Luis Ochoa Siguencia

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jergo Kukuczki w Katowicach | AWF · Department of Sport and Tourism Management

Digital learning and volunteering have the potential to promote social inclusion by providing a platform for individuals from different backgrounds to access education, training, and volunteer opportunities. However, to fully realize the benefits of digital technologies, we must ensure that everyone has access to them and the skills to use them eff...

Yaratıcılık, sanat, dijital sosyal inovasyon, eğitim ve bunların işin geleceği üzerindeki etkileri arasında çok yönlü bir ilişki vardır. Bu yayın, sanatta yaratıcılığın rolüne odaklanarak inovasyon ve yaratıcılığın kaynaklarını araştırmaktadır. Ayrıca, dijital sosyal inovasyonun yeni yaratıcı ifade ve işbirliği biçimleri için nasıl bir katalizör ha...

There is a multifaceted relationship between creativity, art, digital social innovation, education, and their implications for the future of work. This book explores the sources of innovation and creativity, with a focus on the role of creativity in the arts. Furthermore, it discusses how digital social innovation has become a catalyst for novel fo...

In 2021. European Commission formally called for a fifth industrial revolution (Industry 5.0). Discussions by participants from all over Europe in two virtual workshops organised by Directorate "Prosperity" of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation on 2 and 9 July 2020 resulted in the document "Industry 5.0: Towards a Sustainable, Human-ce...

The new challenges in almost all organisations are based on people. It is their competences, knowledge and skills that enable any organisation to grow. Personnel are a resource that must be properly taken care of. Effective talent management is mainly based on planning and building career paths. Talent management is one of the most important busine...

This desk research was carried out within the ERASMUS+ Cooperation partnerships in adult education, Empower Adult Educators to Support Digital Social Inclusion [DigIN], Project number 2022-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-000088404, coordinated by Instytut Badan I Innowacji w Edukacji - Poland. The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow partner organ...

Our report present a desk and field research prepared by "Elders learning English for Europe" project partners, within the ERASMUS+ 2021-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-000033465. The objectives of our project are: - To improve and to expand the offer of high quality learning opportunities adapted to the needs of older people to improve their multilingual skills...

Kurs skierowany jest do osób, które chcą, aby ich praca stała się bardziej efektywna. Ponadto kurs zachęca i daje podstawy teoretyczne i praktyczne do tego, aby osoby po jego zakończeniu stały się cenionymi pracownikami lub podjęły decyzję o samozatrudnieniu (np. na zasadach Solopreneur). Adresatami kursu są zarówno młodzi ludzie, którzy stają prze...

The report present a desk research about "Situated Leaning" in general and some example of good practices in the partner Institutions working in the implementation of the Programme: Erasmus+ Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices; Cooperation partnerships in adult education; Project Reference: 2021-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-0000...

This study investigates motivational factors and language learning strategies involved in the process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the elderly. This needs' analysis report is part of the implementation of ERASMUS+ project nr 2021-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-000033465.

Monografia „Bezpieczeństwo imprez masowych - Utrzymanie Ładu Publicznego związanego z meczami piłki nożnej - Przegląd wybranych zagadnień” została zrealizowana dzięki projektowi „ICT & Management Research Network”. Niniejsza monografia i cała jej zawartość odzwierciedla wyłącznie poglądy autorów. INBIE nie ponosi odpowiedzialności za jakiekolwiek w...

The project, and thus the present handbook, aims to teach older adults with low digital skills. The handbook includes seven main learning units, which include adult self-learning methods and techniques, digital literacy for adult self-learning, learning apps and software for adult learners, problem-solving skills for ASL, use of web-based sources f...

This course is part of the Erasmus+ project “ASL - Adult Self-Learning Supporting Learning Autonomy in a Technology Mediated Environment”, implemented by a consortium of six partners from Turkey, Greece, Italy, Latvia and Poland. The project's specific goals are as follows:  to teach learners how to acquire new skills and competencies using learni...

This study investigates motivational factors and language learning strategies involved in the process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the elderly. This needs' analysis report is part of the implementation of ERASMUS+ project nr 2021-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-000033465.

The main objective of the book is to present the ‘Montessori Method in Teaching 2nd Language to Adults". The book is a "GUIDE FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE MONTESSORI METHOD TO TEACHING 2nd LANGUAGE IN ADULT EDUCATION". This new edition contains: PART I: THE MONTESSORI METHOD FOR ADULTS 1. INTRODUCTION – MONTESSORI METHOD FOR ADULTS Who is Maria M...

The dynamic development of digital technologies and their widespread use in everyday life, especially by younger generations, forces urgent initiatives to counter the digital exclusion of older people. Adult Social Inclusion in and the Digital Environment (ASIDE) has offered activities to support inclusive education and digital skills, raising comp...

With the development of information and information technologies and the increase in their use and prevalence, information has been transferred to the digital environment, a nd it has become possible to carry out many research, studies and activities through the digital environment. With the acceleration of access to information, a rapid change pro...

Digital technology development has been emerging in the last couple of years. Moreover, the pandemic period has accelerated the implementation of various video conferencing systems. Nowadays, virtual collaboration became imperial not only in the secondary, but in the higher education as well. Wide variety of digital platforms have become common pra...

Aktywne starzenie się oznacza pomaganie ludziom jak najdłużej kierować własnym życiem. Ponieważ utrzymywanie aktywności umysłu jest równie ważne, jak utrzymywanie aktywności fizycznej ciała, istnieje pilna potrzeba kontekstu edukacyjnego, kulturowego i społecznego. Zgodnie z Raportem Analitycznym Indeksu Aktywności Starzenia się (UNECE, Integracja...

Active ageing means helping people stay in charge of their own lives for as long as possible. Because keeping minds active is equally important as keeping bodies physically active, there is an urgent need for an educational, cultural and social context. According to the Active Ageing Index Analytical Report (UNECE, Integration and participation of...

The Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment project (ASIDE) intends to support inclusive education and digital skills, improving the competences in digital social inclusion of social educators and social volunteers. ASIDE project addresses social inclusion through the definition of a portfolio of basic digital competences that are necessary...

The aim of the study is to present good practices in the field of basic digital competences necessary for the development of ICT-based social inclusion initiatives / services. To achieve this goal, the desk research method was used, in which the key determinants of competency development in a virtual environment were identified on the basis of lite...

Social entrepreneurship matters for numerous reasons and plays a key role nowadays. Social entrepreneurship supports people who are marginalised or who find themselves in unjust positions due to events that are beyond their control. A social entrepreneur differs from a typical entrepreneur in that, whereas the traditional entrepreneur's ultimate pu...

Social entrepreneurship matters for numerous reasons and plays a key role nowadays. Social entrepreneurship supports people who are marginalised or who find themselves in unjust positions due to events that are beyond their control. A social entrepreneur differs from a typical entrepreneur in that, whereas the traditional entrepreneur's ultimate pu...

Sosyal girişimcilik birçok nedenden ötürü önemlidir ve günümüzde kilit bir rol oynamaktadır. Sosyal girişimcilik, ötekileştirilen veya kendi kontrolleri dışındaki olaylar nedeniyle kendilerini adaletsiz konumlarda bulan insanları destekler. Bir sosyal girişimcinin tipik bir girişimciden farkı, geleneksel girişimcinin nihai amacının para kazanmak ol...

Przedsiębiorczość społeczna ma znaczenie z wielu powodów i odgrywa obecnie kluczową rolę. Przedsiębiorczość społeczna wspiera osoby zepchnięte na margines lub znajdujące się w niesprawiedliwej sytuacji z powodu wydarzeń, na które nie mają wpływu. Przedsiębiorca społeczny różni się od typowego przedsiębiorcy tym, że podczas gdy dla tradycyjnego prze...

L'imprenditoria sociale è importante per numerose ragioni e svolge un ruolo fondamentale al giorno d'oggi. L'imprenditoria sociale sostiene le persone emarginate o che si trovano in posizioni ingiuste a causa di eventi che sfuggono al loro controllo. Un imprenditore sociale si differenzia da un imprenditore tipico in quanto, mentre lo scopo ultimo...

Evolution of the information society highlights the importance of acquiring the right digital competences to face today's social and technological challenges. Digital competences have different definitions, ranging from the instrumental use of technology to skills for creativity, communication and collaborative work, although the different definiti...

This publication contains the fourth report of the Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment - Exchange of Good Practices, ERASMUS+ project number 2019-1-PL01-KA204- 065689. The fourth report presents a desk research about “DIGITAL SOCIAL INCLUSION” carried out by ASIDE consortium and contains: Introduction Digital Social Inclusion: The Tu...

COVID-19 outbreak has changed the economic and social relations and caused a critical impact on the higher education system. The closure of University campuses to prevent community transmission of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has shifted face-to-face classes to online learning, distance learning, e-learning, mobile learning, and social learning. E-Le...

Industry 4.0 is a term first introduced by the German government during the Hannover Messe fair in 2011 when it launched an initiative to support German industry in tackling future challenges. It refers to the 4th industrial revolution in which disruptive digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE), robo...

Active ageing means helping people stay in charge of their own lives for as long as possible. Because keeping minds active is equally important as keeping bodies physically active, there is an urgent need for an educational, cultural and social context.

This manual guidebook is prepared by the full contribution of all project partners for the transfer of the Montessori Method in language teaching/learning to adults. The manual guidebook contains the philosophy of Montessori Method, its principles and the reports of teacher training activities in partner countries.

The research was carried out as part of the project "Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment (ASIDE) Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education - Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices" No. 2019-1-PL01- KA204-065689, between 01-09-2019 and 31-08-2021. As part of the study, the authors assessed and compared the digital co...

This publication contains the third report of the Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment - Exchange of Good Practices, ERASMUS+ project number 2019-1-PL01-KA204- 065689. The third report presents a desk research about “DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNERS AND EDUCATION PROVIDERS” carried out by ASIDE consortium and co...

The diversity of news distributed via social media communication channels exposes citizens to large scale disinformation including misleading and false information. In this context of the massive use of social media and considering the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 with regards to democracy, there is a strong need for analytical skills. The main prob...

Participatory learning and online learning are increasingly appealing as educational approaches which can positively affect learners. Participatory learning engages students as active participants in the full educational programme, including homework and exercises, whilst online learning offers tools that facilitate learners' collaboration and peer...

Wizlink tool software is a product designed to automate activities performed in business applications at the workplace. Wizlink belongs to the Robotic Process Automation [RPA] class products. Its first version was developed as part of a research project. The commercialized version has been enriched with functionalities that were needed during the f...

Cooperation between universities and business is currently the basis for economic development. The synergy effect achieved as a result of this cooperation is already, and will be even more, the key to the development of the society of the future. Universities in cooperation with the business environment undertake joint activities to provide student...

Opracowanie składa się z dziewięciu rozdziałów, w których przedstawimy Państwu możliwości wykorzystania mediów społecznościowych oraz platform e-learningowych w edukacji i pracy nauczyciela. Otrzymają Państwo gotowe instrukcje jak wykorzystać poszczególne narzędzia. W pierwszych rozdziałach przybliżone zostaną definicje i możliwość wykorzystania po...

The main goal of public intervention is to amend market imperfections. However, public agencies may also have other goals in supporting entrepreneurship and promotion of self-employment. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of the funding granted by the Małopolska Agency for Regional Development (Małopolska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego SA,...

Educators are faced with rapidly changing requirements, which force them to broaden their competences, especially the ubiquitous digital tools. They are both obliged to support trainees in using digital competences, and to develop their own. The field research presented in this paper is the exchange of best practices as part of the ERASMUS+ project...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has changed the nature of many jobs and created new ones. It has also opened new opportunities for employees with qualifications and skills related to new technologies, and created opportunities to redefine business costs and expenses. An investment in technology can mean success in the future; by leveraging financi...

The paper represents comparative study on digital skills and social inclusion among educators and learners in adult education sector in selected EU and non-EU countries. Adult education in the 21st century faces many new challenges that result from the growing possibilities of using and integrating ICT in every aspect of both professional and perso...

The publication contains the second report of the Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment - Exchange of Good Practices, ERASMUS+ project number 2019-1-PL01-KA204- 065689. The second report presents a desk research about “DIGITAL NEED FOR SOCIAL SERVICES” carried out by ASIDE consortium and contains: Introduction Digital need for social s...

The technical report has been coordinated by staff members of “FUNDACJA INSTYTUT BADAN I INNOWACJI W EDUKACJI” within the “Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment”, ERASMUS+, Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Strategic Partnerships for adult education. The research was conducted within public and private adult...

The promotion of renewable energy is a key concept in the European Union for both environmental and economic reasons. It contributes to securing the objectives set out in the Kyoto Protocol. In addition, it brings various social and economic benefits, e.g., diversification of the energy offer, new jobs, improvement of regional and local development...

This paper aims to determine and explain the main factors for power losses (the so-called “leaky bucket” effect) in Kazakhstan and the reasons for inefficient energy distribution within the country. Energy efficiency in Kazakhstan is much lower compared to more economically developed countries. The differences between energy efficiency in various r...

This report is part of the implementation and dissemination activities within the KA204 ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships for adult education: Adult Self-Learning: Supporting Autonomy in a Technology-Mediated Environment, project number: 2019-1-TR01-KA204-076875. This report has been divided in two parts. A desk and field research with emphasis in co...

The publication contains the first report of the Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment - Exchange of Good Practices, ERASMUS+ project number 2019-1-PL01-KA204- 065689. The first report presents a desk research about “PROFESSIONAL USE OF ICT- BASED SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION” carried out by ASIDE consortium and contains: Introduct...

The 30.01.2020 took place the International workshop on Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment: Professional use of ICT- based solutions for social integration in Czestochowa – Poland. Staff from “Fundacja Instytut Badan I Innowacji w Edukacji” presented the objectives and main outputs to be developed and implemenyted during the two years...

In a relatively short time, information and communication technology has spread worldwide not only in business world like production and services but also in most social sectors and private life. In this regard, for example, research has underlined the potential and effectiveness for social media, mobile phones, and the Internet in general, to impr...

Cichy A., & Ochoa Siguencia L. (2020). Zarządzanie środowiskowe w kontekście bezpieczeństwa ekologicznego, Częstochowa, Instytut Badań i Innowacji w Edukacji, pp. 1-670---------------------------------------------------------- System zarządzania środowiskowego w przedsiębiorstwie to bardzo dobra inwestycja w przyszłość organizacji. Takie stwierdze...

Financial support provided to entities of the transport sector from public funds is an important element of the implementation of the European Union’s transport policy. The philosophy of the European Union’s activity assumes that granting assistance to private entities from public funds should be allowed exceptionally. It is difficult to imagine th...

Es fundamental la noción de cultura digital como una nueva forma de ecología social. En este capitulo se analizarán los impactos e implicaciones de la digitalización en el desarrollo y manejo de las fuentes culturales, y su influencian las políticas culturales. Siendo la cultura un aspecto fundamental de la sociedad actual, y uno de los objetivos f...

The purpose of this article is to attempt to signal the change of the paradigm of thinking about the work force responsible for performing digital work in the organizations. The emergence of Robotic Process Automation software that performs tasks in a digital environment on the model of employee-users generates many challenges. They must be faced b...

Consumer preferences at the interface between client and tourism service provider are characterized by large changes occurring nowadays. Observation of these changes may help in determining future required competencies required by an employee of a tourism service provider as well as technological trends used in communication and concluding transact...

Collaborative learning processes in workshops often involve substantial collaboration among students. However, considerable information resource capacity exists on the Internet in journal articles, published literature, published reports, expert communities, or internet forums-referred to as crowds. Effectively using crowd resources to support coll...

Pro-entrepreneurial education plays an increasingly important role in creating multidimensional entrepreneurship, which includes not only providing the necessary knowledge, but also shaping people who are socially entrepreneurial or creative and active in their workplaces. An important area in the implementation of these concepts is cooperation bet...

In this article, the authors argue that professional experts are necessary who should also be educators, since they should work inside the school. Accordingly, cyber safety competencies should be included in the curriculum of school social workers in the same way as are competencies to sustain children with behavioral disturbance, support students...

The research presents the process of advertising message and the mechanisms of its influence on consumer decisions. The goal of the article is to present the findings to the research question: Do the methods and techniques used in tourism advertising messages have an impact on society? To give answer to our research question, the diagnostic survey...

Globalization, social and economic progress are associated with such notions as: entrepreneurship, innovation and competitiveness. Both programmes and activities of states and international communities aim to improve the quality of life on a local and global scale by, e.g. reducing unemployment and supporting and increasing the competitiveness of e...

Contemporary companies are looking for opportunities to stay in the market in the long run. They invest a great effort in this purpose and create logical concepts for joint business activities, which take the form of inter-organizational networks. The challenge is to manage such a defined whole, as well as to provide information for decision-making...

This paper presents the results of a field research on the changes that take place in student preferences regarding communication with tourism services, preferences on the ways to search for information sources about place destination and a first inside about payment forms for tourism and hospitality services. The study was conducted twice, in 2015...

The aim of the paper is to analyse selected aspects of marketing activities of recreational organizations from the Silesian Voivodship. The following research problems were diagnosed: analysis of the marketing structure, directions of activity and development as well as the meaning and motives of applying marketing in the surveyed recreational orga...

The subject of this research study is the applications of Information Technology (IT) to support management. This is not the sole use of IT methods and means in enterprises, however, the issues related to the automation of technological processes and software for these purposes are not the subject of these considerations. The aim of this research s...

The study consists of five chapters, i.e. four theoretical and one practical. The first chapter is devoted to the approximation of general definitions and the legal basis for the functioning of crisis management. It also presents the concepts used in the terminology of crisis management. Also described are threats and crisis situations, and protec...

Participatory learning and online learning are increasingly appealing as educational approaches which can positively affect learners. Participatory learning engages students as active participants in the full educational programme, including homework and exercises, whilst online learning offers tools that facilitate learners’ collaboration and peer...

Udział w kursie ICT należy traktować jako innowacyjny, ponieważ stosuje on technologie do procesu nauczania i uczenia się, nie tylko w klasie, ale także poza nią, budując z jednej strony formalne grupy uczestniczące w nauczaniu, a z drugiej wprowadza działania nieformalne polegające na tym, że inni z grupy mogą wymieniać swoje opinie w pracy wykony...

Recently, several urban crowdsourcing investigations and various experiments have been conducted with the aim of engaging citizens in order to produce information about their cities and their communities. This article reports on the results of a research based on a systematic analysis of the current literature on “urban crowdsourcing” and “citizens...

To support trade, stimulate economic growth, create jobs and conditions favourable to the economic situation to prosperity, Europe needs a well-developed transport network. Transport is the basis of the European integration process and is closely related to the creation of the internal market, which promotes employment and economic growth. As one o...

Artificial intelligence and service automation are the key to these kinds of new, product-related services. They increasingly penetrate the traditional mechanical and plant engineering sector and open up potentials for innovative services. Tourism services providers are going through rapid changes and the role of Information and Communication Techn...

The research presented in this paper deals with issues related to the implementation of management and organizational innovations and their impact on the company’s competitiveness. The target group of the study are enterprises from the micro- small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector based in the Malopolska Voivodship, which in the years 2011...

Support for foreign expansion of Polish companies is one of the priorities of government policy, as it is one of the ways to increase national capital, economic development of Poland and to improve its competitive position in the international arena. The European Union also tries to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the na...