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International projects

International projects are implemented under the Lifelong Learning (Lifelong Learning Programme).

List of international projects:

Project Name	Programme	End project
PRODEV	LLP	30. 09. 2011
Seniors in Action	LLP Grundtvig Partnership	31. 07. 2011
Light Me Up	LLP	31. 12. 2009
R. E. W. I. N. II	Socrates – Grundtvig 2	31. 07. 2008
CSO - TEAA	Europe Aide	22. 12. 2007
R. E. W. I. N.	Socrates – Grundtvig 2	31. 07. 2007

PRODEV

Project Management for Community Development Workers

Project partners:	IFAID Aquitaine (Franceú
	Tk Formazione Srl (Italy)
	Cooperativa Cramar (Italy)
	Sedukon, o. p. s. (Czech Republic)
	Regional Opleidingen Centrum Albena College (Neetherland)
	Conversas de rua - Association (Portugal)
	APRES (Schwitzerland)
Web address:	www.prodev-project.eu

Project description:

Project is addressed to community development workers (CDWs). For a variety of different reasons the number of Community Development Workers (CDWs) in Europe has increased and many CDWs have never been trained in project management. However their role requires them to devise and implement projects.

The interest and specific nature of this project is the way it aims to provide training to CDWs, helping them to manage a project in their own professional context. Target group is community development workers.

Project aims:

Support the participants in the acquisition and the use of knowledge, skills and qualifications in the field of project management to facilitate personal development.
Support improvements in quality and innovation within vocational education and training systems, institutions and practices by presenting an innovative training module, in which trainees are in a professional situation, to the other vocational training centres.
Enhance the attractiveness of vocational education and training by proposing and presenting a new training programme to employers of CDWs, fully adapted to the professional needs of their employees.

Activities/Outcomes:

Manual for trainers of project management.
CDWs training in partner countries, that are directly related to the content and information contained in training manuals.
Internet blog for the trainers.
Internet blog for the learners.
Project website (see above).

Competecies for Seniors in Action

The project aim is to create strong partnership ready to efficient an offer of the solution for qualification and competences by expansion of the capacity a work structure of older people, to create considerable activities in their communities at European level.

Project partners:	XIBO Center (Romania)
	SEDUKON, o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	LEAM Développement et Gestion de Projets (France)
	Hungarian Telecottage Association (Hungary)
	AGORA – Associazione Culturale (Italy)
	Joniškio rajono švietimo centras (Lithuania)
	Krośnieński Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku (Poland)
	Akdeniz Üniversitesi Elmali Meslek Yüksek Okulu (Turkey)
	Arber Enterprises Ltd. (Great Britain)
Web address:	http://cfsia.utw-krosno.pl/

Project description:

Ageing has a significant impact to the social perception of human, despite of this older people are still placed in a disadvantaged positions. In their effort to keep a balance for the situation, the NGOs which assumed missions on this matter have to face the lack of funds and the isolation from other contacts that could nurture their need of learning and exchange experiences

The project aims creates a strong partnership to offer solutions to building up capacities of the organization structure and achieving a higher activity and efficiency of elderly person in their communities at the European level.

The target group members are employees of non-governmental organizations working with elderly people. Target group contains of NGOs or other structures working with older people.

Activities/Outcomes:

Training PC courses, fundraising, writing and implementing project (introduction of the Grundtvig Programme) and foreign language courses.
Stimulate the cooperation between the target organizations: participation in the international meetings and workshops organized within the project – opportunities to establish contacts, discover cultural values, define common domain of interest, identifying a team building and sharing experiences.
The main project result shows the draft of a new international project created by the target groups, underlying the force of involvement of older people in community-level actions and wider.

Light Me UP

Project partners:	KU TU Ltd. (Bulgaria)
	SEDUKON o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	URCA – Université de Reims Champagne - Ardenne (France)
	Synthesis Center for Research and Education Ltd.(Cyprus)
	Soros International House (Lithuania)
	Pressure Line V. O. F. (Netherlands)
	Stichting rotterdamu Volksuniversiteit (Netherlands)
	Drugestvo „ZNANIE“ – Sofie (Bulgaria)
Web address:	http://www.light-me-up.eu

Project Description:

The project Light Me Up uses the goals of LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme) to provide education in foreign languages. Nowadays people are traveling because of the work, experiences or education and they face up with needs of communication in foreign language, what motivated them for additional attainments.

The project is based on interactive methods to gain general knowledge of foreign languages through support materials regards to traveling. Aim of the whole project is increasing awareness less-used foreign languages in the frame of European Union. It means following languages: Bulgarian, Dutch, Czech, Greek and Lithuanian.

The target group is consists of pupils, students, adults and travel agencies.

Project aims:

Increase awareness about five European languages – Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Greek and Lithuanian.
Promoting advantages of education in the field of languages and motivation of target group to education (pupils, students, adults, who travel to abroad).
Creating user-friendly environment of education.
Providing information about foreign language, culture and partner country.
Creating disseminated channels to promote project objectives through a travel agency.

Activities/Outcomes:

Methodology – references for development of education activities and products necessary to obtain basics knowledge.
Language package – self-study thematic multimedia product providing information about relevant themes.
Visual learning package – product oriented to learning.
Web pages – will contain exercises through games.
Workshops
Open courses – 10 hours learning course focused on learning of foreign languages, which is main object of the project.

R. E. W. I. N. & R. E. W. I. N. II

Reconciliation of working life and family for women

Projects partners:	TiKappa Formazione Srl. (Italy)
	IFAID – Institut of Training and Support for Development Initiatives (France)
	SEDUKON o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	Development Projects (Malta)
	The Foundation for the Preuniversity Education of Handicraft Cooperatives „Spiru Haret“ Baia Mare (Romania)
	Studies, projects and linguistic assessmnet, S. L. (Spain)
	MENTOR TRAINING S. A. (Greece)
Web address:	http://rewinproject.blogspot.com/

Project description:

The project was focused on the experience exchange and best practices regards to activities and strategies to support a harmony between work and family women’s life. The project has been concerned with aspects analysis and problems linked to the adult women education aimed on support of harmonization professional and family activities. Project aims were focused to deal with equal opportunities, women’s needs and flexible and family work environment provided by employers and public authorities.

Project aims:

Support exchange of intercultural experiences with the reconciliation between work and family life for women through new strategies to find balance between education, occupation and family.

Elaborate the manual including “toolkit” of strategies for harmonization.

Evaluation of best practices regards to reconciliation of professional and family life on national and international levels.

Activities/Outcomes:

Exchange of experiences between women, stakeholders and involved partners through information and telecommunication technologies (ICT).
Summary of women’s testimonies from each country about their professional and family life.
Elaboration of new approaches to stimulate and support of adult education, development of strategic tools for law-makers, women and other stakeholders.
Creating a virtual forums providing user-friendly environment of education, offering support and access to relevant training and learning materials.
Evaluation of results (manual, web pages, seminars and final conferences).

CSO – TEAA

The Civil Society Organisation in Bulharka and Romania: On the Way Towards a Europe for All Ages

Project partners:	Znanie Association (Bulgaria)
	SREP (Romania)
	IIZ DVV (Bulgaria)
	IIZ DVV (Romania)
	SEDUKON (Czech republic)
Web address:	http://www.znanie-bg.org/teaa/index.html

Project Description:

The project is focusing to improve the capacity of the Non-governmental organization (NGO) in Bulgaria and Romania for responding the questions of “active ageing”: the activities concerning areas such as work life balance, family policies, social integration of older people, and the role of the EU NGOs in the processes of demographic changes in a successful way. Project target group were NGOs in Bulgaria and Romania, who are interested in to the developing activities and policies regarding to mentioned Civil Society sector. The indirect target group, were citizens in Bulgaria and Romania over age 50, who has obtained benefit due to the increased activities of the NGOs.

ílovými skupinami projektu byly neziskové organizace v Bulharsku a Rumunsku, které se podílejí na rozvoji aktivit a politik týkajících se zmíněného veřejného sektoru. Nepřímou skupinou pak byli bulharští a rumunští občané starší 55 let, kteří z rostoucích aktivit neziskových organizací benefitovali.

Activities/Outcomes:

The main activities covered local and national researches relating to the topic, NO networks activating to participate in active ageing in Bulgaria and Romania, workshops and seminars for improving their capacity, establishing contacts with EU NGOs and networks active in the area, and creating partnership and cooperation by web platform, occasion for potential projects partnership, and possible establishment of new NGO structures. The activities also covered wide publicity occupation, and involves older citizens in the active way.