FindAir is a med-tech company that provides smart inhaler devices and telemedicine systems. Since 2016 FindAir has worked to provide better treatment for asthma and COPD patients by developing the newest technologies and innovative solutions. The company’s flagship product, FindAir ONE add-on devices, is a family of smart inhaler add-ons for remote asthma monitoring and complete medication history documentation. FindAir ONE add-ons are available for pMDI inhalers, Ellipta inhalers, Easyhalers, Turbuhalers, and Diskus inhalers. Currently, over 12,000 people around the world use FindAir solutions to manage their asthma better. FindAir's products are used worldwide by top research entities, as well as global pharmaceutical companies. Our ambition is to finalize and implement cutting-edge research and development projects, leading to the creation of an innovative product: FindAir 2.0. This device will revolutionize respiratory care by quantitatively and qualitatively measuring inhalation parameters in DPI inhalers. The detachable module, adaptable to various DPI inhaler models, will non-intrusively measure force and time of flow, enabling accurate airflow analysis without modifying drug delivery channels. FindAir 2.0 data transmission to specialized software will offer visualization and evaluation of the inhalation processes. This groundbreaking product is poised to benefit individual patients, healthcare providers, and telemedicine platforms, as well as institutions conducting clinical trials or technology companies seeking advanced devices for recording and analyzing inhalation parameters. The development of FindAir 2.0 is a strategic response to a discerned market need, reinforcing our commitment to innovation and bolstering our competitive edge in the evolving landscape of respiratory healthcare.

The METAVET project addresses the need of developing and advancing the VET courses with the capacity building and information sharing activities. The project will facilitate the exchanges among European and South American countries - Poland, Spain, Paraguay and Argentina and will be focused on advancing vocational education and training to support the metal and energy sectors. The project includes VET providers and stakeholders active in the VET industry and labour market. The project objective is to improve regional and transnational multi-stakeholder cooperation though VET-Industry partnership framework to overcome gap between skills demand from the labour market and existing VET courses through capacity building and information sharing activities. Besides, the project aims at transferring and piloting of best practices in use of methodologies for design of curricula and multimedia resources for training based on innovative ways of delivering VET. In this regard the exchange between EU-LAC countries will be pivotal. The project will focus on capacity raising of the organisations from PY, AR while taking into account their strategic agendas. The project targets vocational education and training providers, VET centres, employers’ organisations, chambers of commerce and industries, trade unions, VET teachers and students. Notable the project will ensure the involvement of the person with disadvantaged backgrounds. It consists of entire project cycles and features 5 WPs: Project management and coordination; Multi-stakeholder cooperation; Skills needs and matching; Designing curricula and multimedia resources for training based on innovative ways of delivering VET; Dissemination, engagement, assessment. The project contributes to the achievement of the Call objectives via capacity building, training actions with the view to ensuring the sustainability of results.

<< Background >>The context of COOPERATE is represented by COVID-19 pandemic which has demonstrated the EU national health-care systems’ inability to counter it.All involved EU countries - Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland – have been unprepared to manage the crisis, adopting restrictive measures on freedom, which have halted the economy while failing to contain the virus.After a year, thanks to the science, EU countries are benefiting from vaccinations and easing those measures. Nevertheless, due to the experimental nature and the scarcity of vaccines and the virus’ constant mutation, the pandemic is still far from its resolution.In particular, what emerged was the inadequacy of the protocols of health-care facilities, which failed to avoid that the virus caused thousands of deaths among the most vulnerable, like the elderly.According to the Director for Europe of the WHO Hans Kluge, in Europe, in April 2021, almost half of the people died from COVID-19 were residing in care facilities.Based on official sources, like the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, countries such as Germany, Spain and Italy have suffered a high toll in terms of deaths in these structures. In Germany, 29% of COVID-19 deaths are long-term facility residents. In Spain, more than 13,000 elderly people have died in the residences. In Italy, out of 7,300 facility residents who died, 40% tested positive to COVID-19 and presented flu symptoms. Similar situations can be found in Poland and Greece.The main criticality found in these facilities has been the scarce or absent information on the procedures to contain the infection.In light of this and considering that, a year later, it is possible to leverage on more evidence, the priority need of COOPERATE is to provide a “European” response to the pandemic from the point of view of its management in the health-care facilities. The project is based on the awareness that, despite common problems, each EU country has dealt with the virus in a specific way and presents practices on which it is necessary to leverage to equip the health-care facilities, and related professionals, with more adequate transversal and technical skills to face COVID-19 and future crises. The need is, in other words, to promote the skills improvement and professional development of health-care operators by realizing a quality, European and EQF-aligned VET training offer.<< Objectives >>COOPERATE aims at achieving, as overall objective, the improvement of the health-care system from a VET point of view and within a European framework.This objective is framed as follows:- to gather the learning outcomes that, in each country, define the health-care sector, as described by the national Qualification Frameworks. Thus, facilitating partners’ understanding of how the sector is regulated in other countries represents a key step to provide a common, European and quality training response to the pandemic;- to leverage on the best VET programs of the represented countries. In fact, each country has its quality programs which it is strategic to take into consideration;- to assess the professional gaps found in the target facilities, in order to identify potential points for improvement. Analysing the main challenges of health-care operators and facilities is extremely strategic.The project pursues other aims connected to these objectives and to partners’ needs.Partners aim at promoting a more accessible use of the training offer, in line with the contemporary trends of online realization of events. Partners intend, also responding to one of the Programme’s horizontal priorities, to favour an experimentation of digital fruition of their training offer.Secondly, partners intend to sensitize VET providers, health-care organizations and operators and policy-makers on the project and its results, to give sustainability and visibility to the action and create future partnerships, for the improvement of the activated cooperation and the creation of on-the-job schemes.Finally, partners aspire to increase the European dimension and the network with actors committed to the improvement of their structure.<< Implementation >>COOPERATE will reach its objectives through the following distribution of activities.Transnational Project Meeting 1 – Month 1: Kick-off Meeting, occurring in Germany, Dresden and lasting 1 day, hosted by BSW.Project's result 1 - Months 2-12: C-VET Professional Course on pandemic management for health-care technical and management professionals.-PHASE 1 - Months 2-4: deployment of Expert Teachers which will study the national situation in terms of Qualification Frameworks and excellence courses. Based on this, each Expert will develop a proposal of the potential contents to include.-PHASE 2 – Months 5-8: deployment of Researchers, which, with the support of project assistants, will carry out a country-based assessment targeted to health-care professionals organizations, to identify learning gaps relating to the specific country and labour market.-PHASE 3 – Month 9: Transnational Learning Activity, which will occur in Warsaw, Poland. Partners’ Managers, Teachers and Researchers will gather and share the produced evidence to define the most important learning outcomes to include in the Course.-PHASE 4 – Months 10-12: BSW will be in charge of elaborating the C-VET Course, based on the cooperation realized with the partners.Project's result 2 – Months 13-15: Technical Description of the Course, with the specification of training modules, translated in all involved languages.-Months 13-14: BSW’s Expert Teacher will edit the Description, translated in all involved languages.-Month 15: the Description will be shared within a second Transnational Learning Activity occurring in Dresden, Germany. The event will be attended by partners' managers, Expert Teachers and 3 trainers per partner, with the aim of building the capacities of local trainers to deliver and also evaluating the Course.Project's result 3 – Months 15-20: digitalization of the C-VET Course.An IT technician, incurred by FORMAC will develop, liaising with the Expert Teachers, the digital contents of the Course. This result will support the digital transition of the involved VET providers organizations. National Experts will be tasked with developing the contents of the Course in their native languages. The IT technician will also be tasked with uploading on the project website - Project's result 4 - all the developed digital contents. Each partners’ Expert will be supported by IT Technicians in the development of the Course's contents in digital format. In order to ensure the quality and effectiveness of this result, Partners’ Managers will be given additional staff costs to directly participate in the implementation of this activity.Transnational Project Meeting 2 (TPM2) – Month 21: Final Transnational Project Meeting, occurring in Madrid, Spain, lasting 1 day. It will be hosted by FAB.Project's result 4 – Months 1-24: project’s website.-Months 1-3: creation of a dedicated website for the project.-Months 3-24: communication and dissemination of project’s activities.-Month 20: uploading by the IT technician of the digitalized Course on the website which will also represent the web platform for its online delivery. Each partner's website will have a link to this website.Multiplier Events – Months 21-24: In order to facilitate the dissemination of project’s results to the national communities of stakeholders (health organizations and institutions, health-care professionals, policy makers and national authorities), each partner will autonomously carry out a country-based dissemination Conference, with the aim of involving, each, 25 national stakeholders. This activity will be led by each partner’s coordinator which will leverage on partners’ networks to reach the most valuable and strategic national stakeholders to share the results of the project, increase their sustainability and trigger their use and visibility. Conferences will be carried out in Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy and Greece.<< Results >>COOPERATE intends to achieve different outcomes, which will concern the impact of the project on the participating organizations and the involved management and technical staff and 4 specific project’s results, representing the bulk of the project.In terms of participating organizations, the expected outcome is the increased European dimension of the partners forming the consortium. In fact, the project will involve organizations from Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Greece. The facilitated cooperation will have the objective of increasing their ability to interact and create partnerships at the European level, developing the skills needed to manage and/or participate in transnational consortia. Furthermore, for Fondazione SMA, COOPERATE will represent the first experience at the Erasmus+ and EU level, which means that the project will represent an opportunity to make an important step in terms of internationalization for a new comer.Another related expected outcome is the improved designing skills of educational development and partnership projects at the European level, which will concern the management staff that has participated in the preparation of the project and will participate in its activities.A third expected outcome that the project aims at producing will be the improved, always within a European perspective, participating VET organizations’ training offer relating to the topic of the project. This improvement will happen in terms of both the training contents – which are expected to improve as a result of the cooperation between partners from different European countries - and the delivery and fruition methods – i.e. development, delivery and fruition of training contents in digital format.The three mentioned expected outcomes will be achieved leveraging on 4 project’s results, aligned with and functional to the same outcomes:1. Developed a C-VET Professional Course for pandemic management targeted to both technical and management health-care professionals. The expected outcome is to create, through the cooperation between training organizations from several European countries, a Course that has relevance at the European level and is aligned with the National Qualification Frameworks and the labour market needs of involved countries, as well as with the European Qualification Framework.2. Edited a Formal Technical Description of the developed Course, containing the specification of learning outcomes, training contents, required skills and qualifications and career opportunities. The Description will also include a description of the European-based cooperative learning process that has facilitated the development of the Course. The Course and the related Description are expected to be available in each involved EU language.3. Facilitated the digitization of the Course through the development of its training contents in digital format for its online delivery and fruition. The digital contents are also expected to be available in all involved languages;4. Created a website of the project which will serve as platform for both the project’s communication and dissemination and for the delivery of the Course's digital contents.The final expected outcome is the increased EU civil societies’ and relevant stakeholders’ understanding of Erasmus+ and of project’s results, as well as of the need to improve the national education and training framework through the European cooperation. The Project aims at disseminating its results to the national communities of stakeholders involved in VET training processes, in the health-care professional sector and in policy making. The aim is to encourage the sharing of the cooperation practices activated in the project, as well as to extend the visibility of Erasmus+ and the project’s results to the widest possible audience, to increase the number of actors (including VET providers) and professionals in the sector interested in the Course’s contents.

<< Background >>Work-based learning and apprenticeships are at the core of VET. European Commission published a report on the 20 guiding principles of high-performance apprenticeships and work-based learning. Systematic cooperation between VET schools and companies was one of the identified principles to ensure high performing apprenticeships and work-based learning. Some years before, Business Europe presented 12 main recommendations on how to improve quality and image of apprenticeships on three levels; the European Union, the Member States and employers’ organisations through cooperation. Latest Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) outlines the European Commission’s vision for high-quality, inclusive and accessible digital education in Europe for the purpose to learn from the COVID-19 crisis and to make education and training systems fit for the digital age. When we put these developments in the context of VET offer, we may observe that wide impact of crises in manufacturing posed by COVID 19 have accelerated transition to Industry 4.0 even much faster. Certain parts of the production process will be outsourced or digitalized and even more of the process will be controlled from central control rooms than on the plant floor. Thus VET should not only follow up digitalisation in the industry but has to boost further developments.Project partners from Germany, Spain, Poland, Greece and Bulgaria which represents VET centres and Association of Companies in metal and electro sector have agreed that many dimensions of the VET-Industry cooperation should be improved in order not just to respond to the demand of the sectors but also to generate change, particularly the change related to transition to Industry 4.0. which has been accelerated even faster during COVID19 pandemic. This cooperation has been seen through a) VET process b) level of cooperation.<< Objectives >>Our project seeks to active following specific objectives: a) VET process: Adapting vocational education and training to labour market needs through skills assessment demand framework which will support the project to develop European training module according to demand of SMEs in metal and electro sector occupations. b) Level of cooperation: Improving collaboration between VET teachers and company trainers/ mentors in their use of digital tools in teaching, having in mind their complementary roles and responsibilities in performance of apprenticeships and work-based learning.<< Implementation >>a) VET: Adapting vocational education and training to labour market needs Cooperation of metal and electro industry with vocational training centres in order to overcome skills shortages through:1. Development of company survey (or skills assessment tool) which is consisted of: - background information on the company- selection of a particular occupational profiles -metal and electro sector;- series of occupation-specific tasks and emergence of any new tasks- questions on major changes and innovations introduced in the organisation and their impact on the selected occupational group and selected job profiles2. Development of European training module based on survey results. - Training module will take the form of the European training module which reflects Industry 4.0. aspects of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, robotics and automation and process digitalisation and software automation. - Training module will be structured around TOPIC (particular competency); b) SHORT CONTENT, GOALS, OBJECTIVES, LEARNING OUTCOMES, THEORETICAL INPUTS and EXERCISES (in companies).- Training module should be design in a way that each VET centre can introduce it in the core curricula for the metal and electro sector qualifications.b) Level of cooperation: Cooperation of teachers from vocational schools and companies in order to improve quality of teaching (use of digital applications in vocational schools - open source platforms, augmentative reality, internet of things etc.) 3. Blended training programme for VET Teachers and Work-place Trainers -for sharing information and knowledge on digital technologies (online learning and OER, simulation (augmented, mixed and virtual reality and digital assessment tools and credentials)- main aspect of the training is to elaborate how pedagogical innovations and digital learning technologies might be better used in VET. 4. digital JODAlab - updating and sharing educational apps applied in class or during the apprenticeship - each partner upload up-to date elaboration of use of digital tools in VET, ongoing or future projects which deals with development of digital tools for VET and sole digital tools staff will further communicate with VET teachers and workplace trainers in order to inform them about newly created platform and a way how they can make contribution and use the benefits from the JODAlab. - platform will be open to all users at their first visit. - in order to enter the JODAlab platform teachers will have to contribute to the platformOTHER ACTIVITIES:In order to support achieving the key outputs (company survey, training module, blended training and JODAlab), additional activities will be implemented: - Development of NETWORK of at least 150 companies (with focus on SMEs) in manufacturing industry from 5 EU countries – metal and electro sectors in order to participate in survey - Producing TWO DOCUMENTED ANALYSES on skills demand in occupational profiles of metal and electro sector based on survey results in order to summarise intelligible survey results - Organisation of EUROPEAN CONFERENCE - VET-Industry cooperation and introducing training module into curricula for the metal sector qualifications - challenges and perspectives, in order to train multipliers to understand and introduce Training Module in regional VET curriculums - Organization of National workshops in each partner country for VET practitioners in order to replicate European conference to a wider audience - VET practitioners and company mentors<< Results >>RESULT 1: We expect that, by the end of 2022, minimum 30 companies per country (150 in total) from metal and electro sector are involved in process of updating information about skills demand as “occupation task screening”. It means that through developed frameworks i.e.FactCheck skills assessment tool and network of companies, VET centres will have information which will be used in order to make an intervention more effective and efficient. The key success factor appears to be the presence of a committed companies that have the capacity to identify its skills needs and engage in cooperation with educational institutions to have them matched in curricula. However, such capacity is often a function of firm size and therefore it is unlikely that small companies can be expected to be able to initiate this kind of cooperation. Thus in this project we will provide framework for SMEs to imitate and participate in these activities.RESULT 2: We expect that, by the end of 2023, VET centres will have all relevant information to adapt their curriculum according to European Training Module. In order to support this projects, FactCheck project will develop training programme/module based on the survey results. This training programme will be example of good practice for all centres to refresh their modules and programmes. Training programme will take the form of the European training module constituted of identical European learning outcomes in the field of given occupations (focusing on use of innovative software, machines and digital tools used in metal and electro sector). The programme should meet the demands of industry with the VET system in targeted partners’ countries.RESULT 3: We expect that cooperation among teachers and trainers from participating countries will be improved. This cooperation will be possible through work at JODAlab and Blended training programme for VET teachers and Workplace trainers. We expect that minimum 100 teachers and workplace trainers will participate in these activities. Following outputs will be produced within the FACTCHECK project: • NETWORK of at least 150 companies (with focus on SMEs) in manufacturing industry – metal and electro sectors • SKILLS ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT for industry (SMEs). This instrument will be used by companies to update information on skills demand and by VET Centres in order to adapt curriculums according to needs of the companies• TWO DOCUMENTED ANALYSES on skills demand in occupational profiles of metal and electro sector based on survey results • EUROPEAN TRAINING MODULE developed according to task-occupational screening for selected occupational profiles developed• EUROPEAN CONFERENCE - VET-Industry cooperation and introducing training module into curricula for the metal sector qualifications - challenges and perspectives • Digital JODALab developed. Digital laboratory will be developed for active use of VET teachers and Workplace trainers in order to share information and knowledge on digital software and open source platforms and update information on new developed modules in the sector for specific occupational profiles • BLANDEDE TRAINING COURSE for VET teachers and Workplace trainers on use of ICT tools and methods in training courses and workplace training and• National workshops organized is each partner country for companies and VET centres

The project is developed based on the actual needs of the target groups VET providers and stakeholders active in the green energy sector in African countries. VET4GREEN aims at building the capacity of the beneficiary organisations, individuals representing the target groups, supports the development of the necessary skills and facilitates the exchange of transnational good practice by fostering cooperation between European and African partners.The project will make the VET courses more labour-market oriented and relevant as it improves the level of competences, skills and employability potential of VET course students by developing new and innovative VET education programmes. The needs of the underrepresented groups and persons coming from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are considered in the project design. VET4GREEN raises the awareness of the target group representatives from Poland, Sweden, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda on the need of updated VET for preparing students for success in green energy sector and disseminates information on the project outcomes and outputs created via comprehensive PCDP. The target groups of the project are: VET institutions, Teachers, curriculum designers in the VET centres, Employers and Employers’ organisations, University students, VET students, young professionals, Companies from green energy sector. The project involves 4 organisations from Europe (CEEC, Formac, NDF, FKARIBU) and five from Sub-Saharan Africa HIPDET (CM), SVK (KE), HiED (KE), PTU (SO), HiRi (RW) and features the following activities: 5 International Online Trainings Courses for Assessing and Validating Learning Outcomes in VET, 2 International Online Workshops, Study Visit to Poland, research and analysis phase, work of the VET Counsellors, development of the 2 VET teaching programmes, preparation of the 2 course-specific Handbooks, development of the Online Platform/Self-learning tool, Work-based trainings in the green energy sector company.