FONDAZIONE IKAROS
IKAROS is a certified VET Provider with its nucleus dating back to 1972. It is a Polytechnic Institute, operating in the fields of IVET, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Job Services in its three seats in the provinces of Bergamo and Milan. Its institute offers five-year courses divided into four areas: technological area, agro-food area, wellness area and the administrative area. IKAROS hosts over 1500 initial vocational training students (secondary education) and 200 higher education students now. It trains over 2000 adults per year, has accompanied more than 1200 people in the labour market and supported over 800 children and adults with disadvantages.
IKAROS is accredited within the regional system of Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) which represents an educational offer that allows the completion of compulsory schooling. IKAROS offers courses recognized in Italy that include traineeships for Hairdressers, Administratives, Beauticians, Cooks, Bakers and Pastry chefs, Secretaries, IT Technicians, Graphic designers, Carpenters, Electricians, Mechanics, Electronic technicians, Logistics, Marketing operators, Surveyors and Accountants.
It also organizes courses for adults in Marketing, Sales and communication, Organization and processes, Administration, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, Quality and Safety, Information and Communication Technology, Languages, Health and Social services, Continuing Medical education. And had developed an expertise in teaching and learning with ICT, as well as in formal/informal skills development and competences certification through ECVET, being involved in several European projects concerning these issues.
Ikaros always pays greatest attention to the labour market and employment possibilities for young people at the end of their training path. That is how Ikaros' branch Fondazione Et Labora was born, as an employment agency with a strong internal expertise aiming at promoting "good" employment, favouring the innate need for self-fulfillment of each individual and supporting each person in the discovery of her/his abilities. It's main activities are Career guidance, Counseling services and skills assessment.
OUR EXPERTISE
- ADULT EDUCATION
We organize adult education courses for adults in sectors as Marketing, Sales and communication, Organization and processes, Administration, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, Quality and safety, Information and Communication Technology, Languages, Health and social services, Continuing medical education. In the last five years the Consortium has trained 12247 persons, in long or short term training courses. In 2017 only it has trained 3050 persons.
- ADULT LEARNING MOBILITY
ToGetPro has implemented various adult mobility projects, such as job shadowing activities within the Erasmus+ KA1 mobility and KA2 strategic partnerships. Some examples: Erasmus+ KA1 Adult mobility Job Shadowing aimed at opening synergies and internationalize cooperation among organizations through a job shadowing learning mobility of staff members from a Romanian Job services and training provider in our consortium in Italy. A total of 4 staff took part in the JS activity, that took place in our offices in Rome, Florence, Milan and Bergamo.
Erasmus+ KA2: a Job shadowing mobility within the KA2 SP Dropapp project. The main goal was to share practices already implemented by European apprenticeship school partners, by exploring strategies to increase and strengthen career counselling services in their context and labour market to reduce drop out of apprentices
- INNOVATIVE DIDACTICS WITH ICT
We have matured a large experience in teaching with ICT, participating in the projects ICT WAYS (http://www.ictways.eu/) provided a free online network for teaching and support in Primary and Secondary Schools, helping to build a community for creating, sharing and reusing teaching and learning materials and methodologies. Generazione Web project (Web generation) - ICT Innovative Competences for Teaching – a regional project aimed at disseminating and enhancing the skills of primary and high school teacher for the optimal use of new forms of teaching in digital mode.
- ADULT EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT
Ikaros, an entity accredited for the employment services in the Lombardy Region, dedicated to supporting employment, providing services for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusion, in order to foster an individualized approach through the placement into employment. Within their employment service they apply a Pro-Active methodology, which consists of Group training on the main instruments of active research (drawing up a CV, a cover letter, an interview), individual interviews for defining career goals, networking workshops aimed at creating own networks of contacts, mapping companies, aimed at discovering the local companies, organising them by sector and geographic location, find job opportunities and decide on a strategy for self-application and daily monitoring meetings.
- CERTIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF SKILLS
Ikaros has developed important projects that facilitated international mobility. Thanks to the participation in these projects we obtained an important expertise in the field of formal and informal skills and competences certifications through ECVET system and other types of certification related to healthcare projects. Project examples: KA2 VET Strategic partnerships Carevet (http://www.carevet.eu/) and KA2 VET SP Care4mobility.
