Group of VET students in the mountains

Diversity in Adult Education

ere at the Blanca Paloma VET centre (one of the branches of Docete Omnes Foundation, a DivCap Project partner) we understand and tailor our courses to deal with the diverse levels and abilities of our students. With the current situation highlighting the need to reassess and promote the use of ICT in the learning process. The focus must be on …

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Diverse people

“Diversity and Inclusion” for a better business performance

n our DivCap project we talk about diversity within training institutions. We understand diversity as respect and appreciation of what makes people “different” from the context of reference, the terms considered can be age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education and national origin, etc. Each individual brings, within an organization, different perspectives, work and life experiences, skills and differences. …

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DivCap 5th Online Meeting

Diversity Capacities 5th partners meeting Online in Croatia

In the times of COVID-19 the 5th Transnational Project Meeting, instead of being carried out in Zagreb Croatia, was held online, while at the same time maintaining the feeling of Croatian gastronomy by sharing tradicional Croatian recipes (food and drink) for the partners to enjoy together and apart. As a continuation of the previous partners meeting the partners discussed the …

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Diversity in the Crisis

“The drawbridges are going up” was the headline in Spiegel Online in Germany on 18.3.2020[1] and further stated:  “Europe is sealing itself off”.  It is not doing this to prevent migration, but to contain the spread of a virus, but freedom of movement in Europe, openness to people from other European countries is no longer given. In addition, in many …

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Diversity: Learning to live together

A truly multicultural education will be one that can address simultaneously the requirements of global and national integration, and the specific needs of particular culturally distinct communities, both in rural and urban  settings (….) To achieve such a truly pluralistic education it will be necessary to rethink the objectives of what it means to educate and be educated; to remodel …

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Diversity Capacities 4th partners meeting Online with a Greek spirit

In the times of COVID-19 the 4th Transnational Project Meeting, instead of being carried out in Patras Greece, was evidently held online, while at the same time maintaining the feeling of Greek Hospitality by sharing Greek recipes and Greek music for the partners to enjoy together and apart. The DivCap partnership had mostly finalized the work needed in outputs IO1, …

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Stakeholder committee DivCap Cramars

After resuming results and activities undertaken by the project up to now, research reporting, check list, first list of recommendations that will be in use is to suggest some integrations to the management of institutions in reference with Diversity, for the 2 piloting institutions in the region Friuli Venezia Giulia, Ires FVG and Cramars, the meeting group defined possible periods …

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Parnet staff in a study visit in Enschede

Diversity Capacities 3rd partners meeting in Enschede

DivCap partners have started the work on the case studies in 14 adult education organisations in 7 countries. Desk research has been done, studying resources like mission statements, annual reports, websites, leaflets and social media looking to how the diversity of the organisation generally has been showed and particularly how migrants are involved. The checklist, developed in an earlier stage, …

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Diversity Capacities 2nd Transnational Meeting in Hannover (Group Photo)

Diversity Capacities 2nd Partners Meeting in Hannover

Diversity Capacities Project second staff meeting took place in Hannover, Germany from 7 to 9 May 2019. The final version of the first intellectual output of the project, Checklist for adult education institutions, was presented by the German partner, responsible for this output. All the members in the Project team had the opportunity to discuss and to get a clear …

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