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Prometheus Project

4 days ago

At the end of 2016, in the city of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany professionals from 10 organizations - among them the Bulgarian and Italian Prometheus partners - representing Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Spain gathered to launch the WBL - PRO Qualification, Open Resources & Toolkit for the WBL Professional

At the end of 2018, the WBL-PRO team successfully finalized the implementation of the project. The main achievements which you can take advantage of include the following intellectual outputs:

WBL PATHWAYS RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: A report with a thorough research and analysis of the state of art of work-based learning in the involved partner countries including the available formal, non formal and informal pathways, the delivery methods, possible certification programs, the available services, links to the official policy and public documents regulating the different forms of work-based learning (apprenticeships, traineeships, internships, work placements, etc.), the legal framework of the WBL as well as the professionals concerned (at both education and labour market sides). The main challenges that the professionals involved (from education as well as from the entrepreneurs) encounter, the main educational needs and the support and/or the supervision needed has also been identified. The report also includes the main conclusions and recommendations.

WBL PROFESSIONAL JOB PROFILE: The new job profile for the WBL Professional has been defined in a transparency approach, detailing the specific knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy and competences necessary to promote, guide, assist, facilitate and assess effective WBL experiences. The new generation of WBL Professionals will be able to design, develop, and deliver and assess quality work based learning arrangements, recognising and overcoming some of the most common problems associated with practical implementation of WBL in Europe.

WBL PROFESSIONALS QUALIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION MANUALS: the Qualification Manual indicates procedures that should be embedded in the training activities of WBL Professionals in a quality assurance view, and it is addressed to training organisations and the Certification Manual is addressed to certification bodies, as well as at stakeholders interested in training and retraining of experts in work-based learning according to the ISO 17024.

WBL-PRO TOOLKIT: the WBL-PRO Toolkit is a virtual library of more than 160 best-practice examples and tools for work-based learning in Europe.

WBL PROFESSIONALS PEER NETWORK: a virtual place on Facebook and LinkedIn where professionals of work-based learning (both from educational and business sector) are able to exchange ideas, best practices, and methodologies, and promote themselves and the services they offer with view to work-based learning opportunities. You can review 60 interviews with WBL Professionals collected by the project partners in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latvia and Bulgaria as well as from other European countries beyond.

TOP 12 EMPOWER TALK MOVIES PANEL: 12 young adults from Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latvia and Bulgaria are talking about their national or international experiences with WBL approaches in Europe. All 12 videos are available in national language with English subtitles or in English.

You can take advantage of all the WBL-PRO intellectual outputs via the website wbl-professional.eu/ in seven languages: English, German, Bulgarian, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese and Spanish. ... See MoreSee Less

WBL-PRO – WBL-PRO Qualification, Open Resources & Toolkit for the WBL Professional

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Work Based Learning – Professional The aim of the project was to define a new job profile for the WBL Professional, detailing the specific knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy necessary to...

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Prometheus Project

2 weeks ago

"Adult education provides competences, information, debating spaces and creativity to develop new approaches necessary for sustainable development. A paradigm shift is only possible through critical, conscious and innovative citizens."

This is part of the new and updated EAEA manifesto 2019 of the European Association for the Education of Adults - EAEA whose member Business Foundation for Education is. To learn more about the Association's active work you may visit the website eaea.org/ and the www.facebook.com/EAEA2020/ ... See MoreSee Less

European Association for the Education of Adults - EAEA

We are happy to present you the new and updated EAEA manifesto 2019! The manifesto outlines nine challenges where adult education can play a key role, it’s transformative possibilities and the pow...

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Prometheus Project

2 weeks ago

Business Foundation for Education is broadening the scope of the projects it gets involved in and is working with more and more diverse target groups for their personal and professional realization. One of the newly started projects is Transversal model for Migrants which aims to empower teachers, trainers and counsellors to facilitate and empower migrants with skills in order to promote higher job position or economic and social integration within Europe.

Recently the partners from ITG (France), IASIS (Greece), CSI (Cyprus), Mindshift (Portugal), BFE (Bulgaria), SSF (Spain) and BAU (Turkey) have launched the project's website www.transversalmodel.eu/ You can follow it together with the projects facebook group www.facebook.com/TransversalModelForMigrants/ to have up-to-date information about the project's progress and other useful resources in the field. ... See MoreSee Less

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Prometheus Project

3 weeks ago

The final event of the project COCADE: Developing career counselling services in integrated spaces, 2017-1-FR01-KA202-037403 took place on the 24th and 25th, Janury, 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. The project has been successfully implemented by a professional team lead by Réseau International des Cités des métiers and including organizations from France, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy and Portugal . Bulgaria has been represented by Business Foundation for Education.

More than 60 participants took part in the final meeting during which the results of the project have been presented and the career counselling services in the nowadays’ society have been discussed.

The event included a very active and interesting Panel group about the Changes in the profession of career counsellor in which one of the panelists has been the Chairperson of Business Foundation for Education Gergana Andreeva. The Panel group has been moderated by Ludovic Collin, International Coordinator of the Cités des métiers International Network. The other panelists have been Carolina Ferreira, Director of Cidade das Profissхes do Porto, Inger-Lise Peterson, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen, Prof. Dr. Peter Weber, Professor at the University of Applied Labour Studies and John McCarthy, director of International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy. ... See MoreSee Less

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Prometheus Project

4 weeks ago

Business Foundation for Education's Chairperson Gergana Rakovska presented the FUTURE initiative to the Bulgarian Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev and to the participants in a debate about the future of education and the role of career guidance for preparing the young people for the new jobs - policy leaders, advocates and community activists. She also shared with them the key messages from the Future Time Traveller policy mapping report.

The Erasmus+ Forward Looking Cooperation Project Future
No: 590221-EPP-1-2017-1-BG=EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD is funded with the support of the European Commission and is being implemented by a consortium coordinated by Business Foundation for Education and including Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus", Greece; European Board for Certified Counselors, based in Portugal; CIAPE, Italy; Aspire-Igen, UK; Institute of Learning Innovation (ILI), part of the Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg ,Germany and University of Lodz, Poland. ... See MoreSee Less

The Bulgarian minister of Education and the chairperson of the Business Foundation to Education took part in a debate about the future of education and the role of career guidance for preparing the yo...

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