About partners

 

The “Stefan Procopiu” High School was established in 1972. In our school there are about 130 teachers. Over 60% of our high school’s teachers are women. The High School "Stefan Procopiu” was awarded "European School" 4 times (2004, 2007, 2010, 2013). This title is awarded every three years to the schools that run European projects. The High School "Stefan Procopiu” is among the seven schools in Romania which have obtained the certificate" European School “ 4 times in a row. In the last two editions, our school ranked on 3rd and 2nd place respectively. Since 1999, our school developed 34 European projects: 24 Leonardo da Vinci projects, 7 multilateral partnerships Comenius, 3 partnerships Grundtvig.

 

The Foreign Language School of Pleven is a school with traditions in foreign language education. The studied languages are: English, German, French, Spanish and Russian. Our motto is: “More languages- more cultures- more worlds”. Our school  is a heir of one of the first ten schools in Bulgaria. Founded by the wealthy teacher Emanuil Vaskidovich in 1849. Since 2004, our school developed 7 Comenius projects.

 

Kiwanis Club Vaslui is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose main gold rule is: “Always do for others what you would like others to do for you.” The Motto of the club is: ‘’Serving the Children of the World”. The club started its activity in 2005 with over 20 members. It is an association where its volunteers believe in the same values and they all share the desire of creating a better world by serving the Children of the World. The club follows all the procedures and principles of Kiwanis International, which first appeared in 1915 in Michigan, as a men’s club. The name of the club was given by a historian, specialized in the Amerindian language, and it is an abbreviation of the expression: “NuncKee-wanis”, which means lets share our talents; leading to the name Kiwanis. The goals of the Kiwanis Vaslui club are:

• To give priority to the human and spiritual values of life in balance with its material values;
• To encourage the implementation, in daily life,  of the golden rule: “Always do for others what you would like others to do for you’
• To promote the taking and the applying of higher standards in the social, professional and business areas
• To develop through percept ion and examples a clever, active and well-intentioned civic spirit
• To promote values such as justice, tolerance, patriotism and good faith.

 

Agentur Kultur e.V. was founded as an agency for the planning and realization of cultural and educational activities with a regional, national, European and international dimension.In 2012 it was restructured as a non profit organization „Agentur Kultur e.V.“  It is carrying out seminars, conferences, research projects and study trips in cooperation with public bodies and as a special focus for institutions, which are mainly working in the field of adult education. Main points of interest: Sustainable development and environmental education, Intercultural learning and communication, Intergenerational learning, Health education, Family education, Seniors’ education. Agentur Kultur e.V. is engaged especially in the region of Munich and Stuttgart in projects of adult education and vocational training. Up to now Agentur Kultur participated in eight EU-funded projects (five GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships, one GRUNDTVIG Workshop, one GRUNDTVIG Multilateral Project and one LEONARDO DA VINCI Partnership).

 

Estonian Survival Society is a non-profit organisation that was formally established in November 2001. It has been working with non-formal training of both adults, youth and children until that time. In addition to the regular target groups, it has been working with youngsters and children from different “special needs” target groups for more than 5 years now. This includes youngsters, pedagogues and parents from special needs’ schools (study difficulties, behavioural problems) as well as orphans. For this target group, the project theme of “Learning positive discipline” is especially relevant.

 

We have found an unique way of dealing with our learners – trying to help them and to influence their life for having better chances for future – using the method of outdoor learning. The centre has experience with carrying out camps, organizing classroom and outdoor training for the learners, and the feedback from them, as well as their parents and pedagogues has been very positive. We are also working with training the staff of these establishments, as well as co-operation with parents. To make the training appealing to learners from all age groups, the form of practical, hands-on training is used mainly. Before each practical session, though, the topic is explained in theory in as many details as needed.

 

The Adult Public Education Centre is a public school located in Mislata and it depends on educational authorities. This school is focused on the adult learning, that means, that the students should be over 18 in order to apply. The school provides compulsory and non-compulsory studies. There are different groups and levels in the school. It varies from literacy levels to courses in order to get the Certificate in Secondary Education, which is the basic certificate in the Spanish education system. There are also other training courses such as the preparation to the access of vocational training, foreign language courses in English and French, Spanish as a second language, Valencian language, IT and seminars in Culture.The centre welcomes students at risk of exclusion, students with special  educational needs and foreigners. Our school has a wide range of people, but the majority of our students are over 30-35. And we also have an important group of people over sixty. That's why we think this project is very suitable for us, because our target group is very wide in that sense: we have young parents with little children and grandparents.

 

Since the day the Bauska Secondary School No 2 was established in 1944 it has been providing education for Russian speaking children from Bauska and neighbouring rural municipalities. Now the school provides education mainly in Latvian, for young learners also bilingually. Enabling environment, supporting teachers and pupils, cooperation with parents, permanent rising of motivation, development and interaction between cultures – these are the keystones of the school’s philosophy. Its mission is to stimulate every student and teacher’s development efforts and possibilities to become competitive, free and responsible culture personality. The school realize  6  education programs at this moment: primary education, general secondary education, special education program for children with learning difficulties, general secondary education with specialisation in sciences, math and technologies, general secondary education evening program, general secondary education extramural program. The school actively works on promotion of inclusive education. Besides school offers different extra-class and sport activities, modern and well equipped classrooms, canteen and café. For learners convenience the school offers also Information center – library, Internet-reading-room, Lifelong learning education center, Career education center, Inter-Culture center. The School museum gives a detailed insight in school’s history.

 

Kecskemét Kollege - Teacher Training Faculty is an institute for three-year pre-service training of educators and elementary school teachers. The Faculty has also two higher level vocational training programs for youth workers and baby-nurses.The mission of Teacher Training Faculty is to prepare well-trained specialists in young-children teaching and education, in strong cooperation with the town of Kecskemét and Southern Great Plain region of Hungary, in the same time giving a special value in accordance with its particularities. Our aim is to give the most recent knowledge for future educators, but also in accordance with our traditions. Our education is training-based, where students are partners and later they will successfully handle educational challenges.  In addition to our college level and higher level vocational training programs mentioned, we offer short-period trainings for in-service educators in different areas as personality development, conscious reading, ECDL or language learning and teaching. We give special importance to talented students, offering the necessary possibilities to unfold their creativity and giftedness in areas like music, fine arts, drama or puppet show.

 

„Amici del centro socio-culturale San Francesco” is a no profit association located in Umbertide (Perugia) which is brought to principles of democracy and cultural, philosophical and religious pluralism.The principal purposes of the association are:

• spread the knowledge of the cultural facts in their various forms of expression (literature, theatre, cinema, picture, music, science...);
• permit and favour a direct and spontaneous participation of the citizens to produce culture;
• promote a culture of peace based on knowledge and the respect of the values of whom every society is based on;
• take back and increase the value of local cultures that are very significative;
• take care and respect the right of the citizens (health, environment, good administration) without any distinctions of sex,age, social condition, and cultural origins;
• facilitate aggregation process, promoting moments of everyday life, of meeting, of dialogue, with a particular attention to less protected classes; Intergenerational activities related to old traditions and old manual work;
• promote and administer upgrade courses for teachers and also professional courses.

The association has already realized displays, courses, meeting with authors, musicians and has worked with the local schools in several projects. 'Amici del centro socio-culturale san Francesco' has also looked after the 'Poetry Prize XXV April' since its birth (arrived at the 31st edition this year).

 

DC Center is a private enterprise located in Rzeszow (Poland) acting in the area of education, entrepreneurship, consultancy and in the field of cultural diversity. The company has experience in conducting research of educational needs and preparing and conducting training for various groups of participants including people threatened with social exclusion, especially women. To this moment DC Center implemented several European Union funded projects – it was coordinator of Grundtvig partnership “InteGrant” project, a partner in Leonardo da Vinci partnership “ASK” project and Grundtvig partnership "Communities in Theatre", and moreover a partner in three Leonardo da Vinci-Transfer of Innovation projects.DC Center also participates in projects funded from European Social Fund where it conducts trainings for various groups of users.

 

 

Women Studies Research and Impelmentation Center – Usak University (Usak, Turkey)

Our institution aims

• To constitute an awareness about women, family problems and towards sexual discrimination with University’s related fields and institutions.
• To chase scientific researches in women problems field
• To announce good practices about women Works
• To design education programmes and courses for women and family and children
• To pioneer constituting a social sexual aspects about new roles in society
• Disseminate the affirmative research’s results domestically and internationally by effective projects

Activities:

• Take its place in the social and economic development of women, in all matters related to the status and sensitive, knowledgeable and competent in activities for the training of cadres.
• Cooperation with the relevant departments and units of the University for the solution of women's and family’s problems to make work.
• To do research and studies in all areas of women's and family issues and activities related to membership within the country and outside the country.