European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI)
The ECMI mission is to address minority-majority relations through high-quality research, policy analysis, training, mediation and fostering co-operation with and among communities and provide assistance to the government and NGO sectors. With its offices in Flensburg, Kosovo and Georgia, and the representative in Ukraine, ECMI seeks to bridge the gaps between theory and practice, research and politics, mainstream politicians and minority activists.
ECMI has 20 years of extensive experience in organizing and hosting study visits, trainings, learning programmes, networking and capacity building activities. Besides its annual funding, ECMI is managing large grants coming from national and international donors, among which CoE, OSCE, governments of Denmark, Finland, etc.
Association Paradigme Educational (APE)
APE was established with the general aim of improving the quality and performance of the education provided, to gain an European dimension in order to share the best practices in the field of education and especially ICT integration in teaching activities {management, staff competences, new teaching methods and tools, language competences, organisation of teaching and learning) with others organizations. Also APE implements a wide variety of local, national and international activities carried out in cooperation with partner schools, evaluating international activities and the European dimension in the curriculum, disseminating the activities and outcomes, strengthening intercultural awareness.
- Stimulate the streamlining of curricular elements with an ICT in education orientation
- Manage and organise professional development activities on ICT in education with or without partners abroad
- Apply successfully for grants within the Erasmus+ programme.
- Provide further opportunities for cross-border mobility within education, training and volunteering
-Take steps to attain the objectives of the current European Union (EU) programs for education, youth, IT, artistic, culture, citizenship and research
- Facilitate the participation of all and enhance the mobility of all educational staff
- Create partnerships and take action at several levels and with various international stakeholders to increase opportunities for mobility.
CSP - INNOVAZIONE NELLE ICT S.C.A.R.L.
CSP is a research center, working on ICT applied research and industrial development. CSP is non-profit and has public and private shareholders, including the Piemonte Regional Government and the main local Universities; It Is acknowledged as Research Laboratory by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Research and University). The mission Is applying the scientific and technological research to develop local innovation potential. CSP has been performing, in the last 15 years, the technology transfer of the R&D outputs to local communities, enterprises, local PAs, schools and educational player. CSP works in cooperation with academia and SMEs in collaborative research projects and with user communities in Living Labs.
Danmar Computers LLC
Danmar Computers is a private company providing vocational training in the field of Information Technology and developing e-learning and customised ICT solutions. It deals with: training, developing programs and training materials, counselling, designing web pages, web campaigns and e-learning systems. The technical staff has capability to develop any modern web and mobile applications, using database technologies, web servers and application servers. That includes social and cloud services, both from client and server side. Danmar Computers has designed and developed a project management system - AdminProject. It currently is the only product on the market dedicated to the management of European projects.
All the company's activities are based on well-established network of cooperation with domestic and foreign training and counselling organisations, schools, universities, public institutions as well as private sector companies. The activities are directed to various target groups. A significant group of people are young people for whom special training programs are being designed. A special attention is put on those young people that are disadvantages, which often means that they are unemployed, not in education or training (NEETs).
In summary, Danmar's mission is promoting life-long education and assuring equal opportunities of access to education for everyone with the use of modern technology and with innovative training methodologies.
European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
The European Academy Bolzano/ Bozen (EURAC), Italy, established in 1992, is a private non-profit organization for applied research and further education, supported by both private and public funding. It has a turnover of about €21 million and more than 350 collaborators. EURAC is composed of 11 institutes, which are grouped under four research departments in the fields of "Autonomies", "Health", "Mountains", and "Technologies". In the past nine years, EURAC participated in more than 90 externally funded projects and at present is involved as either coordinator or partner in more than 35 projects funded within various EU programmes.
The research projects carried out by the institute concern three key research areas: Minorities, indigenous peoples and territorial governance; National minorities, migration and cultural diversity; European institutions and minority protection.
Besides its expertise in conducting basic and applied research, the institute publishes various high-end academic publications, and offers consultancy and training on minority rights worldwide. Drawing on the South Tyrolean autonomy model as a contextual framework for the lnstitute's work, our team of lawyers and political scientists promote peaceful coexistence in pluriethnic societies and intercultural understanding between different peoples around the world. The institute focuses on the management of ethnic and cultural diversity as a tool for accomplishing these goals.
Kairos Europe Limited
Kairos Europe, established in 2011, is a company dedicated to promoting the development of programmes aimed at increasing the intercultural exchanges between European countries. Our mission is to provide quality training opportunities for youths and adults in order to improve their knowledge and skills and enhance their career prospects.
We have taken part in several international partnership projects, focused in particular on languages, IT, disadvantaged categories (migrants, unemployed, parents facing social and economic disadvantage), and projects promoting integration and equality.
As part of our training courses, we are especially sensitive in the issues related to developing social skills for living and working in today's multi-cultural societies, being promoters of positive approaches to multi-cultural issues, and learning to leave in harmony with each other.
Moreover we arrange study visits for professionals who want who want to Improve their skills in their field of expertise or have an insight into their professional field in the UK. We can arrange visits In the following areas: International Development, Charity Sector, Immigration Policies, Arts, Active Aging and Education.
Our organisation has been working since its foundation with disadvantaged categories such as migrants, asylum seekers, refugees. As part of our activities, we have organised several activities for these categories, such as free English and IT courses, or sessions about employability and entrepreneurship.
Finally, we have been promoting courses on integration, social skills for people dealing with multi-cultural groups, and therefore we have experience in the areas relevant to this application but would like to do this project in order to have a different point of view on the issue, which are confident this project could provide.
Liceul Pedagogic "Mircea Scarlat" Alexandria
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"Mircea Scarlat" Pedagogical High School is well known in the county of Teleorman as it is the only high school with pedagogic profile. This is why pupils all over the county choose to study here during the four years of secondary education.
Having a history and tradition which can be traced back to the year 1873, this school has formed more than a thousand school teachers. In recent years, this high school has become one of the best in the county, with exceptional results in terms of both compulsory school education and extracurricular activities. "Mircea Scarlat" Pedagogical High School offers the following profiles and specializations:
- Theoretical education with two main fields of study: the humanistic and the realistic pathway.There are also philology classes with bilingual study in both Romanian and English languages, two more philology classes and mathematics - ICT classes.
Currently, the school has a number of 891 pupils grouped in 30 classes. This Institution provides all classes from 8 to 2 pm, which is a great advantage for the commuters.More than this, the school is a boarding one which is an advantage for the students who cannot commute. This is even better if we are to consider the fact that the students learning In this school come from distant rural areas and a considerable part of them spend a lot of time commuting instead of learning.
To meet the needs of the students, the school has a canteen where they can have three meals a day at very reasonable prices. This is a good choice for those on low income. The school is constantly looking for ways to ensure quality in education through the teaching-learning process and research with the view to offering to the students both personal and professional development. This high school has a number of 64 teachers, out of whom, more than a half have their final degree in education and a wide experience in teaching.
The aims of this school is to provide quality and excellent education generated by Romania's European integration, to fulfill the intellectual, moral and professional development of students. "Mircea Scarlat" Pedagogical High school has two premises with many modern laboratories and classroom, such as: history, biology, chemistry, geography, foreign languages, Romanian language, counseling laboratories, a modern sports hall, computer science laboratories with computers and internet access and a library with volumes in Romanian and English languages.
Apart from the compulsory subject matters that students have to attend, the high school offers a wide variety of extracurricular activities meant to develop social skills, such as volunteering for the benefit of the community, as well as personal skills: communication, team work, responsibility and mutual help. These activities are based on students'own interests and also taking into account the educational objectives such as: education for values, education for democratic citizenship, health education, environmental protection education (ecology), free time education, European values education.
MEDEA; MEDIA & LEARNING IVZW
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The Media & Learning Association is an international, not-for-profit association set up in 2012 under Belgian law to promote and stimulate the use of media as a way to enhance innovation and creativity in teaching and learning across all levels of education in Europe. By the end of 2015, the association represented 37 organisational members from 17 countries.
At present the most important activities of the association are:
- Project facilitation and knowledge sharing services
- Organisation of the annual MEDEA Awards which attracts annually between 200 and 300 entries
The annual Media & Learning Conference which is run each year in collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Edupation and Training and with the support of the European Commission, is aimed at policy makers, service providers and practitioners.
Mercator/ Fryske Akademy
The Fryske Akademy (FA) is the scientific centre for research and education located in the province of Fryslan. The research it carries out ranges from: culture, history, linguistics, language learning, regional and economic development. The FA is home to the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Lanquaqe Learning (MRC). The MRC focuses on several fields of research, amongst others on policy, education, multilingualism, language learning and minority languages and cultures.
Next to that, it has an important network function as member of many International networks: The MRC is leading member of the European Mercator Network which exists now for over 25 years, participates in the European Civil Society Platform, and in the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD) to name but a few. The MRC is situated in a multilingual region in the Province of Friesland, the Netherlands. This region hence functions as a natural 'laboratory' to pilot and test, and to carry out research in its field of expertise, especially in the field of multilingualism, and to share this amongst other regions in Europe.
The scope of activities of MRC are in general centred around the study, gathering, storing and distribution of information through a documentation and information network for regional and minority languages in the European Union. Other elements of the MRC are a database of experts in the wide field of: multilingualism, regional and minority languages, language learning technologies and language and minority policies. These experts are active in contributing to the MRC activities (e.g. seminars, conferences and the production of reports). For example, in collaboration with the international network of experts the MRC produces a series of Regional Dossiers that describe the position of lesser-used languages in education, and a series of language fact sheets that give brief overviews of language diversity in the member states of the European Union.
The Mercator Research Centre (MRC) has proved its quality in several EU projects, including several LLP projects. The number of staff members often changes because of the flow of projects, but is normally between 5 and 9 FTE. The FA is home to MRC and has normally around 60 FTE.
Workers Education and Training College (WETCO)
Workers' Education and Training College was established on 24 April 2003 as an Adult Training and Research organisation closely related to the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB}, one of the nationally representative social partners. The WETCO mission is to offer the following services: in time information, opportunities to acquire systematic and advanced knowledge, qualifications and skills to increase their competitiveness and employability.