yote project third newsletter

YOTE Projet Newsletter No3| January 2015

January 2015/ Issue 3 YOTE Project description p2

Work package p2

Article about Digital Tool p3 Video of YOTE Project p3

Dissemination activities P 4-5

3rd meeting of Wien – Austria p 6-7

Summary key competences p 8-9-10

YOTE Project meetings p11

Meeting gallery Wien P12

Contents

Welcome

The third issue of the official newsletter of The Youth On the Empowerment (YOTE) Proj-

ect. The present edition comes on the half way through a two-year project, we hope that you will continue to follow us on the next Newslet-ters in order to be informed about the news of the YOTE project.

The third newsletter is mainly dedicated to the meeting of Wien – Austria from 18th to 21st

of November 2014, also to the summary of key competences and to the dissemination activities

NEWSLETTER N°3Project number: 540327-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-LEONARDO-LMP

This project is funded with the financial support of the European Commission. This publication reflects only the views of the

author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”

For more details about the YOTE project, please visit our website:

www.yote.eu

YOTE Project Newsletter No3| January 2015

YOTE Project description

The Youth On The Empowerment “YOTE” is Leonardo Da Vinci multilat-

eral project. The duration of the YOTE project is 24 months. The project idea consists on developing an innovative methodology based on “Units of Competence” that vocational students (from 17 to 24 year olds) will ac-quire as a training course.

This new methodology will include activities of non-formal education,

which will improve vocational training students, personal development in re-gards to their capacities, and psychologi-cal maturity that provide a better social integration or employability according to the Strategy 20/20.

To validate the methodology, the 7 partners involved (6 from European Union and one third country) will pro-mote the use, test and implementation ECVET by applying it to the qualification of the course according to the ECVET guidelines.

The expert selected by each partners country from some previous research (Euroempleo 115), some documents of European Commission and Europe-an Council, their own experience, and literature...will develop a methodology structured as “Units of Competence” fol-

low the EFVET Guidelines to have the possibil-ity to recognize the learning outcomes(WP2).

The Methodology will be adapted as a “digital tool” and hosted in the project website (WP3), and it will be transferred to the vocational stu-dents as a “training course” (WP4).

The results will be analyzed (WP6) and pub-lished in a research.

PROGRESS


Video-presentation of YOTE Project

In september 2013, Giorgia Atezi, a volunteer in the project "Learns

of Disability" of the European Pro-gramme Youth in Action, hosted by Docete Omnes Foundation, made a video about the 8 Key Competences recommended by the European Parlia-ment and Council. Through the activ-ity the volunteer has improved and implemented her Digital skills.

Here you can find the link to the video in the website of the project:

http://goo.gl/yyEGdN

The Leonardo da Vinci project YOTE “Youth On The Empowerment” offers a new methodology

which will improve the capacities and abilities of the students, and facilitate them the access to the labor market. As part of the project activities, we have created the “Digital Tool”, used to give the methodology a “digital format”. The Digital Tool is an e-learning platform in which students can find the theoreti-cal part, the practical case and the evaluation of the 8 Key competences. Also they can find infor-mation about the European and international mo-bility programs to improve each key competence. It is the tool to transfer the method of “Key Compe-tences” as a training course”.The system e-learning gives the accessibility to the course from anywhere with internet access.

Article about the Digital Tool Fatima Carmona Program coordinator at Docete Omnes Foundation


Dissemination activities

Italy Greece Germany

Italy : Eurocultura The Dissemination plan is divided in 4 Areas1. Presentation in conferences/seminars2. Presentation in meetings3.TNetworking4. Publications

Publications:• Muoversi (newsletter sent to 37.000

subscribers all over Italy)

• Bollettino Eurosportello Veneto (newsletter of the Regional um-brella organzation of Chambers of Commerce sent to all the registered entrepreneurs of the region Veneto http://www.eurosportelloveneto.it/boll2014/11-15.htm#ALTRE INIZIA-TIVE)

• Bollettino VERONA INNOVZIONE (newsletter sent to all teachers and trainers of Verona and provence)

• Website Eurocultura

YOTE National Meeting

• 30/10/2014 National conference (about 70 participants)

• Leaflet • Printed material

Newsletter• Summary in Italian of the 1st and 2nd

newsletter.


Greece: Association for Education and Develop-ment of Disable People

National event for the presentation of project at 7-10-2014. Partici-

pants were educators, teachers, end-users etc.

Many dissemination activities were organized at local, regional and national level in different places; • Vocational center “Ekpaideytiki Kavalas” • Technological institute of Kavala • Vocational center “edis-net” • Educational center of Municipality of Ka-

vala • “Rotary Club”

Germany: Volkshoch-schule VHS Hannover

Information about the Project in con-ferences with:

• Representatives of training centers and social enterprises, Region Han-nover and Europe

• Pedagogues in the vocational train-ing in the Region of Hannover

• Teacher in the school of the second chance

• Representatives of educational sys-tem

Distribution of leaflet about the YOTE project in the conference of responsible

persons for vocational training in Lower Saxony

Publications:

• Article in printed Program of VHS Hannover

• Article in the Website of VHS Hannover

• Article in the Newsletter of the Department of Vocational Training, VHS Hannover


The 3rd transna-tional meeting of the YOTE project18th to 21st november,2014

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All the material is ready and a common practical case was created for all units of competences. The Digital tool is go-ing to be enriched with forums, and one mentor for each partner organization.

Review of the Digital Tool

02 Management and financial issuesAll partners have prepared the financial sheets for the interim report.

03Presentation of national events and other dissemination activities

A leaflet to disseminate the project was created.The draft of the guide is ready and will be translated in partner languages.

04 Training course180 students will be directly involved in the experimentation phase: Partner 1: Docete Omnes Fundación (Granada – Spain),Partner 4: Eurocultura (Vicenza – Italy), and Partner 5: Association for Educa¬tion and Development of Disable people (Kavala - Greece) will be responsible do make the experimentation with students.

Practical Case:A “general practical case including all com-petences” will be developed.The practical case is a story created by all partners: each partner will design a part of the story applying a key competence. Partner 3: Volk¬shochschule Hannover (Hannover – Germany) will be responsible to create the story with all story sections.

Evaluation of the test:The Training course is based on a score of 100 points Each test has a punctuation of 20 points. The practical case has a punctuation of 20 points.

Certification of the Test: The certificate of achievement will be available on the project website and will be printed with all the logos: the logo of the partner institutions, the logo of the European Commission and the project´s logo.


05Exploitation of ResultsPartner 4: Eurocultura (Vicenza – Italy) has created a model of “exploitation plan to be filled by each partner country the exploita-tion activities developed by each partner.

This project is funded with the financial support of the European Commission. This publication reflects only the views of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”

YOTE Project description 2 Work packages

Articles 3Developing key competances for Longlife

Learning

Second meeting Hannover 4Presentation of the key competences

methodology by partners

Presentation of the 1st newsletter by BRCV

Sousse Tunisia

Dissemination of results

Review of Work Packages 3,4,5,6,7 and 8.

Presentation of the key competences by

partners

Dissemination activities 10 YOTE project meetings 11

The second newsletter will be dedicated mainly to the meeting of Hannover-Germany from the 24th to the 27th of June 2014, also

to the methodology and finally to the dissemination activities.

This newsletter is also available on the project website at :

www.yote.eu

Welcome

Welcome to the second issue of the official newsletter of the Youth On The Empow-

erment (YOTE) Project, ,which will inform you about the progress of the activities throughout the duration of the project (24 months). We will do our best to make it informative and interesting.

NEWSLETTER N°2September 2014/ Issue 2

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Project number: 540327-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-LEONARDO-LMP

06 NewslettersThe partners agreed about the content of the 3rd and the 4th newsletters .

07 Next transnational Meetings- 4th meeting in Vicenza, Italy from 7th to 10th of April 2015

- 5th meeting in Kavala, Greece from 5th to 8th of October 2015


Key competence 1:Communication in mother-tongue

Imagine you would not be able to use lan-guage, you would not communicate di-

rectly to your family and friends, you can-not share information in facebook or on twitter and believe me nobody would give you a job.The key skill “Language“ is of special significance for you apart from other key skills (e. g. computer competence, mathematic competence and social com-petence).

The European Commission describe it the competence to communicate in your mother-tongue: “Communication in the mother tongue is the ability to express and interpret concepts, thoughts, feelings, facts and opinions in both oral and written form (listening, speaking, read-ing and writing), and to interact linguistically in an appropriate and creative way in a full range of societal and cultural contexts; in education and training, work, home and leisure.” (Official Jour-nal of the European Union, L394/13, 30.12.2006, Annex)As a child you learnt your mother’s language at a very early age – the mother tongue. Every child learns the language without being taught sim-ply by deeply memorizing the intonation and grammar. To a large extent, this process takes place automatically unless the child suffers from a special linguistic weakness.

But what happens to you if you move from one country to another because your par-ents or your self have to do so for studying or starting a job? Then you have to learn the language which is spoken in your new home-country for getting the same lan-guage-competence as you have in your mother-tongue. By learning this language you set a mile-stone for your private and professional fu-ture!So we have to divide the linguistic compe-tence into 2 areas:• Nativespeakercompetence• Foreign-language competence (inthe language spoken in the country where you live)In the online-tool you will find some expla-nations about the preconditions of learn-ing a language and some practical tips and tricks to do it successfully.

Summary key competences This edition is dedicated to the presentation of the summary of the key competences 1 to 4. In our next newsletter we will present the key competances 5 to 8.

Renate ACKERMANN (Volkshochschule Hannover - Germany)


Renate ACKERMANN (Volkshochschule Hannover - Germany)

Key competence 2:Communication in foreign languageNowadays, learning a foreign language has become practi-cally indispensable for our work life. You stay in a country as tourist or for professional reasons but you would like to do some shopping or you need a taxi-driver! You are well prepared if you are able to speak the language of the visit-ed country. An office clerk without this key skill encounters considerably more career difficulties than a colleague with foreign-language competence in this field, for example. “Communication in foreign languages broadly shares the main skill dimensions of communi-cation in the mother tongue: it‘s based on the ability to understand, express and interpret con-cepts, thoughts, feelings, facts and opinions in both oral and written form (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in an appropriate range of societal and cultural contexts (in education and training, work, home and leisure) according to one's wants or needs. Communication in foreign languages also calls for skills such as mediation and intercultural understanding. An individual's level of proficiency will vary between the four di-mensions (listening, speaking, reading and writ-ing) and between the different languages, and according to that individual's social and cultural background, environment, needs and/or inter-ests..” (Official Journal of the European Union, L394/13, 30.12.2006, Annex)

Studying or working abroad gives you the chance to get new experiences, to develop intercultural competence and to become more independent. But the precondition for doing so is the knowledge of a foreign language. Furthermore a stay abroad is a value to add to your CV. Acquiring foreign-language competence also results in a larger variety of possibilities in one’s private life. You like to go to cinema or movies in the internet? Watch them in the original language and you will see them first! And usually you enjoy them in a better way than the synchronized version.

By learning a foreign language you develop important resources for your professional and private life. If you have learnt one for-eign language the next one is easier be-cause you know how to do and your brain is used to learn foreign languages. Further-more some languages have the same roots and similarities. In the online-tool you will find some expla-nations about learning a foreign language and some practical tips and tricks to do it successfully.


Key competence 3:Mathematical competence and basic competences in Science and technology

Person who captures those competen-cies has the ability to correspond to many

jobs are related by their activities with sci-ence, environment protection, social is-sues etc, where ideas developed by science are used into practice and researches and scientific findings are integrated into those jobs.

But it’s not only workplaces that the person can take easier. Also has benefits in different facets like Social studies (history, geography etc.), Arts (music, painting, dance etc.), Poetry (meter of poetry, the number of words to in-clude in a line etc), at Home (shopping, cook-ing etc.), Bank transactions (payments, bills etc.).

In general we can say that Math and basic knowl-edge of science and technology are part of our lives, wherever we go, whatever we do, we use those competencies daily without even realizing it. So, someone who captures those competen-cies has an easygoing daily life.

It’s a competency that we can say it’s nec-essary to everyone in our days.

Person who captures this competency has the ability to use information technol-ogy and communication as a means of intellectual and include the use of dual role of transmission and generation of information and knowledge. Also the person can use this competency for the production function, for example, as a tool for the application of mathemati-cal models in natural, social, economic or artistic level. This skill allows people to manage rich and complex informa-tion, solve real problems, make resolu-tions, work in collaborative environ-ments and create responsible and creative productions.The expected benefits to the person who eventually acquire digital skills are the following. •Accesstoservicesofferedprimarilythroughthe Internet, •Fasterandmoreefficientservicewhendeal-ing with services, organizations, etc. •Enrichmentoftheirknowledge•Preventrisksofsocialexclusion,• Better adaptation and responsiveness tochanging conditions and demands.

Georgios KONNSOULASAssociation for Education and Develop-ment of Disable people (Kavala - Greece)

Key competence 4:Digital Competence


2ND MEETING : HANNOVER, GERMANY

5TH MEETING :KAVALA, GREECE

1ST MEETING : GRANADA, SPAINKick-o� meeting

4TH MEETING : VICENZA, ITALY

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3RD MEETING: WIEN, AUSTRIA

Research Experts Meet-ing

Training for trainers and students and dissemination meeting

Analysis of results and exploitation meeting

Evaluation and Final meeting with students workshop

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This newsletter is also available on the project website at :www.yote.eu

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