Social inclusion and employability for people with disability 2020-2023
Erasmus+ 2020: 2020-1-NL01-KA204-078905

Skillability is a an initiative addressing people with disabilities who have talents or skills. The project aims to support them as an additional source of financial income, contribute to the development of entrepreneurial attitudes, open the road to greater financial independence, reduce the reliance on the social systems, facilitate the return to formal or non-formal education and training systems, provide direct opportunities for digital training in developing new skills and partial qualifications, extend their contact and social networks, help reduce the impact of inaccessible physical environment and geography-based challenges.

DE FACTO 2018-2020
Erasmus+ 2018: 2018-1-BG01-KA202-048002

We believe that education and training contexts should be free from misinformation and disinformation. And that we should try and find ways to avoid being consciously or unconsciously manipulated. That's why we created DE FACTO. It is our way of putting science in service of educators to improve the quality of teaching and learning. We have identified four major scientific concepts, the four pillars around which we built our project. They are: Frames (Batheson, Lakoff), Systemic Causality (Lakoff), Motivated Cognition (Hughes, Zaki), Equivalency and Emphasis Frames Chong, Druckman). We created a framework showing the impact of mis- and disinformation on education. We reviewed the main types of disinformation and designed a number of case studies for training purposes. Our digital collection of tools is aimed at helping everyone who is interested in how disinformation is created as a way to fight it.

RED – Reinforce Europeans Digital, Literacy and Numeracy Skills 2017-2020
Erasmus+ 2017:2017-1-NL01-KA204-035204

The main goal of the RED project is to create a modern and innovative platform that offers an individual baseline test to detect low levels of literacy and mathematical skills, educational materials on these topics, materials that represent (digital and video) digital services of social and public (government) organizations and provides a kind of “road map” in which all local-level organizations appropriate to the target group are categorized can be found and contacted. The project targets adults with low literacy and mathematical skills, remote from society and / or the labor market, as well as organizations working in some way with this target group. 

CoCOS – Co-created Courses through Open Source initiatives 2017-2020
Erasmus+ 2017: 2017-1-BE02-KA203-034744

The main objective of the CoCOS project is improvement of the quality and effectiveness of learning through co-creation of educational materials. Co-creation has become a hot topic in education, especially because of its promising potential to leverage the input of students, fellow educators and experts in the professional field to provide up-to-date course material in a rapidly changing environment. Online co-creation environment is set up, specially tailored to allow structured, attainable co-creation by a large set of contributors. 

IN PLACE 2017-2020
Erasmus+ 2017: 2017-1-CZ01-KA202-035426

The project is focused at fostering cooperation between vocational schools and the labor market in order to enable students to gain practical work experience and to make business use the innovative thinking and entrepreneurial aspirations of the students. The benefits for both parties are to increase the effective use of information and communication technologies in marketing. The project aims at  creating channels for cooperation between teachers, students and SMEs.

ARTIFEX 2017-2020
Erasmus+ 2017: 2017-1-BE02-KA201-034714

The focus of ARTIFEX is STEM education in an innovative learning environment outside the classroom. The project aims to teach students to solve problems using interdisciplinary tools offered by public centers such as FabLabs and Makerspaces with free access to high-tech production equipment. The ultimate result of the ARTIFEX project is an interactive open e-learning platform for teachers, teacher trainers and STEM trainers. 

MAPLE – Measuring Achievement and Progress of Pupils in Europe 2015-2017
Erasmus+ 2015: 2015-1-UK01-KA201-013582

The MAPLE project adapts and expands at EU level a UK-based model for baseline testing of IT competences in schools for children aged 10-16. By establishing a baseline and monitoring the progress, we help teachers and school managers plan their work and measure the effectiveness of their teaching methods. MAPLE is a tool which allows testing of pupils at any competence level, regardless of how their knowledge and skills were acquired, and records the results in a massive database, allowing various comparisons while preserving individual and school results’ confidentiality.

iFlip – Flipping the classroom in adult education 2015-2018
Erasmus+ 2015: 15-204-012651

The iFlip Project intends to bring the flipped classroom method to the field of adult education. Starting with a detailed study of the training techniques and methods used by adult trainers, and the needs and preferences of adult learners, iFlip will proceed to develop a pilot course for trainers. The final objective of the project is to have 15 trainers participating in the pilot course, who will then share and collaborate with peers and colleagues from their organisations, develop flipped classrom compatible courses for thei respective subject matters, and apply this newly created content to no less that 100 learners.

Paraskills 2014-2017
Erasmus+ 2014: 2014-1-NL01-KA204-001215

The Paraskills project designs and tests a model for international skills competitions for people with disabilities, now known as SkillsPlus.

Diversity Management Extended 2014-2017
Erasmus+ 2014: 2014-1-BE02-KA202-000436

The Diversity Management Extended (DME) project is focused on researching the best practices in diversity management in organisations, and on the design and sharing of tools to help companies improve their diversity management policies and procedures.

THESS – Tourism and Hotel Management Educational Soft Skills 2013-2015
Transfer of Innovation 2013: 2013-1-SI1-LEO05-05348

THESS – Tourism and Hotel Management Educational Soft Skills – is a project to design and accredit European qualifications for the business of hotels and restaurants. The qualifications are set up by a team of vocational training experts, accredited in the UK and referenced to the European Qualifications Framework.

INVESTINGREEN Jobs and Skills 2013-2015
Transfer of Innovation 2013: 2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04000

INVESTINGREEN Jobs and Skills project consist of adapting an Italian model for institutional, community and financial support of green entrepreneuship and start-ups.

GEBOL – Getting European Business On-line 2011-2013
Transfer of Innovation 2011: CZ/11/LLP-LdV/TOI/134007

GEBOL – Getting European Business On-line – is a project which targets small and medium businesses and helps them establish their online presence, while providing at the same time real-world practice assignments for students in secondary education (general and vocational).

SAFE – Special needs Accreditation For Europe 2010-2012
Transfer of Innovation 2010: UK/10/LLP-LdV/TOI-309

SAFE – Special needs Accreditation For Europe – is a project centered around adapting an existing competences’ assessment and certification model for students and adults with special educational needs.

Trainframe – A competence-based learning and training (CBL/CBT) framework for practical use within training organisations 2009-2011
(awarded a Quality mark by the BG National Agency for LLP)
Leonardo da Vinci Partnerships 2009: 2009-1-BG1-LEO04-01592

The TrainFrame project is a small partnership project which creates a new competence-based learning and training (CBL/CBT) framework for practical use within training organisations, allowing to monitor the quality of their processes and procedure.

INGOTS – International Grades, Open Technologies 2009-2011
Transfer of Innovation: UK/09/LLP-LdV/TOI-250

This project expands dramatically the geographic coverage of available and formally recognised vocational certification for ICT skills for end users. We work on expanding, translating and adapting criteria for skill and comepetence assessment. A number of national INGOT centres are established under the methodological guidance of the UK's TLM certification provider. Competence assessment is done in a specially designed online platform, with the system randomly selecting student work for checks and verification by moderators, which guaranteed consistency of assessment and overall quality management. The project offers solid teacher training in project-based assessment, and the system has an in-built assessor support system.

Accreditation of Prior Learning
2008-SV-01-BG-LLP-07103

This short staff mobility project was financed by CEDEFOP. In a convenient workshop-style format with intensive study visits in a number of companies and training centres in the Netherlands, EU vocational schools’ directors and top-level administrators discussed different innovative models for accreditation of prior learning (APL). APL is an integral function of all vocational training providers aiming to provide flexibility and recognition for already existing skills and competences.

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E-Train: E-learning in vocatonal training 2008-2010
Grundtvig Learning Partnerships 2008: 2008-1-DE2-GRU06-00041 2

CERTISKILLS 2003-2006

Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Projects 2003: I/03/B/F/PP-154191