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The KC4All final conference of the project took place on October 28th in Brussels, at Espace Moselle. The conference has witnessed the official launch of the Employment Toolkit, a packed series of online resources to improve employability and to provide guidance to users at a risk of exclusion from the workforce.
Telecentre-Europe co-hosted the event within their annual network gathering.

During the plenary session, Pedro Aguilera from Esplai Foundation, Spain (the project coordinator) first explained the importance of an online multilanguage employment toolkit. Then, Gabriel Rissola and Andrea Diaz from D-O-T, Spain presented the multi-country analysis performed through the project and Mara Jakobsone from LIKTA, Latvia showcased the pilot testing coordinated by her organisation.

To conclude, Elena Lanzoni from Interface3, Belgium explained the methodology used for building the employment toolkit.

During the workshop session that followed, Mara Jakobsone presented the project guidelines for new users and how to exploit & disseminate the employment toolkit. Andra Jakobsone from LIKTA demonstrated the handbook and Alina Zamfir from EOS, Romania explained the exploitation and valorisation plan.

At the end of the workshop session, Pedro Aguilera from Esplai Foundation, Spain lead the discussions regarding the adaptation of the toolkit in other languages, the cultural differences and the process for hosting other language versions on the project website. Gabriel Rissola from D-O-T, Spain informed the audience about available funding for national up-takings of the toolkit.

At the closing session, Pedro Aguilera summed up the next steps and actions to undertake with the European network of telecentres regarding the employment toolkit.

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The first Digital Agenda Assembly took place in Brussels on 16^th and 17^th June 2011, being organized by the European Commission.

The Digital Agenda for Europe is the European Union’s road map for bringing the benefits of a digital society and economy to Europe’s citizens. But it can only deliver if all stakeholders are involved in assessing problems and identifying solutions.

The KC4All partnership had a strong representation during the event:

- a presentation of KC4all was delivered at the Workshop 20 “Digital Literacy and e-Inclusion” (17 June 2011) as a good example of partnership. Thanks to that, a potential British beneficiary was identified for the exploitation phase

- distribution of 100 brochures to participants

- distribution of 20 KC4all leaflets to participants at the breakout group on “e-Inclusion and Employability”

Dr. Bastian Pelka and Dr. Christoph Kaletka from Technical University of Dortmund will deliver a paper on the “First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011)” on 21st July in Barcelona. They will speak about “Social media revisited. User generated content as a social innovation” and will place the KC4all outputs into the big picture of using web 2.0 for social inclusion.

For more information please visit:
http://produccionmultimedia.barcelonamedia.org/?p=1724
https://sites.google.com/site/sisom2011/program

The Key Competences for All project partners met in Timisoara, Romania, during 27-28 April 2011. This was the 4th transnational project meeting, following thee previous ones in Barcelona, Riga and London.

All partner organizations from six European countries were all represented in Timisoara. In addition, 14 facilitators from Spain, UK, Belgium, Latvia and Romania, involved in piloting the Employment toolkit attended a paralel workshop. This workshop was organized in order to present the results of the piloting phase and to propose improvement suggestions to the toolkit.

The project management team discussed a number of issues related to the implementation of the project, including work-package developement, the piloting phase, dissemination, exploitation, financial and legal issues.

Based on the conclusions of the piloting phase, final improvements are now being implemented, and the toolkit will be officially launched both at national and European level during the next few months.

More details about the launching will follow soon.