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2017-1-DE02-KA204-004284

MAV – ‘Multidimensional Training of Adult Volunteers to Foster Migrants’ Integration’ is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership project with a running time of November 2017-October 2019.

The project is focused on volunteers who serve as “companions” or “mentors” for migrants (including refugees, third country national and non-native in general) in order to better guide them into the European labor market, help them to identify and improve their skills and competences, continue to build upon the training which they might have had in their countries of origin.

We will create a form of learning tool kit for adult volunteers (especially adult migrants in volunteering) to better self-train and qualify volunteers to manage for “their migrants” the transition process between “arriving as migrants” up to integrating into the local labor market of the receiving country, in this way contributing to the enhancement of more inclusive societies.

Target group identified;

• Migrant volunteers in the project countries, such as non-native, adult individuals with needs of improving their skills and competences in order to work and better integrate themselves in the project countries, also open to become in time active multipliers of the project results by mentoring other migrants in their local circles of relations.
• Migrants, refugees and third country nationals – in particular women and women with children, having needs to better integrate themselves in the project countries as receiving countries. Improving their working productivity and their understanding of the traditions and culture of the receiving community, and providing them motivational guidance, will get them more opportunities not only to work but also to accept and be accepted, as for their relations with the local community.
• Stakeholders in the local communities of the receiving societies, such as native inhabitants, authorities and policy makers, with needs of better understanding the migrants’ cultures in order to facilitate their integration, to the scope of achieving benefits for all the players involved – the migrants themselves that will become integrated workers, the local interests of employers, and the receiving society in general, becoming in this way more and more cohesive.

Specific Objectives:

• To create awareness among the local communities in Germany, Turkey, Italy, Romania, Greece, United Kingdom and Cyprus of the beneficial effects of migrants’ integration.
• To create, share and reuse a set of adults learning open resources (OER) to support migrants’ integration.

Intellectual Outputs:

1. Guide for trainers to motivate adult migrant volunteers supporting migration
2. MAV Adult Learning Toolkit
3. MAV Adult Learning Course “Volunteers in Migrants’ Integration”
4. MAV Communications Toolkit

2016-1-UK01-KA202-024286

MIGRAPRENEURS – “Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Mindset Development for Highly Skilled Migrants in Europe”  is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Project with a running time of September 2016 – August 2019.

Human Capital is a key determinant of the innovative performance of regions and countries. Research has found that human capital coming from the migration behaviour of skilled individuals is a significant determinant of innovation in host countries. (SERC, 2011).  Skill mismatch, however, can contribute to unemployment and may reduce productivity and competitiveness. It appears in various forms such as skill shortages or skill gaps, but also applies to situations where the qualifications, knowledge, and skills of an individual exceed the requirements of their job. Migrant workers in Europe are more likely to experience over-qualification – where their level of education is higher than the job they are doing.

The purpose of this project is designed for utilizing the skills that highly skilled migrants bring into partner countries by fostering an entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial mindset for migrants.

Target Groups

• Highly skilled migrants (HSM) (educated to university level)
• Entrepreneur migrants around Europe (mainly in countries who have been more affected by the refugee crisis)
• Migrants who might never have thought about starting up businesses or are in the early stages of thinking about starting up.

General Objectives

The overall objective of this project will be to better utilize the skills that highly skilled migrants bring into partner countries by fostering an entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial mindset for migrants.

Specific Objectives

• The difficulty of immigrants successfully integrating into society is becoming an ever-more pressing issue and needs to be addressed. This project will help to combat this problem by increasing migrant employment in skills-matched areas as well as increasing entrepreneurship amongst this group and helping migrants to create strong social networks.
• The project will also connect participants with both business professionals and fellow immigrants via a networking platform which will contribute to a more cohesive society and lead to more active participation in the community

Intellectual Outputs

• Research Reports on training needs of highly skilled migrants to develop entrepreneurial mindset: It consists of desk research looking into training needs of HSM, Interviews and National and European Comparative Report.
• A Training Programme: Development of the ‘Entrepreneurial Journey for Highly Skilled Migrants’ training programme including development of Learner Materials, design and printing of Learner Pack, Piloting Training Programme (2 pilots in total), National Reports (following each pilot), Overall Comparative Report (following 2nd pilot – bringing in results from Pilot 1 and Pilot 2)

• Training the Trainers materials: Development of Training the Trainers Guide to accompany ‘Entrepreneurial Journey for Highly Skilled Migrants’ training programme consist of development of Trainers’ Guidelines for delivery of the ‘Entreprenurial Journey for Highly Skilled Migrants’ training programme, training the trainers workshop (1 day workshop)
• Guide “Transferring your Skills into Self-Employment for HSM will provide information aimed at highly skilled migrants as to how they can transfer skills into self-employment. The Guide will contain specific chapters with information based on each partner country.
• Policy Guide for policymakers into how to develop entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindsets when working with highly skilled migrants, based on project partners’ expertise and experience from the Migrapreneurs project. The guide will be an online pdf document available on the Learning Hub and website.
• E-Learning Hub: An online Migrapreneurs Learning Hub (Moodle-based platform) to contain all the learner materials from the Entrepreneurial Journey training programme for highly skilled migrants as well as information for trainers (Facilitators’ Guide) and other interactive learning resources relevant to Migrapreneurs. A set of video case studies will be available as part of the Hub showcasing individual journeys from the target group members.

2015-1-TR01-KA202-022685

INNOGROW is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Project with a running time of September 2015 – August 2017. MAKRO is the leader of consortium.

The purpose of INNOGROW is designed for increasing employability levels of and new business creation by young unemployed individuals (including NEETs) and higher education students as well as developing initiative taking of key SME staff by the use of an innovative ‘learning path’ method which includes; self-assessment tool, self-learning materials on innovative entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship (such as; creative thinking, problem solving, risk taking, team work, innovation management and etc.) and also business idea development tool in one integrated and mobile assisted eLearning software, all to be supported/strengthened by tutors and classroom trainings. The general aim is then to bring a new and learner-centred pedagogical approach to entrepreneurship training by use of the most appropriate transnational expertise in this field.

Target Groups of the Project:

• Young unemployed individuals (including NEETs) who wish to increase their employability levels and establish new innovative businesses
• Higher education students who wish to increase their employability levels and establish new innovative businesses
• SMEs’ key staff who have influence in decision making processes

General Objectives of the Project:

Bring a new and learner-centred pedagogical approach to entrepreneurship training by use of the most appropriate transnational expertise in this field.

Specific Objectives of the Project:

• Equip young individuals with updated and innovative entrepreneurship skills in order to increase their employability and new business creation
• Equip SMEs’ key staff with updated and innovative entrepreneurship skills in order to develop their initiative and contribution to business development processes

Intellectual Outputs of the Project:

• Competence Profile of an Innovative Entrepreneur: A set of qualifications, their definitions and contexts, which an innovative entrepreneur/intrapreneur should possess in order to compete in EU labour market and today’s economic conditions.
• Self-Assessment Tool for Innovative Entrepreneurship: An on-line user-friendly tool for assessing the capacity of learner on Innovative Entrepreneurship based on a benchmarking process, in all the contemporary entrepreneurship skills predefined under the first output, such as: creative thinking, problem solving, risk taking, time management, team building and etc.
• Innovative Entrepreneurship eLearning Modules: Training modules which will develop the skills and qualifications designated in first and second outputs.
• Business Idea Development Tool: An online and interactive software of “Business Model Canvas” which will be used mainly for helping the learners to discover the validity and feasibility of their new business plans and/or areas for improvement in their current organisations (depending on the target group they belong).
• Web-based Mobile Software for Self-Assessment, Training and Business Idea Development: Multi-functional web software (mobile supported – Web App) which includes three main add-ons (pieces of software which enhances software and cannot be run independently): Self-Assessment Tool, eLearning Modules and Business Idea Development Tool. The web-based mobile software (web app) is designed as suitable for flexible use whenever and wherever on either computers or mobile devices with an internet connection.

2015-1-TR01-KA202-022526        

ECOLIVE is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Project with a running time of September 2015 – August 2018.

Olive oil is the central component of the Mediterranean diet and the countries around the Mediterranean sea have the largest production of olive oil in the world. Οlive oil represents a big part of the exporting activity of these countries in the agricultural sector. However, there is a growing trend in the international market towards the organic products and there is a growing need that the production from the part of the Mediterranean producers is able to match this need.

Organic olive oil is a high quality product with high value compared to other types of olive oil and it is certified by the competent quality bodies in each Member State. In order to be able to produce and sell successfully organic olive oil, there is a need to support the training of production entities of organic olive oil, members of agricultural cooperatives and managers of companies working on the conversion of conventional oil production forms into production of olive oil through organic farming.  This will be achieved through the training of members of Agricultural cooperative and executives of production companies, and they in turn will train farmers in the following fields:

• Preparation and management of the olive grove’s soil and the maintenance and improvement of soil fertility.
• Organic fertilization of the olive grove.
• Plant protection of the olive grove. Measures of protection against pests and diseases.
• Harvest and transport techniques.
• The production of olive oil with natural methods at a suitable temperature without the use of chemical solvents.
• The packaging, maintenance and transportation of organic olive oil.
• The labeling of organic olive oil.
• Exporting Organic Olive Oil

The training will be realized through the use of e-learning and m-learning and addressed to members and managers of agricultural cooperatives and companies in order to enable them to guide farmers in the production and certification of organic olive oil.

The accomplishment of the project’s objectives will contribute to the improvement of the olive oil production in the participating countries and the enhancement of farmers’ income as the selling price of organic olive oil is much higher than the price of conventional olive oil. This will also lead to the local and regional development of the oil producing regions.

Target Groups of the Project:

The main target group and the final beneficiaries of the project are the producers of olive oil in the oil producing regions of the partner countries. These producers are the most important target group of the project because it represents the final beneficiaries, the people who are going ultimately to benefit from the results of the project. Another target group are the members of Agricultural cooperative and executives of production companies, who are going to be trained to become teachers of the olive oil producers through the use of the project material and resources.

Intellectual Outputs:

1. Transnational Training Needs Analysis: The Transnational Training Needs Analysis is a document that will analyse in a comparative way the results of the desk and field research realised in the partner countries related with the identification of the training needs of the olive producers regarding the procedure for the certification of organic olive oil
2. Blended Learning Material for the training of olive oil producers to the procedures of production and certification of organic oil: The training material will have as a main goal to train the farmers and everyone that is involved in the process of production of olive oil (members of Agricultural cooperatives and executives of production companies) in all the different phases of the production of organic oil from harvesting until preparation for exports.
3. E-Learning and M-Learning Platform: The e-learning platform and m-learning platform of the project will be the technical infrastructure which will be the basis for the organisation of the e-learning courses.
4. Teacher training sessions: The teacher training sessions are going to be organised in 2 different phases. The first phase is going to be organised face to face in the framework of a transnational project meeting for 2 master trainers and the 2nd one is going to be organised through e-learning for the rest of the 12 trainers with the support of these 2 master trainers.
5. Blended Learning Courses: The blended learning courses are going to be offered to the farmers and the producers of organic olive oil in the partner countries.

LLP-LdV/TOI/2013/RO/012

E-EMPORIO is a LdV-Tol Project with a running time of
October 2013-2015.

E-EMPORIO is a Leonardo da Vinci (LdV), Transfer of Innovation (ToI) project which is based on a former successfully implemented and completed project called text-e – “Training of Export Trainers via e Learning – an Innovative Approach”. E-EMPORIO is further developing the products of this project. It aims to contribute to the development of the export skills of staff working in SMEs, by providing them with complete, qualitative, results-oriented and practice-oriented e-learning contents, accessible through internet from any place, at any time.
The main target group consists of:

• SMEs’ staff (particularly persons working in marketing and sales departments, but also from other departments);

• Unemployed willing to set up an SME or improve their professional skills in order to find a job.

The general objectives of the project are:

• To contribute to an increase in SMEs competitiveness at international level by using innovative technologies;

• To increase foreign trade capacities of SMEs’ staff;

• To minimize training gaps in exports identified in partner countries;

• To generate dialogue among the trainers from partner countries and promote the accreditation of skills acquired through non-formal and informal learning.The specific objectives of the project include:

• To develop practice-oriented and competence based e-learning contents, especially developed in order to increase the skills of SMEs’ staff in exports, taking into consideration the specificities of each partner country;

• To transfer these e-learning courses also to mobile devices applications;

• To provide certification for the skills and competencies that are going to be obtained through the e-learning platform;

• To transfer best practices and expertise between partners;

• To consider the needs of specific target groups such as older workers (or unemployed) wishing to improve their skills.

The major outcomes of the project are: desk and field research on the training needs of SMEs; e-learning platform; innovative E-Learning Modules; e-learning courses; training of trainers etc.
The project’s products are going to increase the skills of the staff of the SMEs or of the unemployed wanting to establish an SME in exporting activities. This will create more confidence for this staff to direct themselves towards the foreign markets and could contribute to the increase of the exporting activities.

2013-1-BG1-LEO05-08722

EuropeAid/130420/D/SER/TR