CIDEC belongs to an entrepreneurial model that works in a network of various entities associated with strategic alliances that make a permanent working environment within the Federación de Conocimiento-Knowledge Federation. (more info)

Estudio promovido por la Confederación Empresarial Vasca Confebask que diagnostica la situación actual en la orientación profesional en el sistema educativo. (ver documento)

Aborda los efectos de la era del conocimiento en el empleo, incluyendo de forma específica las necesidades y déficits de nuevos profesionales, las implicaciones para el conjunto de los trabajadores, los factores que influyen o dificultan su desarrollo o las necesidades formativas y educativas. (ver documento)

“Incentive Plan for Corporate Investment in Training (PRIEC)” Inter-American Development Bank/FOMIN. 1998-1999.

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Gender approach in the AFOPH project. AFOPH (Support for Vocational Training in Honduras). 1997.

Designing and implementing the Half Way Point Evaluation of the Modernization in Technical Education and Training Project in Mexico. World Bank. 1998

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FORMUJER Program. Methodological Base for identifying and validating vocational and training profiles based on employment skills. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (National University of Quilmes). 2001.

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Tools for detecting training needs in microenterprises in Argentina and Guipúzcoa. ALFA Program (Latin America-Academic Training). EC 1997.

Intermediate Evaluation and End of the Project. Developing national standards for the measurement of job skills as well as a training program for Peru’s tourism sector. Inter-American Development Bank/CENFOTUR. 2000 and 2003.

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Technical Assistance for the Design and Development of a Employment Skills Evaluation and Certification Model within the framework of the “Development of National Standards for Measuring Skills and Training Program for Peru’s Tourism Sector” project. CENFOTUR.

Technical Assistance for the creation of the Skills Framework in Chile. Agreement with Fundación Chile within the Chile Califica Program. 2003-2004.

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About CINTERFOR-ILO

• Approach towards Gender
• Equity
• Guidance in Equal Opportunities

(Selected projects)

• Social Affairs
• Spatial Development
• Third Sector
• Immigration
• Groups at risk of social exclusion

(Selected projects)

• Lifelong learning
• Technical and key skills
• R & D Training
• eTraining
• Vocational guidance and Employment Counselling

(Selected projects)

• Culture of Knowledge Sharing
• New technologies in Information and Communication
• New employment and Professional Profiles
• New ways of work organization: Telework

(Selected projects)

Analysis of the assessment method on continuing education used in the sector of “Regular and Occasional Transport and Added Activities”. This study was developed within the call for proposals of 2004 on Complementary Actions and Accompaniment for the creation of the State Foundation for Training in Employment. The aim of this project is to identify good practise techniques whose dissemination and sharing benefit the training evaluation in said area by examining the experience developed in Spain. Evaluation of the implementation of the Basque Insertion Plan during 2004. This evaluation focuses on the analysis of the axes of intervention at the Basque Insertion Plan: specific measures exclusively intended for those people at risk of exclusion; and the support and guidance of the universalistic protection systems (social services, training and employment, education, health and housing). The methodology combines elements of the CIPP evaluation model adapted with other assessment approaches, and it is based on the participation of the different agents involved in the development and implementation of the Plan-the different levels of the Administration and social initiative- using different tools (interviews, Delphis, participative evaluation groups, etc.). Study on Vocational Guidance in the Basque Education System. This project is dedicated to establishing a diagnosis of the situation of vocational guidance in the Basque Country, designing a comprehensive guidance model and defining an Action Plan to be disseminated and implemented. Guide for Learning in the workplace. This handbook is being elaborated within our Work Paper Collection and is aimed at professionals who carry out that the interventions training period in the work place requires, mainly company Tutors and Tutors of training centres.

Since 2003 CIDEC's Centre for the Initiative Development has been developing the new initiative Investors in Human-ICH which aims at promoting and developing human capital and social responsibility in public and private organizations and enterprises.

To this end, it aims at socially identifying and recognising the Excellent Enterprises that make the commitment to investing in people and social responsibility, i.e. ethically responsible enterprises.