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Remember, the NEWS from 2009 might still be interesting...					......................
AUGUST 2010 NEW INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS AT THE COLLEGE 2011 The College will initiate or participate in a number of new initiatives in Autumn 2010 to be submitted early 2011 for different European Calls. The following initiatives are planned: Leonardo Development: euCaRe The euCaRe project will address the double challenge of unemployed citizens from closing sectors’ empowerment to attend education and training in another sector and considering doing this in another EU country. Grundtvig: How can migrant elderly be included in the ICT-society ? Meeting the challenges of (migrant) elderly being increasingly excluded from the ICT-society. Transversal / Commenius / E-learning: ICT and media supported didactics for young migrants - Producing approach - Include the young migrants in reflections on how they learn with ICT and media - Documentation and model build on practice. Transversal / Leonardo / E-learning: Innovation of natural science learning by integrating ICT and media for less educated young and adult learners Based on innovative practice among teachers at the College. Leonardo Transfer of Innovation: euroMOBguide re-submitted as a transfer project, based on the success of the IGUANA project Leonardo / Transversal (Transfer / Network / Development): Fairstart 2 Continuation of the FAIRstart project, closing Autumn 2010 Further more the College will participate in an extremely innovative and interesting InterReg initiative, promoting central Scandinavia as a power centre for design, development and production of computer games and learning games. This initiative will include facilitating the meeting between computer game producers and educations and private enterprises.
Further information and expression of interest: Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk or Niels Christian Vestergaard on sskaNCV@sosuaarhus.dk

AUGUST 2010 COLLEGE PARTNER IN THE NEW TRANSVERSAL ICT OPENINN PROJECT 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.

AUGUST 2010 BODYEXPLORER ON ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010 The College will present the concept and visions of the BODYexplorer learning game at the Online Educa Berlin conference in December 2010 - one of the largest e-learning conferences in the world. The presentation will focus both on the meeting between computer game producers and educations and on BODYexplorer as a pilot case, addressing game based learning about lifestyle disease prevention. Further information: Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk
Online Educa Berlin
BODYexplorer presentation Berlin

JULY 2010 LEARNING GAMES: PROMOTING THE MEETING BETWEEN COMPUTER GAME INDUSTRY AND THE WORLD OF EDUCATION In the BODYexplorer context, the College and sosuMedia is now preparing some steps aiming to promote and support the meeting between the computer game industry and the world of education. The long-term aim is to foster the development and production of high-quality learning games, that we regard a creative element in the innovation of traditional learning set-ups and the development of new learning didactics, especially for young people. Why take computer games seriously? - gameitcollege.dk Therefore the College is networking with relevant stakeholders to establish cooperation measures aiming to produce interesting examples of learning games. College people have etsbalished dialogues with a number of computer game producers in Denmark, with an InterReg project expected to be granted after Summer 2010, and especially with a very innovative vocational training center in the region of Central Denmark, who has specialized in offering the learners professional training in the design of computer games. This centre is called GameIT College and has been very succesful. In collaboration with GameIT College we will plan a national meeting in spring 2011 between a number of computer game producers, with a clear interest in developing learning games, and a number of educations, interested in offering their students the possibility of learning through computer gaming.
Summary of the BODYexplorer project
Visit GameIT College

JUNE 2010 SOME WORDS OF INSPIRATION FROM RESNICK Now, the bad news: while new digital technologies make a learning revolution possible, they certainly do not guarantee it. Early results are not encouraging. In most places where new technologies are being used in education today, the technologies are used simply to reinforce outmoded approaches to learning. These words written some years ago by Mitch Resnick from the MIT Media Lab in Boston are still true. Even more, they seem to be more and more true, so you might wish to take a look at the attached small papers, offering clear and useful inspiration for reflections on the basic challenges of learning.
Rethinking learning
Access is not enough

JUNE 2010 NEW LIFELONG LEARNING INITIATIVES The College's international team is now preparing the new initiatives for the lifelong learning call with deadline early 2011. The new initiatives will result in applications addressing the following themes: - quality recruitment and empowerment of unemployed in different member states wishing to attend the Danish social and health care educations - exploitation of the successful FAIRstart project running to autumn 2010 - developing and disseminating new didactics for natural science learning, intergrating ICT and media - empowering elderly migrants to be able to manage the ICT society - design concepts for including physicaly activity systematically in education. In the next months the College will contact a number of European partners and invite them to join these initiatives. Further information about the initiatives: Niels Christian Vestergaard (sskaNCV@sosuaarhus.dk) and Jan Gejel (jan.gejel@skolekom.dk).

JUNE 2010 GINCO CONFERENCE IN IZMIR, TURKEY The first international GINCO conference will take place in Izmir (TR) from 27 till 30 October 2010. The conference will deal with quality of Grundtvig course delivery and appropriate use of ICT. The conference is open to all adult education staff and relevant stakeholders. More information will be published very soon. The conference will be included in the Grundtvig course data base and be eligible for a Grundtvig mobility grant.
More info on the GINCO website
Conference keynote on ICT and course didactics
How to learn from a Grundtvig course?

MARCH 2010 GINCO - Grundtvig International Network of Course Organisers The aims of the 3 year GINCO network 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
GINCO website
GINCO at a glance
GINCO leaflet
GINCO in Denmark (in Danish)
More information GINCO coordinator Guy Tilkin guy.tilkin@alden-biesen.be Danish coordinator Jan Gejel jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

MARCH 2010 NEW LIFELONG LEARNING APPLICATIONS Aarhus Social and Health Care College has as a promotor and a coordinator submitted 3 applications for the 2010 Lifelong Learning Call. The Leonardo CAREmob project - A quality framework for migration in the care sector. The Leonardo euroMOBguide project - Quality in educational mobility in the care sector. The Transversal ICT BODYexplorer project - Making computer gaming technology available to education and training and Exploring lifestyle diseases from within the body. Below you will find project descriptions of all 3 projects. Furthermore the College is a partner in the follow-up to the mediaPLAYINGcommunities, addressing the Transversal ICT action and under the tittle mediaLEARNINGcommunities.
Further information: Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk
CAREmob
euroMOBguide
BODYexplorer

JANUARY 2010 2010: NEW EU PROJECTS, NEW INITIATIVES In 2010 the College will be participating in many new and rather interesting actitivites at European level. We are partners in a number of new European projects and our own 3 year Transversal Xploit project was granted a few days before Christmas. This project is the results of many years of work in the City Learning Net.
Brief descriptions of the new projects.
Furthermore the College will be a key resource in developing a number of new applications for the early 2010 Lifelong Learning Call. Some of the most siginifcant applications will be CAREmob Leonardo, BODYexplorer Transversal ICT and euroMOBguide Leonardo. You can learn more about these projects by contacting EU project manager Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk. Last, but not least, the College will also in 2010be contributing to a number of other social and learning initiatives in different places in Europe, for example the Laboratory of Inclusion initiqative in Salt, Girona, Catalonia. And 2010 will hopefully also be the year to consolidate the new Care Sector Forum within CEDEFOP - the European Commission's organisation for vocational training. The College intends to be an active partner in this forum.

OCTOBER 2009 EXCELLENT FAIRSTART MEETING IN TURKEY The Third partner meeting in Kocaeli, Turkey, gave a number of important contributions to further work the Fair Start. The meeting was attended by two officials from the EU commission who evaluated all aspects of the project. They rated the quality of our performance as being very high in economic management, methods, and cooperation efficiency, which we appreciate much. They also added valuable recommendations such as promoting translations in more languages, making partner efforts more visible (including a restructuring of the project homepage to make it more inviting towards third parties interested), and to use media contacts (newspapers, etc.) and a media strategy for disseminating a project which they found important for child work in Europe.
A few photos...
Visit FAIRstart website