LearningConnects is a campaign launched by the European Training Foundation offering support during the COVID-19 crisis, focusing on how education and training systems, businesses, schools, teachers, students, and their families can adapt to the challenges of teaching and learning at a distance, often using unfamiliar and untried technology and imperfect systems and infrastructure. In this […]
Free download of the book “Powering a learning society during an age of disruption”: by Rupert Mc Lean , Shanti Jagannathan and Sungsup Ra
The newly published book “Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption” is now available on both ADB and Springer websites as follows: ADB: https://www.adb.org/publications/powering-learning-society-during-age-disruption Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0983-1#toc Press release by ADB: https://www.adb.org/news/promoting-learning-society-key-equitable-education-amid-covid-19-adb-book It is an open access book and can thus be downloaded for free by anyone.Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz wrote a Foreword to the book. […]
Giovanni Crisonà visits the Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics
At the end of August 2019, Mr Giovanni Crisonà visited the Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics (ZITIE) in Hangzhou to establish a mutual collaboration in the Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics (ZITIE), a UNESCO-UNEVOC centre in China, invited Mr Giovanni Crisonà to visit the campus and the Hangzhou Economic Development Area. The meeting with Mr Chandler, vice-president […]
Giovanni Crisonà presented the Skillman Alliance at the workshop on Future-Proofing Vocational Education for Manufacturing
The new EU funded Skillman’s strategy to develop a large network of CoVE with Earlall, Cumulus, IVETA and Eapril, was presented by the Skillman.eu leader Giovanni Crisonà at the High-level expert workshop on ‘Future-Proofing Vocational Education for Manufacturing: Strategy, Collaboration Patterns and Learning Environment’. The event, held in Brussels the 17th of September 2019, was […]
Giovanni Crisonà participated in the ARACNE+ meeting in Athens
The meeting of the Aracne+ project was held the last 10th and 11th of September in Athens. The event was hosted by IDEC, the high tech and training company partner of the initiative. Aracne is about to finish and the meeting was a great opportunity to draw conclusions on the training model implemented on the basis of the ARACNE […]
New EYE agreement with the school of music foundation of Fiesole (Florence)
Fondazione ONLUS Scuola di Musica di Fiesole signed the agreement with CSCS aimed at promoting together the ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ Programme Fondazione ONLUS Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, a non-profit Foundation at the forefront of musical literacy training, committed in the promotion of various initiatives addressed to raise awareness and support for young people, […]
The research team of CSCS supports the realization of a thesis on the social integration of Immigrant Background Students
The Master’s thesis of Francesco P. Cardiello ‘Understanding and Improving the Social Integration of Immigrant Background Students in Oslo and Florence’ will be defended soon at the University of Oslo. Dr Tiziana Chiappelli at the University of Florence and Dr Giovanni Crisonà at Gruppo CSCS in Pistoia supported its elaboration by connecting Cardiello with the academic and […]
Giovanni Crisonà participates in the last meeting of Caronte
The intermediate meeting of ‘Caronte: Continuing educAtion and scientific infoRmatiON literacy on Raw MaTerials for profEssionals’, has been held the last 17the and 18th of January in Barcelona. During the event, the partners discussed the last stages of the project and agreed to distribute the resources and tools for the training of the managers through […]
Giovanni Crisonà meets Rakesh Sanjel, the Managing Director of NAAT
At the beginning of January 2019 Rakesh Sanjel, the skillman.eu representative for Nepal, was invited at the Skillman Secretariat in Italy for a two-day meeting. Rakesh Sanjel is the Managing Director of The Northern Light Academy of Aviation and Technology (NAAT), a leading aviation academy located in Kathmandu, Nepal, whom prime mission is to advance knowledge […]
Talk with the Minister for Labour @ the EU 2030 High-Tech Skills Vision
The Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Economy of Luxembourg discussed his view at the workshop on the EU 2030 High-Tech Skills Vision where Mr Crisonà presented Skillman.eu position to a highly specialised audience of experts from academy, industry and social parts. The occasion for the very relevant debate was given by the European Commission, with […]