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SINTESI makes its own 20-year-long experience available in the operative management of projects.

Besides the possibility to manage the overall organisation of either a whole project or a number of actions, by focusing its activity on scientific and technological aspects and maximising the outputs, SINTESI provides shadowing, support and autonomous management services for the following activities:

developing the executive project;
management and quality control;
monitoring;
customer satisfaction survey;
organisational co-ordination;
managing (even foreigner) partnership;
developing the interim and final reports;
arranging and collecting expence documents;
financial, legal and administration management.

current projects

UETP net

Even if today's labour market is directing towards a skill-based approach for employment, the usual way that Universities and enterprises are collaborating are through the use of qualification degrees. This can create problems since employers do not have information about what the degree stands for. The aim of the project is to promote the skills-based approach through the use of an online "matching skills" tool which will be used by the enterprises to describe their job positions in terms of skills and the universities to describe in terms of skills their qualifications. Together with this tool (the main outcome of the project) two other web tools (an e-learning platform and a collaborative tool for publication of joint activities) will be developed as supportive tools for this process. Also a stakeholders network will be developed in order to bring the stakeholders of the project together, foster their cooperation and ensure the sustainability of the results of the project. The products will be developed on the basis of an initial study developed earlier in order to identify the exact needs of the target groups. The target groups are universities, enterprises, students/ graduates and their associations (together with the employment agencies in the longer term). The consortium of the project is made of 9 partners from 6 countries (Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Germany, Romania). 3 of the partners are universities, 1 is an SME association, 1 an employers' association, 1 SME and 3 University-Enterprise Training Partnerships. The envisaged impact is improved transparency of the skills of the university graduates, fact which will lead to the improvement of their employability chances as well as to the improvement of the possibilities of the enterprises to find appropriate staff. Furthermore, in this way the skills gaps between the skills offered by the universities and needed by the enterprises can be easily detected and corrective action could be taken.

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EUROPEAN REFERENCE OF QUALIFICATIONS EXISTING IN THE FISH AND SEAFOOD CANNERY SECTOR

EUROSEA project aims to elaborate a European Reference of Qualifications existing in the fish and seafood cannery sector, in order to compare vocational education and training related to this sector between partner countries.

The project will be developed from October 1st 2009 to July 31st 2011.

The main result of this project will be a tool working as a reference to policy makers in the education and training field and other social partners in the fish and seafood cannery sector.

EUROSEA will promote the recognition of qualifications in this sector, including competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning, encouraging the lifelong learning, and helping to establish European qualifications in this sector.

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Matching Frames

One of the greatest challenges for the implementation of the national and the European Qualification Frameworks (EQF) is the assignment of qualificational profiles to the individual levels according to comparable principles. This should be envisaged in a way to safeguard comparability and transparency of differently structured qualificational profiles. Therefore the main target of the project is to develop practical methods and aids/ tools which can be easily applied by the respective institutions. The development results will then be tested, made applicable and used in the partner countries (in companies, in training institutes, by the social partners). The developed tools and methods will be made available in a way that they can be easily handled.

They should be suitable to assign qualifications and training regulations/ curricula defined by the member states to the respective national qualifications framework (NQF) and to assign them to the individual levels. The methods and aids should help to reach comparability in order to better assess the quality of European qualificational profiles. More or less a “networking” of the individual qualifications frameworks should safeguard mutual transparent relationships.

At the same time the project aims to shed light on the advantages of result-oriented, sector-related qualifications frameworks which may help to meet the assignment tasks.

First and foremost transparent instruments for operationalization must be developed and applied which can also be used for concrete cases within the sectors worked on in the project and which can be transferred to other sectors.

The project work will focus on the metal and electrical sector as core sectors. The metal sector includes the automotive sector. Work process orientation will be the overall basis for all project work as it is structurally identical throughout Europe.

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