Partners

Kunnskapstrening IT - Norway
CIAPE - CENTRO ITALIANO PER L'APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE - Italy
VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV - Germany
Institut Regional d'Insertion Professionnelle et Sociale - France
FONDATSIYA NA BIZNESA ZA OBRAZOVANI - Bulgaria
NAV Møre og Romsdal - Norway

Ciape

​www.ciape.it

CIAPE carries out training activities to develop and validate soft skills, as well as competences required in the future labour market. The organization is:

• Recognised European expert in Work Based Learning
• Coordinator of the European Network for Quality Apprenticeship
• Recognised European organisation for the training of trainers
• High qualified experienced in EU, national and regional projects management
• DDeveloper of innovative ideas to ensure the accessibility of learning to a wide range of target groups, such as students, young people, seniors, professionals and groups at risk
• Active member of CEDEFOP "European Qualifications Framework - Credit Transfer In VET" and of the "Quality Assurance in VET" communities
• Skilled in learning methods calibrated to learners’ exigencies and in the management of in service training courses and study visits
• Involved in several Projects concerning entrepreneurial education, new job profiles, social inclusion and innovative learning media (mobile learning)
• Active player in the field of European Voluntary Service

 
The main areas of expertise of CIAPE include:

• Social researches for public & private organisations at regional, national and European levels. Fields: new skills for new jobs, innovative learning media, certification of informal learning, autobiographical methodologies, gender mainstreaming, diversity management.
• Ad hoc training for young people, adults and companies, in room & online (DL platform, mobile learning solutions for non-routine skills development)
• Recognition and certification of knowledge acquired via non formal and informal learning
• EU projects planning

 
Eleonora Perotti, the president of CIAPE, is one of the 3 European experts in work-based learning, as recognised by the German National Agency NABIBB. Together with CIAPE, she is involved in the evaluation of the outcomes of all the European projects in the field of WBL to assess their quality and usability. Moreover, CIAPE is the coordinator of the “Quality Apprenticeships European Network”, a network of chambers of commerce, companies, VET providers and research centres belonging to 20 EU countries aimed at promoting the certification of learning outcomes deriving from apprenticeships experiences. This initiative has born in the framework of the “European Alliance for Apprenticeships” to coordinate and upscale different initiatives for successful WBL schemes.

Two of the staff members of CIAPE are EPALE Ambassadors (https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/home-page). EPALE is an initiative of the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. It is a community for teachers, trainers, researchers, academics, policy makers with a professional role in adult learning across Europe. It is set up around the sharing of content related to adult learning, including news, blog posts, resources, and events. Thus, all the results produced will have a strong visibility at EU level.

​In 2018 it has activated a service of video CV realization for the valorisation of skills and a better inclusion of young people into the labour market. In 2019 CIAPE gave birth to “The Apartment”, a parent-friendly co-working space for freelancers and professionals, based in Rome. It offers also co-baby services, organising laboratories for the development of social skills in kids & young people according to the Scandinavian model.

Kunnskapstrening IT

www.kunnskapstrening.no
 
Kunnskapstrening IT (KIT) is a non-profit company, developed by the former company Studiesenteret.no. KIT works with training of (mostly) young people through new and innovative system thinking methods. As one is using ICT in all processes, the talents (students) are participating from all over Norway. Kunnskapstrening IT is facilitating for talents in cooperation with local and regional companies and higher education institutions. Talents are mostly joining as out of work persons, ending up with job or further studies. Several of the talents want to establish their own companies.
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A new program supported by the regional bank (Sparebanken Nord-Norge) in Northern Norway is “Digital Talents”, where one is going to establish local “Workflooow “units where the connection and relations between needs of local companies, competence building, and entrepreneurship will be integrated. As a beginning “Workflooow” locations will be established in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. KIT has 12 employed people. Between 60 to 100 talents are joining the yearly program.
 
Kunnskapstrening IT (KIT) is working with people who are out of job. Through different trainings within the ICT field, accompanied with specific learning methods, one is following talents from out of job situations into a new life within job, entrepreneurship or studies. KIT is a concept developed by Studiesenteret.no, and is now an independent registered organization.
Skills and experience in developing new forms of learning solutions aimed for the next generation of workers, are the most important contributions in this project. Where a deep understanding of the digital cultures impacts on the new learners/ workers is defined as crucial in developing learning activities for the NEET group.
KIT uses different training methodologies and tools studied to engage young people and to favour collaboration with local communities. Being a development of the former Studiesenteret.no, KIT brings with it all the experience gained by the former company. The same Kunnskapstrening IT is a product of an incubator program where a network of ICT companies gave birth to this new reality. This is an important aspect, considering that KIT will be able to bring its direct experiences and the lessons learnt to this project.

FONDATSIYA NA BIZNESA ZA OBRAZOVANI

​www.fbo.bg
 
Business Foundation for Education (BFE) is a Bulgarian non-government organization, established in 2005 to act in public interest. Its mission is to facilitate the development of the civil society through initiatives that enhance human resource competitiveness and contribute to economic development and prosperity. To achieve its goals the Foundation implements variety of projects focused in the fields of lifelong learning, guidance counselling, employment and social policy, vocational education and youth work.

The Foundation is a recognized leader in the field of lifelong learning and career guidance in Bulgaria. The organization is a keen promoter of the guidance counselling profession. Its initiatives helped raise the awareness of decision makers, education experts, employers, headmasters and of the general public about the benefits of lifelong guidance for all generations.
The organization capitalizes the capacity and continues the efforts of the successful USAID Labour Market Project, directed to reinforce the competitive workforce development in Bulgaria. Its experience in the field of labour market, career guidance and policy making has been transferred via trainings of trainers and policy experts in Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Georgia, Armenia and Taiwan.

BFE represents the National Board for Certified Counselors in Bulgaria – one of the most prominent US based organizations for training and credentialing professionals in career counselling and mental health, with a global network of experts and practitioners. Since 2005 BFE has trained and certified over 1000 career counsellors under the Global Career

Development Facilitator program (one of the most successful NBCC’s program), thus developing capacity for guidance counselling services in more than 600 schools, 10 youth centres, 36 universities and more than 100 private companies and public organizations in Bulgaria. The curriculum adapted by BFE for training career counsellors has been highly estimated by 2 major universities which incorporated it into their master programs in guidance counselling. The case was included in the CEDEFOP’s report “Professionalizing career guidance. Practitioner competences and qualification routes in Europe”.

​BFE cooperates closely with the Ministry of Education, the National Agency for Vocational Education and Training, the Employment Agency, the Bulgarian Association of Career Counselors and other institutions. The Foundation established a strong network of guidance practitioners, media partners, and proactive training and guidance organizations on national and international level. The Foundation has been implementing a variety of innovative initiatives with impact on citizens’ employability and competitiveness directed to various target groups.
 
BFE has been involved in more than 30 European and national projects directed to personal and career development, social inclusion and innovative training methods.

VHS-Cham

www.vhs-cham.de
 
The VHS Cham is a registered, non-profit association in Upper Palatinate; it acts on a regional level.  The total number of fulltime administrative, teaching and training employees is 70 plus and about 300 freelancers. The VHS Cham provides courses in the field of society, vocation, languages, health, culture and special courses (second chance school). It has a long
term experience of course development with the specific focus on vulnerable groups and is experienced in organising courses for specific groups: young adults, among them dropouts; adults with fewer opportunities and special needs (e.g. illiterate, dyslexia etc.), NEETs, migrants, refugees. Part of the course programme for many years, has been also the work
with young people with mental disabilities, i.e. cognitive and intellectual. Totally the VHS Cham e.V. offers yearly more than 1250 learning events for more than 15 000 participants.
The VHS Cham also has had a wealth of experience coordinating and acting as a key partner in many projects over the years. The outcomes of the projects were geared towards second language learners, young learners of vulnerable groups, guidance and recognition of competences. It has a key interest in the area of new training models because it offers
special courses for young people with fewer opportunities, school dropouts, NEETs, refugees and for those with special learning needs. The VHS Cham provides the vocational courses which focus also on the development of the social skills, entrepreneurship skills and bringing European values close to the citizens. At the VHS Cham premises, there are
special workshops for wood and metal work.

Moreover, to VHS Cham has several affiliated organisations, like the state-approved VET school for physiotherapy in Cham and the state approved VET school for geriatric nursing in Bad Kötzting, the Tourism Academy Eastern Bavaria and the School for Wellness & Beauty in Bad Kötzting, as well as the VET School for Child Care and Social Pedagogy in Furth im Wald. The VHS Cham focuses also on the development of new curricula in the context of ECVET, e.g. in the field of geriatric nursing, technical professions, counsellors and WBL professionals. It is a member of the Bavarian Adult Education Association. Certification by DQS (German society for the Certification of Management Systems) according to the Regulations on the Recognition and Approval for Further Education and Training (AZWV), allows us to carry out vocational training for the Employment Agency – a distinction that only a few adult education centres possess. The courses are based on quality management process developed together with Bavarian Adult Education Association and according to the EFQM management system. Additionally, placement counselling is also available.
VHS works also in close cooperation with the Bavarian Adult Education Centre Association (bvv), the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (IIZ/DVV), the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE), and the German Adult Education Association (DVV) and member of EAEA. Cooperation within the above-mentioned networks will enhance dissemination and exploitation of the project. Information about the project and its results can be spread among above mentioned institutions regarding target groups of the project. Long-term experience as coordinating organisation in European and national projects and application of EFQM principles allowed VHS to develop stable basis for the operational and financial management.
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 The VHS Cham has a key interest in quality, in particular the area of VET, because many enterprises in the region face a lack of skilled workers due to the low unemployment rate. It has worked in several EU wide programmes as Lifelong Learning Programme, Interreg or Erasmus + and has therefore a European-wide network of various partner institutions and provides guidance, counselling, and vocational information as well as trainings in order to get new qualification adjusted to the labour market. In the past, these schools have also been involved in the development and testing phases for European VET projects. For more than 25 years, the VHS Cham works in close cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce to provide VET courses that are approved by the Chamber of Commerce. There are courses “Train the VET-trainer”, master courses for several technical professions and for different professions in economy. The part-time courses (weekend/evenings) allow participants to work in their profession while improving their competences. It works also in close cooperation with other local and regional education providers, working with the target groups of low-educated, low-skilled, NEETs or SN such as Kolping-Bildungswerk or Bildungsstätte St. Gunther in Cham. In addition, it is a member of the “working group for education” of the project “District of Cham–inclusive and without barriers” aiming at equal opportunities in education.

Institut Regional d'Insertion Professionnelle et Sociale (I.R.I.P.S)

http://irips.fr
 
IRIPS - Institut Régional d’Insertion Professionnelle et Sociale is a managing association (law 1901) of the following establishments or devices:
 

• Health centres: Pre-Orientation Centre, Unit of Evaluation, Rehabilitation and Social and / or professional Counselling (UEROS), Centre for Vocational Rehabilitation (CRP);
• Mutual Self-Help Groups (GEM) - device addressed to people with mental disorders which objective is improvement of their living conditions;
• Health and Social Training Institutes (IFSS);
• Centres for initial and further training.

 
The association:

• implements insertion and training for local authorities, state departments, associations, institutions and enterprises, as well as for people with disabilities, job seekers, employees,
• medical offices and enterprises;
• organizes reception, guidance, training, support and monitoring of people facing integration difficulties and / or vocational retraining;
• sets up and manages thematic resource centres;
• organizes information campaigns, training, research in health, social and medico-social sectors;
• conducts studies, carries out research and experimentation, organizes study days, seminars and universities in connection with the subject of the association.

 
IRIPS has a department supporting disabled people in their socio-profession insertion.
3 dimensions are covered:
 
a) Employability (A team composed by Workshop Monitors, Psychologists, Business Project Manager):

• Assessment, orientation and support for the professional project of beneficiaries.
• Assessment of basic knowledge.
• Assessment and transfer of know-how and social behaviours in order to acknowledge one’s potential, limits and work requirements.
• Elaborating with the beneficiary a socialization project, defining pathways to integration and necessary steps.
• Mobilizing a network to ease the project implementation.
• Advisory and information mission for accompanied people, teams and network of partners.

 
b) Social inclusion (a team composed by Assistant of Social Work, Special Education, Medical and Psychological Support, Moderator):

• Evaluation, analysis of social and legal situation and propositions of possible answers to social problems.
• Help to define social objectives as part of an individualized program and uses necessary mediation tools (social reporting...) in order to promote greater autonomy and social
• inclusion.
• Work on empowerment and (re) socialization by promoting access to cultural activities.
• Listening time
• Evaluation of activities of daily life and providing timely assistance
• Developing and / or maintaining on physical, psychological or social independence
• Preventing breakage and / or reactivation of social bond by struggling against isolation, learning retention and stimulation of potential.

 
c) Medical and paramedical

• Evaluation and monitoring of medical situation.
• Ensuring medical compatibility of the project.
• Rating handicap (motor, sensory, sensory, cognitive and / or behavioral) with an objective of social reintegration and / or professional.
• Identification of the legacy impact in daily life and work.
• Identification of residual abilities, disabilities and / or impairments proposal of methods, strategies and / or tools for compensation.
• Proposal of a retraining program and tools compensation.
• Accompanying the development of a customized reintegration project and adapted.

NAV Møre og Romsdal

www.nav.no/no/lokalt/more-og-romsdal

​NAV, or the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, employees around 19,000 people. Of these around 14,000 are employed by the central government, and around 5000 are employed by the local authorities. In addition to the local NAV offices there are more than one hundred special units.
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The special units perform centralised duties. NAV’s main goals are: -more people in education and work, fewer people on benefits -a well- functioning job market -to provide the right services and benefits at all time -to provide good services tailored to the users’ needs and circumstances - comprehensive and efficient labour and welfare administration. In every county/region, there is a head office. In the county of NAV Møre og Romsdal we have about 450 employees. We provide different services and every year we receive a letter of conduct. The letter of conduct describes our priority groups. These are people on long-term benefits, young adults who has not completed education and groups of immigrants. Within these areas, young adults below 30 have priority in the selection of schemes. We find people with autism (ASD) in these categories (especially young adults who has not completed education). We have two different angles into this project but with the same goal:
Better understanding people with ASD to reach our main goals: - more people in education and work, and fewer on benefits.
 
ARK (Arbeidsrådgivningskontoret) is a special unit in the organization NAV. A part of ARK’s job is to counsel people who have complex needs and complex health situations.
ARK has five services:
1. Extended counselling, assessment, enquiry, and alteration practice
2. Approaching, analyse and counselling of people’s resources and prerequisite
3. Career counselling for people with indecision problems
4. Assist NAV-counsellors in difficult and complex cases
5. System-oriented qualification to all NAV-offices in our county/region
 
The aim and focus are to see the whole individual, and to believe that everybody has a unique possibility to work. It is NAV’s job to help the individual to find this capacity. A large group of people on benefits are people with ASD. ARK and NAV use interview guides with focus on studying and work-life for people with ASD. The aim is to describe their challenges and strengths for better inclusion. This is an informative supply to career counselling for people with ASD.