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Manos Andreadis

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BOOST – Business PerfOrmance imprOvement through individual employee Skills Training

Description

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Small and micro enterprises have a decreasing participation in vocational education and training. There is a real need to engage them in developing a positive attitude towards training. BOOST will integrate tools and develop associated methodologies. These will enable enterprises with less than 20 employees to identify their critical business needs and then also to find appropriate and customized learning resources to meet these needs.           

 The project will publish all relevant information on its website and communicate with the target groups also via social media. The most important results will be the technical prototype and platform, which are based on an innovative methodology. At least 15 case studies are planned, in order to evaluate the prototype. More than 40 small enterprises will be involved and over 100 individual employees will test the tools, which will enable to identify their skill gaps and fulfill the business critical demands. At the end of the project a conference for training providers, business networks, and policy makers will take place. A suitable sustainability strategy for project outcomes will be developed too.

 

Keywords / TAGS

SMEs, business critical needs, employees, online platform, skills gap

Coordinator contact details

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boost@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

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UK, Germany, France, Greece

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Partners

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Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, The MRS Consultancy, Greta du Velay, Asset Technology

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• Continuous training
• Enterprise and SMEs
• Lifelong learning
• Open and distance learning

Target Groups

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• Trainers
• Other

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• Best practice

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• Education
• Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities

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Year

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2014

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English

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1. LLP project or related resource

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Business Critical Learning for individuals working in SMEs (BeCome)

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http://become.ning.com

Comments/Description

This project developed a Tool which enhances the attractiveness of vocational learning to employers and employees in small and micro firms and facilitates their engagement in VET.

2. LLP project or related resource

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ROLE – Responsive Open Learning Environments

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http://www.role-project.eu

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Responsive Open Learning Environments (ROLE) is a European collaborative project with 16 internationally renowned research groups from 6 EU countries and China. ROLE technology is centred around the concept of Self-regulated learning that creates responsible and thinking learners that are able to plan their learning process, search for the resources independently, learn and then reflect on their learning process and progress. Given this task, ROLE´s main objective is to support teachers in developing the open personal learning environments for their students where they can train each of the phases mentioned.

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The system will integrate assessment of business critical needs with provision of training and learning solutions. The needs will be identified by methodologies from the BeCome project. The customized learning solutions will be provided via the ROLE project platform and tools. This project will take the key features and benefits of both and integrate them to meet the market need. The aim is to support employees in training activities and to facilitate their personal development.

Stakeholders

Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, The MRS Consultancy, Greta du Velay, Asset Technology

Partnerships

BeCome project partners, The ROLE partners

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