Consortium

The Consortium involves 7 partners from 6 different countries.

1- UcY – University of Cyprus (Cyprus)

UcY is a large sized Higher Education Institution which has already entered its 15th year of functioning since its first faculty members were appointed and its first students were accepted. It consists of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. UcY aspires to establish itself as a research-oriented institution that combines research with teaching in order to promote knowledge and educate highly qualified specialists and professionals. Its academic staff participates in a wide variety of international research projects which involve partners and peers from many different countries, universities and research institutions. Research programmes are supported by both state and international funding agencies. Research in UcY is profitable at many different levels and teaching at the UcY is continually enriched by its ongoing research.

2- F&K Consultants (Greece)

F&K is a new Company comprising of young people highly educated willing to create a "Euro-bridge" trying to bring together all the EU Countries. Their aim is to fill the gap coming up through the insertion of new member - Countries in the EC and decrease the differences between new and old European members, in order to create a Competitive Europe without inequalities. F&K has a strong presence in the R&D Projects at a National and European level. The highly educated members of the Company have gained knowledge and wide experience in the consulting and technological innovation through the intense participation in R&D projects, co-financed by the European Union. F&K is specialised in: -Studies,proposals refer to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of research policies and strategies aiming at the development of research and technological activities at local, regional, national and international level. -Preparation, writing and submission of RTD proposals funded.

3- RESOURCE S.r.l. (Italy)

Resource is a dynamic consulting company located in the Southern part of Italy. The company is running four different divisions, which are the consulting department, the department of project binding, the certification department and the ICT department. The company has run various kind of projects with success and the heterogeneity of its portfolio is based in its dynamic working team consisted by experts of the related sectors. The company has run a vast number of projects offering technical assistance, mainly located to the local market. Resource in collaboration with certified training centres has run also training courses for the use of the new technologies and main targets the unemployed and women of the territory.

4- BJC - Ballymun Job Centre (Ireland)

The Ballymun Job Centre (BJC) is a community-based non-profit making organisation, which provides services to local unemployed people. Since its establishment in 1987, the BJC has developed into a well established and respected community based organisation that responds to the needs of unemployed job seekers and job changers (currently has 10,000+ local people registered) and would include clients who have multiple barriers (Early school leaving, addiction issues, long term unemployment, lack of education & training, literacy, single parenting etc.) to accessing labour market opportunities. The BJC continues to assist individuals to make positive changes to their lives by addressing social and economic exclusion and by developing innovative interventions to enable clients of the BJC to overcome the barriers affecting their ability to access the labour market. The main services offered by the BJC include Job Placement,Career Guidance,VET,Learning in the workplace,services to employers.

5- Kadis (Slovenia)

Kadis d.o.o. provides wide range of training courses and other human resource services. From 1995 on they carry out various workshops and programmes for the Employment Service of Slovenia – employability skills workshops, job clubs and counselling, among others. They offer various programmes to schools regarding career guidance – workshops for students, parents or school counsellors and also organize presentations of professions. On the other hand, Kadis also provides services for individuals and companies: individual career counselling, career development, recruitment and selection, training of employees, implementation of labour law proceedings etc. The team mainly consists of psychologists, pedagogues and sociologists, all experienced in training and education. They have years of experience with international projects, both as a promoter and a partner, all in the fields of training, assessment and e-learning. Through EU projects they are actively working on further advancement of the services, state-of-the-art methodologies and technology to make the top quality services more accessible for all target groups.

6- InTraCoM GmbH (Germany)

The InTraCoM GmbH, headed by Dr. Dierk-Oliver Kiehne and located in Stuttgart/Germany is a Spin off of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and launched at the year 2000. InTraCoM developed own Software Systems for Patent Search and Analysis and has expertise in Database Structures, in Knowledge Management Tools and in Semantic Analysis. The Management of long lasting R&D Projects is also an expertise, InTraCoM has developed own tools like Scenario Based Trendmonitoring or Patent- & Technology monitoring as well as Methods to acquire customer needs and to transform them into technical specifications.

7- Web Relations (Greece)

Web Relations is one of the Greek fast growing companies specialises in the field of design, application development and marketing for the web. It operates since 2002 and employs 15 experienced persons. All these years, more than 150 web projects have been created ranging from a simple corporate presence to portals for the public sector, e-commerce sites, online booking engines and more. The main services include:

• 1. Strategic planning for target group definition, project plant and measurable targets setting.
• 2. Persons creation for definition of best structure, page flow and copyrighting in order to achieve maximum results.
• 3. Web design with high aesthetic standards and elaborate flash elements.
• 4. Content management applications.
• 5. e-commerce solutions.
• 6. 2-way web to sms solutions.
• 7. Sophisticated development such as online booking engines, dynamic content within flash applications, video streaming, google and flickr integration, amazon like features etc.

Work-Packages

• WP1 - Requirements’ Analysis
• WP2 - Design of the “Sei.li.nG” Learning Environment
• WP3 - Implementation and testing the “Sei.li.nG” system
• WP4 - Evaluating “Sei.li.nG” results – An extensive experiment
• WP5 - Dissemination and exploitation activities
• WP6 - Project Management

WP1 - Requirements’ Analysis

The WP1 has been completed and the respective results have been created:

- Technology Framework Definition: A report was prepared with the relevant findings from conducting the research for defining the technology framework based on which the “Sei.li.nG” system will be developed. These findings were discussed and analyzed with the technical partners and the approved ones were transferred into the architectural synthesis and final design report.

- Specific questionnaires have been sent to our target groups in order to understand their needs. The focus of the questionnaires was adapted based on the decisions taken for the development of the training material. The questionnaires are available in five languages (English, Greek, Slovenian, German, and Italian). A leaflet regarding the aims, objectives and workplan of the SEILING was prepared and sent along with the questionnaires. The leaflet has been translated where it was necessary.

- Furthermore, a spreadsheet was prepared for the collection and analysis of results. A database with potential users in each country has been developed. Moreover, the analysis of user requirements deliverable was prepared and the functional and non-functional requirements of the users were clearly identified. Several interviews followed by the partners in order to provide missing explanations and interpretations, clarify inconsistencies as well as provide important background information. Finally, the results from questionnaires and interviews are discussed in a number of round tables and workshops with the relevant stakeholders.

WP2 - Design of the “Sei.li.nG” Learning Environment

- Both training material and scenarios have been completed including the following games: 1) Career Choice, 2) CV Builder, 3) Job Search, 4) The Interview and 5) Time Management. The aforementioned scenarios are available in English, Greek, Slovenian, Italian and German.

- Furthermore, a User Guide has been prepared in order to support in easily using the platform. The Guide is also available in English, Greek, Slovenian, German, and Italian.

- A report including the architecture of the system as well as the major design considerations is ready as well, elaborating on the implementation plan for the SEILING system as well as its security considerations. It also includes the choice of technologies that the development team will utilize to implement the system.

WP3 - Implementation and testing the “Sei.li.nG” system

- All the animations have been completed and uploaded to the platform. All supporting applications have been built and integrated with the rest of the platform. A verification process is included where the system’s administrator validates the uploaded content before delivering it to the users.

- The system has been tested extensively through an iterative process within the consortium where the consortium users have been trialling the system and the developers have been applying the requested changes.

WP4 - Evaluating “Sei.li.nG” results – An extensive experiment:

- Several trials have been realised in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Slovenia with 80 workshop users and more than 200 online users testing the Sei.li.nG platform.

- An evaluation report is available including both users and trainers comments.

- All feedback and user comments have been fed to the development team for a final iteration and optimisation of the platform.

WP5 - Dissemination and exploitation activities

- Dissemination Calendars have already been sent to the partners in order to be aware of the forthcoming events happen in Europe and worldwide.

- The project’s website is ready from month 3 of the project beginning. The site is being regularly updated, providing a comprehensive source of information on the objectives of the project, who the partners are, what benefits are expected, what impact the results will have on the information society in general and on e-learning for work in particular, progress to date, participation of the project in scientific events, all public deliverables, etc. As well, the site is about to supply technical information on the use of the Sei.li.nG tools, a demo version, help topics, troubleshooting, F.A.Q., etc. Special areas in the website will be dedicated to ease the communication between the partners, to maintain a constructive dialogue with “interest groups”, to raise the interest of the LLP community and to share essential project outcomes with the research community.

- Leaflets have been presented at relevant conferences, workshops, symposia and fairs where the partners have already participated in.

- Articles and reports will be published in the trade press, academic journals and partner’s networks.

- The Sei.li.nG Brochure is available in English, Greek, Italian, Slovenian and German in order to be distributed to the public.

- Sei.li.nG has been introduced in various events (workshops, conferences, round tables e.t.c.).

WP6 - Project Management

Four meetings have been held during the duration of the project as well as several teleconferences have taken place to ensure proper coordination of the project. The consortium’s Intranet has been used extensively to facilitate the collaboration between the partners. The Interim report has already been submitted and approved by the local NA. The quality control charter has been prepared in order to guarantee the quality of the project results.

The Final Report is about to be submitted to the National Agency at the end of October 2011.

Results

• Result No 2 - Technology Framework Definition
• Result No 3 - Needs Analysis Report
• Result No 4 - Training Material v1
• Result No 5 - Architectural Synthesis and System Design v1
• Result No 8 - Training Material v2
• Result No 10 - Dissemination Activities Report

News

Final meeting

The final meeting of Sei.li.nG project took place in Agia Napa, Cyprus at 26th of September 2011. The partners of the Consortium had the chance to discuss in details the trials that took realised in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Slovenia and Germany and the results of the evaluation. Furthermore, one of the major topics of discussion was the dissemination activities along with the exploitation plans of the project.

3rd project meeting

The third project meeting took place between 2nd and 3rd of December 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany. All the partners presented the progress of their work so far and discussed forthcoming steps.

2nd project meeting

The second project meeting took place in Ljubljana between 10th and 11th of May 2010, where the Consortium had the chance to discuss the progress of Sei.li.nG project so far and the forthcoming tasks assigned to each partner.

Sei.li.nG Project Newsletter, No 1 (3/2010)

We welcome you to the 1st issue of the Sei.li.nG Newsletter which focuses on the status of current developments, the specification of requirements analysis of the system, the creation of scenarios definition for the project based on methodologies for learning, training and decision making and the availability of questionnaires that will be distributed to our target group...

Newsletter (greek) | Newsletter (english) | Newsletter (italian)
Newsletter (german) | Newsletter (slovenian)

Kick off meeting (2/11/2009)

Monday 2nd of November 2009 kick off meeting. The first project meeting took place in Athens between 2nd and 3rd of November 2009, where all partners of the Consortium had the chance to meet each other and exchange ideas regarding Sei.li.nG project.

Intranet creation (16/11/2009)

The intranet provides the partner with a web based solution in order to have a common place to share files, see milestones tasks and deliverables and keep track of the conversations regarding each milestone.

Site creation (2/12/2009)

The first stage of the site is created where project & consortium infos as well as news are presented.