The New Skills Network has established a cooperation with a sheltered workplace in Reykjavik.

“Matching labour market supply with labour market demands”

11.09.-14.09.2011, Tallinn, Estonia

 We are pleased to inform you that the Estonian National Agency for the Lifelong Learning Programme is organising a contact seminar for the Leonardo da Vinci Programme. A contact seminar is a networking event organised by a National Agency. It aims at bringing together people from organisations which share common interests and would like to develop European cooperation projects/partnerships in the field of vocational education and training.

This contact seminar is part of the Nordic-Baltic cooperation. Also, the NEW SKILLS network project partnership will collaborate with the Nordic-Baltic partnership in developing a detailed theme for the seminar so as to ensure that new project ideas created during the seminar will focus on identified gaps in upgrading skills to match future labour market demands. 

 As the third in a series of events addressing the new skills agenda, the seminar titled “Bridging the Skills Gap” targets sectoral cooperation and knowledge-sharing. It aims to address key questions like how to make education and training more responsive to the needs of the labour market, what role skills forecasting can play in this and how to make sure the right mix of skills is taught.

The New Skills Network-seminar A JOURNEY OF SKILLS, held in Antwerp on November 8,  tackled the issue of skills upgrading and skills recognition for learners in the framework of Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus transnational placements. It was not only targeted to practicioners of mobility projects, but also to other projects that tackle the issues of the seminar in for example partnership projects, projects on cooperation between higher education institutions and enterprises, transfer and development of innovation projects.

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 The seminar tackled the issue of skills upgrading and skills recognition for learners in the framework of Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus transnational placements. It was not only targeted to practicioners of mobility projects, but also to other projects like partnership projects, projects on cooperation between higher education institutions and enterprises and transfer and development of innovation projects. 

The seminar will be organised on 8th November 2010 in Antwerp, Belgium and it will tackle the issue of skills acquiring and recognising for learners in the framework of Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus transnational placements.

The NSN Network started its activities by holding a seminar titled “Facilitating cooperation between different stakeholders on the New Skills for New Jobs Agenda”   in Reykjavik, Iceland from 31 May to 1 June 2010.

The NSN Network will start its activities by holding a  seminar titled “Facilitating cooperation between different stakeholders on the New Skills for New Jobs Agenda”  in Reykjavik, Iceland on 31 May to 1 June 2010. The main objective of the Peer Learning seminar is to analyse New Skills for New Jobs Agenda as well as new recommendations for actions.

THE NEW SKILLS NETWORK is a thematic project coordinated by the Icelandic National Agency for EU´s Lifelong Learning Programme. The NA has since the Leonardo da Vinci I programme been very active participant in multilateral dissemination and exploitation activities since. Under the new Lifelong Learning Programme, the LLP NA in Iceland has continued to play an active role. The New Skills Network, is a three year cooperative effort of 15 European LLP NAs across Europe.