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NewsflashDecember 2011

The project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF.

Based on “ET-Inventory” a trial learning platform - “ET-LearnTrain” (Transnational Tool) – was developed and implemented which offers online and on-site training for regional workforces in the ET-struct regions. This trial learning platform has two parts:

• a transnational core of online-learning/training modules for all the ET-struct regions in the project language English, that focuses on entrepreneurship in European booming sectors and

• regional blended-learning/training modules (online and on-site) in the national language of the regional project partner. These regional

learning/training modules are based on the regional demands for new-skills-for-new-jobs.

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ET-struct will run until the end of 2012. As a first step the transnational project partner network carried out surveys in the 10 partner regions. These surveys were the basis for developing an ET-INVENTORY that defines what skills citizens will need to lead a successful vocational life and be skilled for new jobs as well as being informed about the economic situations in their regions.


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In a next step a test and evaluation phase of both parts will start.

The Management Handbook “ET-Academy” documents the development, the pedagogy, the methodology, the piloting and the proposed sustainability of the learning platform “ET-LearnTrain”.

As such, “ET-Academy” fulfills a two-fold purpose:

• It provides the current ET-struct project partners with all the information needed to develop and sustain “ET-LearnTrain” • It offers other regional stakeholders who are not involved in the ET-struct project the opportunity to develop a similar learning platform

to meet the needs of their own regional economic situations and the needs of their regional workforces (“added value”).



News from the project partner regions

Vienna, AustriaIn the last months the Viennese Project Team – The European Office of the Vienna Board of Education & The Vienna Business Agency – have worked intensively on the development of two training modules: a transnational and a regional module.

The Viennese transnational module focuses on “Entrepreneurship in the EU”. It provides an overview on business start ups and relevant legislations in the European Union. Moreover, it contains guidelines how to start up a business in another culture.

The Viennese regional training module addresses a very crucial topic: “Cultural Sensitive Communication in the Social and Health Sector”. It is of high importance, because one fifth of Austria’s population has a migrational background. The blended learning module aims at sensitizing students and trainees in the health sector so that they will be able to offer a better service and to improve their social and communicative competences.

Veneto - ItaliaSkills and entrepreneurship for young people’s employment The job placement of young people in a labour market that is experiencing the worst crisis in recent times was the core theme of a debate at the European Conference in the Veneto Region on 29 June in Venice organised by the ET-struct project.

The conference attended by representatives of public institutions, the education-al system and spokespeople from the business sector, promoted an open dia-logue and a discussion about a topic that is equally important at all levels.

The event also provided an important opportunity to illustrate the first concrete results, which have been produced by the transnational cooperation action, to a selected and qualified audience. During the conference, the ET-struct project team of Veneto (the Veneto Region and Enaip Veneto) presented their own trans-national e-learning module on the theme of “Renewable Sources of Energy” par-ticularly aimed at young people. The specific training module, developed by the Veneto partners, fits into the wider e-learning course titled “Entrepreneurship in Booming Sectors in Central Europe”.

At present, the partners of the Veneto Region are strongly involved in the comple-tion of an other training module, which includes blended learning methodology (partly on-line and partly in presence). The module is called the “Valorisation of agro-food local products in Veneto” and is aimed at a regional audience. The module is in Italian and will be soon available on the ET-LearnTrain platform.

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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, GermanyeLearning for vocational orientation at schoolsWithin the developing of the transnational eLearning platform Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was responsible for the sub-module “Tourism” as one of the booming sectors in CENTRAL EUROPE.

Furthermore every partner region had the opportunity to create an own regional blended-learning/training module in the national language. These regional learning/training modules are based on the regional demands for new-skills-for-new-jobs.Due to the current demographic development in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that has serious effects on the vocational training and employment market the regional eLearning platform will be part of the vocational and studies orientation. By means of online and onsite chapters the pupils will gain necessary competencies, get information, ideas, thought-provoking impulses and motivation for their own investigation. They will actively deal with the possibilities of vocational training or studies, given in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Next to software engineers the pupils were instrumental in developing the eLearning platform – “from pupils for pupils”. In a next step pupils and teachers will be involved in test and evaluation in the region of Neubrandenburg to optimize this platform so that it can be adapted for pupils in other regions of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, too.

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Olomouc Region, Czech RepublicET-struct presented at a Secondary Schools Fair Participants received information about the ET-struct project during a Second-ary Schools Fair on 3.11.2011 in Assembly Hall of the Hranice Castle. The Fair was organised by the City of Hranice in co-operation with Hranice Development Agency and the Employment Office of the Czech Republic (Olomouc Regional Branch Office). The project ET-struct supports the effective incorporation of secondary school graduates into the employment market. The Transnational educational module „Entrepreneurship in Booming Sectors in Central Europe“, which is one of the ET-struct project activities, was presented at the Fair. This module is being piloted at

Secondary Techni-cal School of Hran-ice. The module is English and it is aimed at the topics and skills that are needed and necessary to start a business. It is only a first step but it can help the users to understand how they can start and carry on a business.The module has two parts. The first part deals with the life cycle of a company. The second part is focused on professions and typical work environment in the entrepreneurial sector. It also deals with trainings, and seminars, etc. Altogether 11 sub-modules were created by the partnership. One of them was written by the City of Hranice, and is called „My business idea“. This module will be acces-sible for all interested persons on the city’s website in 2012.

Advisory Board of Secondary Technical School Head-teacher The traditional advisory board of Secondary Technical School Head-teacher took place on 7.11.2011 in Hranice. This meeting concentrated on engineering, which is part of the curriculum. Representatives of the Secondary Technical School of Hranice, the Employment Office, the City of Hranice, and important companies in Hranice attended the advisory board. The topics discussed at the meeting were an experience inter-change in the engineering sector, further co-operation between the involved partners, as well as training for the graduates of the Secondary Technical School for instance, SSi Schafer offers student scholarships. The final topic of the meeting was ET-struct and the e-learning modules (ET-LearnTrain) were presented.

Competition for Students of 9th Grade Classes at Primary School A competition in manual and computer skills for students of 9th grade classes of primary schools is traditional event of Secondary Technical School in Hranice. The partner project coordinator Ms Šárka Bláhová presented ET-struct at the event, in particular the ET-LearnTrain learning platform and its piloting at the Secondary Technical School.

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Visit to the Employment Office in Přerov A two-hour visit to the Employment Office in Přerov took place on 22.11.2011. This visit was a follow-up to a similar highly successful visit that took place last year. 16 students from the Secondary Technical School in Hranice (3rd year Locksmith apprenticeship) and Ms Šárka Bláhová attended the visit. Mrs. Králiková, Employment Office Information Centre, informed the visitors about the present state of the regional employ-ment market, as well as possibilities to study abroad. The students also received information about ET-struct, in particular the ET-LearnTrain transnational online learning modules, which focus on new business opportunities for young people.

Open Day at the Secondary Technical School in Hranice The traditional Open Day Event at the school took place on 25.11.2011. Teachers and students answered a wide range of questions that were asked by 9th grade primary school students wanting to attend the school and their parents. Also at this event, ET-struct was presented.

Lower Silesian – Wałbrzych, PolandRegional workshops took place in the Lower Silesian Vocational Information and Teacher Training Centre in Wałbrzych on 6th of December 2011. The aim was to present the first draft of Joint Policy Guidelines Actions Plan. The workshops were addressed to business and education representatives. During this meeting Project Partner 9 presented ideas on project sustainability.

Lately Project Partner 9 has been working over the process of evaluation of the transnational modules created by the Project Partners. The Lower Silesian Voca-tional Information and Teacher Training Centre will carry out a research amongst young people in the region and test the eLearning platform. The results will help the partners to reassess the effect of their work during the project lifetime. Project Partner 9, as well as all the partners, prepared a regional module. The module focuses on social skills. The results of regional surveys carried out in Lower Silesia (Poland) shows, that social environments are becoming much more diverse and complex, they require interpersonal contacts. The main goal of this training is to help to improve social skills such as communication, assertiveness, conflict management which will be needed to deal with complex social situa-tions in the labor market.

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Kranj, SloveniaHealth and Care: eLearning-Module

This module was compiled by the Business Support Centre, Kranj, Slovenia. The purpose of the module is to give a fast overview of the differ-ing occupations in heath and care. These occupations are challenging since health and care is delivered by many different practitioners. Most people have heard of registered nurses, doctors, or dentists. But what about emergency medical technicians, health information technicians, health science librarians, medical social workers or recreational therapist and hundreds of other professions?

The introduction to the module gives answers to the following questions:

• Why should you be interested in occupations in health and care? • What are some common characteristics of jobs in health and care? • How can you protect and safeguard your job in health and care?• What are the educational and legal requirements needed to work in health and care? • Which groups of occupations will you find in health and care? • What are the characteristics of selected occupations in health and care?

The core of the module describes several professions. Two typical occupations are presented namely: doctors and nurses. The course leads participants through professions in accident and emergency services. A further four professions are included within dentistry. The usage of information and communication technology in heath and care requires skilled professional such as database administrators. Psychologists are presented as an example of a profession within the mental health services. The physiotherapist and recreational therapist are two professions related to therapy. Science and engineering offers myriads of occupations and one of them is presented in this module. The occupations that are presented in the module are only a small part of possibilities of how to create and build a professional career in the health and care sector.

Novo mesto, Kočevje – South-East SloveniaThe Development and Education Centre Novo mesto, and the Institute for Adult Education Kočevje (Project Partners 11 and 12) have made great efforts to devel-op eLearning modules in an interactive and practical way with videos, graphics, and animations. This approach will motivate and challenge the users’ entrepre-neurial spirit and innovative thinking.

At the end of November 2011, the ET-struct partners hosted a Regional Workshop with the participation of some of the most important stakeholders in the field of continuing education. All the participants welcomed the project’s ambitions to include entrepreneurship skills in schools. Especially the videos, animations and the collaborative work with young entrepreneurs were judged to be very positive. The participants also welcomed the proposal by PP11 and PP12 to offer new courses in the field of “Intercultural communication” and “Social entrepre-neurship”.



Lead Partner Vienna Board of Education - Presidential Department - European Office Stuart Simpson (Project Coordinator) Auerspergstr. 15/32 A - 1080 Wien Tel.: (+43 1) 52525 77084 Fax: (+43 1) 4034427 eMail: [email protected] Concept, text and content: Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin – ET-struct Partner 3 and regional project partners Design and layout: Frank Ackermann

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