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Necessity of DCT:
Early education and especially children´s day care are topic themes in almost every EU-member country. The most alarming challenge is to quarantee the availability of high quality personnel and further education in the near future.
Targets:
The first target is to develop an evaluation tool to transform actual and current training needs as further training offered by occupational further training institutes –private and public. The second target is to improve quality of further education to meet the needs of working life in order to develop closer relationship between further training and grass-root level needs in everyday work. The third target is to establish a new European network focusing on further education and training needs of all occupational groups in early education. The most in-depth target is to improve co-operation between working life and producers of further education –and the financiers of further education.
Final users:
Further training institutes, day care centres, public and private organisations and financiers of further training and continuing education, especially local authorities.
Duration:
26 months, from 1.11.2007 to 31.12.2009
Bases of development:
The idea is to combine quantitative and qualitative analyses to reach optimal level of training need analyses.
Working method:
Four transnational meetings (in Estonia, in Finland, in Romania and in Czech Republic) and meanwhile workshops using mainly on-line communication methods. The DCT is not an ICT-project itself but also an approach representing educational-sociological and political points of view for creating more reasonable methods to find out actual training needs..
Budget:
211.447€ of which 75 % supported from the LLP Programme
The nature of DCT:
European development project – transfer of innovations
Partner Group:
2xFI, AT, CZ, EE, DE, EL, LT, PL, RO = 10 partners altogether. Partners represent know-how of ICT and early education. The partnergroup is collected with a principle of multidisciplinery competencies.
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Co-ordinator:
Printel Ltd / Edufin-Unit / City of Vantaa / Finland
Riitta Laakso Head of the Unit
Kari Koskinen Researcher, DCT Co-ordinator
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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