has experience in in-ternational projects since 2003; we acted in Grundvit, Leonardo da Vin-ci, Erasmus, Youth and ESF as pro-moters, coordinators and partners. We developed psychological, eco-nomical, educational, linguistical areas with different target groups (PwD, marginal educated individu-als, young job seekers, etc.).

Karriere Club developed a Euro-pean project “Search & Found” an online platform to assess the skills of young people; this organization is an expert in pedagogical digital tools.

On the other side karriere club has its own project management sys-tem for operating in international activities and organising different projects.

Our main activities are :

• singleconsultation

• trainingsandworkshops/curricula

• personnalconsultation

• personnel and organisational de-velopment

• testdevelopment

• projectmanagement

• researchanddevelopment

• internationalprojects


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Volkshochschule Hannover Hannover-Germany

The school offers a program each year of around hundred and twenty thousand teaching periods. In total around thirty thousand participants attend to our further educa-tion courses each year. The further education program includes all aspects of general, vocational, social and cul-tural education.

All `Volkshochschulen´in Germany pursues shared educational aims and are linked through an umbrella organisation. They are financed through course fees and public subsidies. Traditionally “Volkshochschulen” are unofficially recognized as providers of further education, esp. vocational and second-chance education (school leaving certificates).

A lot of our participants are young people who failed in the regular school system and want to have a sec-ond chance for a school leaving certificate with the help of the VHS-Hannover. They are taught by our own teachers or teachers who work on a regular school as well. So we know the most urgent problems of these young people with and within the regular school sys-tem and are able to prepare new methods for commu-nication which might be a signal for a change. Our staff also guarantees an exchange of experiences with other schools in our local area.

The main areas of the European projects in which the VHS was involved in the past are social dialogue, employ-ment, development of further education for trainers, rec-ognition and certifying of knowledge and competences.

They are expert in teaching and in methodologies.


The `Volkshochschule Hannover´ partner will be responsible for WP 3 Methodology; also they will participate in WP 7 & WP 8 Dissemi-nation and exploitation of results in Germany.

The `Volkshochschule Hannover´(Hannover-Germany) is a non-profit adult education institution under tutorship of the Municipality of Hanover.

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The Eurocultura organization will participate in WP4 development of training course, WP7 dissemination and WP8 exploitation activities in its own country

Eurocultura Vicenza-Italy

OUR MAIN ACTIVITIES ARE:

International projects granted by different European Programs and focused on is-sues as vocational counselling, training, employment, youth, social affairs, culture, European unification etc.

Mobility projects in Italy: In the frame of Leonardo Mobility and Erasmus Place-ment Eurocultura hosts about 160 trainees per year for periods from 3 weeks up to 6 months. Our main partners are vocational training institutes in Germany, Spain, Norway, Austria and Portugal.

Career management: Eurocultura pro-vides client-designed career advice and guidance to people seeking an experience abroad to implement their professional and personal skills in an international environment. We advise on active job and traineeship search strategies, vacancies, how to write an application, communication tech-niques for interviews, intercultural is-sues. Labour law legislation, working conditions, health, education and so-cial system are also topics we deal with during our guiding process. We also cooperate with academic institutions, high schools and vocational training centers, youth information centers and private aimed to improve profes-sional knowledge and competences in career guidance with an international

perspective, lectures and seminars for their clients, aimed to provide gen-eral frameworks and practical tools to implement an experience abroad, individual career service, support in developing activities related with in-ternational mobility.

Researches: we are involved with Euro-pean and national projects in research activities on issues as labour market trends, education and training, etc.

Networking: During almost 20 years of activity, we became part of differ-ent networks at local, national and in-ternational level. At local and national level we co-operate with institutions (municipalities, labour offices, health

department), universities, vocational training centres, trade unions, cham-bers of commerce, employing organi-zations covering all productive and services sectors, including the hotel and catering industries, NGOs. At in-ternational level, we are part of a vast network of organizations dealing with the European dimension in training, education, social issues and culture.

Specific expertise: We carried out a Leonardo Transfer of innovation pro-ject, ended in 2010, (ECE: European Commitment to Entrepreneurship) in order to enlarge the trading possibili-ties of young entrepreneurs in second-ary schools, educational institutions and companies and this to let young people get acquainted with the Euro-pean context of entrepreneurship. We are actually involved in the network “Entrepreneurship Education and the World of Work”, that combines the di-mension of entrepreneurial spirit, ca-reer management skills and transitions to the world of work with the values of networks, policies and governance under educational, employment and social perspectives (Comenius Multi-lateral projects 2010-2013).

Eurocultura (Vicenza, Italy) is a non-profit research, train-ing and career counselling organization set up in 1993. Our projects and initiatives aim to promote international mobility and improvement of employability of people, especially youngsters.

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The Association for Education and Development of Disabled People will be in charge of WP 4 Training Course. They will also collaborate in WP 7, WP 8 Dissemination and exploitation of results in the partner country.

Association for Education and Development of Disable People Kavala-Greece

Association for Education and Development of Disable People (Kavala, Greece) - ASEDDEDIPE is a non for profit association that wants to give the possibil-ity to its members (people with disabilities) to be involved in all sectors. The institution organizes courses in collaboration with other institutions, such as courses of computers, accountancy, language etc.

The Association was founded by members that were mainly disabled and families so as to offer employment, education and professional rehabilitation to disabled people. The creation of the association was a mean to improve the everyday life of disabled and furthermore to give a collective character to members’ demands.

The association supports disability by offering:

- Advisory and Psychological Support to trainees and their families

- Socialization & Education Circulation Programs

- Pedagogical programs

- Computer and accounting courses

- Domestic Economy programs

- Gymnastics and Athletics programs

- Entertainment and Creative Occupations

The association came to fill a gap in the city of Kavala. We have voice and presence, hope and perspective. For this reason the acceptance of this effort by the local community is positive and encouraging.

Responsibility and duty of the association is to preserve strict principles of focus and achieve-ment of its targets, providing to people with disabilities quality to their lives, similar and equal for all people.

The long term goals are:

- Provide employment and lifelong learning, living and hospitality to the disabled.

- Provide accessibility to all areas.

- Explore economic resources to support structures.

- Ensure continued care and vocational rehabilitation of disabled people

- Insisting and fighting for an accessible city.

- Continuous training through Seminars

- Communication via the Internet (our website and e-mail) with more and more people around us and constantly updated on issues relating to disability.

All the above intent to empower the disabled people and provide them with all necessary skills and experience in order to correspond to today’s demands.

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AIFED, Asociación de Innovación Formación y Empleo para el Desarrollo Sostenible Granada-Spain

AIFED will be in charge of the management of WP 4 (collecting the results of the training courses), WP 5 Analysis of results; they will collaborate also in WP 7 and 8 Dissemination & Exploitation of results.

AIFED, Asociación de Innovación Formación y Empleo para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Granada, Spain) is an organization of professionals in the field of education and employment. Our legal status is private and non-profit organization. It is a public body.

Our main activities are in the field of training (training for trainees and staff), so it plays an important role in adult education. AIFED works sometimes in collaboration with other associations around us.

AIFED participates in seminars and courses about the equality of the genders; the importance of the family is also present in our courses and seminars.

AIFED has experience working within Lifelong Learning programs, specifically; it is developing a Grundvig Partnership project about physical disabilities. AIFED has experience as well in research, results analysis, developing reports, consulting, and evaluation of results.

In collaboration with other entities, development of statistical analysis, information, questionnaires and statistics in many European projects to evaluate the quality of the project.

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The BRCV Sousse will be in charge of designing and deciding on the content of the periodical newsletter (all partners provide ideas). Besides, they will support the coordinator in the Management of the YOTE Project in the Third country (WP1).

Bureau Régional des Colonies de Vacances (BRCV) Sousse-Tunisia

BRCV Sousse (Tunisia) is a regional non-governmental organiza-tion working in childhoud and youth field. We also prepare and train youngsters in entrepreneurial skills, and therefore, to develop their entrepreneurial spirit and self- employment,facilitating the transition from education to labour market.

The main activities of our as-sociation is to organize the-matic camps for children and youngsters.

We have other activity themes (envi-ronment, social exclusion, youth rec-reation ..). the members of our associa-tion are volunteers.

Our organization is involved in the Euromed Youth program and Youth in Action program since 2004, we have organized and participated in many activities (youth exchanges, seminars, training ...).

About our activities in the field of em-powerment, culture of entrepreneur-ship and job creation:

We have a particular interest in em-powering young students for life and work, and in particular the culture of entrepreneurship at the University of Sousse and the vocational training center in Sousse.

We launched our first club in 2003 in the “ University Cul-tural Center of Sousse “ and five years later, the second club in the vocational training center in Sousse

and now we are invited to develop other clubs.

The main objective of these clubs is to develop the personality of youth to better prepare them for the labour market ,to be Competitive and create in them the power to be a leader and to ensure success in life.

Activities consists of weekly meet-ings (Wednesday afternoon) vis-its to companies, institutions re-lated to job creation, to share with new young entrepreneurs success stories or failure stories, We organize seminars on various topics

related to the creation of jobs and the best way to find a job, we participate in many national and international semi-nars on entrepreneurship and exhibi-tions.

In short our goal is to empower young people and prepare them for the la-bour market. Note that all the activities of those clubs are prepared and real-ised by the students and the facilitator is a coordinator.

We presented our experience at na-tional and international level, the last one took place in Spain: a seminar in Mollina.

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Kick-off meeting – 3 staff persons for hosting partners + 2 persons for each partner participating to the 3 days meeting- Granada, Spain.

Research Experts Meeting.

– 3 staff persons for the hosting partner + 2 persons for each partner participating to the 2 days meeting. 8th month Hannover, Germany (except Partner 6 AIFED, 1 participant).

Training for trainers and students and dissemination meeting.

– 3 staff persons for the hosting partner + 2 persons for each partner participating to the 2 days meeting ( except Partner 6, AIFED 1 participant). Month 12. Meeting in Wien, Austria.

Analysis of results and exploitation meeting

– 3 staff persons for the hosting partner + 2 persons for each partner participating to the 2 days meeting. Month 18th. Meeting in Vicenza, Italy (except Partner 6, AIFED 1 participant).

Evaluation and Final meeting with students workshop.

– Final meeting – 3 staff persons for hosting partners + 2 persons for each partner partici-pating to the 3 days meeting (except Partner 6, AIFED 1 participant).

Month 23 Meeting in Kavala, Greece.

Administrative meetings

The leading partner will also participate to the administrative meetings organized by the Agency (2 meetings per year) for 2 days

The real important aspect of this package, is to provide the good guidelines to the well development of the rest work packages, where the partners will really develop the new methodology and the results.

If you want to know more about the Project, activities and events, you can go through the different sections on the website :

www.yote.eu

YOTE PROJECT MEETINGS

1st meeting : Granada, Spain

2nd meeting : Hannover, Germany

3rd meeting: Wien, Austria

4th meeting : Vicenza, Italy

5th meeting :Kavala, Greece

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