OpenInn serves as a new Pedagogical and Organizational Model for communities and individuals to explore their innovative potentials by the use of ICT-tools proceeding the strengthening of their self-esteem. The results will contain the Knowledge Generating House that is a site enhancing innovation on a social networking basis designed according to the Open Innovation concept.

Further information:
Jan Gejel - jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

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Projects submitted at the early 2010 Lifelong Learning Call

The aims are:
1. To contribute to improve the quality of GRU European training provision and its accreditation systems .
2. To install effective mechanisms for co-operation between (potential) GRU course organisers.

3. To strengthen the cooperation between the relevant stakeholders of GRU courses: AE providers, NAs, the European Commission and other relevant stakeholders.
4. To contribute to the professionalization of adult education staff concerning GRU course provision and delivery
5. To expand the GRU course provision in eligible countries of the LLL programme
6. To support dissemination and sustainability of the GRU course provision.

Further information:
Jan Gejel - jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

The CarEIn Project will carry out the transfer of a LdV Pilot Project on Emotional Intelligence approved in 2005 adapting the training contents to the Web 2.0 Learning environment and to the specific needs of health and social assistance sector.
This way, the learning environment will contain training on EI (e-book format) and will allow the interaction of the final users as they will have the possibility to add documents or materials, to comment specific situations, to create working groups, etc…
The Web 2.0 learning environment will be addressed to promote EI competences among health and social assistance sector workers in order to foster higher responsibility, team working, trust and self-assurance, better organisation of work, conflict solving, the capacity to learn how to learn, better communication, etc…

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

The project Health Box promotes knowledge, attitudes and skills related to prevent lifestyle diseases and enhance healthy life habits among socio-economically disadvantaged adults, migrants and adults with a low level of education.
This global aim will be pursued by developing, testing and disseminating a Health Box, a set of methodologies, tools, teaching and learning materials adult educators can use in their respective training practice.



Further information:
Niels Christian Vestergaard - sskaNCV@sosuaarhus.dk

The European Working Conditions Survey highlighted that occupational illnesses associated with psychological stress are on the rise throughout the EU member states. The project BOIT addresses a specific mental health syndrome characterized by emotional, mental and physical exhaustion: the burnout syndrome. In one widely cited and used model of burnout, Maslach and Leiter explain burnout as a crisis in one's relationship with work, during which affected persons become chronically exhausted, cynical and detached from work, and feel increasingly ineffective on the job (Maslach/Leiter, The Truth about Burnout, 1997).



There are several European projects that deal with promoting health and safety at the workplace or with preventing vocational stress. However, none of them has developed intervention strategies for managers to deal with psycho-social illnesses generated by specific working conditions .

Therefore, the aim of this project is to prevent working situations that promote burnout, and, perhaps even more importantly, to enable team leaders to detect burnout among their staff early and to define strategies to intercept the burnout progress. Burnout is a phenomenon which does not appear all of a sudden but develops slowly and gradually. This overall aim will be reached by devloping and testing a further education programme for managers and team leaders.

Further information:
Niels Chr. Vestergaard - sskaNCV@sosuaarhus.dk

Mindwellness is a Grundtvig project financed by the European Commission
Many recent studies show that the fitness of mind could be conserved for a long time and the decline of memory could be slower if people use their mind frequently.

In this sense, in some countries (like US and Japan) this subject has leaded the creation of new services: to help the elderly people to preserve the fitness of their mind. There are many people from the target group who would like and are willing to do a lot of things for preserving the fitness of their mind and avoiding the decline of their memory or minimum slowing it. These people do not want to use the new knowledge collected by mind training for aim of their working or business carrier but to develop lifelong learning activities that keep their minds fit and also their learning capacities.

Within this context, this project aims at developing innovative training materials addressed to elder people (working or retired people) in order to preserve the fitness of their mind and prevent dementia. The project execution will count on other additional benefits as it will provide the target collective new knowledge that can be used in their daily life and improve their quality of life.

The project is coordinated by the Spanish workers union UGT – Euskadi (www.ugteuskadi.org) and the other partners - beside Arhus Social and Health College – are from Austria, Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Poland and UK.

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

• EduCore
GRUNDTVIG 2008-10

EduCoRe is a Grundtvig project financed by the European Commission
EduCoRe will provide educational and vocational counselling services and training in (inter-)personal skills for patients in medical rehabilitation centres. This offer will support them

1. to make thoroughly reflected career decisions
2. to identify the types of further education they need in this specific situation to improve their employability
3. to develop and strengthen the personal competences necessary to put their professional and educational decisions into practice

Thus, they are able to reintegrate more easily into the labour market and to actively participate in society after the period of medical rehabilitation.
The project’s counselling and training approach will be a blended one: Elements of e-counselling and e-learning will be integral parts of the service. A reason therefore is that information and communication technologies have a high potential for people who are restricted in their mobility or who change their location several times in the process of medical rehabilitation.

The Project is coordinated by the Austrian “Die Berater” (www.dieberater.com) and the other partners - beside Aarhus Social and Health Care College - are from Austria, Italy, Germany and Slovenia

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

• Coach-Bot
LEONARDO 2009-11

COACH-BOT is a LEONARDO project financed by the European Commission.
The project aims at carrying out a new model of adult distance education based on an e-learning methodology that combines the conversational agent technology (Virtual Coach) with an ad hoc designed modular learning path.
The Virtual Coach will support the participants “individually” within the entire modular e-course.
In order to provide a suitable solution to cope with the workers training needs, the project main objectives are

• to provide an user-friendliness e-learning environment,
• to customize the learning process on the specific needs of each student,
• to provide an on-line constant presence and to stimulate
• to preserve a high level of motivation.

The project is coordinated by the Italian ForCom and the other project partners -beside Aarhus Social and Health Care College - are from Romania, UK, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Further information:
Bodil Mygind - sskaBMM@sosuaarhus.dk

The overall aim of the Xploit project is to develop a number of communities, cities or regions into learning communities through the exploitation of European lifelong learning projects and the establishment of a solid circulation of lifelong learning resources between educational practice fields and political decision-making.
The development of these learning communities is regarded the first steps towards the establishment of Learning Cities. This step will be taken in a 3 year network project, following the Xploit project.

Further information:
Jan Gejel - jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

Project aims
The overall aims of the project are:
• to develop or further train multicultural competences
• to develop and understanding of active citizenship for elderly and the European policies governing this field
• to develop strong involvement and community competences
• to develop a set of values regarding elderly people, their life situations and their traditions, no matter what cultural or religious background they might have
• to develop creative ways of facilitating story-telling and the creative use of media and ICT • tools for story-telling and communication.

Partnership
Italy, Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Cyprus, Portugal, Turkey.
Coordinator: Social and Healthcare College, Aarhus, Denmark.
Key partner: The Sct. Joseph Activity Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The involvement of the College
The College will be coordinating the project - in close cooperation with the Sct. Joseph Activity Center and the project's Copenhagen educational partner.
The College's media department, sosuMedia, will be the project's web and media partner.

Further information:
Jan Gejel - jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

• IGUANA - INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
LEONARDO 2004-06

Project aims
The project responds to a recognized, increasing and complex need for guiding, shared by all european countries, including the new and future members of the EU.
The purpose of the project is to develop, test and implement an internet based, dynamic model for guiding for adults with special needs for knowledge and clarification before, during and after the choice of education within the social- and health care sector.
Addressing groups that are often threatened by marginalisation, the project is also expected to have a positive effect on the need to democratise the stream of information in the european communities

Partnership
The college is the coordinator of the project and the project has partners from Denmark, Germany, Wales, Greece and Estonia.

The involvement of the College
The college is, as coordinating partner, involved in all elements of the project and especially with the pedagogical and technical development of online multimedia material.

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• MUTUAL – Training migrants for multicultural work in childcare
LEONARDO 2004-07

Project aims
The project will support and develop the multicultural resources in childcare and youth institutions by using, valuing and training the specific multicultural competencies of immigrants.
The project will develop a new way of assessing and documenting the prior learning and experiences of the immigrants, and thus enebles them to use these in an active way to get a job wihtin the pedagogical field.
The project will produce a Handbook about multicultural work and a training course, qualifying the immigrants to woer as multicultural resources. The course will also offer guidance and counsellling about further educational possibilities within this area.

Partnership
The college is a partner in the project and the following countries are represented in the partnership: Austria, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Holland, Norway, Romania, England, Hungary and Portugal.
The project is coordinated by Volkshilfe Steiermark in Graz, Austria.

The involvement of the College
Beside the general project cooperation the college primarily engaged in the web- and multimedia tasks in the project, but during the project the college has been more and more involved in the pedagogical elements in the project.
In the project we have formed a special cooperation with the second Danish partner, the Copenhagen Institute of Further Education.

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• CICS – Core skills in the care sector
LEONARDO 2005-2007


Project aims
The project addresses the demographic development in the European Community associated with structural changes in the elderly care sector as well as the consequences for an innovative European Qualification Programme for employees in the care sector.
The purpose of the project is to influence the recruitment to the care sector through image improvement, through support to new member states in the European Community to develop training programmes in the sector and through improved access to mobility for trainees, employees and teachers in the care sector.

Partnership
The college is partner in the project. Project coordinator is AWO Sclesvig-Holstein. Besides this the project holds partners from France, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Slovakia and Denmark.

The involvement of the College
The college is involved in all essential activities in the project.
The college will be a key partner in the exchange of students and teachers in the project.

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• MPOWERmen2men
EQUAL 2005-08

Project aims
The overall aim of this project is to produce examples of new practices within the care taking area, which supports the EU strategy about the active, independent and cooperating patient, client and citizen.
The method and the special approach of this project is to produce good practice for the integration of male values and ressources in the educations and workplaces of the care taking sector – practical examples that will contribute to this new and necessary client profile.
The basic approach of the project is based on a reversed empowerment concept – empowering men to be integrated in a labour market totally dominated by women and female values.
The uniqe and innovative contribution of this project consists in regarding the new active client profile as a result of the integration of key male values in the environments of the care sector.

Partnership
The college is a partner in the Danish partnership.
Other national partners are: The Social and Health Care College Vejle County, The Social and Health Care College Naetved, Center for Further Education Copenhagen and Kolding Pedagogical College.
The transnational partnership, Integrating Gender Equality, consists in partners from Denmark, Holland, Lithuania and Spain.

The involvement of the College
Beside the general project cooperation the college primarily engaged in the web- and multimedia tasks in the project.

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• EAR – fighting drop-out with relationship
COMMENIUS 2005-07

Project aims
This project aims to implement, test and spread new training models for teachers and school managers in order to improve their relationship skills and unable them to create a welcoming and positive surrounding within their groups of students more easily.
In detail, these models will: a) improve the quality of relationship within the class and the ability of trainers to deal with dynamics of conflict and negotiation so as to improve their students’ learning skills; b) prevent social exclusion and self-centred intolerant approaches towards different cultures; c) support the development of cooperative attitudes and behaviour; d) fight drop out; e) improve communication skills of and between adults educators (teachers and parents).
Obviously, the general aim of this project is, obviously, to promote social inclusion and the right to lif-long learning for any European student.

Partnership
The colloege is a project partner and the following countries are respresented in the partnership: Italy, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, England and Romania.
The project is coordinated by Commune di Venezia, Italy.

The involvement of the College
The collage is involved in the development of professional and pedagogical elements as well as web and multimedia products.

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• LIFELONG LANGUAGE LEARNING
GRUNDTVIG 2 LEARNING PARTNERSHIP 2005-06

Project aims
The project aims at improving European integration through foreign language learningin a aprocess of “ life long language learning “ looking a multilingual training. The projects intends to contribute in promoting the feeling of “belonging” to the European Community giving real occasions of communicative interaction with European citizens from other Countries, giving a special value to the cultural backgrownds also of the linguistic minorities through the use of the foreign language as a vehicular language.
The knowledge of other European languages is an essential condition for an real mobility within the Union , improving work, study, travel opportunities all over the continent and rising the consciousness of we have in common , giving a good value to the cultural differences , considering the mutual respect.

Partnership
The college is a partner in this learning partnership - granted by the Dansih National Agency, Cirius. Institutions from the following countries have submitted a national application for this partnership: Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal and Finland.
The project is coordinated by Universitá della LiberEtá in Udine, Italy.

The involvement of the College
The college participates in the dialogues of this learning partnership.

Further information:
Jan Gejel - jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

• PARENTING IN A MULTICULTURAL EUROPEAN CITY
GRUNDTVIG 2006-09

Project aims
Project partners are European Cities with a need to encourage integration as part of their regeneration strategy. Developing intercultural awareness needs to involve disadvantaged adults from the resident communities as much as refugees, asylum seekers, migrant workers and Roma people. Recruiting indigenous disadvantaged adults to enable intercultural dialogue and integrated learning can be problematic. This project will focus on Parenting in Modern Europe, as a learning theme of common interest across cultures. The project does not intend to develop parenting interventions, but to work with groups of disadvantaged and target group beneficiaries to identify their shared and different intercultural views on parenting, identify existing support mechanisms available to assist parents in difficult environments and envisage the policy changes and support mechanisms that would assist parenting in multicultural European cities.

Partnership
The college will be a partner in the project and the project is expected to have partners from 5-6 other European countries.
The project is promoted by Swansea University in Wales.

The involvement of the College
The college is expected to be involved in all key elements of the project.

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• ETIMOS – Empowering Teachers In Motivating and Orienteering Students
COMMENIUS 2006-08

Project aims
The general aim of this project is to reduce drop – out and increase motivation and learning standards for youngers. These are two essential conditions to affirm a policy of social inclusion and equal opportunities as well as to build our common “Society of knowledge”.
The specific purpose of the project are to encourage and sustain the teachers – throughout an adequate training - in programming and implementing innovative methods developing measures capable to increase the studying learning motivation of their pupils.
More in detail, the purpose is to create instruments and training measures which can increase the teacher’s capacities in:
o Re-project school curricula;
o Utilising techniques and methods inspired by the active, involving and participated pedagogy;
o To improve the relational atmosphere within the classroom and among students and with teachers;
o Programme and implement paths for welcoming new students, ways for sustaining school attendance, tutoring for students, as well as gangways (“passerelle”) which enable pupils to move from one school to another when they realise that their first choice was not appropriate according expectations and personal capacities.
o In achieving these objectives this project aims to give value and optimize the relationship among schools, and with local institutions and the community which can be considered the meaningful contexts where the motivating action towards the pupils has to take place and has to be considered as powerful. In particular, the institutions support the local schools in realising their training and pedagogical tasks; the community represents the living environment of the students, the habitat where they can experience and test their school learning.

Partnership
The college will be a full partner in the project and the project is expected to have partners from 5-6 other European countries.
The project is promoted by an organisation in Milano..

The involvement of the College
The college is expected to be involved in all key elements of the project.

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• MIKI – media learning in childcare institutions
GRUNDTVIG 2 LEARNING PARTNERSHIP 2007

Project aims
Miki promotes throughout the generations the medium competence of families and professional responsible persons. Emphasis is thereby the parent / grandparent education in order to integrate reflected handling with the media environment in their family lives. The preschool range received little attention in this connection so far.
One basic in media education is the educationally use of media to reflect the purely consuming use. Today in all social areas, extensive digital skills are a key qualification. Like reading, writing and arithmetic, information and communication technologies (ICT), above all the internet, represent a cultural technique. It is such important for later school success in today's communications-and information society. The everyday culture in familys while handling media however e.g. unreflected television has negative effects on reading and writing and thus on the education chances of the children.

Partnership
The project is promoted by City Learning Net partner IBAF, Rendsburg, Germany. The project is expected to have 10 partners.

The involvement of the College
The college is expected to be a key partner, because we have developed and carried out a large Children and Multimedia project in Aarhus in 2005 in cooperation with the local government and IBM - and because the college is able to call on our in house multimedia department, sosuMedia.
Besides that, the college is a partner in new national Children and Multimedia projects, being developed in 2006.

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• SAGE – senior advisors in social planning for the elderly
LEONARDO 2006-08

Project aims
SAGE is aimed at developing senior advisors in the care for the elderly. Our target group are unemployed people 50+ who want to work as advisors of providers for older peoples' services. We plan to take into account their former learning and working experiences. Based on the outcome of an assessment of their prior learning we will develop a modular curriculum to equip them for their new field of work. These senior advisers should function as intermediaries between providers and older people, capable of searching the needs of older people as regards housing, care, leisure-time activities etc.

Partnership
The college will be a partner in the project and the project is expected to have partners from 5-6 other European countries.
The project is promoted by Volkshilfe Steiermark in Graz, Austria.

The involvement of the College
The college is expected to be involved in all key elements of the project.

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