e-Times

The project commenced on 1 January 2007 with the defined outcomes as:

• An International curricula, and original Training Programme for the new professional profile of the Intermediary Manager in Welfare Entities.

• Manual and course in Welfare Intermediary Management. Approximate duration 200 hours. The contents will be developed for blended learning:  a mixture of face-to-face and distance e-learning method. The course will be freed available with average software.

• Pilot course: for testing and improvement of materials with ten students from each participant countries.

• Specialised multilingual Web site to foster the meeting and exchange of experiences among technicians and intermediate managers in the welfare sector at national and international level.

• Network of Welfare Institutions all along Europe envisaged to become bigger and to be periodically updated and improved. It is devised to be the meeting place and resource centre for experts in different subject.

• The ICT applied to professional profiles which usually don’t use it in their daily tasks. All the partners have agreed in the improvement of resources and processes that the implementation of the ICT can bring to the sector.

Capacity Building for NGOs

Project based in the South East of England to support the not-for-profit sector in training to develop fundraising strategies.

European Network on Endometriosis

This project commenced in April 2007 with the following general objectives:

There are three general objectives that the EU has agreed to support:

(1) Develop a new European Endometriosis Support Alliance (EESA) which will coordinate and provide comprehensive support and training to the 4 sectors associated with the condition i.e. individuals, researchers/academics, doctors/nurses and employers. The Alliance will be formally launched at a conference towards the end of the project where key players in the field of endometriosis will be invited to learn about the work of the project.

(2) Create an Internet based Endometriosis Community Gateway (ECG) that will provide the focal point for all individuals and organizations requiring information and support and in particular the general public, the research community, health professionals and employers. The aim would be to provide appropriate information and signposting to enable each target group to find the information they require.

(3) To complete a comprehensive pan-European study of over 10,000 women with endometriosis in order to develop an understanding of the quality of life and socio-impacts of endometriosis on women the EU, employers and member states. The results aim to understand the needs of women in regards to their care, support and treatment in order to reduce isolation, increasing understanding of endometriosis in the medical profession and the corporate sector, hopefully helping to reduce diagnosis times and improve best practice and reducing the impact all round.

ITEM Project

This project aims to produce and disseminate an online IT English Multimedia course to be used by users who wish to learn English in order to increase their chances on the labour market and their efficiency in their professional life. Its other objective is to produce and test an online teacher training course for teacher trainees and practicing teachers to help them on one hand to acquire IT English and on the other hand to give them a tool to learn how to manage online virtual groups of language learners.

ECO Training

This project will help develop training into work strategies for people with disabilities in the UK, Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic.

Equal Opportunities and Discrimination Survey

Survey of 3,000 companies in the Yorkshire & the Humber region of the UK to ascertain employer attitudes to equal opportunities and discrimination in respect of disability, gender and race.

Communication Courseware for people with a learning disability, including Autism

This project comprised 2 EU funding projects to develop a programme of Communication training courseware for people with a learning disability, including Autism. 

Homeshare International

This project, managed by The Foundation for European Initiatives, is an inter-generational programme based on the principle of mutual benefit and home-sharing.

Learning to Solve

"Learning to Solve" is a European Leonardo de Vinci Project, created to 'develop and validate a friendly training environment for people with disabilities.

The support of small businesses in respect of their getting onto the Internet and the development of short business courses. 

This project (to be implemented only in the County of Surrey) will give small companies support to develop and implement learning strategies for their staff in the workplace. 

Sign-Net

This multi-national EU funded project - completed by June 2003 - developed a sign-language course, for the hearing, of any age. The course includes over 57 essential phrases.

Raising Horizons: A Bridge to the Outside World

This multi-national project - to be completed by November 2004 - is developing a series of on-line assessment tools and learning strategies to ensure mentally disabled have equal-access to job opportunities. Employers will be closely involved in this project.

EuTraNex Project

"EuTraNex" Project: “European Training Networks of Excellence”, promoted by CONFORM – Consorzio Formazione Manageriale - a Leonardo Da Vinci Community action Programme involving a number of countries including Italy, France, Spain and Germany. Committed to sharing training expertise across Europe ‘EuTraNex’ aims to create common vocational training models.

ICT, A Gateway to the Future for Disabled People

The project “ICT, A GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE” aim is to improve the quality and accessibility of disabled people to education, by finding, creating and putting into value the best methods used at European level in the field of using ICT for disabled people. Through the European partnership will be identified, developed and produced learning materials that will improve the methods of using  ICT  for disabled people and for the people taking care of them (parents, social assistants, nurses etc).

EU Public Health Programme