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School-to-Work Transition for Higher education students with disabilities

in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro

Project Nr 561847-KA2-CBHE 1

School-to-Work Transition for Higher education students with disabilities in Serbia, Bosnia &

Herzegovina and Montenegro TRANS2WORK

Prepared by : Miroslava Raspopovic, Katarina Cvetkovic, Tanja Ciric Belgrade Metropolitan University

Contributors Lefkothea Kartasidou University of Macedonia

Work Package : No 7

Type: Report

Date: 20/12/2015

Email: [email protected]

Form: Final

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for

any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

DISS7.1 Dissemination Plan




The TRANS2WORK consortium

No. Partner Name Logo

1 University of Macedonia (UOM) – Project Coordinator

2 Gnosi Anaptixiaki NGO (Gnosi)

3 University of Maribor (UM FERI)

4 University of Warsaw (UW)

5 DEKRA Akademie GmbH (DEKRA)

6 University of Kragujevac (UNIKG)

7 University of Novi Sad (UNS)

8 Belgrade Metropolitan University (BMU)




9 Association of Students with Disabilities (ASD)

10 National Employment Service of Serbia (NES)

11 Business Association "Unija Čačak 2000" (UNION2000 Cacak)

12 University of Montenegro (UoM)

13 University of Donja Gorica (UDG)

14 Association of Youth with Disabilities in Montenegro (AYDM)

15 Employment Agency of Montenegro (EAM)

16 University of Sarajevo (UNSA)




17 University of East Sarajevo (UES)

18 University of Banja Luka (UBL)

19 Humanitarian Organization Partner (HO Partner)

20 Profil Management Consulting d.o.o. (Profil MC d.o.o.)

21 “PROCOM” d.o.o. za usluge, trgovinu i proizvodnju Gracanica (“PROCOM” d.o.o. Gracanica)

22 Balkan Distance Education Network (BADEN)

23 College of Computer Science and Business Communications eMPIRICA (eMPIRICA)




Abbreviations

Term Explanation

SwD Students with disabailities

PwD Persons with disability

WP Work package

HEI Higher education institution




About this document

This dissemination plan describes in detail the dissemination activities planned by the consortium of the TRANS2WORK project. It includes all important aspects of planned dissemination activities, defines dissemination phases and presents planned material and tools to be prepared in order to disseminate information on the project TRANS2WORK. It aims to define the dissemination goals as well as the project’s target audience and channels through which the project results are going to be promoted. It also includes the partners’ competences in the dissemination area and a planned schedule of activities related to the project’s scope. The dissemination plan constitutes the starting point of the whole dissemination process and will be complemented and revised on the basis of partners’ input in the first months of the project. This dissemination plan is formulated and will be modified to be agreed by all partners and will define the way, the timing and the place (events) where project’s produced materials will be disseminated in order to reach target audiences and interested parties, not directly involved in the project. This report includes information regarding:

§ The project’s identity § The main target groups of the project’s outcomes and the end users

envisaged § The dissemination activities § The way the planned events will be organized (venues, dates, duration,

number of participants, source and target languages) § The communication material to be produced (e.g. mailing list, electronic

Newsletter with resume of reports and event agenda, articles on specific topics) in order to promote project’s results

§ The responsibilities relying on each partner

In other words the agreed dissemination plan will define “What to Whom”, “How”, “When” and “Where” the dissemination activities will be implemented.




Contents

1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 9 Purpose of the document: criteria for success ............................................................... 10 Structure of the document .................................................................................................... 11

2. Dissemination overview ....................................................................................... 11 Project dissemination Objectives ....................................................................................... 11 Project outputs and results .................................................................................................. 14 The partners’ dissemination competences ..................................................................... 15 Partner 1 – The University of Macedonia (UOM) .................................................................... 16 Partner 2 – Belgrade Metropolitan University (BMU) ........................................................... 17 Partner 3 -‐ University of Kragujevac (UNIKG) .......................................................................... 17 Partner 4 -‐ University of Novi Sad (UNS) .................................................................................... 18 Partner 5 -‐ Association of Students with disabilities (ASD) ................................................ 18 Partner 6 -‐ National Employment Service in Serbia ............................................................... 19 Partner 7 -‐ Union2000 Cacak ........................................................................................................... 20 Partner 8 -‐ University of Montenegro (UoM) ............................................................................ 21 Partner 9 -‐ University of Donja Gorica (UDG) ........................................................................... 21 Partner 10 -‐ Association of Youth with disabilities (AYDM) .............................................. 22 Partner 11 -‐ Employment Agency of Montenegro (EAM) .................................................... 23 Partner 12 -‐ University of Sarajevo (UNSA) ............................................................................... 23 Partner 13 -‐ University of East Sarajevo (UES) ........................................................................ 24 Partner 14 -‐ University of Banja Luka (UBL) ............................................................................. 25 Partner 15 -‐ Humanitarian Organization Partner ................................................................... 25 Partner 16 -‐ Profil MC d.o.o. .............................................................................................................. 26 Partner 17-‐ Procom d.o.o. Gracanica ............................................................................................. 26 Partner 18 -‐ Balkan Distance Education Network ................................................................ 27

3. Dissemination channels; online and offline ................................................... 28 Dissemination materials ....................................................................................................... 28 Project logo ............................................................................................................................................... 28 Flyers ........................................................................................................................................................... 29 Posters ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Website ...................................................................................................................................................... 29

Dissemination activities ........................................................................................................ 30 Newsletters .............................................................................................................................................. 30 Press releases .......................................................................................................................................... 30 Participation in events ........................................................................................................................ 30 Articles ....................................................................................................................................................... 31 Internet and Social Media .................................................................................................................. 32

4. Target groups ........................................................................................................... 32

5. Dissemination methodology ............................................................................... 33 Planning dissemination activities ...................................................................................... 33 Carrying out dissemination activities ............................................................................... 34 Reporting on dissemination activities .............................................................................. 34




Defining responsibilities ....................................................................................................... 35 Collecting and updating information and data .............................................................. 35

6. Conclusions ............................................................................................................... 36




1. Introduction The TRANS2WORK project is designed as a complementary with “Equal Access for All -‐Strengthening the Social Dimension for a Stronger European Higher Education Area” in Serbia, “Support and Inclusion of SwDs at Higher Education in Montenegro” in Montenegro and “Equal Opportunities for Students With Special Needs in Higher Education” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Aim of the project is to improve the quality and relevance of school to work transition of higher education students with disabailities (SwD) in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Main objectives are to:

(a) upgrade and prepare higher education institutions (HEIs) services to support SwD to their transition from higher education (HE) to work following the EU policies, (b) link HE to “disability friendly” work environments, (c) assimilate transition opportunities and skills with EU practices and policies (d) to prepare employers on understanding the needs of employees with disabilities in order to offer new jobs.

The main target group addressed by the project is wide group of current and prospective graduates with disability and employers from private and public sector. Since it is highly needed to strengthen the academic community for the concept of transition from school to work, the wider target groups and university's potential partners are: students with disabilities, environment, university teachers, staff, and university established services, career centers, employers and potential networks. The project will rely on the support from HEIs that will during the project lifetime provide opportunity to SwD participate in internship programs under the special mobility strand. Dissemination is an ongoing process starting at the very beginning of the project, involving showcasing the project’s activities and outcomes, as well as final results. Dissemination is the key element of the project’s visibility and sustainability. Therefore the dissemination activities are a focus area within the project’s duration in order to promote the project’s ideas, knowledge and results, as well as the completed project outcomes and their future exploitation.

The general aim of this document is to describe in detail and then assist in the generation of an effective flow of information about the project, its objectives and results.

The document will be revised at the very beginning of the project (developing the detailed plan of dissemination actions, and preparing all relevant staff required to efficiently run dissemination tasks). At the end of the project all performed activities and prepared material will be reported on and summarized in the Dissemination Activities Report.




Purpose of the document: criteria for success The Dissemination Plan provides a view of the expected results of TRANS2WORK project, and comprehensively defines the strategy on how the knowledge generated by the project will be disseminated within target groups. It describes in detail planned dissemination activities to be undertaken by the whole consortium and/or individual partners.

The purpose of the document is to plan the strategy of the project’s dissemination activities, considering all the necessary staff and different dimensions of the dissemination process. That requires:

1. Definition of the project’s results 2. Definition of the target groups and areas which shall be reached within

dissemination process 3. Providing relevant dissemination material, maintaining and systematically

updating it: 4. Project website 5. Project leaflet 6. Identification of events relevant to the project’s area of interest and choosing

the ones where the project will be presented 7. Recommendation of conferences, as well as presentation and publication

possibilities where results of TRANS2WORK can be presented 8. Plan of effective cooperation with the project’s target and focus groups

The first two points (project’s results and target groups and areas) are the integral parts of the project’s exploitation and will be provided within Work Package 8 – Exploitation of the results (EXP8). This dissemination plan describes in detail the activities planned for Work Package 7 -‐ Dissemination (DISS7).

The Dissemination Plan will be expanded in two directions:

1. Raising awareness and motivation of results of the project, used technologies and innovations to employers and families

2. Raising awareness and motivation of results of the project, used technologies and innovations to HE students with disabilities

The main goal of the planned activities for the dissemination of results of the project is aimed to promote the project’s future outcomes among prospective target groups. According to these two directions, the relevant types of dissemination activities will be planned and performed in the particular time.




Structure of the document The document consists of six chapters including introduction and summary formulating main conclusions for the dissemination plan.

After providing the introduction to the document, the second section describes the issues that are the basis for the whole dissemination process, namely: dissemination objectives answering the question “why shall we disseminate”, project outputs and results answering the question “what will be disseminated”, and competences of the TRANS2WORK consortium in the area of dissemination answering the question “who will disseminate”.

The third section of the document presents how the knowledge about the project may be disseminated. This chapter defines different dissemination tools, dividing them into two groups: dissemination materials, which will be prepared and dissemination activities that will be undertaken by the consortium partners.

The fourth section describes the target audience of the project; to whom and what parties are we going to disseminate the knowledge?

The next chapter presents the dissemination methodology which describes the exact way how the consortium is going to act within the whole dissemination process, which instruments will be used, which activities will be undertaken and how the plan will be updated (to include the future activities). Since it is not possible to minutely plan beforehand all activities for the whole project duration (3 years), the dissemination plan will be prepared, accepted, extended and updated constantly. The plan acts as a guide and stimulus to respond to needs and opportunities.

2. Dissemination overview

Project dissemination Objectives

The TRANS2WORK consortium constitutes a balanced set of a variety of institutions operating in different relevant domains and in different ways. Additionally consortium organizations are relevantly related to different target groups and stakeholders, which will facilitate direct contact with them. The Dissemination plan will explain how this variety of partners will contribute to the project dissemination according to their own (and most relevant) project (reaching the project’s target




groups) and using the most suitable communication channels. The specific character of each partner will allow optimal and effective planning of the dissemination strategy of the TRANS2WORK project from its early phase.

The general goals of the dissemination activities of the project are:

• To raise awareness on project’s aims & objectives, • To disseminate the project’s outcomes to appropriate target audiences:

o Individuals with disabilities o Enterprises offering work to individuals with disabilities o Governmental organizations and policy makers for education and

training of SwDs o Academic community (Universities, Schools, Rehabilitation Institutes)

• To disseminate research results of the TRANS2WORK through:

o Conferences proceedings

o Workshops and discussion panels

o E-‐learning seminars

o Social Media: Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter

o Articles and papers (popular and academic)

o Brochures and leaflets

o Project Website

• To participate in thematically related events and conferences to inform the

target groups about the project’s results

• To update state bodies responsible for policy planning of education and training programs for students/ individuals with disabilities

• To propagate information of the ACCESSIBLE DATABASE with new jobs that are matching the profile set up from employers and from SwD.

To effectively achieve the dissemination goals a relevant dissemination strategy assuming three phases of the whole dissemination process is introduced. These phases will be adjusted to the project’s phases. Each of the phases will be adjusted to the project lifetime and dissemination material and activities will be adapted according to the needs and requirements of these phases, which are shortly described in the Table 1 below:




Table 1. Phases of the TRANS2WORK dissemination strategy

Phase characteristics and timing

Phase purposes

Possible tools

Phase 1 – Awareness building (months 1 – 12) No particular outputs yet, only plans, goals and methodologies to be defined

• Raising general awareness of the TRANS2WORK project;

• Announcing the project’s goals and plans

• Raising attention among relevant target groups

• Spreading information among potential participants in the pilot projects;

• Starting dissemination knowledge in the mass and social media.

• TRANS2WORK logo

• Presentation template

• Initial flyer

• Web sites

• Newsletters.

Phase 2 – Valorization and piloting (months 13-‐36) • Months when

training is planned will be announced

• Dissemination shall concentrate on creating awareness of collected good practices

• Raising awareness about the possibilities and good practice usage of the web based tools among target groups

• Announcing the training programs to relevant target groups

• Developing Internet presence

• Publishing TRANS2WORK news

• Conferences • Discussion panels • Newsletters • Social media • National

workshops/seminars

Phase 3 – Project end • All products, • Announcing the final • Electronic index of all




resources and tools are ready

results of the project

• Presenting cases and best practices

• Presenting the advantages of using web based tool and accessible database

• Spreading future exploitation plans.

stakeholders • Final newsletter

summarizing the results • Press releases • Social media • e-‐learning seminars

Project outputs and results The main outputs of the TRANS2WORK project are as follows:

• Improve the capacity of higher education institutions in the region to support students with disabilities during their transition from higher education to Work life

o Result -‐ more than 600 academic and non academic staff will be trained

• Build the capacity of higher education institutions concerning mobility issues through the signing of Inter institutional Agreements in the framework of the special mobility strand

o Result -‐ 15 inter-‐institutional agreements will be signed and 10 Training Agreements

• Identify and analyze the needs of employers and educational needs of SwD o Result – 3 reports for identifying and analyzing need of employers and

SwD • Creating a web based tool for connecting employers and SwD

o Result, piloting the web based tool • Establish to role of mentors and career centers within higher education

institutions on transition issues. o Result -‐ at least 20 mentors in total will be trained

• Enhance transition skills of students with disabilities during their studies o Result -‐ 32 SwD will benefit during the piloting year (special mobility

strand) • Raise awareness of families that have a child with disability concerning its

future development in the labor market




o Result -‐ more than 100 families with children with disabilities will be reached

• Raise awareness to employers concerning disability issues o Result -‐ Reach out for more than 60 companies, enterprises in the

region • Electronic index of all stakeholders in the region

o Result -‐ More than 600 entries of employers, NGOs and other stakeholders

• Exchange of experience on employment issues o Result -‐ 6 common meetings during the implementation of

Development WPs among HEIs, NGOs, Employment agencies, companies

• Accessible data base o Result -‐ more than 100 entries during the project life cycle of new jobs

that are matching the profile set up from employers and from SwD • New jobs for individuals with disabilities will be created

o Result -‐ every year more than 40 SwD will have the chance to get a job in the region

• Raising awareness on accessibility issues o Result -‐ more understanding on accessibility issues during and after

studies

The partners’ dissemination competences The well-‐balanced TRANS2WORK consortium involves different partners having a variety of competences, which will be useful at different stages of the dissemination process and will be used within the dissemination activities undertaken. Among these competences we shall highlight:

• Previous experience in performing dissemination activities; • Possibilities to organize seminars, courses and workshops related to project

aims and objectives; • Possibilities of participating in relevant events, where TRANS2WORK can be

presented; • Relationships and contacts which can be used in searching for relevant target

audience (e.g. to send them newsletters); • Own publications.




Partner 1 – The University of Macedonia (UOM) The University of Macedonia (UOM) is a modern university with extended research activities and participation in many national and international research programs. UOM is also a member of many international organizations concerning higher education e.g. the European University Association (EUA), the Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence is based at the branch of UOM etc. relevant for the project aims. The Department of Educational and Social Policy (UOM) has developed research activity in various scientific fields directly related to the domain of the proposed project. For example, extended research is conducted on fields such as education and training of Individuals with Visual Impairments (IVIs), assistive technologies, spatial knowledge of IVIs. UOM’s core mission is to provide future professionals, notably teachers, with a wide range of professional 21stcentury skills and is part of many regional, national and international projects, with direct contact to decision-‐makers on different levels.

The aims of the Department are: • To advance the social sciences in the sectors of educational and social policy

by promoting academic and applied teaching and research. • To promote research in the fields of continuing education, education of

adults and persons with disabilities, training techniques, and development and evaluation of social policy regulations.

Therefore the aims of UOM are lying within the focus of the Particular EU Programme. At the same time UOM has efficient scientific and technical resources to conduct extended research and development required within the proposed project. The Department has a dedicated computer lab fully equipped with the necessary for the proposed project software (screen readers, Text to Speech systems, OCR etc.) and hardware (embosser-‐printers that can produce both tactile graphics and Braille with text, touch tablet devices that can be used for teaching using touch, sound and sight combined, devices for the production of tactile maps/pictures. The Department of Educational and Social Policy has developed research activity in various scientific fields directly related to the domain of the proposed project. For example, extended research is conducted on fields such as education and training of Individuals with disabilities. UOM was also coordinator at the SINC@HE “Support and Inclusion of Students with disabilities at Higher Education Institutions in Montenegro” project.

UOM team appears as an unchallenged expert in designing tactile maps as well as in the use of AT-‐maps through audio touchpad devices as O&M aids. The team’s specialized knowledge in tactile symbols development, in combination with their expertise on tactile maps use, is reflected on numerous publications.

UOM participates annually in a series of conferences, seminars, meetings to present the University’s curricular and research activities and projects.




By participating in different EU funded projects, P1 has become familiar with different procedures and methods for propagating the project’s knowledge and results.

Specifically UOM will contribute though its staff resources in DISS7.1 Dissemination Plan, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 2 – Belgrade Metropolitan University (BMU) Belgrade Metropolitan University (BMU) was founded in 2005, originally as the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT). From the beginning, FIT/BMU has been offering a new, modern approach to higher education in Serbia. Currently, BMU provides 21 academic programs in fields of computing disciplines, management and design at all three academic levels (BS, MS, and PhD). Since its founding FIT has grown from offering academic program in information technology area to now having academic programs in information technology, computer science, software engineering, game development, information security, information systems, and bioinformatics. BMU has been devoted to improving its teaching and scientific methods throughout the years, through national and international projects. Every year BMU organizes two scientific conferences, in the areas of eLearning and information security. These conferences are organized with several national and international partners. BMU will lead the DISS7 and host the project website.

Partner 3 -‐ University of Kragujevac (UNIKG) University of Kragujevac (UNIKG) is a modern educational and research center embracing all major areas of teaching and research, presently comprising 12 faculties spread over five towns of Serbia with about 20 000 students and more than 1 000 academic staff. E-‐learning and Long Life Learning activities at the UNIKG expand rapidly in last years through various national and international projects. UNIKG is employing significant efforts to improve the quality of the teaching process in traditional and distance learning. The University Center for LLL is established in the framework of the Tempus project "Development of Lifelong Learning Framework in Serbia", and has the mission to promote research in educational and social policy and particularly in the fields of continuing education, the education of adults and of individuals with special needs. UNIKG participates in several of international projects such as FP7, EUREKA, COST, TEMPUS, EURECNA, SEE ERA NET PLUS and WUS.

Faculty of Technical Sciences in Čačak educates professionals in the field of technical and pedagogical sciences and by now it became recognized as the first-‐level scientific and educational institution in the region. Faculty possesses Laboratory for Computer science, Laboratory for Information technology, Laboratory for Mechatronics, Laboratory for Energy Efficiency and Laboratory for Nanotechnology. Besides, FTS ČA has newly equipped




laboratory for video-‐conferencing thus enabling students and professors to benefit from distant training by professionals and experts worldwide. Department for Information technology at the FTS ČA is engaged in developing and creating online courses for educational institutions, as well as for enterprises and other organizations. Its researchers are active participants in several international research projects concerning industrial software development, intelligent systems and long-‐life training of teaching professionals, and assistive technologies. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Čačak will be involved in implementation of DISS7.2 Website of the project.

Partner 4 -‐ University of Novi Sad (UNS) The University of Novi Sad (UNS) was founded in 1960. It is the only state university in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, comprising 14 faculties and 2 research and developmental institutes. The activities of UNS are realized through fundamental, applied and developmental research and teaching in the field of natural, technical, social, humanistic and medical sciences, as well as arts. Currently there are more than 400 ongoing research and academic international projects (FP6 & FP7projects, projects within EUREKA, COST, SCOPES, TEMPUS), as well as a certain number of mobility schemes (Erasmus Mundus Action 2, Campus Europae, CEEPUS, FORЕCAST, etc). Due to its reputation as one of the leading internationally-‐oriented universities in Serbia, Prof. Dr. Miroslav Vesković, former Rector of UNS, has been given a key coordinating role for the Priority Area 7 within the EU Strategy for the Danube Region: Developing the Knowledge Society through Research, Education and Information Technologies. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the two oldest faculties of the University of Novi Sad. It has grown to become a recognisable HEI offering 47 accredited study programmes in the fields of humanities and social sciences at all three levels of studies (BA, MA and PhD). The Faculty has more than 4,000 students and over 400 staff members. There are 17 departments in the fields of philology and social sciences, including departements of pedagogy, psychology and foreign languages. The majority of study programmes are aimed at educating future elementary and high-‐school teachers and almost all departments have students with disabilities enrolled at different levels of studies, making methodology of providing accessibility for students with disabilities one of the HEI’s cross-‐curricular areas of expertise. UNS will be involved in implementation of DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities.

Partner 5 -‐ Association of Students with disabilities (ASD) Association of Students with Disabilities is a non-‐governmental organization that struggles for realization and respect of human rights and equalizing opportunities for youth and students with disability through creating conditions for inclusive formal




and non-‐formal education and application of the social model. ASD is self-‐advocacy organization with mixed ability/cross-‐disability approach. Since 2000, ASD works on its mission through: support services for students with disabilities (including connecting of students/graduates with disabilities with employers), non-‐formal education programs, psycho-‐social support and strengthening of youth with disabilities, human rights awareness raising etc. ASD researched position of youth with disabilities in higher and secondary education and took part in creation and altering relevant legislation and state policies on disability, youth, antidiscrimination and (inclusive) education, developed of University Centre for Students with Disabilities. Main goals of ASD are creating inclusive society with equal opportunities for all, supporting students with disabilities in higher education, encouraging youth with disabilities for self-‐advocacy. ASD helps to adapt the method of taking entrance exams, advocating for students with disabilities, works on availability of literature, and provides assistance in high education that is based on peer voluntary support, creates equal conditions for scholarship winning for students with disability. ASD empowers young persons with disabilities through non-‐formal education programs, creates field of Inclusive culture and art, promotes antidiscrimination and human rights, has also promotional and advocacy activities, psychosocial support and empowering young persons with disabilities, encouraging Inclusive youth activism ASD also has Activist center. ASD will provide connection to final beneficiaries and support their participation in the programs developed within the project. In addition, ASD team will provide disability sensitivity of all activities/WPs, by taking part in monitoring and development of guidelines, reports and other products.

Partner 6 -‐ National Employment Service in Serbia National Employment Service (NES) is a legal entity with the status of the organization for mandatory social insurance. NES carries out employment activities, administers unemployment insurance and exercise of the right derived from unemployment insurance and other rights, keeps registries in the employment area, and performs professional, organizational, administrative, economic, financial and other general duties in the field of employment and unemployment insurance. National Employment Service is (along with employment agencies) determined as the institution in charge of employment affairs and main bearer and implementer of active labor market measures. NES is organized according to the territorial principle and consisted of Central NES, 2 Provincial Employment Services and 34 Branch Offices. In this way the availability of services towards unemployed people and employers provided by NES is ensured and covers whole territory of Republic of Serbia.




NES provides: services for job seekers (counselling, mediation, active job search training, career guidance, occupational rehabilitation and entrepreneurial training), additional training and education (vocational training, additional training and retraining), services and financial support for employers (recruitment on request, training services on request and advice in case of downsizing, wage subsidies, reimbursements of workplace adjustment and work assistance costs). NES counsellors also give advice on unemployment benefit rights and support access to employment in different ways. NES also provided a structural framework for vocational rehabilitation and employment of people with disabilities by establishment of the Centre for vocational rehabilitation and employment of people with disabilities in 2009 in Belgrade. It was a very start of the process of institutional capacity building and sensitization of employed staff in NES for disability issues. NES will be involved in DISS 7.3, 7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to employers, families and HE students with disabilities.

Partner 7 -‐ Union2000 Cacak Independent Association of Small and Medium Enterprises “Union Čačak 2000” established in 2000 with the intention to unite as many companies to achieve common goals. It has been fourteen years since the foundation of our organization. Time is marked behind our successful business which is characterized by steadily increasing the number of members and expansion of capacities and types of services for the members. It now has 235 active members that are grouped into nine business areas, depending on the primary line of business. Elapsed time only strengthened the basic principles on which we lay the foundation of our business community, including:

• Improving the quality and scope of mutual cooperation between members, • Promotion of the activities for all members and the community as a whole, • Support for a common market approach and joint presentation at trade fairs

at home and abroad, • Nurturing and developing the culture of association and respect for business

ethics in working with partners and relationships with the local community, • Support for any initiative, idea or suggestion for knowledge application in

producing goods and services. Introduction of efficient organization and forming projects that will clear a path for investments and signing on great number of young people.

• The definition and implementation of the projects which help improve innovation and competitiveness of the associations members,

• Support to the members in the free access affordable sources of financing development projects and current operations,




• Informing the local and international business community about the possibilities of production and development projects members of the association, and

• Cooperation with business associations in Serbia and other European countries

“Union Čačak 2000” will be involved in DISS 7.3 Raising awareness and motivation to employers, families.

Partner 8 -‐ University of Montenegro (UoM) Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor is one of the University of Montenegro units. The main activities of the Faculty are education and training of students and seamen enrolled in courses in the fields of: nautical sciences, mechanical engineering, electronics, ICT-‐s, maritime management, and other respected fields. Several national and regional projects are realized at the Faculty; there are constant efforts to establish effective cooperation with maritime companies, also professors and students mobility programs and scientific research are being realized with great success. Although the present condition in our national maritime industry and maritime affairs is not at its best, Faculty of Maritime Studies has been educating seamen for foreign shipping companies from its establishing. Maritime education and training has many centuries long tradition in Kotor that goes back to 17th century. This tradition is to be continued in the best possible manner. Safety, environmental awareness, tourism development, education and policy making, are considered as important segments of the community sustainability and development. The Faculty was established in 1951 and it has 47 full time employees. The financial situation of the Faculty is a stabile one. It is partly financed from the government budget of Montenegro, being in domain of public sector, and partly from training courses for seamen that are organized several times a year, and from different national, bilateral and regional mobility and research projects. UoM will be involved in DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.5 Dissemination products and materials, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 9 -‐ University of Donja Gorica (UDG) The University of Donja Gorica (UDG) is a private, non-‐for-‐profit university located in a suburb of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. It was established in February 2010 by the incorporation of five existing faculties: international economics, finance and business; law; information systems and technologies; humanistic studies; and




arts. The UDG founders had created these faculties sequentially as components of the future UDG. The aspiration of the founders, which is widely shared within UDG, is to change Montenegrin culture and prepare the country for European accession. The vision is implemented through an innovative education philosophy that stresses intellectual and personal development through active learning. Today, UDG includes ten faculties and 13 departments: Faculty for International Economics, Finance and Business, Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies, Faculty of Law, Humanistic studies, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Polytechnics, Faculty for Food Technology, Safety of Food and Ecology, Faculty of Sports Management, Faculty of Design and Multimedia and Faculty for Culture and Tourism. Six of these faculties are registered scientific research institutions. Also, UDG has two sisters’ institutions: Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognosis. Management of UDG consists of Assembly of founders, Development Council, UDG Senate, Rector and General Manager. UDG participates in many different national and international projects as Tempus, IPA Adriatic, Erasmus Mundus and other. The whole university is housed in a single, attractive and well-‐mainteined facility that was purpose built for UDG by one of the university’s founders; it is decorated with inspirational and life-‐affirming quotations. UDG will be involved in DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.5 Dissemination products and materials, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 10 -‐ Association of Youth with disabilities (AYDM) Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro (AYDM) is a non-‐governmental organization, registered on October 22, 2001 and it gathers youth with all kinds of disabilities, as well as people without disabilities willing to promote rights of persons with disabilities. Association of Youth with Disabilities promotes equal position of youth with physical and sensor disabilities in society through initiatives for establishing legal, educational, cultural and social frame that enables it. We have 9 employees and significant number of volunteers. There are more than 100 users of different support services provided by our organization. Activities are implemented through following programs: Program for education -‐ encouraging young people with disabilities to acquire higher education, creating the necessary conditions, education of teachers and students about the rights of persons with disabilities and inclusive education; Program for employment -‐ based on the aim of creating opportunities and increasing the number of employed persons with disabilities; Program for support services – establishment and providing of support services for people with disabilities. This program includes: Students service and Program for schooling and assigning of guide and assistance dogs; Legal program and antidiscrimination; Program of personal empowerment of persons with disabilities (workshops,




seminars, summer schools, open days, psychological counseling); Program for accessibility-‐ activities to encourage removal of architectural barriers for persons with disabilities and The Program for international cooperation. AYDM is member of World Disability Union, European Network for Independent Living, European Guide dogs Federation, South east European network of youth and students with disabilities, Anna Lindt Foundation, Montenegrin network of NGO's ''Saradnjom do cilja'' and IRIS/regional network of service providers. AYDM will be involved in DISS7.3 Raising awareness and motivation to employers and families, DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 11 -‐ Employment Agency of Montenegro (EAM) Employment Agency of Montenegro is organized as a public service with the legal entity status, which carries out its functions in line with the Law on Employment and its key documents. The EAM performs its activity through the Central Service, 7 Regional Employment Offices and 18 Local Employment Offices. The EAM management bodies are the Steering Committee and the Director. The EAM has 321 employees; with 30% of employees working in the Central Service and 70% of employees working in the regional and local employment offices The main scope of the EAM work includes the provision of assistance to the unemployed persons and employers. The EAM influences the functioning of the labor market through the following: labor market surveys; mediation in recruitment and employment; provision of counseling and information to employers and unemployed regarding employment possibilities; maintaining established unemployment registers; provision of unemployment insurance based rights; organization of education and training of the unemployed persons; professional guidance, information and counseling and development of professional guidance methods; preparation of analytical, planning and IT basis for proposing and establishing employment policy; preparation and implementation of active employment policy measures; adaptation of IT system to labor market changes and provision of information to the public; and analysis of the development of occupations and classification of occupations. The share of persons with disability (PwD) in total registered unemployment with the EAM is 10%. The EAM as an institution takes numerous actions to contribute to social inclusion of the PwDs, thus including them into active employment policy programs and measures. EAM will participate in the preparation and organization of the event for raising awareness and motivating employers and families of SwD (DISS7.3).

Partner 12 -‐ University of Sarajevo (UNSA)




The University of Sarajevo (UNSA) is the oldest and largest higher education institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a public university, covering almost all fields through over 100 study programmes and over 200 departments, with around 40.000 students. The educational process is organized according to the Bologna principles. University of Sarajevo has extensive experience in TEMPUS projects dealing with such areas as Governance Reform, Quality Assurance, Curriculum Development, IT, E-‐infrastructure, distance learning among others. UNSA is internationally oriented and its intention is to become fully integrated into the EHEA, but preserving its academic tradition and academic culture heritage. UNSA has shared its practices in numerous FP and ERASMUS Mundus projects as well. Thanks to numerous international contacts, there are two PhD Study programs with strong international components, i.e. III cycle of study: Mathematical Sciences and Economics. UNSA is partner in the EMA2 project: Basileus, JoinEU-‐SEE PENTA, Sigma (Agile), Euroweb(+), Eraweb, GreenTech and Sunbeam. UNSA will participate in DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.5 Dissemination products and materials, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 13 -‐ University of East Sarajevo (UES) University of East Sarajevo is a public university with 54 study programs on all three cycles. University has around 13900 students and 1000 employees. UES is very dislocated University, which organizes its teaching process in 10 different University cities. Faculty of Philosophy is the largest faculty of the UES and it has a heritage of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, founded in 1950. Faculty of Philosophy has grown into the largest institution of higher education at the University, with more than 2 000 students. Faculty of Philosophy is a University in small, and it encompasses seventeen study groups on the first cycle and eleven study groups on the second study program. Courses are taught by full time academics employed at the university, with the help of eminent visiting professors. Since 2005-‐2006 school years the classes are organized in the new building, which meets the highest European standards, thus creating the conditions for the distance learning, as well as organizing other forms of interactive learning. Giving equal opportunities in High education process is win/win combination, which brings education to higher level and extend possibilities of employment of students with special needs, improving life of socially excluded groups, cutting down expenses of social inequality and etc. Office for support of students with special needs on UES was established in the frame of the Tempus project “Equal opportunities for students with special needs“ (EQOPP) (2011-‐2014) (project no: 516939-‐TEMPUS-‐1-‐ 2011-‐1-‐BA-‐TEMPUS-‐SMHES) and its aim is to provide support for studying and everyday life of students with motoric disabilities, impairment of vision, special learning disabilities, speech language communication, mental disorders, social and society behavior chronic diseases, students with different risks and others. Main aims of the University and the office in this area are: bringing students with special




needs in equal position with other students on the University; adopting teaching processes for students with special needs; the work on career development, competences and full inclusion of these students into teaching process and work-‐field, improving position of students with special needs through new legislation frame and practice, bringing plan of activities on the University with the aim of the harmonization and better functioning of the office for supporting students with special needs, development of brochures and guidelines for academic and non-‐academic staff and students, education of academic, administrative staff and students. UES will participate in DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.5 Dissemination products and materials, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 14 -‐ University of Banja Luka (UBL) The University of Banja Luka (UBL), established in 1975, is the second largest in BiH, with more than 18,500 students. It consists of 16 faculties: Academy of Arts, Architecture, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Law, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Technology, Sport, Philosophy, Philology, Forestry, Political Sciences, and Mine Engineering. UBL has 55 licensed study programs and is fully commuted to the idea of a borderless area for research and knowledge exchange in Europe. Besides of an excellent location and own facilities, UBL has other competitive capabilities, including about 1,000 research active staff for teaching and research excellence and 450 administrative staff members. The Banja Luka University staff has been involved in more than 80 Tempus projects, several FP6 projects and FP7 projects. The other international projects were financed by: the European Commission, the Council of Europe, United Nations, the World Bank, governments of several states. The University of Banja Luka is bound by more than 100 bilateral agreements on cooperation with public and private universities from all over the world. UBL will participate in DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.5 Dissemination products and materials, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 15 -‐ Humanitarian Organization Partner




Organization was established in 2001 and deals with issues of persons with disabilities in health protection, social protection and education systems. It is led by persons with disabilities through the Assembly and Administrative Board. There are 3 persons employed at the office and 30 persons providing services of personal assistance and care. Organization has an office of 50 m2, office equipment and two cars and a van vehicle adjusted to transport of persons who use wheelchair. Annual budget is cca 300 000 BAM. At least one third of resources are provided through projects aimed at provision of independent living for persons with disabilities. HO Partner will participate in DISS7.3 Raising awareness and motivation to employers and families, DISS7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities, DISS7.6 Dissemination activities report.

Partner 16 -‐ Profil MC d.o.o. Since 2004, PROFIL Management Consulting has been executive search agency with a goal to find the right leadership through the identification, assessment and recruitment of the most talented business leaders. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services. Our clients range from emerging growth companies to the largest corporations. We work at the highest levels of leadership to create tangible and enduring business impact. As an agency of experts, organizations trust us to manage their talent, which is a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results. Helping people with disabilities to present themselves as a good talent source would be a significant step forward for people with disabilities, for us and most definitely for relationship with our clients. As previewed on our clients list on www.profil.ba, we are trusted partner to many of the world’s most respected organizations. Therefore we already have very good network of large companies from whom we can get valid information, which can be used to improve employability among people with disabilities. Our core services include Executive Search, Speed Selection, Business Educations, Compensation Surveys and Staff Leasing. We have conducted several educations with topics “how to get a job”. We believe that people with disabilities would benefit and appreciate this kind of education. Profil MC will contribute in DISS 7.3 Raising awareness and motivation to employers, families.

Partner 17-‐ Procom d.o.o. Gracanica The company Procom Ltd. Gracanica has existed since 1996, with its primary activity being the field of Computer Engineering (design of information and multimedia systems), import and production of equipment, production of software, computer communications and education.




Since its foundation, the company has made its profile in the direction of the introduction of new information technologies in the government and higher education institutions and SMEs. As a result, the company now has established steady business relations with most municipalities in the Tuzla and Zenica-‐Doboj Canton, Brcko District Government, universities in Tuzla, Bihac, Sarajevo and Mostar, as well as several international organizations in BiH, such as CHF, UNDP, EBRD and GAP. In the year of 2008, the subsidiary company Metronet Ltd. Zenica was founded, which specializes in IT systems in the hotel and catering business and the implementation of Cisco VoIP solutions. Procom Ltd. has participated in a number of educational activities organized by many institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and out of the more prominent ones we emphasize the IT training for unemployed citizens, organized in cooperation with the Employment Service in the Tuzla Canton. Procom Ltd. can take a role in DISS 7.3 Raising awareness and motivation to employers, families.

Partner 18 -‐ Balkan Distance Education Network Balkan distance education network BADEN is an association of educational and research institutions and individuals aimed to achieve the objectives in the field of e-‐learning and distance education, and education technologies across the Balkan region. The main activities of BADEN network includes: improving and promoting quality of e-‐learning and distance education, promoting regional and international cooperation, increasing pedagogical and technical knowledge and skills concerning e-‐learning and distance education, strengthening of educational and civil society readiness for successful implementation of e-‐learning and distance education, encouraging and fostering of the research spirit for further development of e-‐learning and distance education, raising of public awareness concerning the importance of e-‐learning and distance education in all forms of formal and informal education. BADEN has more than 300 members and takes active part in civil and academic society. BADEN also publishes on regularly bases the Newsletter and disseminates and exchanges the knowledge and experiences across the Western Balkan region. BADEN is very active in different project covering Western Balkan region, such as

• eLearning tools for Assessment, Serbian Institute for teaching process improvement, 2012

• Tempus NeReLa “Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university – secondary vocational schools collaboration”, 2013-‐2016

• Assistive technologies in education, Municipality of Čačak, Serbia, 2013

BADEN will contribute in DISS 7.3, 7.4 Raising awareness and motivation to employers, families and HE students with disabilities.




3. Dissemination channels; online and offline

There will be different dissemination products, which shall approach different target groups considering their specific needs and requirements.

Dissemination activities may be grouped in the following groups: • Creation of dissemination material Project logo, Flyers, Posters for project

visual identity and marketing purposes. • Creation of project website where visitors will be able to register in order to

receive newsletter and RSS feeds, with produced electronic material (reports, studies, results, tools, multimedia, informational material) freely available.

• Electronic Newsletters distributed every 6 months with project news, outputs at that point, resume of available reports, agenda of events and articles on specific topics.

• Planned seminars/ workshops to all partner countries aiming at raising awareness. The informational sessions will act as word of mouth marketing, spreading the word at SwD, employers, academic staff etc., transferring project’s outcomes and improved practices and realizing multiplication of results.

• In order to disseminate results outside partner countries, one 1-‐day e-‐Learning seminar is planned, targeting SwDs and employers to raise awareness on the project’s outcomes within all partner and EU countries. E-‐Learning session will be open to everyone and class invitations will be sent to all identified indexed organisations related, announcements will be included in newsletters and uploaded to websites.

The promotional material depends on the exact time point and consequently the actual project’s progress. Promotional material will be dedicated to the particular project’s products and will be prepared after the particular result comes out.

Dissemination materials

Project logo Within the first two months, the project logo will be developed. At the kick-‐off meeting it will be agreed upon which organization will develop project logo. The partners will agree on the general shape and visual identity of the logo. The logo shall refer to the main issue of the project.




The main aim of the project logo is creating awareness of TRANS2WORK and attracting the attention of potential target groups, while complying to WCAG 2.0 guidelines.

Flyers Project flyer will be created in electronic form to communicate information about project identity, aims and objectives. It will be addressed to the general public, companies and to universities. The flyers will be adjusted to the current project’s stage and will promote the project’s current achievements, possibly adjusted also to the target audience in case of preparing it for a planned event. The flyers form will be consistent with the project visual identity.

Posters Project poster will be created to be used as marketing instrument at events and partner institutions. The project poster will consist of project’s logo and title, logo of Erasmus+, and it will be consistent with the project visual identity.

Website The website will be developed based on free open source solutions WordPress. It will integrate professional social networking tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to increase its traffic, attract more visitors and disseminate results and planned events more effectively to the target group. It will be conformed to WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines at level AA. In order to assure project sustainability the website will be maintained active for at least 3 years after project completion. The website will be in English and partner country languages and will initially include a short description of the project, the project phases, tasks to be carried out, and description of partners. News about activities carried out throughout the project will be updated continuously and the website will be enriched gradually along with the findings and all deliverables, uploaded in electronic form, freely available to everyone for downloading. There also will be a collaboration platform on the website, which will be used by all partners to collaborate and share documents throughout all of the phases of the project.




Dissemination activities

Newsletters Considering the newsletter definition, it is a regularly distributed publication about a particular topic, which is of specific interest to receivers. Thus in context of TRANS2WORK project, thematic newsletter will be distributed every six months in order to notify about the project’s progress. In that case the target of the newsletters shall be carefully selected to distribute the particular pieces of information to the target groups. A newsletter, telling about the developments throughout the project, will be produced each six months. The newsletter will also be posted to all organizations listed in the electronic index. Publishing dates are March 2016, September 2016, March 2017, September 2017, March 2018, and September 2018.

Press releases Press release is a written or recorded short communication spread via a particular media channel in order to announce something claimed as having news value. Depending on the media channel the release might be concentrated on spreading news related to the particular topic (news release, which is compilation of facts, then developed by journalists to complete the short “story”), or it might be concentrated on expressing opinion (for example to highlight an important event). Depending on topics and project’s progress both types of press releases might be used. In order to provide press release relevant media channels shall be identified and then selected according to their best suitability to the project’s needs. In the case of TRANS2WORK project all possibilities of publicizing a short release will be named press releases independently of the media type. A list of the possible media channels will be made by the project consortium at the beginning of the project.

Participation in events

The TRANS2WORK project shall be effectively presented within relevant conferences, seminars, workshops, etc., which will be thematically related to the project’s scope. The main goal of this participation is to raise awareness of the project among different target groups as much as possible. Within such events the TRANS2WORK project shall be promoted and current progress shall be reported. The presentations shall be concentrated on the area of interest of event participants. The project shall be present both in conferences and national events addressed to target groups. Each partner that participates in events at national or regional level will deliver minutes of the event and the dissemination of TRANS2WORK and all related materials i.e. presentation that will be published on the website of the project.




Indicative participation in dissemination activities:

• Annual meeting of BADEN steering committee, each year • HO Partner with UNIBL will organize Round table for families of SwD,

employers and graduates (up to 100 participants) • Presentation of the project/project results in the newspaper ''Poslovi”, and on

the NES website. • UES will organize open days • Sixth International Conference "Technics and Informatics in Education"

2016, May 2016 (27-‐29), Faculty of Technical Sciences, Cacak, Presentation of the project in Plenary session "Creative Teaching with ICT Support for Students with Disabilities in their transition from educational institutions to work organizations"

• Annual International Conference "Teaching and Learning",November 2016 Presentation of the project for Working group for Teacher Education -‐ Open Method of Coordination, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and for some representatives of HERE Team, March/April/May Presentation of the project in the magazine ''Prosvetni pregled''

• UNIKG Career center 3 x presentations • UNION 2000 will present project at the meeting of the Executive Board

Business asotiation UNION Cacak 2000 • UNION 2000 will present project at the Assembly of the Community of

Entrepreneurs Regional Chamber of Commerce Kraljevo • UNION 2000 will present project at the annual General Assembly of the

"Forum of entrepreneurs Cacak"; • UNION 2000 will present project In the television broadcast on regional

television TELEMARK Cacak • UNION 2000 will present project with an affirmative article in the weekly

newspaper "Cacanski glas" • UNS will organize -‐ info sessions at the university of Novi Sad • UoM will organize one Info day for future students where the project idea

will be promoted in order to raise awareness and motivate SwD • International day for PwD will be organized by UoM

Articles TRANS2WORK consortium plans to promote the project results through papers, articles and publications on specialized newspapers and journals (academic and popular).




The objective is on the one hand to obtain a great visibility among higher education institutions and students with disabilities (avoiding wasting resources disseminating the project through not-‐specialized press communications), and on the other hand, it is to inform and reach employers, families and policy makers.

Internet and Social Media One of the project’s Internet presences consists of the project website, which will promote its developments. Moreover, the project partners will also promote the project through their own websites. They will insert announcements regarding the project to their corporate or organization websites, as additional means of dissemination for the project. Following the consortium dissemination plan, such announcements shall follow up the progress of the work in the project, shall be regularly updated and make the project visible to a broad audience. Another way of Internet presence is exploring the potential of social projecting websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn by spreading information and news among consortium partners’ connections and by creating new groups.

4. Target groups According to the dissemination goals, we may identify different target groups with different expectations and deriving from various interest areas. Target groups indicate also different phases of dissemination, since at the beginning of the project general and theoretical aspects, as well as planned tasks may be disseminated.

Considering the project’s goals and above-‐mentioned assumptions, the TRANS2WORK target groups are:

• Academic and non-‐academic staff in higher education institutions • Higher education institutions • Mentors/ Career centers within higher education institutions • Students with disabilities • Families of students with disabilities • Individuals with disabilities, employers, other HEIs and NGOs • Public and private sector (HEIs and employers) • Graduate students with disabilities and employers • Wide society in general.




5. Dissemination methodology This chapter defines the methods, rules and principles for realizing the TRANS2WORK dissemination plan. That means detailed description of how we are going to undertake dissemination actions within the whole duration of the project. The methodology is strongly based on all the above-‐mentioned sections describing why, what, who, to whom, and how the knowledge about TRANS2WORK will be disseminated.

The methodology includes principles of planning dissemination activities, performing them, and ways of reporting. Moreover the methodology defines the responsibilities (who is responsible for what) as well as the way of collecting and updating information and data.

Planning dissemination activities TRANS2WORK dissemination activities shall be planned on the basis of ones described (proposed) in the above-‐mentioned sections including regular updates according to the passing time. But in case of some new, not mentioned propositions they shall also be reported and relevant decisions will be always made by the whole project consortium.

For effective planning activities the regular updating (described in section 5.5) is required as well as engagement of all partners to disseminate the knowledge evenly in all countries, mainly ones where TRANS2WORK will be piloted through universities and employers. The way of planning activities will be as follows:

• Partners propose activities they would like to undertake and give all necessary details;

• BMU as dissemination leader gathers and merges the input; • BMU presents all propositions during the project meetings;

The project consortium jointly decides what will be undertaken and by whom – in this way the responsibility is allocated to particular project partners.

In some urgent cases, when it is impossible to postpone making the decision until the nearest project meeting, the consortium will be informed via emails and/or collaboration platform on the website by UOM (the coordinator) and BMU, and the decision will be made also through the same communication channels.




Carrying out dissemination activities Performing previously planned dissemination activities consists always of three main steps:

• Organization of the activity and preparation of all relevant staff (e.g. printing flyers, preparing presentations, etc.);

• Performing the event (e.g. giving the presentation, chairing the workshop, sending newsletter, publishing press release, etc.);

• Gathering all relevant pieces of information, data and feedback to report the activity.

The responsible partner shall undertake the aforementioned steps and keep project’s coordinator informed on the progress of the performed activities. Rules and guidelines for performing particular activities:

• Organizing events like workshops, presentations within conferences shall be previously accepted by the whole consortium;

• All activities shall be always reported to the project coordinator afterwards to the consortium (reporting sheet is provided in The Project Management and Quality Assessment Plan);

• If necessary relevant partners shall be involved, for example in translations, descriptions of particular parts of the project’s outputs, etc.

• Articles, press releases and newsletters shall be previously internally reviewed by the consortium before submitting for publication;

• All events shall be accompanied by leaflets distributed to event’s participants and/or posters (put in relevant places to attract the wider audience);

• All presentations shall be made on the TRANS2WORK template; Since the whole dissemination process was divided into three main phases, all undertaken activities must be adjusted to the dissemination phase according to the current project’s state (e.g. press releases or articles – in the beginning of the project describe the general idea of the project, its goals and expected outcomes, but in the functionalities development phase present the executed tasks and available tools, methodologies and research results, while the project’s end phase activities shall summarize the results and show advantages, etc.). The dissemination material will be also adjusted to the current progress of the project – the new versions of flyer will be prepared to emphasize the most important achievements and thus to attract new target groups.

Reporting on dissemination activities




Partners responsible for performing dissemination activities will report them after they are finished to the project coordinator (UOM) and lead partner for dissemination work package (BMU). The activities will be reported in a specific template (presented in The Project Management and Quality Assessment Plan) in order to be described in a similar way and take into consideration all relevant aspects. In all the cases, activity material used shall be attached – e.g. presentation, article, press release, newsletter, etc.

Defining responsibilities As mentioned above, responsibilities will be allocated during planning and accepting dissemination activities. However there are some overall responsibilities, which can be defined at the very beginning, namely:

• BMU is responsible for coordinating the whole dissemination process and keeping partners informed;

• All partners are responsible for updating information (e.g. forthcoming events, new possibilities of publications, etc. mainly on national and local level) every three months (mainly information related to their countries);

• BMU is responsible for updating more general information (e.g international events, new opportunities of publication, etc.);

• Partners performing a particular activity are responsible for reporting it to UOM;

• UOM is responsible for preparing newsletters scheme and partners involved in the newsletter tasks are responsible for completing and checking the newsletter content.

• All partners are responsible for translating (if needed) and distributing newsletters;

• Partner performing a particular event is responsible for printing current flyers and/or posters (depending on needs);

• UOM and BMU is responsible for introducing changes in dissemination material (flyers and web site), e.g. in case of some specific needs of a particular event during which the material is expected to be used;

• Partners who are going to publish press release or articles are responsible for preparing it and informing the consortium and coordinator about it.

Collecting and updating information and data Dissemination activities are performed within the whole project’s duration according to the agreed plan. Therefore all needed pieces of information must be updated,




since at the beginning of the project we are not able to predict all future possibilities and to recognize all opportunities for the project period. For this purpose there will be a designated partner from each country that is involved in the Regional Committee which will collect information every 3 months and will assemble and update required dissemination activities for their country regularly. This information will be posted and visible to all partners on the collaboration platform. Because of this, data must be gradually updated and completed with new pieces of information. All partners are responsible for updating dissemination information. The most frequently updated information will be the list of events.

6. Conclusions This document outlines the strategic plan of dissemination activities for the TRANS2WORK project. The plan has been established by firstly defining the objectives of dissemination, the project content to be disseminated, the target groups to be approached, the instruments and tools to be used, recommendations for the action plan and detailed dissemination methodology. To establish a well-‐defined strategy, sections of this deliverable answer the questions of what needs to be disseminated, by whom and to whom, how, and why. All included propositions will be extended and updated, what will be involved in the dissemination report at the end of the project. All project partners are going to be deeply involved in the dissemination process. The main dissemination objective is to widely spread the project’s assumptions and results and to reach the variety of target groups according to the project’s scope. In order to realize these dissemination goals particular activities will be undertaken. Apart from currently prepared material (project logo, presentation template, initial flyers and website) the consortium is going to present the project using Internet, press, journals, articles etc., through participating in different types of events and updating the prepared material. Several newsletters and press releases are going to be published announcing the project’s news. Special emphasis will be put on participating in events thematically related to the project’s scope and creating TRANS2WORK awareness among participants of these events either through presenting the project, or through distributing dissemination material. All undertaken dissemination actions will be summarized in the Dissemination Report and Interim Reports under MNGT9 and QPLN6.







Project Coordinator

Project contact person: Lefkothea Kartasidou, Assistant Professor [email protected] Project email [email protected] Project website www.trans2work.eu

Erasmus+ KA2

Capacity Building in Higher Education

Project duration: 15th October 2015-14th October 2018

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