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Successful conclusion of the Erasmus+ project LOCAL Boosting Silver Economy through Local Community Mentoring
The LOCAL Consortium is delighted to announce the successful conclusion of the Erasmus+project (KA2 Cooperation Partnership in Adult Education) LOCAL Boosting Silver Economy through Local Community Mentoring. This innovative initiative, co-funded by the European Commission, has made significant steps in empowering local communities to support and enhance the silver economy. Nine partners coming from Bulgaria,……
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Resources for Post-Pandemic Effective Training:
Test & Validation of the RESET project results Under the RESET Project, a wide set of learning material has been produced as common effort of the consortium involving 7 Partners from 5 different countries. The trainings and tools are directed to the VET Operators and aim at fostering their digital competences and abilities, and they……
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LOCAL | Multiplier Event
On 19th November, 2023, EPIC organised a multiplier event to mainstream, give visibility and valorise the results of the Erasmus+ LOCAL project, which gathers 9 Partners from 8 different countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain). The event saw the participation of 18 people, including local facilitators of Higher Education, Adult Education,……
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Evidences, findings and results from the SPECIAL project
Operational Guidelines and Policy Recommendation SPECIAL aims to strengthen, reignite and nurture “life” and “soft” skills of EU NEETs so as to sustain them in (re)integrating in post-COVID societies and labour markets. The project targets the design, provision and exploitation of innovative training content that embeds agile thinking as an umbrella framework for soft skill……
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Online Publication of Thematic Mentoring Cycles of the Local Project
The eight modules of LOCAL’s Thematic Mentoring Cycle are now available online. The LOCAL project has entered its next phase with the online publication of its Thematic Mentoring Cycles on the Digital Hub section of the website: www.local-project.eu The bespoke Thematic Mentoring Cycles are aimed at adults aged 50 plus and cover topics of silver……
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LOCAL Boosting Silver Economy through local Community Mentoring
80 educators participated in the in-service training programme of LOCAL A groundbreaking training program aimed at upskilling educators, trainers, and staff working in adult education has been\ successfully conducted under the prestigious Erasmus+ project LOCAL. The training, specifically designed to equip participants with mentoring skills and support the implementation of thematic mentoring cycles, marks a……
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Final meeting of SPECIAL: Transnational Project Meeting in Húsavík
Húsavík 13.06.2023 On 13 June 2023, the consortium joined in Húsavík, Iceland for the 4th and final transnational meeting of the SPECIAL project. SPECIAL project that started in 2021, brings together seven partners from six European countries (Sweden, Italy, Iceland, Belgium, Spain and Romania) and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission,……
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ACCESSI: Fostering Knowledge and Capacity to Excell in Sustainbaility and Social Inclusion
EPIC completes its first Erasmus+ project as Coordinator ACCESSI is a project co-funded by the European Commission through the ErasmusPlus Programme (KA210-ADU Small-Scale Partnerships for Adult Education) developed by EPIC in collaboration with the Macedonian partner CDI. Together the two partners carried out a series of activities with the aim of building and strengthening the……
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RESET: Identification of critical digital competence needs of VET providers
RESET aims at offering significative solutions for post-pandemic training for VET providers. The first part of the project included both collection of primary data from a survey to investigate digital competence needs of the VET providers as well as desk research of the partners. A questionnaire developed to uncover the digital competences of VET providers……
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“There’s No Age Limit in Entrepreneurship”-
a digital collection of 9 real-life stories The LOCAL consortium developed a digital collection of real-life stories of 50+ adults with outstanding lifepaths in mentoring and entrepreneurship skills to be used to inspire others to become more actively engaged in their local communities. The identification of role models was a well-planned and organised process, led……