CONTEXTCovid-19 crisis has disrupted the education process especially in VET, where digital readiness was not uniform. While remote learning offers some educational continuity, VET sector has been hardly hit by the crisis (The impact of covid-19 on education, OECD report). However, increase is foreseen in the generated value and growth rate until 2027 in TVET in Europe (Report Ocean market research, Sept.2020). Current and next generation of trainers and workers needs to be more tech savvy, as ICT skills are required to offer & receive education & training. Digital natives are not necessarily digital literate. VET centers need to monitor and improve the quality of the provided training, in order to reach digital readiness that is becoming even more necessary today. VET centers/teachers need to adapt/act quickly, supporting learners from remote areas, offering blended teaching and promoting a safer, more responsible and ethical use of digital technology. However, everyone seems to focus on online tools, evaluation and examination methods, but there is no framework to assess the digital readiness at VET level. Even the online survey launched by the European Commission demonstrates this gap. The EFQM Model combined with the capabilities offered by the Digital Competence Framework can serve as a basis for this process. VET centers and trainers will be allowed to identify the key criteria they need to focus, according to their strategic objectives. There is already a map of the previous EFQM Model with EQAVET that can serve as a basis for this effort. The project will support opportunities for trainers and experts to acquire key competences in assessing digital education readiness. It will also support the professional development of educators and foster actions supporting high-quality and innovative assessment, combined with the deployment and evaluation of digital tools. OBJECTIVESGeneral objective: offer a methodology for a quality plan to VET centers and trainers for them to: 1) adopt a quality-centric point of view for their services and internal operations, 2) address digital education readiness issue, 3) assess training methods’ adaptability, 4) assess quality of online/distance/blended learning in the post covid-19 era. Main objectives:-understand more deeply the digital education readiness status in the VET sector;-assess a mixture of Quality Assurance (QA) methods and models and provide the novel Q4EDU framework;-prepare the ECVET curriculum for an expert and develop a novel methodology for specialised training. -develop training content, keeping in mind the quality criteria and performance indicators;-develop the Digital Readiness Assessment Tool that incorporates the proposed Q4EDU framework, perform trials and assess results, - develop Policy Recommendation/Guidelines document.NEEDS / PROBLEM TO BE ADDRESSEDVET trainers need to:-acquire key competences and be properly prepared to respond to new challenges in VET raised by the emergence of covid-19;-be able to adapt and act quickly, supporting learners from remote areas, offering blended teaching and promoting a safer, more responsible and more ethical use of digital technology; -be provided with methodologies to evaluate training methods and courses (i.e. online, blended and distance learning);-learn how to ‘value’ the use of new technologies and workflows in their trainings;-upskill with new competences.VET providers (i.e. managers and professionals) need:-updated curricula and attractive portfolios, engaging various education methods (online/distance/blended learning) adapted to emerging conditions;-to adapt/act quickly, supporting learners from remote areas, offering blended teaching and promoting safer, more responsible and ethical use of digital technology;-to employ specialised and highly trained trainers;-to provide additional courses tailored to trainees' needs.VET students need to:-be better prepared for challenging future careers enjoying inclusive nature of learning opportunities;-be provided with high-quality VET services.TARGET GROUPSVET trainers who want to be familiarised with high quality assessment of mixed/online/distance learning courses are mainly targeted and thus supported to enhance their digital readiness capabilities. Secondary target groups include VET professionals (e.g consultants, managers etc.) who want to evaluate the digital readiness of their organisation, as this is important for their competitiveness and sustainability. The project intends to outreach to more than 200 VET providers/trainers/trainees, more than 200 participants in multiplier events belonging to the defined target groups, at least 600 stakeholders at conferences/dissemination events and at least 5000 audience overall.

CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project will expand the outlook and debate on STI issues, increase scientific literacy in a broad sense, which includes the understanding of the societal role of Science, Technology and innovation (STI), and create shared understanding between scientific stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens. This multi-actor approach will embrace EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland. The CIMULTACT builds on the principle/conviction that the collective intelligence of society gives Europe a competitive advantage, which may be activated to strengthen the relevance of the European science and technology system. By establishing genuine dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers visions and scenarios for the desirable futures will be developed and debated, and transformed into recommendations and suggestions for research and innovation policies and topics. In short, CIMULACT will ● Create vision and scenarios that connect societal needs with future expected advances in Science and their impact on technology, society, environment etc. in connection to the grand challenges ● Provide concrete input to Horizon 2020 through recommendations and policy options for R&I and simulated calls for the Horizon2020 Work Programmes. ● Engage citizens and stakeholders in a highly participatory debate/consultation/process on scenarios for desirable sustainable futures and research ● Build capacities in citizen and multi-actor engagement in R&I through development, experimentation, training and assessment of methods for engagement ● Facilitate dialogue and shared understanding between policymakers, citizens, and stakeholders ● Reveal the relative merits of the citizen focussed consultations

"REASON: As all kinds of vocational trainings simply aim to give opportunity to trainee to ""work and earn money"", the aim of this project is also to help our target group inactive women to work and earn money for their life sustainability and lice in more wealthy environment. There exist a large number of inactive people, especially women who are potentially ""home based workers"" or ""e-workers"", but they need proper and efficient training for this. One of the most convenient ""home based working"" field is ""call centers"". People who are employed in call centers as call center representatives/agents are not necessarily have to be employed in the organizations’ premises or working offices anymore, thanks to fast developing communication technologies and Internet. As a result of development in communication technologies, call diverting is very easy and inexpensive. Access to company Intranets via Internet is now part of daily life due to high Internet access speeds. Therefore, home based working in this field is perfectly possible in any part of Europe, if proper training and practice channels are made available to those who will be interested in such a challenging employment opportunity. Another important factor of choosing this field for e-working is the fact that the sector steadily grows around 10-20% every year all in Europe in spite of recent years' global recession and financial crises.AIMS: The concrete aim of this project is “to e-train inactive women for their e-employment as call center representatives, to work from their homes”. Training concept also includes e-stage possibility for efficient and complete result achievement. After such a program, individual will be ready to start working, without needing extra steps. So, main objective is “to increase employability of inactive women in a profitable scheme for both employee and employer, under current market conditions”.CONSORTIUM CHARACTERISTICS:SNU [TR] HEI (University)FFE [ES] - Adult VET providerŁukasiewicz-ITEE [PL] - National R/D body developing VET for unemployment preventionINCSMPS [RO] - National R/D body developing VET for unemployment prevention AHBV [TR] - HEI (University)POINT [TR] - ICT and e-VET systems professionalTAKIDD [TR] - Large women NGO and networkingZARIF [SK] - Large women NGO and networkingSPI [LT] - NGO with networkingOUTPUT: Integrated e-Training and e-Stage portal supported by Android APP will allow future call center representatives to be e-trained and practice by means of calling each other and simulating clients in changing roles. Grading/rating anonymously and repetition of e- learning modules depending on the strengths/weaknesses, re-studying while repeating e-courses and similar features will bring the possibility of satisfactory self evaluation before starting to actual work.IMPACT: After having this kind of e-training and e-stage opportunity, home based employment possibility for inactive women will not be a dream any more. Thus, this will surely open a new challenging door for inactive women, including women with physical disabilities; for them to work from their homes and integrate themselves to labor market."