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Ongoing Projects
 CLC - Creative Learning CommunitiesLifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci 2011 - 2013The Creative Learning Communities is coordinated by die Berater®. CLC will empower the teaching of key competences in VET education with learners from “groups at risk”, that is the group of people who are disadvantaged by their geographic area, their position on the labour market and insufficient education or their background. Creativity is intended to include the development of new ideas (think divergently or laterally) and the solution of problems, planning and taking risks (convergent thinking). Therefore a toolbox with creative thinking methods and a guide on how to facilitate the acquisition of the creative element in key competences will be developed for VET trainers in the partner languages. During focus group sessions trainers and learners will commonly test and evaluate these materials. The creative techniques are on the one hand very easy to apply and on the other hand very favoured by the groups concerned. Therefore they will also be very important in the future.  Virtual stages against violenceDaphne III 2011 - 2013The project is based on the idea that often new technologies, which today are the main carriers of information and are increasingly accessible to children and young people, if not used properly can be understood as a source of risks such as distorted messages, risk of encountering people with false identities, violent representations of reality, and much more. In the scope of the project different products will be developed, for example a multiplayer online game, a theatre play, video materials and manuals. These products shall indicate playfully potential risks, abuse and its impacts. Furthermore, a study with young people aged 14-16, parents and teachers will be carried out in order to determine the status quo with regards to new media in the project partner countries and to compare it. die Berater® act among others as the technical leader with regards to the development of the multiplayer online game.  Climes – Climate Friendly Management in European SchoolsLifelong Learning Programme, Comenius 2011 - 2013Climate change represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet. Especially the younger generation needs to learn to live sustainably in order to counteract climate change and subsequent environmental problems. CLIMES is a practical learning project aiming for climate-friendly management in European schools. By combining innovative learning approaches and instruments on curricular and extracurricular levels with state of the art management techniques the project contributes to the promotion of transversal key competences in European school education. CLIMES consists of a multi-stakeholder partnership of organisations from 6 countries (DE, IT, AT, PT, SE and TK), namely schools, universities, education institutions and a county government. CLIMES will set up a comprehensive management system for climate mitigation and adaptation for European schools. die Berater® are responsible for the valorisation strategy of the climate-friendly products at local, national and EU-level. In this context a “CLIMES Community” will be set up. Furthermore, die Berater® are going to organise an EU-wide competition with a “Climate-Friendly Schools Award” for the best climate-friendly school in Europe.  BOIT – Burnout Intervention Training for Managers and Team LeadersLifelong Learning Programme/Leonardo da Vinci, 2010 - 2011Occupational illnesses associated with psychological stress are on the rise throughout the EU member states. The BOIT project coordinated by die Berater® addresses a specific mental health syndrome characterized by emotional, mental and physical exhaustion: burnout. The aim of this project is to prevent working situations that promote burnout, and to enable managers and team leaders to recognize the burnout signals among their staff at an early stage. Furthermore this target group learns to define strategies for intercepting the burnout process in the course of a blended learning training.  Hattrick – Football – Learning – IntegrationLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig, 2009 - 2011The social integration of people with a migrant background still presents a big challenge for Europe. The football pitch, however, is one of the few social locations where integration seems to be successful in many cases. A lot of young migrant people show enthusiasm in (team) sports, with young men especially keen on football. Playing football in a team not only implies sportive aspects as the ball technique or the fitness of the players but also offers various opportunities of social learning and developing transversal competences as target orientation and capacity for teamwork – independent from cultural background. By facilitating football trainers to make aware and develop further attitudes and competences acquired through playing football Hattrick uses this potential of young migrants. In that way Hattrick helps to increase the chances for successful participation in lifelong learning and social integration.  Health Box – Integration of Health Issues in Adult EducationLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig, 2010 - 2011Adults who are socio-economically disadvantaged, with a low level of education and those with a migration background belong to the groups of adults most at risk of acquiring a physical or mental lifestyle disease. A strategy designed to help them to acquire a healthier lifestyle and thus prevent illness must seek to address where these adults may be reached rather than expecting them to seek out health education seminars. That is why the project Health Box wants to make adult educators who work with the final beneficiaries in different contexts aware of health issues and provide them with ready-to use training materials for health promotion which they can easily integrate in classes on subjects other than health. Health Box is coordinated by die Berater®.  GINCO – International Network of Course OrganisersLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig - Network 2009 – 2012The GINCO network with 21 partners from 15 countries aims at improving quality of and the access to European further education offers for staff members of adult education providers funded by the Grundtvig programme. The network provides a basis to share expertise, to create and share useful material and cooperation in order to harmonize further education offers according to the strategies of the Lifelong Learning Programme. GINCO serves as an interface to the National Agencies and the European Commission, enhances the communication between all stakeholders and disseminates Grundtvig course offer information. die Berater® are in charge of the dissemination and sustainable use of the network results and of the establishment of the conditions needed to reach the network aims.  E-NLL - Never late to learnProgramme for Life-Long Learning/Grundtvig - Multilateral Network, 2009 - 2012E-NLL (Never Late to Learn! Promoting Opportunities for Learning in Later Life) is a network of educational institutions that offer learning opportunities for senior learners. The main objective is the collection and utilisation of best practices with regard to the target group. Therefore the 25 network partners from 14 countries work out case studies and guidelines for the purpose of transfer of innovative practices, and organise appropriate dissemination events. Furthermore E-NLL wants to announce grant opportunities of the European Commission for senior citizens to a broad public.  ACT-Net – Active Citizen Training NetworkProgramme for Life-Long Learning/Grundtvig, 2008 - 2010Informal learning is becoming more important but the evaluation and proof of competencies achieved from informal learning activities is difficult. Within the framework of the preceding project ACT (Active Citizen Training) a comprehensive approach was developed towards evaluation of informal learning and its effects on competencies in relation to active citizenship. ACT-Net will transfer this approach to other areas of informal learning and develop a web-based software to be able to provide an ensured and user friendly system of proof of results of informal learning. At the end of the project there should be a sustainable network on the topic that will be represented by key institutions in at least 15 European partner countries.  VIP - Validation of Informal Learning in Grundtvig Projects and PartnershipsLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig 2009 - 2012The cooperation in European Grundtvig activities, in which multinational consortiums develop new products, services and approaches, implies an immense potential for informal learning of the involved actors. These internal learning processes have only been evaluated insufficiently so far. In the VIP project a tailor made reference system for the acquisition of informally acquired competences through Grundtvig activities as multilateral projects, partnerships and networks will be developed and tested. Furthermore a training course for project actors that addresses related issues will be developed.  Infonet II - European InfoNet Adult Education IIProgramme for Life-Long Learning/Grundtvig – Network, 2008 - 2011Infonet II is the continuation and development of a European network developed in 2005, that circulates information on European adult education. InfoNet offers an infrastructure and journalistic services to strengthen the European dimension in adult education. A total of 31 network partners from 18 countries work as correspondents and/or experts in groups on specific topics and provide first quality information on trends, projects and research results, developments, best practices and news from the EU member states and at a European level for adult educators and adult teaching Institutions as well as for relevant media and journalists. Articles resulting from this network are made available on the InfoNet database, and six times a year an "Info letter" provides a helpful overview of the most important articles. die Berater® along with their involvement in Info-Net expert groups is also responsible for the quality management of the network.  RUeNTER - Capacity Building through ICT in Rural AreasLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig 2009 - 2012Limited application of information and communication technologies (ICT) is still a barrier for the broad participation of rural area residents in lifelong learning. RUeNTER wants to contribute to the reduction of this barrier with the help of innovative methods. Based on the analyses of the actual situation concerning the use of ICT in rural areas of Greek, Austria, Rumania and Spain a web portal with different ICT services for adults in rural areas will be developed. Moreover the consortium will create a transferable further education concept in order to prepare adults in rural areas for the use of ICT services.  PACT – Promoting Awareness for Corporation and Training in the Field of Domestic ViolenceLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig 2010 - 2011Domestic violence is an issue that should be recognized by all institutions that commit themselves to work with people. Violence in families crosses all socio-economic levels, age, groups, races, religions, and countries. As studies show each fourth woman faces domestic violence once in her life. Despite the increased attention to the issue and many positive developments in policy and practices, campaigns and activities, it is still widespread in all European countries. For the staff of concerned organisations PACT will develop a modular e-learning course for the early recognition and concrete support of persons concerned. An additional aim it is to establish international networking and extend network that already exist in the field.  Devoted – Development of Trainers in EducationLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig 2009 - 2011This project seeks to deepen and extend competences (knowledge, attitudes, abilities) of teachers and trainers that work with disadvantaged people. To this end existing pedagogical and didactical best practice examples in the fields of “intercultural communication”, “Gender and Diversity”, “Key competences” and “ICT and creative competences” are going to be revised and utilized. Devoted will also do the first step for the establishment of a European “Centre Of Excellence”.  Exact – Expert and Excellence Academy for TeachersLifelong Learning Programme/KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation of Results 2009 - 2011EXACT aims at closing the gap between a large number of potentially useful, but often “semi-finished” educational tools and approaches which have been developed by EU projects in education and training on the one hand, and the unmet need to test them in different environments, adapt and further develop them so that they can be made widely available to education professionals who work with difficult lifelong learning target groups. The project partners from all regions of Europe want to offer the results of this work in an independent and sustainable “Centre of Excellence” to be established which systematically exploits results of former European projects financed by the LLP, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, and Youth and Minerva programmes.  VAB - Valuing Activities Beyond SchoolLifelong Learning Programme/Leonardo-da-Vinci 2009-2011Many European countries face high unemployment rates among young university graduates. One of the main points of criticism of potential employers is the missing practical experience of students. VAB engages in the development of an interactive tool for the identification and acknowledgement competences required outside of the university by personal, social and vocational activities. Thus the project consortium wants to support teaching staff at European universities to adjust their work to the needs of the labour market. die Berater® will test the tool in Austria and provide their evaluation expertise to the project management.  XploitLifelong Learning Programme/KA 4: Dissemination and ExploitationXploit ambitiously aims at the utilisation of European projects´ results and products for fostering the process of cities and regions to become “learning communities”. Therefore processes for the identification of learning needs, the adaption and implementation of EU project products will be developed and tested die Berater® are in charge of the projects’ quality management and offers strategic advice to the project coordinator. VILMA – Validation of Informal Learning in Mobility ActionsLifelong Learning Programme/Grundtvig, 2011 - 2012The European Quality Charter for Mobility puts major emphasis on the recognition and certification as well as on the evaluation of learning outcomes of mobility actions. Much of the learning occurring in this context is informal, and an appropriate validation system should take this into account. VILMA provides a comprehensive approach and a consistent set of instruments to assess and evidence the impact of mobility learning on the competence development of the individual learner. The consortium therefore seeks to transfer an innovative evaluation system (LEVEL 5) that has been developed, piloted and scientifically evaluated in more than 40 adults learning projects by adapting it to the specific context of mobility. die Berater® will contribute to this development and test the product in different mobility actions in Austria. Moreover they are responsible for the valorisation of the VILMA approach. VERA - Experience Diversity – Working at the Regional LevelIntgration through Exchange, 2011The project “VERA” is funded by the “German Programme Integration through Exchange”. VERA aims to increase mobility and the chances on the labour market for disadvantaged young people and young adults, single mothers and single fathers, through transnational exchange between the Brandenburg region in Germany, Spain and Austria. They should have the possibility to enhance their practice-oriented know-how and competencies in Austria and Spain. First and foremost they should be supported in the professional areas of handcraft and tourism in order to gain a foothold on the labour market or to gain experience as entrepreneurs and freelancers. For this purpose die Berater® organize hands-on training courses and support participants during their stay in Austria. |
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