WATERSCHOOL initiative could improve children’s health as well as reduce plastic pollution

(Ljubljana, March 23, 2020) The Erasmus+ project WATERSCHOOL promotes drinking of tap water at school through a European Initiative. Drinking tap water regularly at school could improve children’s health, increases concentration, and thus improves performance, and helps reduce plastic waste. To celebrate the UN Water Day the WATERSCHOOL project partners today start an EU wide campaign to raise awareness about the importance of proper hydration at schools. „We encourage schools all over Europe to become Waterschools and help improve children’s health as well as the health of the environment by supporting drinking tap water at schools“, says Rosemarie Zehetgruber from Continua…

Seminar about Labour, Competencies and Vocational Training by Clar

The issue of work and employment remains crucial for the future of our country and the skills required by the labor market are increasingly complex and specific, also creating problems of mismatching between demand and supply. The employment situation is even more critical in the groups with low school attendance: if, in fact, in the 28 countries of the European Union, the average percentage of people employed among those with primary education is 53.5%, in Italy it is only 47.8%. The continuous training of employed workers still reaches very low percentages, among the lowest in Europe, in Italy.   Strategic Continua…

Erasmus Plus project Waterschools aims and goals

Strengthening open digital education on water consumption in schools through the creation of teaching tools and innovative practices. Why Water in Schools? Facts & Figures Water and health More than 20 percent of children in the EU are either overweight or obese. These rates have increased significantly over the past decades. The consumption of sugar sweetened drinks is often associated with obesity in children. Almost 40 percent of the sugar consumed by young children, comes drinking sugar sweetened drinks. Promotion and provision of drinking water in schools has shown to prevent overweight. In Europe, 20 to 90 percent of 6-year-old Continua…

Waterschool Erasmus Plus project approved

A new Erasmus Plus project KA02 (innovation and good practices) has been approved by Austrian NA: “WATERSCHOOL – strengthening open digital education and innovative practice through relevant, innovative teaching tools about water consumption in schools.“ The project acronym is WATERSCHOOL and its partnership includes our association Centro Libero Analisi e Ricerca – CLAR, responsible for project activities in Italy. The leading partner is Gutessens Consulting from Austria: the other organizations come from Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, United Kingdom. The importance of drinking water in schools is well known by teachers meanwhile most of kindergarten and school teachers allow waterdrinking during Continua…

Erasmus Plus VIVET training activated: many courses available for free

We inform our readers that the Clar, as part of the Erasmus Plus Vivet project, of which we have spoken often in the last year, has activated a few weeks the numerous courses we have developed and which we are developing on the platform, which can be reached at the site web vivet.education. Access and use of the courses are totally free – you only have to register with an e-mail and a password of your choice. We advise you to take a look at the site, where you can find: – collection and evaluation of educational videos, organized by Continua…

Sustainable Cooks in Kindergartens’ Guidelines

CLAR, as part of the Erasmus Plus project “Sustainable Cooks in Kindergartens – Open educational resources for pedagogues, caterers and kitchen staff” has implemented the Italian version of the guidelines for operators. The document also contains the manual to access the pilot training course that will be launched by next March 2018: for this we recommend to all those interested in taking the course, to begin by reading our Guidelines. The same document is available in its English version on the project website at http://suskinder.suscooks.eu/ Remember that you can already send us your expression of interest to participate in the Continua…

Sustainable Food for Kindergartens project brochure

  Sustainable food for kindergartens – SusFood Formazione degli Operatori per l’Alimentazione sostenibile negli Asili Open educational resources for pedagogues, caterers and kitchen staff KA202 – Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training The Erasmus Plus project that CLAR manages in Italy has already entered the formulation phase of the training contents, which will be available on the e-learning platform in the coming months, thanks to the partnership’s contributions, made up of the following organizations: – Equalita, Institut für Qualifizierung und Vernetzung in Europa e.V., Colonia (Germania) (lead partner) – Kaiblinger & Zehetgruber OG, Vienna (Austria) – VU PO AGROBIZNES Continua…

Erasmus Plus international meeting in Arcevia by Clar

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus community program, the Free Analysis and Research Center (CLAR) organizes an international meeting on 13 October 2017, starting at 9:00 am, at the S. Francesco Cultural Center, Corso Giuseppe Mazzini, 64 – 60011 Arcevia (AN), with the support of the City of Arcevia and in collaboration with the Center of Reception Le Terrazze of Arcevia. The meeting will also include representatives of foreign partners from Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, with whom CLAR is collaborating on the realization of the two Erasmus Plus VIVET and Continua…