NetStart – Achieving new abilities with ICT
Last modification date: 11 Oct 2007.   30906 visits
Reference: PT-2004-210
Country: Portugal
NetStart Project is focused on the abilities development, beginning with basic computer science literacy, for access to tools based on the Internet and proceeding according with the established objectives, through a cycle of continuous improvement of its abilities.
Project has for base the IPAT - Personalized Itinerary of Technology Adaptation, which in its first phase intends that disfavoured people like unemployed, young people with low qualifications and older actives, to accede to the basic tools of the ICT. In a second phase the IPAT will lead the user to trace its goals of career, using for that, professional profiles adjusted to the work market of and adjusted to the new and emergent types of jobs, in order to take a place in the work market. After the identification of the goals, it will be possible to develop the abilities identified in the diagnostic, considering the knowledge level and the reaching goals, through the participation in training courses using e-learning (being privileged the b-learning at the first time). The project is within the Equal Initiative, this is a laboratory for new ideas to the European Employment Strategy and the Social inclusion process.

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