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mENTERing

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The mENTERing project is a 24 month initiative co-funded by the European Commission, under the Directorate-General for Education and Culture that aims to better equip VET trainers in the business sector who are interested to learn how to mentor entrepreneurs. This will be achieved through…

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Mumpreneurs

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Mumpreneurs is an international project funded by the European Commission to support female entrepreneurs who are also mothers. The project is delivered through four Ideas Labs organised in partner countries across Europe and more information can be found under each Ideas Lab on this site.…

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Get Mobile

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

99% of all enterprises in Europe are SMEs; 90% of these are micro-enterprises (less than 10 employees). SMEs traditionally under-utilise the potentially valuable resource and source of innovation and creativity that European female graduates undertaking mobility could provide. Get Mobile aims to provide training and…

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SIGOLD

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The main idea of "Turning the silver challenge into the golden opportunity" - SIGOLD - is to support the creation of age integrated society, help 50+ workers to get a chance for active ageing as active participants in an age-integrated society and ageing well at…

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TYNET 50+

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The objective of TYNET 50+ is to promote intergenerational learning through sharing European expertise on methodologies, in order to support young women living abroad, and 50+ women who have family abroad, to develop mentoring relationships primarily for supporting ICT development. Promoting this inter-generational and European…

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QUEST

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The QUEST partnership aims to tackle the lack of awareness of the benefits of hosting a European Mobility worker amongst MSEs (Micro and Small Enterprises), particularly micro-businesses. In particular, the partnership aims to show the social and business value of diversity in MSEs and trainees…

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Youth2Work

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Youth2Work is an EU-funded project supporting young people out of education or employment (NEETS from 18 to 28 years old) to gain valuable soft skills & competences to aid job-seeking and employability. As part of the projects, young NEETS were given the opportunity to sign…

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StartUp

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The StartUP is a 32 months project co-funded with support by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme and was launched in January 2013. Only a minimum part of the ICT potential for supporting innovative pedagogical developments and acquisition of key competences has been…

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John Turner – Learning 2.0gether Participant

16 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Learning 2.0gether was a Lifelong Learning Project funded by the European Commission which aimed to both increase skills and encourage inter-generational learning! Alongside Voluntary Action Sheffield and partners in Italy and Spain, we developed training for young people who had been long-term unemployed, helping them…

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WINGS

16 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The WINGS mission lies in making good female entrepreneurship initiatives accessible EU wide, while bridging the gap with local and/or national WE initiatives. The project will stimulate female entrepreneurs, that converge in common goals in connecting, while offering them innovative learning and training tools. The…

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