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Thursday, 28th March 2024

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AGORA EUROPA II

AGORA EUROPA IICommon Integrated Management e-Learning System for the development of professional competition skills in the small scale urban commerce in European dimension

 

The aim of this project is “to train retail sector shop owners and workers have perfect management competencies in retail trade”, so that they will increase their competition strengths in the sector, and their integration into labour market will be easier even if they quit from operating their small shops and try to be employed in larger enterprises.

 

The project also aims to provide the Human Resources of the companies in the urban commercial sector with an integrated Learning system by means of the New Technologies of Information and Communication for the Development of the competencies necessary to achieve a Professional, Advanced and Excellent Management in the sector of Urban Trade by modernization and professionalism of the urban trade sector by focusing on the labour market, workers or not, shop owners, aged between 15-30 years old and their need to keep their job besides the problems faced, or for those who have lost their job by training them on how to find new jobs based on advanced trainings and not only training them in new technologies.

 

The created portal area consists of a user-friendly system with a simple, highly interactive and functional infrastructure dedicated to retail sector shop owners and workers, informing them about employment issues, possible career paths and educational training through electronic media. The users will be also able to find out news about other European citizens being in the same position as they are and exchange ideas and experiences.

 

e-LIFE

e-LIFE – e-Learning Virtual Center for People with Physical Disabilities

 

This project aims to develop/enhance a two-stage training program for computer oriented disabled people on CADD, Graphics, Web Design, MS Office and establish an e-platform which will serve those people to work as a freelance, self employed, or entrepreneur from their home based offices (“virtual assistants”). In the fist stage of the program, trainees will learn “how to become a virtual assistant”, ie. learning the general principles of home office business and how to work as self-employed (or as “virtual assistants”) in general. The second stage of the training program will cover training on specific service fields, namely, CADD, Graphics Design, Web Design, Open Office.

 

CONTRACTERANTO

CONTRACTERANTO A communication-tool for high risk work environments where non-native speakers are involved

 

The ever increasing geographical mobility within Europe confronts employers and contractors with a new challenge:higher safety risks on the workfloor, due to the language gap btw workers from different nationalities. This project aims to help to bridge that safety gap.

 

CONTRACTERANTO is an online lexicon of work related terminology and it is multilingual (7 languages) and multimedial. It is aimed to refer to all sectors of industry, all high risk functions, all safety related subjects. Current scope refers to four sectors: construction, human health and care activities, metal sector and the chemical sector. But it is expandable to other sectors and can be translated to other languages easily.

 

VOCA Extended

VOCA Extended – Increased accessibility to vocational training and increased attachment to the labour market for disabled people through the VOCA Europe 2 Mentor model

 

VOCA extended Project developed a model to train people with physical disabilities to be mentors, who will consequently support (home based) employability of people with physical disabilities, by means of e-mentoring. The model can open the new channel for home based virtual job opportunities for people with disabilities, as well as providing the basement to enable disabled individuals to break through often barriers blocking their career success despite of their existing skills and abilities.

 

In VOCA extended portal, participants are offered e-mentor training in several languages and they are also be trained in guiding disabled people in how to work from home. Partners from previous VOCA projects were welcomed to enhance implementation of VOCA extended. SME's who are professional in the subject field, Universities, Disabled Organisations as well as Cultural Associations were all partners to be able to establish real European and professional dimension.

 

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