Current European Projects
Gijon Chamber of Commerce is currently working on projects within the following European programs:
Leonardo Da Vinci: Lifelong Learning: Multilateral Projects of Innovation Transference
Project: TEEUP (Teachers , Employees, Employers, Understanding Process)
- Program: Action Program in the Permanent Learning field
- Subprogram: Leonardo da Vinci. Innovation Transference.
Aims:
This project's main aim is to examine the development of professionalism, as well as the tendency to continuous formation. Institutions, and the development of their association relations with SMEs, aiming to promote permanent learning and to adapt the educational culture to this study.
Innovative practices, methodologies and processes are especially interesting, willing to get into the permanent learning movement within industry. The main goal is to develop a recognizable set of competences which contribute to the promotion, adaptation and running of the workers' mobility, paying special attention to immigrants inside the EU limits.
Scheduled Activities:
- To promote visit interchanges to EU countries, to obtain more information about formation processes, knowledge acquisition activities, abilities, qualifications that guarantee personal development, employability, participation in the European labor market, and the various tendencies related to mobility.
- To document relation tests between innovative SMEs and technical colleges, as well as all those workers' mobility-related practices. A free analysis of the project's associates will be included.
- To document those innovative practices which constitute a good relationship between technical colleges and SMEs in formation services. The labor unions' role and influence will be studied as well.
- To identify a competences frame based on innovative views, methodologies and techniques used by the SMEs with the mobile worker and/or immigrants using interviews and questionnaires.
- To develop an instrument of orientation to all those institutions related to formation and advice (always associated with technical colleges and SMEs) for mobile workers and immigrants. This will provide a frame guide, and could be used as a resource.
- To analyze the research's outcome using IT and Podcast.
- To promote and disseminate the project's outcome.
Associates:
- North West Regional College, Londonderry, Reino Unido.
- Integra AB, Uppsala, Suecia
- V.A. Graiciunas School of Management, Kaunas, Lituania.
- Groupe École Supérieure de Commerce & Industrie de L´ain, Bourg en Bresse, Francia.
- Istituto Formaziones Operatori Aziendali, Reggio Emilia, Italia.
- Tallin University of Technology, Tallin, Estonia
- Northern Ireland Business & Innovation Centre, Londonderry , Reino Unido.
- Cámara OfIcial de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Gijon, Asturias, España.
Duration:
24 months (October2008-October 2010)
Programa: Interreg IV-B Arco Atlántico
Partners:
- Invest in West. Francia
- ADRAL- Alentejo Regional Development Agency. Portugal
- CEC- Cámara de COmercio e Industria do Centro. Portugal
- UERN- Uniao das AssociaÇoes Emmpresarias da Regiao Norte. Portugal
- Cornwall Entreprise. UK
- Instituto Andaluz de Tecnololgía. España
- Atlanpole. Francia
- Limusin Expansion. Francia
- Europe+ . Francia
- WestBIC. Irlanda
- Midlands Regional Authority. Irlanda.
Implementation Period
January 2009 to December 2011.
Aims:
Win Atlantic is a common project, formed by five regions of the Atlantic Space. The aim of the partnership established by WIN member is based on participating in the reorientation of the regions' economy and the valorization of its endogenous potential, developing an action which encourages the internationalization of start-ups and innovative SMEs (SPI, in Spanish) from the aforementioned regions.
- To develop the Atlantic Space SPI's competitiveness, raising their development potential by the creation of trade flows.
- To improve the attractiveness of the Atlantic Facade territories, promoting their SPI's.
- To elaborate a SPI network in the Atlantic Facade.
- To share the existing internationalization services.
- To offer complementary services to the internationalization
Gijon Chamber of Commerce has been officially designed by the European Commission to serve as a link to the new EUROPE DIRECT Information Network, for the 2009-2012 period. Its main goals are:
- To bring information closer to the public, to offer a first answer to any informative request about the EU, and redirect it, if needed, towards some other, more adequate information sources
- To actively promote local and regional debate about the EU and its politics
- To offer the public the possibility to pass on feedback information to the institutions, i.e. questions, opinions and suggestions.
