RetroVET Project – First Newsletter

RetroVET directly supports the European Green Deal as a new growth strategy and recognizes the key role of vocational training for a successful transition to climate neutrality by 2050.

RetroVET aims at adapting vocational training to future labour market needs by supporting the development of innovative tools that will inspire VET centres to offer a balanced mix of vocational skills related to existing and evolving occupations and working methods as well as key green skills. 

RetroVET adapts today’s vocational training offer and jobs to address the needs of the future European labour market, increasing long-term employability and sustainability.

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April 29, 2022 /  

SayIT Project – Second Newsletter

The SayIT partnership has already developed the Soft Skills Curriculum for IT Professionals. The curriculum is a proposal of holistic approach towards upskilling IT professionals in the area of soft skills and can be used by VET institutions, regulatory bodies and relevant stakeholders. The first project result is characterized by a modular, competence-based framework enhanced by subsets of defined learning outcomes. The Curriculum is also based on a four-phase model, including planning, implementation, evaluation, and review, in accordance with the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training framework. The Curriculum covers five main thematic blocks, i.e., Communication skills, Problem-solving skills, Teamwork skills, Organisational skills and Interpersonal skills.

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January 19, 2022 /  

CUB@WORK Project – Second Newsletter

Unconscious cultural preconceptions and stereotyping in general towards skilled and suitable potential candidates with a migrant background can make recruitment of suitable candidates and integration into daily work processes of the migrant workforce very difficult, with adverse consequences for companies, the workforce as well as for the broader society as a whole.

With well-trained management and recruitment staff who are aware about unconscious bias and able to deal with it, SMEs will be able to participate more successfully in the War for Talents and to recruit suitable personnel.

By providing tools enabling understanding, reflection and strategies to manage cultural unconscious bias in the workplace, the CUB@Work project contributes to social inclusion and non-discrimination in the workplace.

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December 12, 2021 /  

CUB@WORK Project – First Newsletter

Unconscious cultural preconceptions and stereotyping in general towards skilled and suitable potential candidates with a migrant background can make recruitment of suitable candidates and integration into daily work processes of the migrant workforce very difficult, with adverse consequences for companies, the workforce as well as for the broader society as a whole.

With well-trained management and recruitment staff who are aware about unconscious bias and able to deal with it, SMEs will be able to participate more successfully in the War for Talents and to recruit suitable personnel.

By providing tools enabling understanding, reflection and strategies to manage cultural unconscious bias in the workplace, the CUB@Work project contributes to social inclusion and non-discrimination in the workplace.

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April 5, 2021 /  

Statement

Statement as of 7 July 2020

It has come to our attention that someone seems to have protected the term ‘webinar’. Whereas we find this hard to understand as we have been using this term since 2009, we do of course respect the law.
Consequently, to avoid any kind of legal issues, we have stopped using this term immediately since it was brought to our attention. we have removed the term from our website and our material.

We are aware that older social media posts and material may contain this term. There is nothing we can do about this. All we can do is to change what we can now and looking forward to the future. To any lawyers trying to make money out of this, we kindly request that you stop this or find somebody else. At no time have we knowingly done anything wrong.

July 7, 2020 /  

15 ways to prevent zoom bombing

Have you heard of Zoom Bombing? It’s basically when unwanted guests invade your online meeting and disturb or destroy, for example by behaving completely inappropriately. In this video you will learn 15 ideas for you to choose from, which you may want to try out to stop your zoom meetings from being bombed.

April 8, 2020 /  

The calendar to nourish your wanderlust (by Hannah Lambeck)

Now this is lovely: Innovation in the intercultural field is to be applauded. There are a lot of great people out there who have great ideas , they don’t alway come to fruition. Recently, the wonderful, dynamic young rising star of the intercultural world, Hannah Lambeck, told me about this idea that she has put into practice for people planning to go to a Latin American country.

Imagine you are going to a foreign country for a while, you are not sure what awaits you, you are often a mixture of anticipation, excitement and a little nervous. Hannah has created a calendar, the Fernwehcalendar – which reframes that; a calendar for the 31 days before you go abroad, with exciting information each day about the country you are going to. This is a charming way to find out about your destination country and to increase your sense of excitement and anticipation to help you look forward to your stay abroad.

This is a real thing, not just an online calendar. Great, I think, as a gift, for example, for intercultural trainers to give to their clients, the icing on the cake for their preparatory training or coaching.

The focus is currently on Latin America and the calendars are in German, which is a great place to start, and as demand grows the sky really is the limit in terms of countries and languages.

Anyway, a fabulous innovation, well done Hannah, thank you for taking the initiative on this. To find out more, pop along to www.fernwehkalender.de

December 13, 2019 /