Staff mobility-Job shadowing of 4 Spanish employees took place in Prague from 14th to 19th May, 2017, under the auspices of the European Development Agency s.r.o. (EDUA). During the mobility they had the opportunity to learn about the style of teaching in Czech schools and the functioning of the city council. Mobility was carried out under the ALJARAFE EN EUROPA project. Its main goal was to familiarize teachers Delores and Manuel (teaching in Spanish vocational schools) with the use of ICT tools and other interactive tools at Czech schools. Beside this, for Mercedes and Antonio, from Mancomunidad Aljarafe, was important to understand the principle and functioning of the Czech city authorities and the city council. During their stay, not only they acquired a lot of interesting information from their Job shadowing, but also had the opportunity to see the most important places in Prague.
Upon arrival, the participants met with EDUA employees for a welcoming meeting that was followed by a tour of Prague City Hall. The next day in the morning, job shadowing took place at Secondary Technical School of František Křižík where the participants had the opportunity to observe classes of turbines, automation and IT. After lunch there was a tour of the historical center of Prague. Wednesday morning was dedicated to job shadowing at Prague 7 City District, followed by a tour of the Prague 7 district-Stromovka, Letná and Holešovice. On Thursday, job shadowing took place at Primary school K Dolům, where participants got familiar with a magic box ICT tool that is popuar among younger pupils. On Friday, before the departure, the participants were able to manage job shadowing at Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic and at Prague Institute of Planning and Development.
Within this five-day mobility, Spanish employees have become aware of the functioning of Czech schools and the use of interactive tools during lessons as well as the functioning of the city authorities. Due to the very positive attitude of Czech schools and city districts, Spanish staff have taken a number of valuable insights and mobility is considered to be very successful.
Author: Martin Rejmíš
The European development agency now participates in a new international project which has started on the 1st April 2017. The project called CREA.T.Y.V. will run for 24 months and there are five participants from the Czech Republic, Italy, Ireland and Romania. The project aims at engaging young people with limited social opportunities to the community thus, increasing their self-confidence and social skills so that they could become active agents in shaping the future society. CREA.T.Y.V. is financed from the Erasmus + programme.
There will be a kick-off meeting in Bucharest in the beginning of May. All the partners will exchange their ideas and opinions on the project’s development there. Also, the lead partners will present the educational method of Creative drama which is the core tool of this project. For more information please see our CREA.T.Y.V. description here.
The GYMSEN Project, funded by Erasmus+ call has had as objective the development of a methodology for helping to prevent and retard both the sensory and cognitive declines of elderly people, especially of smell and taste. The project has developed a training tool by which participants have exercised their sensory capacities during the project.
The project came to an end on the 31st of August and we can say that it was a success. The training programme, which was piloted in cooperation with Prave ted was accepted with great pleasure by the trainers and incorporated to the day-to-day activities of the organisation. We hope the idea of training the sensory capacities and motivating seniors toward healthy lifestyles will spread to seniors´organisations nation wide.
During the project a new partnership was created and Prave ted together with the coordinator the GYMSEN project are currently developing another project. The MemTrain project focuses on combining physical activities and brain training to reach healthy ageing by people 55+.
You can read more about the project in the attached press release.
European development agency organized a kick-off meeting for APP YOUR SCHOOL project on 17th and 18th October. Nearly all of the project partners attended, therefore we had the pleasure to welcome here in Prague members of italian educational centre Zaffiria, that is a leading partner of the project, turkish Esenler District Educational Authority, portuguese AENIE, polish Modern Poland Foundation, finnish Kuopion city and their stategic partners from finnish education centre SAVONIA, greek KARPOS and EUDA, in cooperation with high school Otrokovice, attended for the Czech Republic.
During the kick-off meeting partners discussed important issues and planned their future steps, as well as the most effective outputs dissemination and implementation.
Project APP YOUR SCHOOL is focused mainly on children and younsters in 11 – 16 years of age education. Its aim is to develop some of the crucial abilities of a person in 21st century –media literacy and digital competence. This should be achieved with the help of inovative educational technologies, which use ICT.
Therefore, project seeks to create so called „digital ateliers“, that should encourage creative using of new media in everyday life. These ateliers will be produced in compliance with competencies desirable in contemporary world, as well as methodologies of Alberto Manzi and Bruno Munari, famous italian tutors and innovators in using ICT in education. One of the project goals is also familiarization of teachers with project outputs, so these can be succesfully implemented into education system.
At the turn of September and October 2016, the mobility of 17 Polish students held in Prague in the framework of the project Mobile mechanic on the European market financed by the European Social Fund, Operational Programme Research, development and education. Thanks to ERA there were involved also two high schools from Czech Republic, Střední škola technická Zelený Pruh and Střední průmyslová škola dopravní a.s., which hosted students of Motor vehicles, ships and aircraft from Marshal Jozef Pilsufski Schools in Szcuczyn, Poland.
The aim of this project was to gain work experiences in high qualified companies of the automotive industry in Czech market, acquisition of new skills related to the profession and deepening the knowledge acquired in school. Sub-objective was also improving language skills, especially English. In addition, Polish students participating in the project acquainted with the culture and traditions in the Czech Republic.
During the three-month mobility they attended practical internships in car services and rich culture program with Prague and Kutná Hora sightseeing, which the European development agency had prepared to them.
The European development agency would like to continue in cooperation with the mediator of this project. They already plan another educational mobility for Polish teachers at the beginning of 2017. There the teachers will be supposed to attend job shadowing in Czech schools and gain experiences of the real teaching at a foreign school in practice.
On the 24th of February 2016 the partners of the GYMSEN project met again to discuss the practical issues connected to the training programme being created. The partners decided to create two types of training focusing on different target groups:
A) Training programme for institutionalised and demented elderly – this programme will focus more on the improvement of the altered cognition skills and sensory capacities.
B) Training programme for the healthy seniors – this programme will be created in a way that it increases the sensory capacities and so that it is entertaining and at the same time educative.
The piloting of the programme will start in April and it will take place in the following countries:
- Greece – target group are patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Italy – target group are institutionalized elderly
- Czech Republic – target group are healthy seniors
- Spain – target group are healthy and active seniors attending the courses of the University of the Third Age
You can read more about the project in the website of the project. HERE you can download the 1st press release.
Hnutí Duha, a member of the EUDA Partnership Network, is looking for Austrian or German (Bavarian) partners for a project which will be submitted in the Interreg V-A Programme – Cross Border Cooperation between Austria and Czech Republic (www.at-cz.eu).
Hnutí DUHA (Friends of Eearth Czech Republic) deals with the issue of protection and monitoring of Lynx cats in the border region in the Czech Republic. They organise Lynx patrols and provide public awareness campaigns about lynx. Czech-Bavarian-Austrian lynx population is cross-border and thus its protection and monitoring requires international cooperation.
That is why we are looking for partners to prepare a project on this topic under the Interreg VA Programme – priority Raising awareness and educational activities in the field of nature and landscape protection and its use (more information in German here). Below you can see the description of activities which we would like to implement together with an Austrian or German partner, which are meaningful from our point of view and which also fit into the conception supported in frame of the Interreg Programme. It is certainly possible to modify or complete the activities after a joint discussion.
If interested for cooperation, please contact Mrs. Stepana Tezka, Manager of the EuDA partnership network at stepana.tezka@eracr.cz.
INTERREG CZ-AU 201: Draft of the project
Deadline for submission of the application : March 22, 2016
Duration of the project: 3 years
Priority: To raise awareness and to provide educational activities in the field of nature and landscape protection and it’s use.
Description of Activities
Activity A:
Public participation in protecting of Czech-Bavarian-Austrian lynx population: training courses for new volunteers (in the Czech Republic and Austria), joint Czech-Austrian training courses and joint monitoring activities in the Novohradské hory mountains and border area
1. Phase: preparing a handbook for tracking in Czech and German, reprint publications ‘I lynx‘ in Czech and German
2. Phase: training courses for volunteers from the Czech Republic and Austria → lecturers, experts from both countries
3. Joint monitoring in the border area in the Novohradské hory Mountains, Lynx patrols in the Czech Republic (also in Austria)
4. Analysis of collected data
Activity B:
Developing of mobile application for lynx tracking, identification of lynx tracks, locating and sending of findings (lynx tracks and others)
Activity C:
- Methodical preparation of an educational program about lynx and lynx protection for high schools, elementary schools and excursions for universities and public (external collaborator)
- Testing Methodology
- Realisation (teaching) of educational program at elementary and secondary schools
- Realisation of ‘lynx’ excursions
Activity D:
Media work: press release about results of monitoring, articles on selmy.cz
Please contact Štěpána Těžká at stepana.tezka@erarc.cz for further information.
A second meeting within the THEY. EA project – Towards Higher Employability of Youth European Approach was held in the Italian city of Lecce with the partner organisations from the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Poland and Bulgaria. The THEY.EA project focuses on creating tools that allow young people to improve awareness about the job and educational opportunities in the EU and this time young people were invited to the meeting to provide feedback on the educational programme being created. The host organisation during 26. -27. January 2016 was the Italian CNIPA PUGLIA, whose efforts made for a very high quality and enjoyable experience for all participants.
The aim of the meeting was to hear the comments of the young people and to agree on two of the project outputs. The outputs include information and educational brochures intended for young people seeking employment and for organizations that work with this target group. The partners discussed the existing materials of the future brochures with young people coming from the target areas with the highest unemployment, who shared their experience and proposals for the improvement of both outputs. The result of the meeting was a workshop in which the partners and representatives of the target groups were divided into several working groups, within which they prepared the final materials. CNIPA PUGLIA prepared an interesting accompanying cultural programme that allowed not only the representatives of the target group, but also the other participants of the meeting to get acquainted with Italian cuisine and the interesting history of the city of Lecce and the Puglia region.
Currently, the partners are intensively working on the final outputs and the preparations for the last meeting – a conference, which is tentatively scheduled for December 2016 and which will take place in Prague.
For more information about the project, visit the Web page of the project or its Facebook.
The project “Move up to be healthy and happy” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union was launched in January 2016.
The project is the answer to diagnosed problems connected with children’s health, nutrition, physical and personal development, integration and assimilation. The best solutions that can help children in facing with their problems are to encourage them to do sports and show how to live healthy. Theproject includes a programme which appears in a comprehensive approach to children and their lives. The project will include not only children but also their teachers and parents who will get knowledge on how to ensure healthier life for children.
Project partners:
- Gdynia Sports Centre (Gdynia, Poland)
- National Center of Sports Medicine (Gdynia, Poland)
- Municipality of Forte dei Marmi, (Forte dei Marmi, Italy)
- Municipality of Lousada (Lousada, Portugal)
- Association Local Action Group Napoca Porolissum (Aghiresu, Romania)
- Community Teachsport (London, Great Britain)
- Beachklub Ládví z. s. (Prague, Czech Republic) – member of the EuDA Partnership Network
You can find more information in the project BLOG. Also you can give likes to the project Facebook page.
Good luck for all the people who working in our project!
Hodně štěstí!
Boa sorte!
Noroc!
Buona fortuna!
Powodzenia!
The final conference of the project ELMI funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme took place on 10th of February in Bucharest. Representatives of all project partners from Romania, Italy, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic attended. There was also present a number of informal carers – the target group of the project. The purpose of the meeting was to acquaint the public with the results of our joint project. At the same time this event successfully concluded the project. EUDA team is looking forward to new challenges and similar projects!
