EU PROJECTS CO-ORDINATED BY THE BJC OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS
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Manage Your Career -LLP/LdV/PA/2010/IRL-CP601
Manage Your Career is a Leonardo da Vinci Partnership Project funded under the European Commissions Lifelong Learning Programme. It brings together partners from five countries (Ireland, Northern Ireland, Austria, Hungary and Spain) who are interested in exploring Career Management Skills, their development and application. The partnership is specifically interested in how individuals who are disadvantaged in the labour market, develop these skills and build sustainable careers.
The Project has two main aims:
- To Develop a Career Management Skills methodology that will assist guidance practitioners across Europe in the empowerment of disadvantaged job seekers
- Design, develop and pilot a one day training for practitioners on incorporating this methodology into their practice
MOTIVES Project - LLP/ldV/TOI/2010/IRL-504
Lifelong Learning Programme: Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project (2010 – 2012)Training in work organisations is an area of applied psychological research that is particularly well suited for making a clear contribution to the enhancement of human well-being and performance in organisational and work settings as well as in society in general' (Aguinis & Kraiger, 2009).
The value created by training can include benefits for the employer, benefits for the employee, their colleagues, their families and the customer. The MOTIVES EU-wide partnership (Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy) is developing an online measuring system based on the principles of Social Return on Investment (SROI) where employers/SMEs, training consultants and training providers can meticulously evaluate and gauge the economic and social value of training provided by them for their employees, most particularly for low skilled employees.
SROI is an evaluation framework for measuring and accounting for the value created by an organisation, service, project or activity. It tells the story of how change is being created by measuring outcomes and uses monetary values to represent them. However, SROI is about value rather than money.
The MOTIVES system (online training evaluation tool and one day training course in using the tool and methodology) will be piloted with 45 SMEs across Europe during May & June 2012.
2007- 2009: KNOW HOW LLP/LDV/TOI/2007/IRL – 507
Know How was a 2 year Leonardo da Vinci European funded Transfer of Innovation Project. The focus was on the development of an innovative web based tool that can help highlight ones own highly individual learning style, what motivates learning and key learning skills. The Know How Project, lead by the Ballymun Job Centre has built 3 animated online tools with voice-overs which are fun challenging and informative.
They look at three specific domains:
1. The Learning Motives Tool
2. The Learning Style Map
3. The Learning Skills Explorer
The KNOW HOW tools are rooted in a scientific methodology in order to ensure that they accurately measure what they are supposed to. Research was conducted across the European partnership with each partner country contributing. The tools are available in English, Spanish, Polish and Romanian. The Know How partnership consists of partners representing five countries including Ireland, Romania, Poland, Germany and Spain.
2005 – 2007: EGUIDE IRL/05/B/F/PP 153103 
EGUIDE was a two-year Leonardo da Vinci II Pilot Project which developed a Quality Assurance Framework and related model of web based assessments for the guidance of disadvantaged job seekers into initial vocational training.
It was based on the premise that quality guidance is essential to disadvantaged job seekers who are attempting to access training or employment. Members of this target group are very often unaware of their own abilities and aptitudes; furthermore they are also unaware of the options available to them.
The EGUIDE project built and piloted a suite of online interactive career guidance assessments within a common quality framework to meet the needs of disadvantaged job seekers. All of the assessments are animated with flash and use voice audio to make them user friendly and help overcome the barriers to traditional commercial assessments.
Norm groups appropriate to the target group were also developed. E-guide involved partners from Ireland, UK, Spain, Italy, Romania, Hungary and Germany.
2006-2008: INFORM IRL/06/B/F/PP 153101
INFORM was a two year Leonardo da vinci II Pilot Project, which developed an assessment tool specifically aimed at assisting disadvantaged job seekers in identifying informal and non formal learning from everyday tasks. The tool looks at competencies developed during everyday learning and living that are transferable to the labour market. The tool gives a greater self awareness and self confidence to the target group by identifying the competencies that they use in the world of work. The INFORM partnership consisted of seven EU partners representing five countries including Ireland, UK, Sweden, Austria and Slovenia.
2008-2010: EGUIDE PARTNERSHIP - GUIDING BEST PRACTICE LLP/LDV/PA/2008/IRL-CP604
This is a two year Partnership Project, which has developed a best practice framework for giving feedback to disadvantaged job seekers from career guidance assessments. The Partnership consists of partners from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Italy and Germany.
2005-2007: EQUAL YOUTH - IE30
The Equal Youth project brought together the main stakeholders in the provision of services to young early school leavers in two areas in Ireland: Ballymun and Mayo.
The Project developed a model of interagency cooperation that addresses the deficiencies in current services that discriminate against progression into training and employment for the target group. The project specifically targeted 16 to 24 year olds and comprises of statutory agencies and community organisations at both local and national level.
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