Knowledge Management in Vocational Training - A Case Study of the EU Project RELOAD

2012 ◽  
pp. 499-513
Author(s):  
Florian Welter ◽  
Thomas Thiele ◽  
Olivier Pfeiffer ◽  
Anja Richert ◽  
Sabina Jeschke
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Knowledge Management in Vocational Training - A Case Study of the EU Project RELOAD

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Welter ◽  
Thomas Thiele ◽  
Olivier Pfeiffer ◽  
Anja Richert ◽  
Sabina Jeschke
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals TOO WEAK TO INFLUENCE? A CASE STUDY OF THE LITHUANIAN NGDOs IN FOREIGN AID POLICY MAKING

Politologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Marta Gadeikienė
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Development ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
Aid Policy ◽  
The Eu

For the East Central European Countries (ECE), the membership in the European Union also meant an entry into the foreign aid donor community. To understand the international development policy change in over a decade and a policy divergence among the ECE countries that have started from relatively similar situations, this article offers the case study of Lithuania and the analysis of domestic policy actors, namely the non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) as one of the policy change facilitating factors. It provides an empirically-rich account of how Lithuanian NGDOs participate in the national foreign aid policymaking and explains factors that affect Lithuanian NGDOs’ capacity to influence government decisions. Szent-Ivanyi’s and Lightfoot’s theoretical model guided the analysis of the Lithuanian NGDOs umbrella organisations composition and power relations, their organizational capacities, foreign donor assistance and attitudes of the state actors. The article concludes the limited, yet increasing Lithuanian NGDOs’ role in shaping Lithuanian foreign aid policies, as undermined as they are by the chronic lack of resources to fund advocacy from national sources and the dependency on the EU project-based funding. Consequently, these circumstances constrain the NGDO Platforms’ focus mostly on the EU development agenda and therefore mimic the European NGO networks’ policy agenda. The lack of capacities among the NGDOs to adapt a European policy agenda to the national foreign aid policy reality makes it of limited relevance to the policy makers domestically.

scholarly journals Necessity of Knowledge Management Practices in TVET Projects in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Devendra Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
International Donor ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Secondary Information

Unemployed youths in Nepal have been receiving vocational training through different projects with the support of international donor communities. Many of these projects simply meet their objectives by fulfilling the quotas of the training participants. There are some TVET projects in Nepal, which do not have priorities in sharing the learning and good practices that were gained during their implementation period due to the lack of Knowledge Management (KM) and disseminating mechanism. The purposes of this article are (i) to disseminate some activities and learnings gained by a Technical Education and Vocational Training (TVET) Project in Nepal which trained nearly 3000 youths from 2012-2016, and (ii) tracing out the importance of the KM practices in every TVET projects. This is a case study research in which secondary information such as the review of the project documents and the reflections of the author as a practitioner-scholar have been used as data. The findings of this research reveal that every TVET project in Nepal has gathered vast sources of knowledge and data. These learning will be beneficial to other forthcoming projects of similar nature. If these data and knowledge are shared among other TEVT project's, then huge financial resources of the state will also be saved. This research article could help us to consider about the importance of KM system in TVET projects.

scholarly journals THE COMPLEX OF SANTA CROCE IN RAVENNA AS A CASE STUDY: INTEGRATION OF 3D TECHNIQUES FOR SURVEYING AND MONITORING OF A HISTORICAL SITE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Bitelli ◽  
Ester Barbieri ◽  
Valentina Alena Girelli ◽  
Alessandro Lambertini ◽  
Emanuele Mandanici ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
First Results ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
Expected Outcomes ◽  
The Eu

Over the last decades, climate change has brought more and more challenges to managers of cultural heritage and researchers. The increasing effects of natural hazards on assets have required the development of a new protocol of techniques and methodologies for the monitoring of Cultural Heritage and the adoption of management plans adapted to the new challenges at every stage of risk management. The work here presented aims at providing an insight of the work undertaken under the framework of the H2020 SHELTER project, to showcase the first steps of the multi-disciplinary research conducted in one of the project’s case studies, the complex of Santa Croce in Ravenna, Italy. The paper provides the presentation of the case study and the description of the surveying activities with some first results, to provide a preliminary assessment of the site criticalities to be addressed in the future activities in the area, in line with the EU project expected outcomes.

Modernisation of Higher Education – Willful Action or Wishful Thinking? The Case of Bulgaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Elena Blagoeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
National Level ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The impact of the last global economic crisis (2008) on the European economy put a strain on higher education (HE), yet it also pushed the sector towards intensive reforms and improvements. This paper focuses on the “Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2014-2020”. With a case study methodology, we explore the strategic endeavours of the Bulgarian government to comply with the European directions and to secure sustainable growth for the HE sector. Our research question is ‘How capable is the Bulgarian HE Strategy to overcome the economic and systemic restraints of Bulgarian higher education?’. Because the development of strategies for HE within the EU is highly contextual, a single qualitative case study was chosen as the research approach. HE institutions are not ivory towers, but subjects to a variety of external and internal forces. Within the EU, this is obviated by the fact that Universities obtain their funds from institutions such as governments, students and their families, donors, as well as EU-level programmes. Therefore, to explore how these pressures interact to affect strategic action on national level, the case method is well suited as it enabled us to study the phenomena thoroughly and deeply. The paper suggests the actions proposed within the Strategy have the potential to overcome the delay, the regional isolation and the negative impact of the economic crisis on the country. Nevertheless, the key elements on which the success or failure of this Strategy hinges are the control mechanisms and the approach to implementation. Shortcomings in these two aspects of strategic actions in HE seem to mark the difference between gaining long-term benefits and merely saving face in front of international institutions.

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