EU funds projects

Institute of chemical technology, Prague, (ICT), in partnership with:
The Institute of environmental services, a.s.
City District Prague 12
City District Prague 6
City District Prague 10

Has acquired financial funding from the budget of the Czech republic, from the budget of
the City of Prague, and from the budget of the European social fund for the project:

„Center for lifelong education at the Institute of chemical technology, Prague“.

http://ccvz.vscht.cz

The principal objective of the project is to build the Prague center for technical education in order to help developthe qualification and education of graduates, corporate employees, state administration employees and all those who intend to improve their position on the job market.

ICT and the partnership organisations have set as their objective to prepare and run programmes of further education focused on the recipients field of activity, such as new technologies, environment protection, water treatment, waste management, application of ICT, PC literacy courses, chemistry and food analysis, food-processing technology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, current legal requirements in the fields studied, assistance with the implementation of new legal requirements, such as the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) in the food-serving industry and food distribution.

The target groups are trainers and teachers from the ranks of university lecturers and assistants, post-graduate degree students, selected technical high school teachers in Prague willing to cooperate with the center as external partners, leading employees of the state administration and key employees of Prague food industry companies and research bodies who already are external partners for the project or are willing to do so. Last but not least, all those interested in fields related to the project are invited to take part in it.

Courses offered by the Center for lifelong education at the Institute of chemical technology, Prague:
- Module 1A: Basic ecosystems microbiology
- Module 1B: Life cycle evaluation
- Module 1C: Eco-toxicology
- Module 1D: Environmental and industrial toxicology
- Module 1E:Chemical and biological terrorism

- Module 2A: Analytics in the environment
- Module 2B: Instrumental methods in the environment analytics

- Module 3A: Energy and heat management
- Module 3B: Modern ways to manage energy
- Module 3C: Water in power engineering
- Module 3D: fuels use and their future: liquid fuels and crude oil products

- Module 4A: Legal aspects of air purity protection
- Module 4C:Llegal aspects of waste management and soil protection

- Module 5A: Technical securing of air purity protection
- Module 5C: Drinking water – production, quality management, distribution
- Module 5D1: Municipal waste waters – mechanical pre-cleaning
- Module 5D3: Municipal waste waters – filtered waste management
- Module 5D4: Municipal waste waters– biological methods of treatment
- Module 5D4: Municipal waste waters– physical and chemical methods of treatment
- Module 5E: Solid waste – formation, use, processing

If interested in the seminars listed above, please contact us at:
PhDr. Adéla Petrášková
Tel.: 220 443 790
Email: adela.patraskova@vscht.cz

Institute of finance and administration,public service company in partnership with:

LINDE TECHNOPLYN a.s.
City of Prague hygiene station
Institute of environmental services, a.s.
Městská část Praha 7

Are organizing a one of a kind project in the academic year 2007/2008, first of this kind in the Czech Republic.

„Post-graduate courses designed to appreciate life experience – necessary for those who intend to expand the horizon of their active professional life
(„ARNOLD“)

ARNOLD project is aimed at older citizens living and working in Prague, who, in spite of having achieved 50 years, do not consider retiring and intend to stay active in their professional life as before in order to create new interesting projects in a field they know very well. The project aims to provide these admirable people with the knowledge and skills they need for their future professional success even though these skills are often assigned to their younger colleagues.

The principal activity of this project is the creation and pilot run of the education programme, which will contain study modules such as the most recent trends in social and professional life, efficient thinking methods, how to overcome stereotypes, capitalizing on one´s experience, team communication, making use of modern information technologies and last but not least qualified care about one´s health. Participants can also benefit from distance learning using the e-learning portal and individual consultations with the trainers.

The course-leavers will receive a certificate ot the successful completion of a university postgraduate education programme. The courses are free of charge as the project is fully financed from the European social fund budget, the Czech Republic budget and the City of Prague budget.

www.vsfs.cz
(see the choice “ EU education programmes “ – see the ARNOLD programme)

The education programme is composed of 4 study modules:

Module 1: Recent trends in social and professional development
The aim is to make the participants familiar with the newest knowledge in dynamic fields that are related to their professional life now, with a focus on constituting the knowledge society. The 5-day module makes it possible for the project participants to create their own personal SWOT analysis with the help of professionals. The SWOT analysis enables them to get to know their own strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the ever-changing world.
On the basis of the SWOT analysis, the participants create their own plan of personal development and formulate their own strategic career plan. The concluding, training part of the module, the participants learn by doing and practice the most effective methods and procedures of the realization of the strategic plan with focus on key situations (change in companies and organizations, selection procedures, job and evaluation interviews, key presentations, participation in entrepreneur and EU funded projects etc.

Module 2: Efficient thinking methods, overcoming stereotypes, capitalizing on one´s experience
The methods and methodology of thinking aimed at making better use of experience, their systemization, strengthening of the innovative elements, overcoming stereotypes, increasing the communicative skills. To be more precise, the module includes, the following competences: innovating, systemizing (arranging the acquired knowledge with respect to their use in practice), communicating ( being able to hand over knowledge and accept the knowledge in communication), realization ( being able to use the knowledge practically. In this module, materials made for the topic of more effective thinking will be used. The lectures will be completed with practical sessions. Half of the module will be carried out through the e-learning portal using distant assistance.

Module 3:Team and inert-generation communication using modern information technologies
The module consists of a set of methods and practical skills in using the life-long learning information delivery service in relation to practical skills in communicating across generations and inter-field team cooperation.
Life-long information delivery service prepared by the Institute of Finance and Administration for their graduates will be used here. Being able to use this system means having on-line access to the newest knowledge in the field, including primary research output. The participants will acquire access to the information service in the form of methodic, technical and team inter-generation cooperation. Part of the learning will consist in acquiring applicable knowledge through case studies with teams consisting of people of different generations and through the use of information technologies. Planning the life-long career will represent an essential part of the project, which makes the project beneficial for younger team members.

Module 4: Qualified self- health care
Complementary knowledge about how to use health care in an active, efficient and optimal way and about how to lead a life style that helps prevent diseases and about how to monitor one´s health condition including efficient relaxation and holidays.
All the modules listed above will be conceived so as to have an overall complex effecting terms of positive hand-over of knowledge and so as to achieve that in terms of the set of methods and practices or in terms of enhancing motivation and making use of experience, the participants get connected to the information service of IFA, to the e-learning portal, to the team electronic communication.

For those who are interested:

Dear sir, dear madam,

do you feel like growing personally, acquiring new knowledge and competences? Would you like to inquire into what your strengths and weaknesses are? Would you like to prove to yourself as well as to others that people over 50 can still contribute a lot to their profession and that the ability to develop isn´t reserved to young people? If you work in the City of Prague and you are in charge of human resources care or if you represent en employees´ or employers´ union or trade organization, then it means the project for the years 2007/2008 has been prepared by the IFA and its partners with you in mind.

Postgraduate course on how to capitalize on life-long experience
, “ARNOLD”

This unique project will enable the participants to prolong their active professional life on their professional market if they wish to do so.

If you feel you could benefit from the project, please get more information and if you wish apply for our project on the website given above. You can also apply by post:
VŠFS, Estonská 500, 100 00 Praha 10.


The project executive team is looking forward to welcoming you.