On 15th November2023, the consortium joined the 4th and last Transnational Project Meeting of the WIDE project, which was held virtually. WIDE – Women Integration through Digital Entrepreneurship – is a …
The WIDE Consortium has successfully piloted the four training modules and related resources developed during the first year of project’s implementation, to exhort and support women living in rural areas to …
Bridging Gender Gaps and Boosting Global Competitiveness E4F, Femmes Chefs d’entreprise à l’Export hors de l’EU, is a Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings …
The aim of OPSIZO WP2, coordinated by the University of Naples Federico II, is to develop the innovative corporate welfare model in micro-enterprises for diversity and inclusion in gender and sexual …
Partner organisations met in Helsinki to update each other on the progress of the project and prepare to launch the new Vademecum for Slow Navigation! On 23 October, the third transnational …
Twice A Year, The Commission Offers 5-Month Paid Internships In EU Directorates, Institutions And Agencies, Which Have Signed A Service Level Agreement With DG EAC/The Commission.Subsequent Career Opportunities May Vary Between …
In the framework of XENIA Erasmus+ Project the University of Barcelona, one of the partner involved in the transnational project’s consortium held the workshop ‘Entre Griegas’ promoted within the Community Psychology …
In the framework of XENIA Erasmus+ Project the University of Barcelona, one of the partner involved in the transnational project’s consortium held the workshop ‘Entre Griegas’ promoted within the Community Psychology course of Psychology studies by the University of Barcelona last 27th November 2020.
Using methods taken from the theatre of the oppressed and theatre for life, the workshop had the objective of investigating how to expand, multiply and bring together the cracks or breaks in the system of domination of the cis-hetero-patriarchal-monogamous-capitalist-euro-white in the context of the Faculty of Psychology.
35 students took part in this workshop that has been developed during 3 classes for a total of 6 hours, facilitated by Noé (collective of Las Precarias) together with Professors Dr. Moisés Carmona and Ruben David Fernández.
The “Entre Grietas” Workshop is part of a set of actions promoted by the University of Barcelona’s Research Group on Interaction and Social Change to disseminate XENIA project and to penetrate Xenia impacts in the University context.
The aim and objectives of XENIA project are to develop and implement an inclusiveness index to support inclusion, equality and diversity in European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Specifically, an algorithm matrix based will measure the level of social and educational inclusiveness of sexual minority and gender marginalised students and staff within the HEIs context. The project will also share practices and tools for promoting and improving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
XENIA international consortium commemorates two days dedicated to the fight against gender-based violence worldwide. Annually November celebrates the TDoR – Transgender Day of Remembrance on day 20th to memorialize transgender people …
XENIA international consortium commemorates two days dedicated to the fight against gender-based violence worldwide. Annually November celebrates the TDoR – Transgender Day of Remembrance on day 20th to memorialize transgender people who have been murdered and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25th.
Are these two days united by a common thread? First of all, which women are included (or excluded) in actions to prevent and combat gender-based violence?
Let’s take into consideration the word TRANS. It is not a noun, but an adjective. So when we talk about women, in the same way we should talk about white women and women of colour, skilled and disabled women, so we also should talk about cisgender and transgender women.
In official statistics on GBV the gender variable is always expressed in the “male” and “female” modalities, but transgender and non-binary people are invisible.
The Erasmus+ XENIA project with its 8 partners from 5 different European countries commemorates all the victims and survivors of misogynistic and transphobic gender-based violence and stresses the common matrix of these two expressions of violence found in the male chauvinist, genderist and patriarchal culture.
XENIA believes that educational tools are crucial to prevent gender-based violence and to promote a culture respectful of diversity.
It also supports the importance of producing scientific knowledge and empirical evidence on the topic, in order to advocate and give tools to policy makers for the creation of inclusive anti-violence policies.
While young farmers represent the economic bulk of European rural areas – territories that make up from 40% to 80% of every European nation – numerous EU reports identify the need …
On November 26, 2020, Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of YOUNG FARMERS (Rural Entrepreneurship Leveraging Advanced training for Young farmers), a Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, which brings together seven Partners from five countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Spain). The Kick-Off Meeting, hosted by the Institut De Haute Formation aux Politiques Communautaires (IHF asbl), was originally planned in Brussels, but has been rescheduled online due to COVID-19 restrictions.
While young farmers represent the economic bulk of European rural areas – territories that make up from 40% to 80% of every European nation – numerous EU reports identify the need of a strong entrepreneurial and risk management training (as well as new technologies) from which rural entrepreneurs can benefit in terms of new and more innovative models for business competitiveness.
The financial and long-term sustainability of their business is by several key factors: lack of entrepreneurial training; overall lack of digital and ICT competences; the competitive pressure represented by big industrial value chain.
YOUNG FARMERS aims to enhance the opportunities for EU young farmers to adopt and exploit digital entrepreneurship models so to valorise their businesses with new competitive solutions.
The content of the training will address three main areas:
Throughout Implementation, Partners will:
All YOUNG FARMERS results will available in multilingual versions, free of charge and without restrictions through the dedicated OER platform.
Internet Web Solutions is in charge of Intellectual Output 1 and will develop, test and update the OER platform which will represent a repository of project’s outputs, results, news and contacts. Furthermore, IWS will follow and implement each project’s output and disseminate milestones and deliverable.
For further information on YOUNG FARMERS and other IWS initiatives:
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25th November In 2020, COVID-19 touched our lives in nearly every way. As isolation began, reports of all forms of violence against …
In 2020, COVID-19 touched our lives in nearly every way. As isolation began, reports of all forms of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, began to rise. Ending violence against women is everyone’s business.
Even Before COVID-19 Hit Us, Globally, 243 Million Women And Girls Were Abused By Their Intimate Partners In The Past Year.
The 25th November Is The International Day Fot The Elimination Of Violence Against Women.
International Days Are Occasions To Educate The Public On Issues Of Concern, To Mobilize Political Will And Resources To Address Global Problems, And To Celebrate And Reinforce Achievements Of Humanity.
The EU’s New Action Plan On Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment In External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III) Aims To Accelerate Progress On Empowering Women And Girls, And Safeguard Gains Made On Gender Equality During The 25 Years Since The Adoption Of The Beijing Declaration And Its Platform For Action.
High Representative/Vice-President, Josep Borrell, said: “Ensuring the same rights to all empowers our societies. It makes them richer and more secure. It is a fact that goes beyond principles or moral duties. The participation and leadership of women and girls is essential for democracy, justice, peace, security, prosperity and a greener planet. With this new Gender Action Plan, we are pushing for more and faster progress towards gender equality.”
The Gender Action Plan III provides the EU with a policy framework with five pillars of action for accelerating progress towards meeting international commitments and a world in which everyone has space to thrive. It makes the promotion of gender equality a priority of all external policies and actions; offers a roadmap for working together with stakeholders at national, regional and multilateral levels; steps up action in strategic thematic areas; calls for the institutions to lead by example, and; ensures the transparency of the results.
Digital Entrepreneurship for Adult Learners: Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of DEAL On November 9th 2020, Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of DEAL, a Project …
On November 9th 2020, Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of DEAL, a Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together seven organisations from five European countries (Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Spain). The KOM, originally planned in Brussels, Belgium, was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
DEAL stems from a few trends: according to official reports of the EU Commission, more than 40% of Europeans lack basic digital skills and almost half of them are unemployed and at risk of severe socio-economic marginalisation. In addition, an ageing society is leading to digital and economic divide: low skilled Adult are the ones who are most exposed to risks of socio-economic exclusion due to lack of digital competences.
Nevertheless, as some real case scenario have shown, for Adult People the modern digital era can also represent an entrepreneurial opportunity and not only a threat: the DEAL project aims to trigger and unlock these potential providing strong, reliable, evidence-based and practical digital entrepreneurship and business management knowledge/tools to empower self-employability and entrepreneurship for low-skilled adults.
The DEAL Project tackles various EU priorities:
During the meeting, the consortium discussed about the overall project implementation schedule, defining timelines and respective duties in the following months. In particular, the partnership will upload the OER platform by the end of 2020: the DEAL official website will represent a repository of project’s outputs, results, news and contacts. A mapping activity will follow in order to identify the main trends, issues, best practices and policy support systems in the countries represented in the Consortium.
IWS will be the IT partner involved in the project, responsible for the developing of DEAL OER platform, that will be available 24-7 for all the duration of the project and beyond. The platform will host all the deliverables and the intellectual outputs produced in the 4 official languages. Moreover, IWS will follow and implement each steps of the project that will empower older rural female workers with digital skills.
Entrepreneurial Capacity-building for Sport: internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of ENDURANCE On November 5th 2020, (name of your organisation) joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of ENDURANCE, a Project …
On November 5th 2020, (name of your organisation) joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of ENDURANCE, a Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together eight Partners from seven countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Spain). The KOM, originally planned in Bratislava, Slovakia, was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Links between sports & entrepreneurship are manifold, yet seldom recognized and rarely capitalized upon. The two are rarely found together in VET as effectively connected domains with synergic links: hence the need for much-needed entrepreneurial competences due to low EE in sports-oriented disciplines and lack of tailored entrepreneurship training. ENDURANCE “rethinks” the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship based on the complementarities and commonalities between sport and entrepreneurship, such as determination, perseverance, self-confidence, stamina, respect of rules, team play, self-reliance, competition, success/failure, etc.
ENDURANCE’s objective is to reignite entrepreneurial spirit and modernize the way entrepreneurship is tackled in VET and to:
During the meeting, the consortium discussed about the overall project implementation schedule, defining timelines and respective duties in the following months. In particular, the partnership will upload the OER platform by the end of 2020: the ENDURANCE official website will represent a repository of project’s outputs, results, news and contacts. A mapping activity will follow in order to identify the main trends, issues, best practices and policy support systems in the countries represented in the Consortium. In particular, partners will be focused on finding commonalities between sport and entrepreneurship. This mapping activity will culminate in a final report that will be available online by July 2021.
IWS will be the IT partner involved in the project, responsible for the developing ENDURANCE OER platform, that will be available 24-7 for all the duration of the project and beyond. The platform will host all the deliverables and the intellectual outputs produced in the 7 official languages. Moreover, IWS will follow and implement each steps of the project that links sport and entrepreneurship.
Building Community Resilience through Communication and Technology: IWS joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of BUCOLICO On November 11th 2020, Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of BUCOLICO, a 36-month …
On November 11th 2020, Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of BUCOLICO, a 36-month Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together five Partners from different countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Greece). The KOM, originally planned in Sicily (Italy), was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Project wishes to propose learning standard contributing to the empowerment of NEETs in rural contexts. In fact, BUCOLICO’s 5-country strong Partnership of experts will devise 6 Intellectual Outputs to engineer a learning standard tailored to facilitate labour participation and market access among socially excluded individuals/groups in geographical marginal rural areas.
The specific target and the concrete aims and objectives have their roots in cultural, economic, governmental issues that characterizes rural areas context. Young adults experience prolonged permanence within their original family core, lack support bridging the education-work transition. As regards education, figures states that highly developed human capital finds less opportunities in the Mediterranean, with 77.3% active 30-34 year old graduates (EU average 87.1%).
BUCOLICO ought to bolster NEETs’ reintegration to widen participation to sustainable levels and rescue them from social exclusion through Communication and Technology and in particular with the development of a target-oriented mobile business GAMING APP. The intellectual outputs of the project are six in total and includes the implementing of user-centred workshops in the project’s countries and the creation of final Handbook.
During the meeting, the consortium discussed about the overall project implementation schedule, defining timelines and respective duties in the following months. In particular, the partnership will upload the OER platform by the end of 2020: the BUCOLICO official platform will represent a repository of project’s outputs, results, news and contacts.
IWS will be the IT partner involved in the project, responsible for the developing BUCOLICO OER platform, that will be available 24-7 for all the duration of the project and beyond. The platform will host all the deliverables and the intellectual outputs produced in the 5 official languages. Moreover, IWS with its expertise in the field of digital skills and competences will follow and implement each steps of the project.
Sharing European Architectural Heritage: innovative language teaching tools for academic and professional mobility in Architecture and Construction: Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of SEAH On October 23th 2020, …
Sharing European Architectural Heritage: innovative language teaching tools for academic and professional mobility in Architecture and Construction: Internet Web Solutions joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of SEAH
On October 23th 2020, (name of your organisation) joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of SEAH, a 24-month Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together six Partners from different countries (Italy, Spain, Belarus, Czech Republic, France). The KOM, originally planned to be hosted in the headquarters of the University “Gabriele D’annunzio” Chieti-Pescara (Italy), was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The project aims at creating academic-professional language modules for French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish as a foreign language in the field of Architecture and Construction (AC) with a view to encourage student mobility and to improve the outcomes of mobility programs. In fact, the consortium formed by five Higher Education institutions with extensive teaching and research experience in the fields of Applied Linguistics, Teaching Foreign Languages, Corpus Linguistics and Language Learning/Teaching Technology and one private enterprise, Internet Web Solutions (IWS), based in Málaga (Spain) will implement the project’s outputs into two years.
In the first year (IO1), SEAH will create language corpora comprising texts representative of professional and academic communication in AC. In the second year (IO3) each partner university will develop online language teaching modules for AC; throughout the project, the IT partner IWS is in charge of Intellectual Output 2 and will develop, test and update the Multilingual Open Educational Resources (OER) platform which will be used to distribute resources created within the project.
The project relies on the use of a variety of methods at each stage, including: semi-automatic creation and annotation of language corpora; automatic extraction of linguistic (lexical, morphological, syntactic and pragmatic) features to inform the learning materials; OER-Platform implementation and testing; survey-based methods for data collection and analysis.
During the meeting, the consortium discussed about the overall project implementation schedule, defining timelines and respective duties in the following months. In particular, the consortium agreed on the choice of the domain name, the web design, the official logo and the main functionalities of the Multilingual OER platform for Architecture and Construction.
IWS is in charge of Intellectual Output 2 and will develop, test and update the Multilingual OER platform which will represent a repository of project’s outputs, results, news and contacts.
On October 8th 2020, IHF asbl joined the Kick-Off Meeting of VESTA, a Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together 6 Partners from 5 …
On October 8th 2020, IHF asbl joined the Kick-Off Meeting of VESTA, a Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission, which brings together 6 Partners from 5 countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Spain). The KOM, originally planned in Pordenone, Italy, was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
More than 14 million family enterprises in Europe provide for 50% GDP and 60 million jobs. In times of crisis, family enterprises play a crucial socio-economic role as an employment buffer and pivot of growth. Despite their role, at present there are no programmes and initiatives tailored to the specific needs of family enterprises whose competitiveness is undermined by specific challenges. Shortcomings in regulation, definitions, support system and training limit family enterprises potential, exacerbated by fragmentation among Member States.
VESTA has the objective of supporting the growth and sustaining the competitiveness of family enterprises so that they can strive and continue to play that crucial role of social buffer and economic engine of growth, by developing innovative operational tool and training resources. Within such context, VESTA is devoted to family enterprises, especially those of micro-small size, formal and non-formal VET service providers and representatives of user groups, FB facilitators and members of support associations, media, and to all those who are interested in family business management.
