ARTIP: Awareness Raising and Training measures for
The purpose of this project is to increase the knowledge and actual usage of the Istanbul Protocol, an UN-adopted manual for the investigation and documentation of cases of alleged torture and other forms of ill-treatment, in European countries. Under the lead of Vienna Medical University a series of educational materials will be prepared to reach […]
Social Electricity Platforms
This project has two main objectives: to help people to become more energy- aware and to conserve energy and to develop new learning strategies and techniques to educate people effectively towards environmental sustainability. To achieve those goals this project encourages people, through the online platform and through a Facebook application, to engage in energy-saving practices, […]
Climate Literacy
A New Horizontal Theme in Adult and Vocational Education To fight climate change we must first know all about it! By now, we all know the inconvenient truth about climate change: it’s here, and its impact is huge. But there is little use in dwelling on the past, or even the present. It’s tomorrow that […]
Smart Patients
Holistic Empowerment of Citizens to Become Experts in Their Own Health One of the EU Health Strategy’s concrete themes includes „empowering citizens – putting patients at the heart of the system and encouraging them to be involved in managing their own healthcare needs“. Preventive care should therefore not be left alone to doctors and hospitals, […]
Jobs for Work 4.0 – The Future of Employment
Digitization is increasingly shaping the world of work. Algorithms for big data are now rapidly entering domains reliant upon pattern recognition and can readily substitute for labour in a wide range of non-routine cognitive tasks. Advanced robots are gaining enhanced senses and dexterity, allowing them to perform a broader scope of manual tasks. This is […]
CaseWORK
Caring for Volunteers working with Refugees In 2015, the European Refugees Crisis has brought more than one million migrants to Europe. This estimation by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) does not include the many who reach the EU without being detected. The highest number of asylum-seekers is found in Germany, followed by Sweden, France […]
Core Skills for 21st Century Professionals
The first intellectual output is the development of a common framework (including a method do detect) Core Personal Skills required by companies. The creation of skills maps, both in universities and in companies, are important to adapt the core skills selected to labor reality adapted to the socio-economic environment. The second intellectual output closely linked […]
Workplace Basic Skills – Training for Low-Skilled Migrants
Some people have very limited reading and numeracy skills, which prevents them from integrating into society and the labour market. Migrants and refugees who are new to Europe and are supposed to immerse themselves in the culture of their host countries are also often affected. During the preparation of the project proposal, four areas of […]
Arguments Against Aggression
Strategies and Tools against Hate Speech in Face to Face Encounters and in Social Media The tone in communication becomes rougher. Fuelled by so-called social media, personal communication is also changing, becoming more aggressive and less tolerant both in face-to-face interaction and in messaging in social media. As digital platforms expand their reach ever further, […]
Money & Life Skills
The escalating numbers of low income and unemployed young adults (18-35) constitutes a severe social problem in the European Union. This group makes up to 40 % of the total young adults in Europe. The OECD states that low income jobs and unemployment leave a “wage scar”, whereby people who are unemployed when they should […]
