meet the partners
The partnership consists of 8 partners from Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Poland and Spain.
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Centro San Viator - Spain
Centro San Viator was founded in 1953 in the region of Enkarterri, in the province of Biscay, in a rural area where job opportunities usually pass through agricultural and livestock activity. Located in a mountainous area and with a rugged landscape, terrestrial communications present not a few difficulties that accentuate the lack of opportunities for the residents of the region.
Centro San Viator offers training from Kinder Garden to High school diploma, including Middle
Degree (EQF 3) and High Degree (EQF 5) to meet the needs of more than 1000 students working with a staff of about 100 professionals. Our VET offer includes: Retail, Car Mechanics, Mechanization, Electronics-Electricity, Child Education and Geriatrics. We offer courses for unemployed people, in order to respond to the high percentage of unemployment that currently exists in this region. Complementing our offer, we also promote training courses for active workers.
We are an entity with a strong social character and a priority objective: helping people with fewer opportunities, at risk of exclusion. We annually receive about 150 students who dropped out from other schools or who are at risk of early school leaving.
In 2001 we started working on our quality system and for that purpose we created a specific team as we realized we needed to create new working standards. After 3 years developing all processes, in 2004 we got the ISO 9001:2000 and continued to get, in 2005, the Silver Q in the EFQM system. But we didn’t stop there. We know how important is to keep all the quality systems alive and in 2010 we got the ISO 14001 for environmental management and are now focus in the Gold Q. All this certifies that all tasks done by Centro San Viator fulfil the quality standards required by the different public bodies, as the Educational Ministry, SEPIE (Spanish NA) or the EU.
We are also accredited with Erasmus Charter for Higher Education and the Erasmus+ VET & School Education Mobility Charter KA120
Centre For Competence Development Cyprus Limited - Cyprus
CENTRE FOR COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT CYPRUS LIMITED (COMCY) is a non-for-profit Training, Research and Development Organization, active in the field of project management, training & consulting based in Nicosia, Cyprus.
COMCY, focuses on the training and development of various target groups and sectors of the society, through the participation in EU programs and initiatives as well as at the implementation of training seminars in Cyprus and abroad.
The main aspects of experience and expertise of COMCY are:
- previous experience in training and development activities (EU and National level)
- expertise in the areas required and level of competence on it,
- access to the direct and indirect target groups
Dimotiko Scholeio Agias Napas -Antoni Tsokkou - Cyprus
Dimotiko Scholeio Agias Napas –Antoni Tsokkou is a public primary school that offers education to children aged 6 to 12, according to the National Curriculum and the regulations of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. The school has 280 students today, which makes it the largest public primary school in the educational district of Famagusta, based on student population. Students from 28 different nationalities, nations and religions, 25 different spoken languages, and different needs (children of immigrants and refugees, children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities -SEND-Special Unit in school) give a beautiful diverse multicultural nature to the school community. Currently, the school has 27 teachers. An enthusiastic team of teachers who all care for, and protect all of our students equally. We want all of them to feel happy and safe at school, and, learn.
Our school's participation in various projects boosts everyone's creativity, innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, teaching and learning skills and competences, and eventually helps in fulfilling our mission and goals for inclusion and preparedness in all aspects of school life.
p – consulting.gr - Greece
p-consulting.gr is an IT Consulting company focused on Training, established in 2012, and located in Patras (Greece).
Main objectives of the company is the provision of:
- quality IT and consulting services in business terms to companies and enterprises in all sectors of economy,
- training services which address the needs of various target groups,
- IT services, focusing on web development
- and creation of online educational platforms,
- managing and developing of project services, mostly oriented to improve the quality of people, especially people who from socially vulnerable groups.
In addition, the company has a well-established network as it has implemented up to now over 40 European Projects, with the collaboration of over 180 partners, among 24 EU countries. It has implemented hundreds of National Projects and has more than 250 clients in the field of IT and business support. It is also remarkable that p-consulting.gr has numerous collaborations in projects even beyond Europe. Additionally, it is an active member of EfVET since 2012.
p-consulting.gr is combining training and IT services, by focusing to digital interactive training, through developing and creating online training courses, educational games, gamification tools, web and mobile applications using new and innovative technologies totally respecting WCAG2.0 (accessibility protocols).
The company holds four European awards of best practices, three awards in Greece and one in Lithuania. Its main aim is the digital transformation of businesses and organisations through the innovative exploitation of existing tools guaranteeing a swift, sustainable, and effective process.
ERROTU - Spain
ERROTU is a SME founded in 2014 and located in San Sebastián, working around specialised vulnerable groups, specially ageing society, and those disabilities or accessibility needs. It has two working lines: on one hand, Consultancy and Training, and on the other hand, Managing, Developing and assuring the Quality of Projects, all oriented to improve the life quality of people, especially vulnerable groups.
For more than 15 years, they have worked in consultancy for public and private institutions, quality management, project management, training and they have been speakers at several congresses and forums. They have taken part and developed both national and international R+D projects, most of them working with people with disabilities.
At European level, the company participates or has participated as a partner in 10 Erasmus+ projects, being the Quality Management Coordinator and Internal Evaluator in all of them.
University of Patras - Greece
The University of Patras was founded in the city of Patras in 1964 & it began functioning in the Academic year of 1966- 67. It contributed vastly to the decentralization of Academic Education in Greece.
The University of Patras is the third largest University in Greece regarding the size of student potential, Faculty Members, Administrative Personnel, number of departments, and accredited student titles. The University includes 35 Departments, with a large number of sectors and consequently a great range of disciplines, which operate 180 laboratories and 17 fully equipped clinics. It serves 30.185 Undergraduate students, 3.755 Postgraduate students, It has 693 Faculty members, 232 Scientific Staff members, 438 Administrative Staff members.
Besides its distinguished path in education, the University of Patras has excelled in the fields of Basic and Applied Research. The University of Patras has acquired international prominence for pioneering wide ranging Research in areas such as Environment, Health, Biotechnology, Mechanics, Electronics, Informatics and Basic Science. A number of the Departments, Laboratories and Clinics have been designated as Centres of Excellence, on the basis of International Assessment. The University of Patras has a reputation for quality and innovative research and presents an effective participation in a plethora of Research Projects, Scientific Organizations, and Research Groups. Together with its educational and research work, the rich campus life of the University of Patras, attracts many candidate students every year as their first and foremost choice for their Higher Degree studies.
OIC Poland Foundation - Poland
OIC Poland Foundation, which has been acting for economic and social progress in the south-eastern Poland since 1991, belongs to the leading group of training organisations in Lublin region. The main aim of the OIC Poland Foundation is the prevention of unemployment and fostering economic development by implementation of the educational and counselling programmes, targeted at inhabitants of the region. Since 2003, it has implemented more than 150 different projects co-funded by the EU under different programmes as ESF, ERDF, 6th Framework Programme, Interreg IIIA and IIIC, LLP, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs or Erasmus + Programme, operating at local, national and international levels.
FSLI - Romania
FSLI is a nationally representative trade union organization in the field of education (created in 1990), which includes 175,000 teachers and educational staff (from ECE, primary and secondary education, upper secondary and VET education) and is the biggest union in Romania. The follow categories of members: teachers, non-teaching staff and auxiliary teaching staff, all of them are organized in 62 unions at county level.
The main objective of FSLI is to defend the professional and educational interests and working rights of teachers and other professional categories who are employed in education system. In the same time FSLI act to defence a quality, participative, democratic and inclusive education system like dynamic instrument for a more equal and non-discriminatory society.
Besides trade union activity, which involves: protection of the workers’ rights in education sector, collective bargaining and assurance of decent wages, participation at development of legislation, contributions to the structure and content of the reform and development of standards, the FSLI’ By Laws and strategy emphasize with continuing education and training of affiliated teachers.
Since 2010 FSLI was focused on implement projects on development the human resources in schools in partnership with different bodies like National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. In 2011 we created the National Training Centre who manage today a network of 8 regional centres and 26 county centres, operating with 53 certified trainers (paid by projects as experts) who have trained until 2022, 26.219 teachers in the fields of:
- quality assurance in the education system,
- equal opportunities,
- health and safety in schools, management of stress in school environment;
- school management, education management, project management,
- social dialogue and leadership, communication, collective bargaining, negotiations techniques,
- teaching in inclusive schools & management of integration of children with special educational needs in classroom
- digital skills for teachers during COVID-19 pandemic/ using teaching platforms
The team of experts have extended skills and certification in adult training; elaborate methodologies and guidelines for staff at school and for education authorities at national level; elaborate training curriculum for different subjects and topics; design tailormade trainings for teachers; implement health and safety in schools.
FSLI implemented between 2012 – 2014, the 1st project in Romania dedicate to HEALTH and SAFETY in SCHOOLS using Norway Grants Fund. The project 2012-104522 “Developing the Dialogue Structures in Education Sector” was focus on: create a manual and a toolkit for school headmasters on HEALTH AND SAFETY in schools, deliver a training for 1240 teachers and headmasters on health and safety issues and realize a extended research at national level regarding the public health policies, measures and action applied in Romanian education system. The project was awarded as Best Practice in Europe in 2014, in Oslo by Norway Grants and was the base for other project implemented at European level by European Trade Union Committee for Education between 2014 – 2016. This project financed by European Commission named “Social Partners Promoting Decent Workplaces in Education” aimed to promote social partners' initiatives to promote healthy and safe workplaces in the education sector for A HEALTHIER WORKING LIFE AS A
PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION. The project sought to develop concrete and practical guidelines, videos and other tools on how to promote health and to prevent working stress and combat psychosocial hazards in education.
Our main innovations are an e-learning platform dedicated to teachers’ continuous professional training created in 2011. Since then, the tools used on the platform was constantly improved. Today we deliver 10 different online trainings (all accredited by Order of Ministry of National Education, being assigned transferable
professional credits). Since September 2020 we develop an innovative training for teachers "Online Teacher" which is an accelerated digital education course, which takes place online and is based on a European-recognized teaching and training methodology. Until now, 25.725 teachers start the training, 15.475 teachers achieve the certificate and 85% of them are active on digital platforms every day.
Currently, FSLI implementing 3 projects financed by Norway Grants with objectives on stress management in schools, wellbeing in educational sector, promoting health and safety in schools, increase participation of young teachers and leaders in taking decision process and other projects financed by Erasmus+.
