Projects
TropicalAstral’s Erasmus+ expertise originates from the development of bespoke language training in Helsinki, Finland where the staff’s competence was learned over 20 years. The language training for corporations was tailored around the specific needs and objectives of each client and client organisation. This has lead to early adoption of, and an extensive in-house experience in, e-learning and m-learning content development and creating language learning material over a wide range of topics and business.
Due to participation in many projects in immigration and language teaching, TropicalAstral also has expertise in creating material and web resources specifically targeted for migrants.
Language training material created by TropicalAstral’s staff can be found online on scribd.com, teacherspayteachers.com and other online web portals for teachers and mobile applications can be found in both IOS & Android app-stores.
PROJECTS FUNDED BY ERASMUS+ KA2
EDUmom
The project aims to empower women on parental leave through skills development and employment prospects. It aims to enhance the skills and knowledge of 40 women on parental leave in European countries, focusing on career development through local trainings. The project supports quality improvement and innovation in adults’ education work through international training and the creation of tangible outputs. It also increases awareness among women on parental leave about lifelong learning and various options for continuing education and training. The project provides women on parental leave with access to a range of learning and skills development options and resources through a specialized website. The project is disseminated through multiplier events in each partner country, contributing to the broader goals of the Erasmus+ program, which promotes gender equality, lifelong learning, and active participation in the labor market. The project’s results include a website with 20 training video series on different skills development topics, a guide with formal and non-formal education opportunities in partner countries and abroad, and a digital list of tools for completing tasks online. The project also improves the digital skills of women on parental leave during international and local trainings, increases awareness about lifelong learning, and provides access to a range of learning and skills development options and resources. The partnership consists of Sweden (coordinator), Lithuania, Turkiye, and Portugal.
2023-1-SE01-KA210-ADU-000129859
ECOffee Consumers – Creating conscious coffee consumers with sustainable habits for enhancing the sustainable coffee industry
Project Duration: 2022-2024
This 2 year project aims to develop innovative educational methods to promote sustainable coffee consumption habits to adults along with a manual for cafeteria owners/employees/adult educators that will support them in utilising these educational methods for raising awareness in sustainable coffee consumption.
In particular, the project aims to educate coffee consumers on how to turn to sustainable coffee consumption and provide pathways in obtaining knowledge and skills related to the afore mentioned area of interest.
Additionally, the project will incentivise the coffee consumers to prefer ECOffee cafeterias since people and especially millennials turn to more sustainable ways of life.
Therefore, the cafeterias will benefit by joining the partnership and at the same time contribute to:
[1] reducing waste and
[2] promoting green jobs for the less advantaged percentage of the population.
The applicant country is Hungary. Partners are Cyprus, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal & Slovenia.
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Newsletter 3
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2022-1-HU01-KA220-ADU-000085720
NUTCRACKER – Learning by doing and helping
Project Duration: 2022-2025
The inclusion of people that are usually left behind in the education sector is one of the main priorities of the NUTCRACKER project.
The project aims at creating training materials for adult learners that are at risk of social exclusion, long-term unemployed or with migrant backgrounds.
One of the main goals of the project is to identify relevant best practices in restoration of toys, books, electronic devices, clothes etc. and in the creation of video tutorials for adult learners. This allows partners to plan the creation of the training materials under the methodologies of learning by helping and learning by doing – to create a training program that is focused on learning by helping methodology.
The project sets the basis of creating training materials demanded by teachers and educators that work with students & adult learners, but will allow participants to go beyond the project scope.
The applicant country is France. Partners are Portugal, Spain & Italy.
Videos: Repairing Toys | Repairing Books
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2022-1-FR01-KA220-ADU-000087841
Start-Up Simulator
Project Duration: 2022-2025
Entrepreneurship empowers refugees.
It allows them to take direct control over their lives and overcome barriers they face in the labour market.
The project Start-Up Simulator supports Refugee entrepreneurs by developing an online, interactive role playing game that simulates a startup business where participants can develop their business plan, set up business infrastructure and run their operation before starting in real life.
Start-Up Simulator is reducing challenges (e.g. legislative, technical, financial, managerly) experienced by refugee entrepreneurs – by accompanying this simulator with step by step course material educating the participant on legislation and financial support mechanisms. The project aims to smooth the way for refugee startups to manage expectations better and launch their endeavour with solid research and virtual experience background.
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2022-1-NL01-KA220-ADU-000087558
Pro-Digita – Promoting Learning in Adult Education by the Digital Tools
Project Duration: 2022-2023
Pro-Digita supports the purposeful use of digital technologies in education & training. This Includes the development of digital pedagogy and expertise in the use of digital tools for adult trainers, including accessible and assistive technologies and the creation & innovative use of digital education content.
The projects objectives are to increase the digital transformation of trainers and trainees through the development of the digital capacity, to improve the competencies of trainers and trainees in online education and to improve accessibility on online education for adult education.
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The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2021-2-PT01-KA210-ADU-000049637
Re-Start: Entrepreneurship Support for Refugees
Project Duration: 2022 – 2023
Integrating people through work is vital to welcoming them into broader society and will benefit all of us and our whole economies in the future.
Project Re-Start is designed to answer essential questions of refugees wanting to embark upon opening their own business.
A comprehensive Manual and Website based on extensive research is being developed in the course of the project to give information and guidance to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and support for operators who work with them.
The Entrepreneurship Guide for Immigrants and Refugees is thought of as an instrument to support and guide people with a migrant background, especially refugees, to understand their competencies and the chances to initiate their own business in the host country.
The Website is acting as the multilingual dissemination site for the project.
Site pages are devoted to information references and links to relevant organisations and associations regarding national legislation and business startup.
Facebook | Website | Guidebook
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2021-1-BE01-KA210-ADU-000034932
Skills4Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Project Duration: 2021 – 2023
Skills4Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers is a project that addresses the integration of adult refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who have notable disadvantages in literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
Literacy, numeracy and digital skills are fundamental to master typical situations in everyday working life. Competence deficits in these areas can prove to be an obstacle to permanent and successful integration into the labour market.
This project researches the skills gap between new arrivals and their basic educational, linguistic, numeric and digital needs to reach a level of civic engagement and employability in the host country.
A Training Manual for volunteers working with refugees and migrants is being developed to support their Literacy Numeracy, digital skills and eventually their integration into the labour market. The training manual offers a teaching model to volunteer trainers, which aims to promote the social, educational and professional integration of low-skilled adult migrants and refugees in their host countries, developing their literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
Facebook | Website | Newsletter 1 | Read Blogpost 1 | Read Blogpost 2
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2021-1-NL01-KA220-ADU-000025953
InclusionApp: Enhancing social inclusion of Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers through a mobile App
Project Duration: 2020 – 2023
The main goal of the project InclusionApp is to help RI&AS (refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers) learn the language and the culture of the host country through a mobile serious game and ood practices against social exclusion through a a collaborative e-learning platform.
Specifically the aims of the project are twofold:
(a) The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Serious Game for learning the language & the culture of the host country (InclusionApp mobile game) for RI&AS.
(b) The creation of a Collaborative e-learning portal with good practices against social exclusion of RI&AS.
Website | Facebook | APP Download (Android) | E-Learning Platform |
The project is financed by Erasmus+ KA2: 2020-1-PL01-KA204-082190
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