Are you interested in organising high quality Erasmus+ KA1 training for adult education staff?

The team of GINCO Tools & Training organises a

 

Second Pilot Course and a Conference

on competence development for international course or¬ganisers and trainers on 9th  – 12th of September 2014 in Alden Biesen + Leuven (BE).

The course will be led by the question: Which competences are needed to organise high quality European trainings for adult education staff?

During the course you will

• receive answers on your burning questions regarding the new European education programme Erasmus+ and it affects the organisation of European IST courses and
• go through the process of organising European in-service-training (IST) courses and develop vital competences to reach a high level of quality.

Thematic focus will be on validation of learning outcomes, evaluation and quality, PR, marketing and outreach as well as management and organisation.


Since the GINCO T&T team assesses competence-based teaching and learning as a key element, it will reduce theoretical inputs and presentations by trainers to a minimum. Instead you will be learning in an applied competence-based methodology and setting.


As a part of course the GINCO T&T conference, where the audience will be enriched by additional stakeholders, will take place in Leuven.

Course venue: 9 – 11 Sept.: Landcommanderij ALDEN BIESEN, Kasteel¬straat 6, B 3740 Bilzen, Belgium, Web page: www.Alden-Biesen.be

Conference venue: 11 – 12 Sept.: Park Inn hotel, Leuven (Louvain) , Belgium.
(http://www.parkinn.com/hotel-leuven). The hotel is situated next to the railway station with a direct connection to Brussels international airport (15 minutes).

The GINCO T&T team is looking forward to your application (download form:
www.ginconet.eu/pilot2candidate.doc) which will be received by the coordinator guy.tilkin@alden-biesen.be.

Innovative learning & sharing of experiences - Presentation of PACE Platform at the FoE Conference, Florence

How to implement and set up a learning platform for knowledge exchange in European project management? The main challenge is to collect useful and interesting resources and to make them accessible on a collaborative plattform.

Maren Satke, bridges to europe project manager at die Berater® used the opportunity to promote the project PACE (Project Actors community in Europe) at the international conference “The Future of Education”. The 4th International conference “The Future of Education“ which took place in Florence (June 12-13) aimed at sharing good practices in the field of innovation for Education.

 

Maren Satke during her presentation on PACE

Using social media and learning management systems (LMS) for the exchange of knowledge, for learning and communicating in an educational context were the topics of a wide range of presentations dealing with innovative teaching and learning methodologies. PACE creates a Project Actors Community in Europe and demonstrates how learning can happen in the setting of the management of EU-funded projects. A common learning and communication platform on EU Project management tools is established in the project. The platform will serve not only as a library for supporting project management tools but also as a market place to discuss and exchange experiences on EU project management practices. The main aim of the project is to unite the practice of different projects in order to provide the best tools & resources for future projects.

JOIN THE PACE PLATFORM NOW!

Apart from the virtual exchange, PACE will offer additional opportunities for networking and exchanging best practices in EU-project management: Save the date for the 1^st PACE BarCamp, November 14-15 2014 , Florence, Italy!

 

Girls in ICT Day 2014!

The International Girls in ICT Day is an opportunity for girls and young women to get inspired about ICT sector by getting a first-hand look into the ICT institutions and listening to women role models.

Within the EU Project ICT Go Girls we are now organising a big event for the international Girls in ICT Day on April 24th in Spain!

It is an honor for us to have these wonderful speakers in this event

• Alba Souto, co-funder of BAMPIFU (http://bampifu.com/) and Pica y Wafu (http://pikaywafu.com/)
• Ángeles Pariente, founder of A2, Laboratory of Ideas  (http://www.a2laboratoriodeideas.com/)
• Cristina Gamallo, Founder Member of SITUM (http://www.situm.es/)
• Susana Ladra, V Associate Dean of Academic Organization, Computer Science Faculty, UDC (http://www.fic.udc.es) and researcher. Ada Byron Award, CPEIG 2013.

We will keep you informed about the organization of the event, you can follow us on:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICTGoGirls
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICTGoGirls
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYnwE2ZurwETyjAShB6_XNmWYnHQycAf

And we still encourage you to send us your video message for the international Girls in ICT Day on April 24th!

Check our idea: Video Message Request.

  

How to predict learning outcome? CRITON event held in Vienna, Austria

On Wednesday, March 19th 2014, die Berater® held a dissemination seminar called EU Cafe for the CRITON project as well as for two other European projects. With the EU Cafe, die Berater® aims to provide an informal insight into its current EU projects.

The project CRITON is a transnational cooperation project to enhance the learning process in distance education systems and e-learning, using assessment methods for predicting the progress of students and to improve evaluation methods leading to better learning outcomes and more personalized learning.

CRITON aims to provide innovative solutions to meet the learning needs of the three main target group:
1. Learners of all levels involved in e-learning or distance learning
2. Tutors and teachers in adult education using e-learning or distance learning
3. Institutions of adult education offering courses with e-learning or distance learning
offering a modern web based environment (a smart platform) to be applied in all educational levels that use e-learning.

Holger Bienzle during his welcoming speech

The opening speech was held by Holger Bienzle, head of bridges to europe at die Berater. Afterwards project coordinator Mr Erol Koc introduced the 28 participants to the CRITON project and invited them to take an active part in the upcoming piloting phase. The main aim of the event was to introduce the participants to the CRITON platform for assessing the possible success or failure of learners in their engagement in eLearning settings.

Discussion round with participants

The participants, mainly consisting of trainers in adult education, engaged in an open discussion about the use of predicting learning outcomes. Their main point of interest was the importance of monitoring and analyzing learnering progress as well as how teachers can even better prevent an underachievement of learning outcomes.

A big PLUS for education: The new EU funding programme Erasmus+ has started!

• Plus 40 % of funding for education, youth and sport!
• Plus simplified implementation rules!!
• Plus many more funding opprtunities for innovative projects!

The new EU funding programme Erasmus+ officially started with the New Year and published the first Call for Proposals with deadlines on 17 March 2014 (mobility projects) und 30 April 2014 (cooperation projects).

In total 14.7 billion Euro will be availaible in the coming seven years for exchanges of staff and learners, in-service-training courses abroad, development and piloting of innovative educational products, „knowledge alliances“ of education providers and enterprises, filling sectoral skills gaps and other aspects of lifelong learning.

bridges to europe, the international plattform for project management, can help you to use these new funding opportunities in the best possible way: by strategically focusing your project, finding suitable and reliable cooperation partners or writing the entire project proposal for you.

More info on Erasmus+ go to http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_de.htm

You want to know more about bridges to europe? Visit our website www.bridgestoeurope.com