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Projekte
Miteinander Oberfrankens Vielfalt Entwickeln
01 Dezember 2002
The project is concerned with Transferability, Gender, Empowerment, Innovation, Racism, Transnationality, Evaluation and Special HRM Development for Women.
The activities to transfer the aims of M.O.V.E. can be arranged in a horizontal and vertical way. The vertical activities build the organisational structure: The company with the advisory board, study groups and office serve sustainability, regional integration and quality management. It contains a broad basis of competence, gathers experiences from the single projects, coordinates and supports work in thematic study groups, steers the project as a whole and integrates the cross-section aims of EQUAL in single actions.
It will support the realisation of projects by helping to implement the cross-section goals. It will compare the regional vision with those in the projects and check the projects usefulness for the regional labour market. On the basis of the DP, thematic study groups will be formed. The groups will be supplied with experience from the single projects and acquire suggestions for actions in the running projects as well as proposals for transferring the results for further work on the labour market.
The Project Workgroups: each single project is accompanied by a working group, in which those who are involved in the labour market will step into dialog with the participants. An authorised office that is equipped with the necessary authority secures the work of the advisory board and its targets. In addition, it provides for communication, application of IT technology and parts of the evaluation.
A central role also will be played by the office for the transnationality. For the principal target group and therefore all projects the office will coordinate a project-wide offer about special personnel development for women.
The (horizontal) activities for the target groups
Activities for Women
1. Women on the road:
Reference group for the targets of the projects are women returning to the labour market after a baby break and immigrants already living in Germany for a longer period of time. They already have school and work experiences. The EP offers this group access to the labour market. The integration of company members of the transport academy in the project will cause an effect on employer side. The labour market for transportation of passengers in the region thus receives an exemplary impetus.
2. Integration of severely disabled women:
The number of severely disabled women integrated into the labour market has constantly decreased in the last few years. This project serves to improve the chances for severely disabled women at the labour market and to support the enterprises to make positive experience in this respect and to go new ways through an organization of work in mutual interest. The main objective of the project is the reintegration of disabled women into the first labour market. In order to be able to provide the necessary prerequisites, both, wide-spread general knowledge as well as social skills and key qualifications are actualised and trained as required on the present labour market. In cooperation with psychologists, personal skills will be used to set up constructive strategies that help them to get over specific experiences (which might be checked afterwards). Parallel to this we will operate with individual enterprises to create readiness for the application of participants inside the enterprise surroundings. Thus at a very early stage moderated contact will be made between participants and the enterprises.
3. New work forms, neighbourhood office project:
The objective of the idea of the neighbourhood office is the vocational promotion of chances for women with a family living outside urban centres. When founding a company or when they are in a position of an employee, women must combine market chances and their personal life and often accept disadvantages in stead of their more flexible, unbound colleagues. With the mechanism of the neighbourhood office, the project promotes the building of a structure of a technological and organisational network for women with a family who live in rural areas. Employers and employees have the opportunity of trying, testing and transferring more flexible work forms while achieving mutual purpose.
4. Adaptation of Migrants to the labour market, BOBE project:
The economic structure in Hofand Selb is characterised by the peripheral location in the border and a pronounced mono-structure, with industries that are strongly exposed to technical change. Unemployment is highly above the average figrure, migrant unemployment is even higher. In order to prevent the permanent exclusion of these persons from vocational and social life in their new region, assistance must be provided, which is adapted to the abilities and needs of this target group. The participants are supported by social educational specialists. The necessity to lead this group of motivated employees to the labour market and to solve their individual problems together with the employers, creates positive examples.
5. Integrating German/adaptation of female foreigners on a in part-time basis:
The target of the project is the integration of female foreigners, who do not have a chance due to their lacking knowledge of the German language. The basic condition for this integration is to learn German. Only this enables access to the labour market: especially employers refer to the necessity of good German language skills as an important prerequisite for a job. Apart from regular instruction due to various experiences a alphabetical workshop is offered. Emphasis for the advanced stage is knowledge, indispensable for working in a job or vocational activity. Information about the regional labour market as well as a personal consultation that contains curriculum planning, prepares the participants for their vocational commitment. IT training directs to introduce foreign females to use new media. A further emphasis of the advanced stage is teaching important knowledge about economic and social life. In a comparative analysis within the areas of economics and social life, mentalities and their effects on integration will be spoken about. During the entire course, the participants will be supported by special social educational care.
6. Students in technical courses at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Coburg:
For a part of industry in Upper Franconia a lack of engineers is being deplored. The universities/colleges do not have a sufficient number of student applicants for technical courses to cover the requirements forwarded by the industry. Within the technical courses the female student share is very small, it is max. 5% of all students, although one could assume engineering professions would be preferred by women, when studying and working conditions are attractive for women. The FH Coburg directly supplies female applicants inside the school in these courses adjustment of the study situation (childcare, assistance for a practical courses, reduction of prejudices with potential Stage enterprises, special offer of short-test courses for women) by increasing the number of students in technical courses altogether. It is also important to embody woman-specific personnel development in the companies, beginning to raise awareness among responsible HR managers for adjustment processes, which enable a successful vocational entrance for female applicants. The FH Coburg already found partners in this respect in the business sector who want to participate in this project.
Activities for young people
·Jobshop project, Selb:
In the economic and technologically developed Germany professional training becomes ever more a prerequisite for job prospects. Missing training places and the breaking away of traditional industrial areas enlarge the lack of perspectives for our youth. At the same time the number of people who do not finish there education rises significantly. Jobshop tries to give assistance in this matter. The number of drop outs of apprenticeships is reduced, the associated costs will be reduced through direct targeted counselling and the offers for apprenticeships can be increased. The measure offered for young people aged between 15 and 25 years has a variety of support when they look for a training place or a job.
Young persons find assistance through consultation and for writing application documents. In the consulting discussions they will be trained in rhetorical communicative abilities to be prepared for an interview. Former application activities will be regenerated, young people will be sensitised for vocational alternatives. Workshops to different topics offer e.g. the possibility to the young people of becoming practised in handling a PC, of testing themselves and learning about their own abilities or realistically estimating the requirement for practical courses for different professions.
Through the integration of the employers into the training concept the participants experience from first hand, what is expected from them. The employer gets an overview of the situation at the apprenticeship market at the same time and can offer specific assistance. Young persons and employers can approach each other during this process and adapt to non-standard and operational requirements.
Cross-section measures:
For all DP participants, it is mandatory to participate in Gender Training. GM is part of all individual measures/projects and also for the participants in the study groups. The office is assigned to submit, in phase 1,suggestions for execution. It is open to the individual measures to be developed. These are to be agreed upon with the topic working group "Gender Mainstreaming", which will also analyse the experience.
It will support the realisation of projects by helping to implement the cross-section goals. It will compare the regional vision with those in the projects and check the projects usefulness for the regional labour market. On the basis of the DP, thematic study groups will be formed. The groups will be supplied with experience from the single projects and acquire suggestions for actions in the running projects as well as proposals for transferring the results for further work on the labour market.
The Project Workgroups: each single project is accompanied by a working group, in which those who are involved in the labour market will step into dialog with the participants. An authorised office that is equipped with the necessary authority secures the work of the advisory board and its targets. In addition, it provides for communication, application of IT technology and parts of the evaluation.
A central role also will be played by the office for the transnationality. For the principal target group and therefore all projects the office will coordinate a project-wide offer about special personnel development for women.
The (horizontal) activities for the target groups
Activities for Women
1. Women on the road:
Reference group for the targets of the projects are women returning to the labour market after a baby break and immigrants already living in Germany for a longer period of time. They already have school and work experiences. The EP offers this group access to the labour market. The integration of company members of the transport academy in the project will cause an effect on employer side. The labour market for transportation of passengers in the region thus receives an exemplary impetus.
2. Integration of severely disabled women:
The number of severely disabled women integrated into the labour market has constantly decreased in the last few years. This project serves to improve the chances for severely disabled women at the labour market and to support the enterprises to make positive experience in this respect and to go new ways through an organization of work in mutual interest. The main objective of the project is the reintegration of disabled women into the first labour market. In order to be able to provide the necessary prerequisites, both, wide-spread general knowledge as well as social skills and key qualifications are actualised and trained as required on the present labour market. In cooperation with psychologists, personal skills will be used to set up constructive strategies that help them to get over specific experiences (which might be checked afterwards). Parallel to this we will operate with individual enterprises to create readiness for the application of participants inside the enterprise surroundings. Thus at a very early stage moderated contact will be made between participants and the enterprises.
3. New work forms, neighbourhood office project:
The objective of the idea of the neighbourhood office is the vocational promotion of chances for women with a family living outside urban centres. When founding a company or when they are in a position of an employee, women must combine market chances and their personal life and often accept disadvantages in stead of their more flexible, unbound colleagues. With the mechanism of the neighbourhood office, the project promotes the building of a structure of a technological and organisational network for women with a family who live in rural areas. Employers and employees have the opportunity of trying, testing and transferring more flexible work forms while achieving mutual purpose.
4. Adaptation of Migrants to the labour market, BOBE project:
The economic structure in Hofand Selb is characterised by the peripheral location in the border and a pronounced mono-structure, with industries that are strongly exposed to technical change. Unemployment is highly above the average figrure, migrant unemployment is even higher. In order to prevent the permanent exclusion of these persons from vocational and social life in their new region, assistance must be provided, which is adapted to the abilities and needs of this target group. The participants are supported by social educational specialists. The necessity to lead this group of motivated employees to the labour market and to solve their individual problems together with the employers, creates positive examples.
5. Integrating German/adaptation of female foreigners on a in part-time basis:
The target of the project is the integration of female foreigners, who do not have a chance due to their lacking knowledge of the German language. The basic condition for this integration is to learn German. Only this enables access to the labour market: especially employers refer to the necessity of good German language skills as an important prerequisite for a job. Apart from regular instruction due to various experiences a alphabetical workshop is offered. Emphasis for the advanced stage is knowledge, indispensable for working in a job or vocational activity. Information about the regional labour market as well as a personal consultation that contains curriculum planning, prepares the participants for their vocational commitment. IT training directs to introduce foreign females to use new media. A further emphasis of the advanced stage is teaching important knowledge about economic and social life. In a comparative analysis within the areas of economics and social life, mentalities and their effects on integration will be spoken about. During the entire course, the participants will be supported by special social educational care.
6. Students in technical courses at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Coburg:
For a part of industry in Upper Franconia a lack of engineers is being deplored. The universities/colleges do not have a sufficient number of student applicants for technical courses to cover the requirements forwarded by the industry. Within the technical courses the female student share is very small, it is max. 5% of all students, although one could assume engineering professions would be preferred by women, when studying and working conditions are attractive for women. The FH Coburg directly supplies female applicants inside the school in these courses adjustment of the study situation (childcare, assistance for a practical courses, reduction of prejudices with potential Stage enterprises, special offer of short-test courses for women) by increasing the number of students in technical courses altogether. It is also important to embody woman-specific personnel development in the companies, beginning to raise awareness among responsible HR managers for adjustment processes, which enable a successful vocational entrance for female applicants. The FH Coburg already found partners in this respect in the business sector who want to participate in this project.
Activities for young people
·Jobshop project, Selb:
In the economic and technologically developed Germany professional training becomes ever more a prerequisite for job prospects. Missing training places and the breaking away of traditional industrial areas enlarge the lack of perspectives for our youth. At the same time the number of people who do not finish there education rises significantly. Jobshop tries to give assistance in this matter. The number of drop outs of apprenticeships is reduced, the associated costs will be reduced through direct targeted counselling and the offers for apprenticeships can be increased. The measure offered for young people aged between 15 and 25 years has a variety of support when they look for a training place or a job.
Young persons find assistance through consultation and for writing application documents. In the consulting discussions they will be trained in rhetorical communicative abilities to be prepared for an interview. Former application activities will be regenerated, young people will be sensitised for vocational alternatives. Workshops to different topics offer e.g. the possibility to the young people of becoming practised in handling a PC, of testing themselves and learning about their own abilities or realistically estimating the requirement for practical courses for different professions.
Through the integration of the employers into the training concept the participants experience from first hand, what is expected from them. The employer gets an overview of the situation at the apprenticeship market at the same time and can offer specific assistance. Young persons and employers can approach each other during this process and adapt to non-standard and operational requirements.
Cross-section measures:
For all DP participants, it is mandatory to participate in Gender Training. GM is part of all individual measures/projects and also for the participants in the study groups. The office is assigned to submit, in phase 1,suggestions for execution. It is open to the individual measures to be developed. These are to be agreed upon with the topic working group "Gender Mainstreaming", which will also analyse the experience.
Projekte
Arbeitskräfteentwicklung im Großraum München
01 Dezember 2002
Action will be undertaken for the selected branches IundC and nursing services in the areas of the analysis of labour market demand, training, the promotion of mobility, etc.
The projects planned within the framework of the PED relate to the normal labour market and will consider mainly SMEs and nursing and geriatric care services. In addition, special attention will be given to the adjustment of the national market, that is, the east-west transfer of workers within Germany and to the question of housing.
The target groups envisaged, which have been identified as potentially available to the labour market, are those whose qualifications cannot be adequately confirmed by certification, whose qualifications are, for example, too old, or are inadequate or no longer meet the requirements of the firms.
Procedures to determine the skill levels must therefore be developed. An advisory and coordination office must be set up for the refugee group. In addition, diagnostic tests must be developed following suggestions from the firms or the providers of nursing services.
An investigation of the demand for labour and of the demands relating to the flexibility of working hours and the necessary skill requirements will be made, using refined survey methods, and in close cooperation with the SMEs.
For this, jobs that are suitable for the above mentioned groups will be investigated, for example, jobs which:
1. can be filled part time;
2. require one of the skills already available;
3. require additional skills that can be acquired in modules;
4. can be achieved through the development of new teaching and learning methods;
5. can be filled by making the type of job flexible;
6. can be filled through greater flexibility of working hours and work location which makes it possible for women to combine family and job.
The target groups envisaged, which have been identified as potentially available to the labour market, are those whose qualifications cannot be adequately confirmed by certification, whose qualifications are, for example, too old, or are inadequate or no longer meet the requirements of the firms.
Procedures to determine the skill levels must therefore be developed. An advisory and coordination office must be set up for the refugee group. In addition, diagnostic tests must be developed following suggestions from the firms or the providers of nursing services.
An investigation of the demand for labour and of the demands relating to the flexibility of working hours and the necessary skill requirements will be made, using refined survey methods, and in close cooperation with the SMEs.
For this, jobs that are suitable for the above mentioned groups will be investigated, for example, jobs which:
1. can be filled part time;
2. require one of the skills already available;
3. require additional skills that can be acquired in modules;
4. can be achieved through the development of new teaching and learning methods;
5. can be filled by making the type of job flexible;
6. can be filled through greater flexibility of working hours and work location which makes it possible for women to combine family and job.
Projekte
Ein Bildungsnetzwerk in der Medienwirtschaft
01 Dezember 2002
It aims at enhancing the social and professional integration as well as reintegration of women, non-Germans, and the physically disabled in media-technical professions.
Educ-Net aims to offer training units as evening classes and on weekends.
The knowledge and skills acquired in the different units will be made internationally comparable by assigning Credit Points according to the ECTS System.
Due to the good reputation of the HdM and other well-known network partners, Educ-Net anticipates 50% enrolment in the pilot courses, which will receive nationwide publicity and can then be continued after the promotion period has ended with an even higher number of participants at a lower cost.
The project’s main target group consists first of all of women, and then of young people without training, foreigners, the disabled, and professionals in the media business.
The knowledge and skills acquired in the different units will be made internationally comparable by assigning Credit Points according to the ECTS System.
Due to the good reputation of the HdM and other well-known network partners, Educ-Net anticipates 50% enrolment in the pilot courses, which will receive nationwide publicity and can then be continued after the promotion period has ended with an even higher number of participants at a lower cost.
The project’s main target group consists first of all of women, and then of young people without training, foreigners, the disabled, and professionals in the media business.
Projekte
Astronomía en el nuevo milenio: ¿Qué tipo de educación debe proporcionar la escuela europea?
01 Dezember 2002
The project aims at developing an european common model to train teachers of secondary schools in astronomy.
«Astronomía en el nuevo milenio: ¿Qué tipo de educación debe proporcionar la escuela europea» (l'Astronomie dans le nouveau millénaire : quelle sorte d'éducation doit offrir l'école européenne) entend développer un modèle européen commun pour la formation des enseignants du secondaire en astronomie, sur le rôle joué par cette discipline dans l'histoire de la culture européenne et dans les systèmes scolaires actuels. Le projet, promu par un partenariat issu d'Espagne, Allemagne, Finlande, Lituanie et Portugal, s'articule autour des activités suivantes :
1. analyser l'enseignement de l'astronomie dans les curricula de l'enseignement secondaire;
2. sélectionner les thèmes prioritaires que l'enseignement de l'astronomie devrait inclure;
3. réaliser du matériel pédagogique et l'expérimenter dans les centres partenaires;
4. offrir des formations scientifiques et pédagogiques dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2;
5. promouvoir la dimension européenne à travers l'enseignement de l'astronomie (observation du firmament, histoire de cette discipline scientifique et développements actuels liées au travail de l'Agence Spatiale Européenne).
Les produits concrets seront une formation continue et du matériel pédagogique à utiliser dans la formation continue.
1. analyser l'enseignement de l'astronomie dans les curricula de l'enseignement secondaire;
2. sélectionner les thèmes prioritaires que l'enseignement de l'astronomie devrait inclure;
3. réaliser du matériel pédagogique et l'expérimenter dans les centres partenaires;
4. offrir des formations scientifiques et pédagogiques dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2;
5. promouvoir la dimension européenne à travers l'enseignement de l'astronomie (observation du firmament, histoire de cette discipline scientifique et développements actuels liées au travail de l'Agence Spatiale Européenne).
Les produits concrets seront une formation continue et du matériel pédagogique à utiliser dans la formation continue.
Projekte
German Hands-on Modern Information Technologies Teacher Training Scheme
01 Dezember 2002
The project aims at giving training opportunities for German language teacher in the application of the new ICTs.
The ''German Hands-on Modern Information Technologies Teacher Training Scheme'' (GEH-MIT) project aims at the development of a course and the respective course material, offering training opportunities both for German language teachers in schools and student teachers at language institutes of Higher Education, with the main subject being the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the everyday teaching.
The project is based on close cooperation between school teachers and teacher trainers, and addreses the needs of teachers of German as a Foreign Language and those of the respective student teachers and their educators. GEH-MIT project aims at enhancing teachers' professional skills in the important field of European languages, both in ICT application in everyday teaching and in modern pedagogical approaches, by implementing a new methodology and by designing a new curriculum of training and training material.
This new methodology has four constituent parts: the creation of a link between theory and practice; the continuous evaluation, design and redesign of the produced training material; the adoption of a hands-on approach to the training curricula in modern technology; and the active participation of the teachers in the design of the training material.
Thematically, the project aims to go beyond traditional approaches, which focus on simple provision of computer knowledge. The main outcome will be a modern and flexible training scheme and materials for teachers.
The project is based on close cooperation between school teachers and teacher trainers, and addreses the needs of teachers of German as a Foreign Language and those of the respective student teachers and their educators. GEH-MIT project aims at enhancing teachers' professional skills in the important field of European languages, both in ICT application in everyday teaching and in modern pedagogical approaches, by implementing a new methodology and by designing a new curriculum of training and training material.
This new methodology has four constituent parts: the creation of a link between theory and practice; the continuous evaluation, design and redesign of the produced training material; the adoption of a hands-on approach to the training curricula in modern technology; and the active participation of the teachers in the design of the training material.
Thematically, the project aims to go beyond traditional approaches, which focus on simple provision of computer knowledge. The main outcome will be a modern and flexible training scheme and materials for teachers.
Projekte
L'euro : un projet pour impulser la citoyenneté européenne; des modules de formation continue pour les enseignants
01 Dezember 2002
The project aims at elaborating eductive materials about the Euro for schools and for teachers training.
« L'euro : un projet pour impulser la citoyenneté européenne; des modules de formation continue pour les enseignants » entend élaborer un matériel pédagogique et didactique autour de l'euro qui pourra être utilisé dans les écoles et dans le cadre de formations continues pour les enseignants du primaire et du secondaire.
Le projet, prévu pour une durée de trois ans, est promu par des centres de formation d'Espagne, de Belgique, de France, d'Italie et du Portugal. Il s'appuie également sur un réseau de vingt-quatre écoles qui participent actuellement à des Projets Educatifs Européens dans le cadre de l'Action 1 de Comenius.
La première année de réalisation concerne le développement d'un CD-ROM interactif sur l'euro, l'organisation de formations locales aux Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et l'élaboration de matériel pédagogique. Au cours de la deuxième année, les modules de formation seront élaborés et expérimentées dans les écoles participantes surrtout au niveau national.
La troisième année sera consacrée à la préparation et à la réalisation de formations continues dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2, ainsi qu'à l'élaboration d'un manuel et d'une page Web pour la dissémination du projet.
Le projet, prévu pour une durée de trois ans, est promu par des centres de formation d'Espagne, de Belgique, de France, d'Italie et du Portugal. Il s'appuie également sur un réseau de vingt-quatre écoles qui participent actuellement à des Projets Educatifs Européens dans le cadre de l'Action 1 de Comenius.
La première année de réalisation concerne le développement d'un CD-ROM interactif sur l'euro, l'organisation de formations locales aux Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et l'élaboration de matériel pédagogique. Au cours de la deuxième année, les modules de formation seront élaborés et expérimentées dans les écoles participantes surrtout au niveau national.
La troisième année sera consacrée à la préparation et à la réalisation de formations continues dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2, ainsi qu'à l'élaboration d'un manuel et d'une page Web pour la dissémination du projet.
Projekte
Creation of teachers training module on the introduction of the Euro
01 Dezember 2002
The project aims at developing pedagogical tools about the Euro for teachers.
«Euroformation - creation of teacher's training module on the introduction of the euro» entend développer des outils pédagogiques sur l'euro qui s'adressent aux enseignants et aux centres de formation initiale et continue.
L'objet du projet est de créer un programme de formation autour de la monnaie, l'échange et la mobilité, l'Europe et la citoyenneté. Des réunions seront organisées à l'échelle européenne pour évaluer le matériel proposé et impulser des débats multiculturels. Des formations transnationales seront organisées dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2. Un forum sera lancé sur Internet afin de discuter et actualiser en permanence les contenus et les approches pédagogiques.
Les modules de formation seront accompagnés d'un manuel méthodologique pour l'utilisation du matériel, d'unités didactiques disponibles sur Internet et d'activités pédagogiques pour promouvoir la participation, la motivation et accompagner le processus d'apprentissage.
L'objet du projet est de créer un programme de formation autour de la monnaie, l'échange et la mobilité, l'Europe et la citoyenneté. Des réunions seront organisées à l'échelle européenne pour évaluer le matériel proposé et impulser des débats multiculturels. Des formations transnationales seront organisées dans le cadre de Comenius 3.2. Un forum sera lancé sur Internet afin de discuter et actualiser en permanence les contenus et les approches pédagogiques.
Les modules de formation seront accompagnés d'un manuel méthodologique pour l'utilisation du matériel, d'unités didactiques disponibles sur Internet et d'activités pédagogiques pour promouvoir la participation, la motivation et accompagner le processus d'apprentissage.
Projekte
JobRotation-Neue Wege z. berufl. Bildung durch Weiterentwicklung d. Instrumentes
01 Dezember 2002
JobRotation is an instrument for making a contribution,via employment policy, towards the creation of equal opportunities for men and women, combating racism and xenophobia.
.JobRotation projects have had little experience. To date, the preferred target groups for further training were mostly young and middle-aged skilled workers and managers. The so-called ‘losers’ in the industrial modernisation processes – these include female, foreign and older employees on the one hand and – running across these categories – unskilled and semi-skilled workers on the other – have only very rarely been specifically targeted in further training concepts.
It is, however, their job security that is particularly under threat. This also applies to the so-called second-threshold youth as potential substitutes. JobRotation needs to be much more broadly employed as an instrument of targeted personnel development for these specific target groups as well, in order to offset the lack of skilled labour. Here, there is a considerable need for action and information.
A further development of JobRotation in this direction includes the aim of achieving rotation numbers relevant for the labour market. Companies are overtaxed by the demands arising from participation in JobRotation projects. A professional, external project management with a sufficient range of capabilities for interested SMEs is an absolute necessity.
This includes above all the creation of a network among the companies in a region, i.e. a process-oriented structure of absolutely necessary multipliers, training facilities, suppliers of substitutes etc. and their coordination in order to match supply and demand. The basis for this is recruitment, training requirements analysis, conception and organisation of training, counselling, mentoring and coaching as well as event management and marketing.
A solution to the problem of project management is all the more pressing the more new institutions there are which, unfamiliar with JobRotation, implement JobRotation projects within the framework of their own programmes in Germany and even take on multiplier functions.
It remains to be seen whether the above-mentioned plans to provide JobRotation a legal and regulatory basis will properly absorb these experiences.
It is, however, their job security that is particularly under threat. This also applies to the so-called second-threshold youth as potential substitutes. JobRotation needs to be much more broadly employed as an instrument of targeted personnel development for these specific target groups as well, in order to offset the lack of skilled labour. Here, there is a considerable need for action and information.
A further development of JobRotation in this direction includes the aim of achieving rotation numbers relevant for the labour market. Companies are overtaxed by the demands arising from participation in JobRotation projects. A professional, external project management with a sufficient range of capabilities for interested SMEs is an absolute necessity.
This includes above all the creation of a network among the companies in a region, i.e. a process-oriented structure of absolutely necessary multipliers, training facilities, suppliers of substitutes etc. and their coordination in order to match supply and demand. The basis for this is recruitment, training requirements analysis, conception and organisation of training, counselling, mentoring and coaching as well as event management and marketing.
A solution to the problem of project management is all the more pressing the more new institutions there are which, unfamiliar with JobRotation, implement JobRotation projects within the framework of their own programmes in Germany and even take on multiplier functions.
It remains to be seen whether the above-mentioned plans to provide JobRotation a legal and regulatory basis will properly absorb these experiences.
Projekte
Regionales Netzwerk Südpfalz - Kompetenz für regionale KMU
01 Dezember 2002
The project aims at setting-up of a network structure between the different operative and strategic partners to improve the qualifications of the employed in the region.
The project “User-oriented learning educational networks for the region – Regional educational forum” is concerned mainly with the improvement of the cooperation between the regional institutions of education with regard to an optimum user orientation.
Among others the following steps are planned:
-The setting-up of a web-based information platform, which includes offers of the regional educational institutions, improvement of the educational consultation,
-offers of continuing education for multipliers,
-setting-up of trans-regional communication forums.
A close link with the above outlined project is planned. The CJD Maximiliansau is a strategic partner in the DP “Regions in the process of learning” and does not receive any funds from this source.
The same applies for the AWW in the development partnership. Partners of the DP participate within the Interreg II project to support the development of the border region Southern Palatine, Baden and Alsace (Pamina). Besides the setting-up of cross-border consulting activities and several infrastructure projects, other projects in the field job qualification have been started. It is planned to take on Pamina as a strategic partner into the DP.
Further links exist in the cooperation between the further education institutions and regional committees fostering an improved profiling of the supply of job qualifications, particularly with the target of qualification for the unemployed. The DP is prompted and started by an initiating group consisting of the University of Landau, the trade association and the equal opportunities officer of Germersheim and the CJD Maximiliansau.
The group of initiators has outlined four development and sub-projects which shall be realised within the framework of the DP. These enclose the development of new instruments and quality procedures as well as the testing and realisation as example.
The 4 sub-projects are:
1. Determination of competence profiles
2. Integration server
3. Competence management for SME
4. Made-to-order, demand-oriented forms of integration and qualifying
Among others the following steps are planned:
-The setting-up of a web-based information platform, which includes offers of the regional educational institutions, improvement of the educational consultation,
-offers of continuing education for multipliers,
-setting-up of trans-regional communication forums.
A close link with the above outlined project is planned. The CJD Maximiliansau is a strategic partner in the DP “Regions in the process of learning” and does not receive any funds from this source.
The same applies for the AWW in the development partnership. Partners of the DP participate within the Interreg II project to support the development of the border region Southern Palatine, Baden and Alsace (Pamina). Besides the setting-up of cross-border consulting activities and several infrastructure projects, other projects in the field job qualification have been started. It is planned to take on Pamina as a strategic partner into the DP.
Further links exist in the cooperation between the further education institutions and regional committees fostering an improved profiling of the supply of job qualifications, particularly with the target of qualification for the unemployed. The DP is prompted and started by an initiating group consisting of the University of Landau, the trade association and the equal opportunities officer of Germersheim and the CJD Maximiliansau.
The group of initiators has outlined four development and sub-projects which shall be realised within the framework of the DP. These enclose the development of new instruments and quality procedures as well as the testing and realisation as example.
The 4 sub-projects are:
1. Determination of competence profiles
2. Integration server
3. Competence management for SME
4. Made-to-order, demand-oriented forms of integration and qualifying
Projekte
Netzwerk für Beschäftigung, Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit
01 Dezember 2002
The objective of the project is to determine both the qualifications required for the jobs to be done and the changes requiring qualifications and provide them.
The objective of the project is to generate demand-oriented adaptation of qualifications within a flexible system.
This occurs individually and, in particular on the job, whereby methods and didactics of learning by experience are applied so that the existing knowledge of the employees may be made available to other employees, including those who are to be newly appointed.
The intended target groups are multipliers and older employees in SMEs.
The investigation into the process-oriented qualification requirements is to be expanded to include the general requirements for specialised and key qualifications in SMEs, and the results transferred into the design and implementation of flexible labour market policy development measures.
The results are also incorporated into concrete qualification measures, e.g. into the promotion of retraining and career development for unemployed women, and semiskilled and unskilled workers in order to increase their employability and to help integrate them into the labour market.
·Business school
One of the specific objectives of this project concept is to promote adaptability, career development and the entry of men and women into managerial positions in SMEs, with further options for independent entrepreneurial activity.
In the Gotha Region, a disproportional number of men and women with engineering qualifications are unemployed or have jobs which do not correspond with their qualifications, moreover the proportion of women in this target group is also higher. Ideally, this potential would be used to cover the observed lack of managers in the region.
A concept for a "business school" has been developed for the purpose of preparing people for management tasks in a high standard but non-school and non-university manner on a regular basis. This will also provide for businesses to be founded where there are feasible ideas.
-Strategy of target-oriented development of innovative potential for promoting the adaptability of SMEs in the Gotha Region
The ability of SME's to innovate is to be promoted and the above-mentioned qualification strategy is to be supported long-term by suitable organisational and personnel development instruments and structures, and by quality assurance. The innovative potential for strengthening the IundC technologies is also to be promoted, and the adaptation to modern control and production processes implemented.
·Organisational and personnel development in SMEs
Suitable methods and instruments for organisational and personnel development are to be implemented in order to stabilise the sustainability of the qualification strategy for developing and adapting the human capital in SMEs, and to secure this by structural and organisational means. SMEs frequently do not have the option of making the necessary adaptations to the modernisation of the markets and their human resources in a flexible and up-to-date manner.
This tends to happen within the framework of the so-called supply and demand relation and lags behind the development required. In this case, implementing models and instruments of modern organisational and personnel development which are tailor-made for the individual company stabilises the employable development of the human capital and secures the future viability of the company. Aspects of the quality assurance, diversity management and the implementation of flexible working hour models are also provided here.
·Ability to innovate in SMEs
The ability to innovate is an important strategy for SMEs to adapt to changed economic and technical conditions. Innovations are conceived in people's brains. The abilities required for this are developed and practised in psychologically and pedagogically designed innovation training.
Nowadays, innovations are based on the reliable and creative application of modern IundC technologies. With the aid of special models, we are therefore imparting and strengthening particularly those abilities which facilitate network-supported work and cooperation because the greatest innovation potential of IundC lies in networking.
Innovation also requires stimulating input from the scientific community. We are therefore creating models which link SMEs and universities.
This is especially important because there are not any research institutions located in the Gotha economic region, and the relevant contacts have been inadequate up to now.
Innovation is not a new topic. We are therefore using the existing experience and approaches to solutions of our transnational partners in Newcastle, and are applying them to our actual conditions.
3.Strategies of regional accompanying, promotional and supportive structures
The network of the Development Partnership is to be brought together with the aid of IT, and developed for long-term and sustainable use and effectiveness. The common topics of the EQUAL project are to be developed, and the actions and effects integrated into the part projects of the DP.
·Network in the Internet
The results, instruments and systems of each of the part projects are brought together in an Internet-supported network and thus made available for the use of all participants and interested parties. In this way, a network is created which improves the existing structures of labour market and training policies, and the networking of employment strategies. The information can be selectively accessed in a type of "construction kit", and can thus be used to further strengthen the qualification strategies and regional development capability.
·Intercultural activities and equality of opportunity
The DP Go-Net will bring common topics for eliminating inequalities to fruition by means of several projects which will incorporate elements for combating racism and xenophobia, and for equality of opportunity for men and women, the activities of this project will influence the individual actions and objectives of the part projects. This will also ensure that the common topics are included in all fields of activity on the communication and decision levels, and that they can be sustainably implemented in the regional network and the target group work.
This occurs individually and, in particular on the job, whereby methods and didactics of learning by experience are applied so that the existing knowledge of the employees may be made available to other employees, including those who are to be newly appointed.
The intended target groups are multipliers and older employees in SMEs.
The investigation into the process-oriented qualification requirements is to be expanded to include the general requirements for specialised and key qualifications in SMEs, and the results transferred into the design and implementation of flexible labour market policy development measures.
The results are also incorporated into concrete qualification measures, e.g. into the promotion of retraining and career development for unemployed women, and semiskilled and unskilled workers in order to increase their employability and to help integrate them into the labour market.
·Business school
One of the specific objectives of this project concept is to promote adaptability, career development and the entry of men and women into managerial positions in SMEs, with further options for independent entrepreneurial activity.
In the Gotha Region, a disproportional number of men and women with engineering qualifications are unemployed or have jobs which do not correspond with their qualifications, moreover the proportion of women in this target group is also higher. Ideally, this potential would be used to cover the observed lack of managers in the region.
A concept for a "business school" has been developed for the purpose of preparing people for management tasks in a high standard but non-school and non-university manner on a regular basis. This will also provide for businesses to be founded where there are feasible ideas.
-Strategy of target-oriented development of innovative potential for promoting the adaptability of SMEs in the Gotha Region
The ability of SME's to innovate is to be promoted and the above-mentioned qualification strategy is to be supported long-term by suitable organisational and personnel development instruments and structures, and by quality assurance. The innovative potential for strengthening the IundC technologies is also to be promoted, and the adaptation to modern control and production processes implemented.
·Organisational and personnel development in SMEs
Suitable methods and instruments for organisational and personnel development are to be implemented in order to stabilise the sustainability of the qualification strategy for developing and adapting the human capital in SMEs, and to secure this by structural and organisational means. SMEs frequently do not have the option of making the necessary adaptations to the modernisation of the markets and their human resources in a flexible and up-to-date manner.
This tends to happen within the framework of the so-called supply and demand relation and lags behind the development required. In this case, implementing models and instruments of modern organisational and personnel development which are tailor-made for the individual company stabilises the employable development of the human capital and secures the future viability of the company. Aspects of the quality assurance, diversity management and the implementation of flexible working hour models are also provided here.
·Ability to innovate in SMEs
The ability to innovate is an important strategy for SMEs to adapt to changed economic and technical conditions. Innovations are conceived in people's brains. The abilities required for this are developed and practised in psychologically and pedagogically designed innovation training.
Nowadays, innovations are based on the reliable and creative application of modern IundC technologies. With the aid of special models, we are therefore imparting and strengthening particularly those abilities which facilitate network-supported work and cooperation because the greatest innovation potential of IundC lies in networking.
Innovation also requires stimulating input from the scientific community. We are therefore creating models which link SMEs and universities.
This is especially important because there are not any research institutions located in the Gotha economic region, and the relevant contacts have been inadequate up to now.
Innovation is not a new topic. We are therefore using the existing experience and approaches to solutions of our transnational partners in Newcastle, and are applying them to our actual conditions.
3.Strategies of regional accompanying, promotional and supportive structures
The network of the Development Partnership is to be brought together with the aid of IT, and developed for long-term and sustainable use and effectiveness. The common topics of the EQUAL project are to be developed, and the actions and effects integrated into the part projects of the DP.
·Network in the Internet
The results, instruments and systems of each of the part projects are brought together in an Internet-supported network and thus made available for the use of all participants and interested parties. In this way, a network is created which improves the existing structures of labour market and training policies, and the networking of employment strategies. The information can be selectively accessed in a type of "construction kit", and can thus be used to further strengthen the qualification strategies and regional development capability.
·Intercultural activities and equality of opportunity
The DP Go-Net will bring common topics for eliminating inequalities to fruition by means of several projects which will incorporate elements for combating racism and xenophobia, and for equality of opportunity for men and women, the activities of this project will influence the individual actions and objectives of the part projects. This will also ensure that the common topics are included in all fields of activity on the communication and decision levels, and that they can be sustainably implemented in the regional network and the target group work.