RemWork4SMEs

Duration : 1 April 2024 to 31 July 2025
2023-2-CY01-KA210-VET-000177253

RemWork4SMEs is aimed at offering flexible training options covering topics like healthy living, and mental/physical wellbeing. It intends to promote healthy lifestyle practices among SMEs employing remote staff, with its primary objective being the prevention of burnout effects that remote workers have faced in recent years, largely due to the abrupt shift to remote work driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit RemWork4SMEs Website

Why RemWork4SMEs?

RemWork4SMEs is an innovative initiative designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in promoting the well-being of their remote workforce. The project responds to the significant challenges SMEs face due to the rise of remote work, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Goals

  1. Promoting Healthy Remote Work Practices: RemWork4SMEs aims to mitigate the negative physical and mental health impacts associated with remote work. It encourages SMEs to adopt healthier work routines and practices to prevent burnout and other well-being challenges commonly faced by remote employees.

2. Providing Flexible, Engaging Training: The project offers flexible, game-based training solutions, including interactive tools like Minecraft Education Edition, to teach essential skills for remote work, such as communication, time management, and stress reduction.

3. Strengthening SME Resilience: By offering SMEs a comprehensive framework and resources for improving their remote work setups, RemWork4SMEs fosters a more resilient, productive, and motivated workforce, ensuring long-term success and employee satisfaction.

How?

By doing the following :
  • Developing Best Practice Frameworks: Provides SMEs with frameworks to promote healthy remote work practices, focusing on mental and physical well-being, work-life balance, and preventing burnout.

  • Game-based Learning: Utilizes interactive tools like Minecraft Education Edition to teach essential skills for remote work in a fun, engaging way, covering areas like communication, collaboration, and stress management.

  • Collaboration with Experts: Engages HR managers, VET trainers, and remote workers through needs analysis and focus groups to ensure the training is tailored to real-world challenges.

  • Open Educational Resources (OERs): Offers free, accessible resources for SMEs and their employees to develop skills and knowledge needed for successful remote work.

  • Support for Remote Workers: Establishes a support system connecting remote employees with peers, mentors, and trainers to foster collaboration and reduce the risk of burnout.

Partners

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G.P. MIND THE GAME DEVELOPMENT LTD

Country : Cyprus

Mind the Game is all about games. It lives and breathes games. The company focuses on the inception, design, and creation of games for all purposes but specialising in knowledge awareness games. Applying out of the box instructional design principles giving priority to playful learning is boldly goes where few, if any, have gone before in terms of originality and educational value. 

DigiCULT

Country : Poland

DigiCULT focuses on IT solutions in cultural heritage and environmental sustainability; it takes initiatives that aim to safeguard cultural heritage and activate people towards the transmission of culture to next generations. To that end, DigiCULT is focused on the use of ICT solutions and innovative digital tools aiming to enhance the relationship between tangible/intangible cultural heritage and education.

Country: Czech Republic

metalaxis s.r.o. is a specialized management consulting firm that helps organizations and enterprises grow remotely. Metalaxis s.r.o. main focus is to facilitate the transition and transformation of enterprises and organizations to the new digital era providing them the appropriate training, guidance and IT tools required to succeed.