DICCMEM: Development and Introduction of a Communication Competencies Model for Enhancing and Maintaining a Business Mentor Network

ESTAL: Empowering the Society through Adult Learning

ESTAL is an Erasmus plus project, Key Action – Learning Mobility of Individuals; Action Type – Short-term projects for mobility of staff in adult education.

Four trainers/educators from Instytut Badań i Innowacji w Edukacji – Poland participated in a structured course that was held in Udine – Italy.

The structured course was planned by taking into consideration staff needs, and provided valuable benefits to participants, both professionally and personally.

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ISEC: Improving social educators’ creativity (Project No 2020-1-IT02-KA204-079781)

Creativity is a term that is difficult to define and measure. Nevertheless, creativity, according to Ken Robinson (2015) is connected to imagination and innovation. Recently (2016), the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported that the majority of new work opportunities in the last decade had been generated in the informal and digitally-based economy while the World Economic Forum argued that creativity is one of the top three skills workers will need shortly.

Experts claim that, due to the break of new products, new technologies and new ways of working, workers are going to have to become more creative to benefit from these changes.

Accordingly, the ISEC project aims to create a Strategic Partnership to exchange knowledge and experience on how creativity and digital technology interact in the educational environment and can contribute to enhancing Social Innovation.

Partners will create a model of the multiple dimensions of creativity as well as they will develop an educational framework for promoting creativity in the Digital Social Innovation (DSI) scope.

Indeed, over the last two years, DSI has grown significantly while DSI projects and initiatives have multiplied, catching the attention of policymakers, governments, and civil society organizations alike.

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YDSI: Digital social innovation for young people (2017-2019)

YDSI is an Erasmus plus project Strategic Partnership (2017-2019).

The YDSI project aims at empowering young people (especially students in social sciences and volunteers) in digital social innovation thinking and practices at a European level professionalizing them in a lifelong learning European perspective.

The general objective of the YDSI project is the definition of a basic educational framework for youth online social innovation education at a European level integrating the expertise of partners engaged in different topical social educational practices such as peer learning, participatory learning, social learning, and collaborative learning.

Specific objectives:
• to exchange best practices between organizations active in social innovation
• to increase competencies of young people on digital social innovation
• to create a comprehensive list of good practices
• to create a network of organizations active in digital social innovation

Addressed needs:
• professionalization of young people
• empowerment in the use of online educational processes

Addressed target group:
Students and young people engaged in social volunteer activities or employed in social services institutions/organizations.

DSI: Digital social innovation: new educational competencies for social inclusion (2018-2020)

DSI is an Erasmus plus project Strategic Partnership led by Ecoistituto (2018-2020).

The principal objective of the DSI project is the definition of a basic portfolio for digital social innovation competencies at the European level designed for students, social educators and volunteers.

Objectives:
• exchange good practices
• increase competencies
• define a portfolio of competencies
• create a comprehensive list of practices
• create a network active in digital social innovation

Target groups:
• Social educators
• Vulnerable social groups
• Social services
• Educational institutions

ESEC: Extending Social Educators Competences (2018-2020)

ESEC is an Erasmus plus project Strategic Partnership led by Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University in Warsaw, Poland.

The ESEC project provides social educators with guidelines for designing and running online parent training programmes for parents of children with behavioural disabilities.

Main expected results:
• evidence-based guidelines
• 2.0 educational programme

The consortium includes 2 HE institutions, 1 foundation and 2 NGOs.

ELISE: Eliminating Social Exclusion (2019-2021)

The principal objective of the EliSE project is supporting parents of children with behavioural disorders by realizing an educational parent-training module for “fair travelling” in European countries and an educational toolkit.

The Consortium is formed of six partners from Latvia, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.

The project foresees four Intellectual Outputs (IO1–IO4) including a model, collaborative infrastructure, blended learning module and toolkit for Fair Traveling.

SMM4WIN: Social media marketing skills for fostering the inclusion and employability of young people with disabilities

SMM4WIN helps young people with disabilities gain skills in social media marketing for professional work, self-realization and career development.

Concrete results:
1. Research Report
2. Smart learning environment
3. SMM Training programme
4. Recommendations and handbook

The consortium includes partners from Poland, Italy, Latvia and Ukraine.

ASL: Adult self-learning: supporting learning autonomy in a technology-mediated environment (2019-2021)

The ASL project supports upskilling pathways through an advanced educational initiative based on an online collaborative environment and structured Pattern-Based Learning activities.

Concrete aims:
1. Teach learners to acquire new skills using innovative practices
2. Develop a collaborative learning environment

Target group: low-skilled or low-qualified adults, often aged 50–55.

Consortium partners come from Turkey, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Greece.