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T.C. İSTANBUL VALİLİĞİ
Governorship of Istanbul (GoI) is the highest local authority in the city with a number of approximately 300 civil servants and giving service in various fields. Since, it is the officially highest administrative body, all the sub-governorships and directorates such as Directorate of Security, Directorate of Education and Directorate of Environment and Forestry are governed by Governor of Istanbul. When you think of all the sub-governorships and the directorates listed above or the ones that weren’t listed, the population of people working for the Governorship reaches to an amount of approximately 300.000 servants.
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade
ISQ is a private non profit technological/engineering organization, founded in 1965, which provides technical inspections, consulting, R&D and training services to the Portuguese industry and abroad. Presently employs over 1000 people in all continents.ISQ is experienced in all areas of the training cycle, and is one of the main national players in the fields of LLL.Develops R&D activities, with national and international partners, aiming at product and process innovation and has 16 years of experience of promoting EU funded projects (over 100 projects).
BALKANplan Ltd
BALKANplan Ltd provides consultancy services, technical support and project materialization in the following sectors: Education and training; Information and communication technologies; Research and technological development; International relations. Among the services BALKANplan Ltd. provides are the following: development of innovation materials for VET, localization of education and training materials, elaboration of needs analyses and training course materials, validation activities, establishment of networks, provision of consulting services, collecting, analyzing, evaluating and disseminating information related with the EU, provision of technical support. Balkanplan Ltd. works in close contact with public authorities, SMEs, education and training institutions.
Educational Association o. s.
Educational Association (EA), o. s. is a new, small non-profit civic association which aim is developing of the open educational society, information, consultation and guidance activities in the framework of the lifelong learning. However, Educational Association, o. s. core staff have more than 20 years′- practice in the area of vocational and technical education as well as a high level of expertise in the creation of training materials, modular curricula and designing and implementing certification and quality systems for educational sector.
Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Mesleki Teknik Eğitimi Geliştirme Merkezi
The University of Bahcesehir is one of the well known university of Turkey. Many national and international projects are carried out in the university. Development Vocational Technical Centre, METGEM which is a unique institution, was established under University of Bahcesehir. It is responsible for all EU projects and international affairs regarding VET. There are 38 researchers who are experienced in their fields and work various educational topics. According to the project type, this center can work with the teachers inside the university and vocational school.
Eurofortis SIA
Eurofortis SIA is a Czech-Latvian educational and consultation centre based in Riga, Latvia.Since 2007 has been providing innovative solutions to schools and enterprises. The main aims are quality development working with the management team and distribution of new educational techniques and ideas amongst teachers. Enterprise products are primarily aimed at self-assessment of a diverse nature, from complex solutions to small software tools. |
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Athens Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Athens Association of Alzheimer's Disease is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by dementia patients, their relatives and health care professionals interested in Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. It aims at promoting awareness and support to everyone related to the disease. At present, it has 1450 official members and is run by a seven-member elected board. Its objectives are:help and support for AD patients, education and counselling for carers,advocacy of patients’ and carers’ rights and needs,increase of public awareness,research on dementia.
Kendro Merimnas Oikoyenias kai Pediou
KMOP is a leading Greek NGO with strong expertise in social inclusion, gender equality, immigrants, employability, VET and citizenship, with a focus on vulnerable social groups such as women,immigrants, one parent families, elderly and mentally ill persons as well as youth and long-term unemployed. Research and social studies are among the most important components of KMOP's activities. Since its establishment in 1979, KMOP has developed and implemented numerous successful projects and research in Greece and increasingly abroad. KMOP promotes the active inclusion of various socially excluded and underprivileged groups, with a special focus on mental illness.
Anziani e Non Solo societa cooperativa
Anziani e Non Solo is a cooperative which associates professionals as well as other organisations (such as Sofia, coordinator of Life After Care project) working in the field of social innovation. ANS employs directly a staff of 10. ANS areas of expertise are social research, training, e-learning and community projects. Its main targets of intervention are elderly people and their carers, migrants, women, disableds, disadvantaged adults. ANS has specific expertise in the area of care workers' training: it has developed its own training system called "Aspasia" and it had been project developer and coordinator of LDV Talenti di Cura.
BALKANplan Ltd
BALKANplan Ltd provides consultancy services, technical support and project materialization in the following sectors: Education and training; Information and communication technologies; Research and technological development; International relations. Among the services BALKANplan Ltd. provides are the following: development of innovation materials for VET, localization of education and training materials, elaboration of needs analyses and training course materials, validation activities, establishment of networks, provision of consulting services, collecting, analyzing, evaluating and disseminating information related with the EU, provision of technical support. Balkanplan Ltd. works in close contact with public authorities, SMEs, education and training institutions.
PLIROFORIKI S.A.
PLIROFORIKI is a leader Greek based IT Company established in Athens, since 1987. It offers integrated services to organisations of the public and the private sector, both at national and international level, from qualified permanent staff and a pool of national and international experts in allrelevant fields of IT consulting, IT integration systems, e-learning and vocational training.
MUNICIPALITY OF KORYDALLOS
The municipality of Korydallos is a local authority in the region of Attica, which is responsible by the law in a wide range of areas as the social sector, the environment, the public services, the local development, the training etch. The field of its activities is focused in the development of the city. The city of Korydallos is located at the southwest of Attica basin considered an urban suburb of the metropolitan area of Athens and its population is estimated to 85.000 inhabitants (according to the national census of 2001 is 70.702 people).
National patient's organisation
National Patients’ Organization was established in January, 2010. Today NPO is the biggest umbrella organization in Bulgaria, with more than 60 national and regional member organizations. National Patients’ Organization (NPO) is a new and modern structure in Bulgaria, based on European principles, mutual understanding, democracy and high morality.National Patients’ Organization has built up a network of NGO partner organizations from all over Bulgaria. These organizations cover a huge variety of diseases. Since June 2010 National Patients’ Organization is proclaimed as a nationally representative patients’ rights organization by the Minister of Health of Bulgaria.
Bulgarian Society – Athens
The Bulgarian Community in Greece was founded in 2004. The community aims at providing non-profit services and help to Bulgarian speakers and migrants living in Greece. Community’s provided services are advice and consulting services concerning the legal status in Greece, life status , the promotion of the rights of migrants in employment, information and advice given for compulsory retirement documents in Bulgaria and Greece, advice in dealing robberies, advice in dealing with problems occurred by official documents’ loss, support of equal treatment in society, specifically in employment and help to deal with probable employment difficulties, information about employment, rent/shelter/safe home opportunities, legal consulting services for migrants in Bulgaria & Greece, psychological support and advice, learning opportunities of greek and other spoken languages in Greece, opportunities for leisure activities, social events of informative, educational or other interest.
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Self-study E-learning Tool for the Social Home-care Sector |
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 The project SET CARE, is a two year project under the Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer of Innovation program. The partners in this project are from five different Greek organizations, two organizations from Bulgaria and one from Italy.
The ageing process of European population is having impact not only on the health care field, but also on labour, VET and migration policies and process. The number of elderly people in Greece has increased in the last 10 years and has now reached the almost the 19% of the population. Among them, 160.000 (and this number is going to increase enormously over the next decade) are estimated to suffer from Dementia and require a qualified assistance which is currently not sufficiently available to most Greek families.
In fact 80% of patients with dementia are cared for at home in Greece, often with the support of informal care workers which normally are migrant women or Greek women with low schooling. 20% of home care workers are migrants (this figures includes only legal migrants): 2/3 come from the ex-Soviet Union and Bulgaria. These women cover long work-shifts, are often not regularly employed and/or without work permit, do jobs not related to their educational or professional skills and they are therefore not competent to deal with elderly care needs, especially with those related to the dementia disease (Liapi & Vouyoukas, 2006).
The project intends to transfer from Italy to Greece and Bulgaria a self-training course targeting migrant and native workers providing care at home to elderly people (paying special attention to elderly people affected by Dementia Diseases) and a tool aimed to validate competences informally acquired on the job.
The proposed transfer of innovation is basically geographical. In fact, the product will target the same sector and target group (elderly care workers) but working in a different geographical context (Greece and Bulgaria instead of Italy). As a consequence, the product will have to be adapted in terms of language (contents will be translated from Italian to Greek and Bulgarian); in order to fit to the socio-economic-regulatory context of the countries of destination (some of the modules, for instance those concerning the social services system or the working contracts, will be changed according to actual situations in Greece and Bulgaria) and finally in order to fit the cultural contexts of destination (for instance, concerning the attitudes towards caring for a elderly at home vs. caring in assisted facilities).
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Pedagogical and andragogical competencies for VET trainers and teachers |
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The project PAC.TT (Pedagogical and andragogical competencies for VET trainers and teachers) is a two year project under the Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer of innovation program. The partners in the project include six different institutions from five countries: T.C. İSTANBUL VALİLİĞİ (Turkey), Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Portugal), Educational Association o. s. (Czech Republic), “Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Mesleki Teknik Eğitimi Geliştirme Merkezi"(Turkey), Eurofortis SIA(Latvia), Balkanplan (Bulgaria).
The quality of Human capital is crucial for Europe’s success. The Europe 2020 Strategy puts a strong emphasis on education and training to promote “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. In this context VET teachers and trainers became crucial in the whole knowledge system: we need to ensure more efficient trainers and teachers, less expensive training and skills improvement methods for them and also more work oriented skills for trainers and teachers. The project idea is based on the fact that the quality of the trainer and teacher’s innovative practices and methodologies, will strongly impact on the VET systems overall quality and attractiveness, where trainer and teacher’s performance has a very important role.
In this sense Training Methodology for Trainers and Pedagogical and Andragogical Competences are understood as main tool for preparing teachers and trainers to be aware of different competencies required to this function and at the same time to be conscious of the importance to promote 8 key competences, “green attitudes” and life long learning attitudes in their trainees and students.Trainers became knowledge mediators and brokers (instead of knowledge transfers) that must be able to encourage new “knowledge surfers” in information society and green economy as well as promote the balance of different individual needs and talents, under an inclusive and empowering context.
Some important, attractive and efficient products and training modules for trainers (training of trainers) were build in Portugal and they can be adapted and improved in each different European county, based on national needs, strengths and opportunities.The overall aim of PAC.TT project is to increase the quality of European VET systems by providing more pedagogical and andragogical competences as the 8 key competences, literacy, communication in foreign languages, mathematical competence, basic competence in science and technology, digital competence and civic and entrepreneurial competences and new transversal green competencies that composes a healthy citizenship and contributes to social cohesion. |
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