The CIC project is led by the UK via Merseyside Expanding Horizons, other partners are from Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Lithuania and Romania. Partners in the project cover a range of organisations e.g. public sector, research institutions, private sector consultants, training organisation and the voluntary sector. All partners have been involved previously in transnational projects and three partners have learned and worked together in the past. Each partner will cont take the lead on a specific area of the work according to experience.
UKMEH is a voluntary sector organisation based in Liverpool and working across Merseyside in NW England. MEH specialises in social inclusion and our aim is to work in partnership with others to develop and run specific projects and initiatives as well as providing a range of support for organisations dealing in inclusion and working with disadvantaged people. MEH is an Industrial and Provident Society with charitable objectives. We run a range of projects :–
- ESF and ERDF projects e.g. Exclusion to Employment and Enterprise and Inclusion – these projects support people who have experienced multiple exclusion, into employment and self employment respectively
- Provision of business development support for social enterprise,
- Accountable body and lead partner for a major social enterprise grant programme run by the VCS
- Accountable body and lead partner for a Parenting Fund project.
- We have Big Lottery funding which supports our website (www.expandinghorizons.co.uk) , newsletter (e-news and glossy) and our programme of seminars and workshops
- We run an ESF Social Risk Capital (SRC) programme providing small grant support for new and developing VCS groups
- We have Big Lottery Funding for a Project Support Worker providing development support for small community groups
- We are involved as a partner in two transnational Grundtvig projects – one working on the development of a diversity course (DIGe_E), the other looking at networking and on the development of a course for networking skills (NetTrain).
As an organisation we have found huge benefit in participating in transnational work and in 2007 are working on plans to develop our transnational work further. We have been asked by partners in the DiGe_E project to act as lead partner in a Leonardo Transfer of Innovation bid and we are looking for opportunities to be partners in other transnational projects.
BULGARIA"EURO-training" is a non profit making and non-governmental organization, founded in 2004 and located in Stara Zagora, BULGARIA. The members have a big experience working in different EU projects, connected with different initiatives.
The main goal is connected with promoting and supporting of different kind and forms of training activities. The main key activities are as follow:-
- Promoting and enhancing of democratic and social values
- Training of disadvantaged people, disadvantaged women, equal opportunities
- Professional guidance and consulting of young people and adults
- Human resource development - Intercultural learning, vocational training, life-long learning
- Realisation of training programs and social activities for young people and adults
- Integration, social, labour, educational and training of people with disabilities
- Motivation training of people with disabilities
- Different training activities, adult education
- Project management and development
- International projects initiating, development and implementation
GREECEVFA is a consultancy firm highly experienced in issues related to labour market inclusion, vocational education and training and equality issues, having implemented numerous projects in these fields at European, national and local level.
VFA is a founding member of EURONNET WORK AND EDUCATION since 1995. Members of the Network are organisations from fourteen Member States highly experienced on vocational training, labour market, equal opportunities and combating social exclusion.
The following indicative list of projects that VFA haw been assigned and successfully completed, proves its experience and competence in the issues related to the present project:-
Member of the DP that implemented the project titled “SYNERGY – Enhancing job opportunities for people suffering from mental diseases”, 2002 – 2004. Participation in the pilot project “AnDe – Ability not Disability in Employment” funded by Leornado, 2003 - 2005. Two external evaluations of the two respective EQUAL projects dealing with the target group, asylum seekers in Greece, 2004 – 2007. Participation in the research project “Social Inclusion by Proactive Design”, 2000 – 2002 (Budget line 2000/B3 – 4105). Project management of “Local Social Capital Development in Crete (Art.6 / ESF), 1999 – 2001.
Regarding all outputs and results of the project we will contribute to its adaptation to the national context taking into account the cultural and the institutional environment, as well as existing needs.
SPAINTHE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, is a non-profit association created in 1991 by a group of motivated professionals with different academic qualifications (Lawyers, Psychologists, pedagogues, social workers, economists, historians, sociologists, etc) that wanted to go deeper on the called “third sector” of economy to which non-profit associations are related and which can be characterized by the creation of employment with a strong social character (there are no beneficiaries of capital); we have structured our organization as a consultancy offering its services (of orientation, marketing, projects design, search of financial support, growth and/or consolidation planning) to all non-profit associations, foundations, private patronage, NGOs, etc aiming to collaborate in the definition, development and consolidation of social and cultural projects whose initiative belongs to that wide associative structure existing in our municipality as can be shown by the 500 non-profit associations present in Cartagena from different sectors and activities (Social Service, woman, elderly people, sports, youth
LITHUANIASocial Innovation Fund, SIF (LT). The SIF is non-governmental organisation, which was established in 1994 and assists unemployed and economically-disadvantaged women to make positive changes in their life through the provision of educational opportunities, social support, information and advice. The SIF is actively engaged to influencing public policy while implementing the Law of Equal Opportunities for men and women in Lithuania. The SIF is the founder and co-ordinator of the non-formal Coalition of Lithuania NGOs for Advocacy on Women's Human Rights, which unites more than 60 women's NGOs in Lithuania. The Coalition has operated the open discussion forum on the Internet www.women-coalition.webinfo.lt on the issues of women's rights and gender equality in Lithuania. The SIF is also now a main coordinator of the EU Socrates project “Wo-Men- Gender equality Creates Democracy”. SIF is a supporting member of the European Women’s Lobby and a member of few national associations and networks, including Lithuanian Women’s Lobby, Lithuanian Association of Adult Education, Kaunas County Association of NGOs working on Social Issues, the Women's Society. SIF also has experience in co-ordinating European project (Socrates Grundtvig, Phare Lien, Phare Democracy) and participating as a partner in EU Leonardo da Vinci and three Socrates Grundtvig projects. The SIF has also international experience by participating in UNIFEM and UNESCO projects such as “The CEDAW Convention and the Beijing Platform for Action” and "Implementation and monitoring of CEDAW - Convention of the Elimination of all Forms Discrimination against Women". The SIF was involved in writing Alternative (NGOs) reports for two UN convention-CEDAW and CESCR- Convent of the Economical, Social and Cultural Rights
ROMANIARomanian Institute for Adult Education from Timisoara was funded in March 2000 out of the initiative of the University of the West from Timisoara (represented by the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology), of the Social Romanian Institute Banat-Crisana (ISRBC) and of the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) from Bonn, which are also foundation members of our institute IREA was established as a non-profit institution, as a research institute in the field of adult education, aiming to provide scientific and methodological support for all the adult education institutions in Romania, to make the link between the academics and practitioners acting for education of adults. The activity carried out within the institute, is focused on
- providing information, documentation and materials to researchers and practitioners;
- initiating and conducting research work;
- developing in Romania a theoretical and methodological support for adult education;
- developing the concept for different services offered to adult learners;
- accomplishing studies, research and development projects regarding: the specificity of adults’ learning, the impact of new learning environments on it; ways of integrating flexible learning paths and of recognition the competencies acquired in an informal or non-formal way, promotion of new methods of teaching and learning; designing learning centered didactical settings etc.;
- developing the concept of initial and continuing training of adult educators and managers acting in adult education; offering such courses and seminars; diseminating the results of different applied researches regarding innovative didactical strategies, with respect improve the quality of didactical process;
- organizing conferences, workshops, seminars and working groups, as a framework of debate and dissemination of the research results coming from other similar organizations, both national and international, governmental and non-governmental;
- publishing books and materials related to theoretical and practical issues of adult education;
- initiating and conducting a national working group that comprise the most representative actors in the field of adult and continuing education, both from policy, theory and practice spheres, in order to enforce the dialog and the transparency of the decisions made in adult education system, to provide consultancy and recommendations for the necessary developments to be undertaking with the view of implementing the lifelong learning desiderata;
- developing an international activity in order to promote the Romanian adult education abroad and to initiate international partnerships.
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