Partners
Gdańsk University of Technology
The Gdańsk University of Technology is a technical university in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. The mission of the Gdańsk University of Technology is service values through: participation in solving the main social and environmental challenges of the modern world; and conducting – at the highest level – scientific research, educational activity and innovative activity (triangle of knowledge).
Athens Lifelong Learning Institute
The Athens Lifelong Learning Institute is a research and education institute, based in Athens, Greece. It has the mission to foster and enhance innovation processes mainly in the areas of education and lifelong learning, human capital development, knowledge society and social inclusion.
The Institute exhibits an active interest in a number of social issues such as sustainability, social participation, civic engagement and human rights and has attempted through the implementation of innovative learning methodologies to enhance active participation and citizens’ engagement in the social and economic life.
die Berater
The core competence of “die Berater” is adult education and training. die Berater® offers holistic consulting, coaches employees and managers, and is specialised in soft skills, language and IT seminars. The portfolio is targeted at individuals, companies of all sizes and industries, as well as the public sector, e.g. the Austrian Employment Service (AMS), ministries, the European Commission, and other stakeholders of the education system. die Berater® works in around 45 branches across Austria. Since the foundation of the company in 1998 around 350.000 people have participated in the training offers of its approximately 200 training programmes per year. To become fit for the labour market or to update and expand their professional and personal competences in the spirit of lifelong learning.
As consultants, die Berater® support private businesses and organisations in their strategic development while always focusing on the persons employed as the core asset of a company. At the core of die Berater®’s seminars, workshops, and coaching and consulting sessions is the principle of appreciation and the acknowledgement of existent knowledge and experience of the individual person. In die Berater® ‘s corporate culture fair play, respect, tolerance and social responsibility are central values.
Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social, crl
Aproximar is a NGO aiming to enhance people, communities and organisations’ human and social capital as a strategy to strengthen their capacity to take advantage of the existing and emergent challenges and opportunities. The mission is accomplished daily by co-designing and developing tailor-made social innovation, good practices exchange and transfer driven projects, besides delivering its own pack of empowering and capacity building services: training, consultancy and social intervention.
Aproximar develops, implements and provides services in 4 main sectors:
- Education, Training and Social Capital;
- Social Economy, Entrepreneurship and Employability;
- Criminal Justice System;
- Active Ageing and Dependent Care.
Our offer (programmes) always combine social science (knowledge), active methods (people) and suitable tools (technology).
Social Innovation Fund
Social Innovation Fund is non-governmental organisation, established in 1994 to assist people with fewer opportunities and disadvantaged backgrounds to make positive changes in their life through the provision of educational opportunities, social support, information and advice. The SIF is acting at community, national and European/international levels.
One of the areas of SIF’s activity is dedicated for work with different socially disadvantaged groups: long-term unemployed, migrants, disabled, single parents, youth, people in remote areas, women survivors of domestic violence. SIF provides help and assistance to the low-skilled people having fewer opportunities in the society and the labour market. It aims to foster their social inclusion, employability and entrepreneurship through training, guiding, coaching services and dialogical groups as well to contribute to their empowerment and building their capacities to be competent and successful in the labour market.
PRISM
PRISM is a non-profit social enterprise with the mission to create equal opportunities for the responsive progress of societies, communities and people – acting as a qualified development agent since 2012. PRISM represents a co-planning hub, open to public and private actors, for the elaboration of tailored development strategies and interventions, aimed at valorising diversity and sharing of the social, cultural and economic resources of local communities, from an international perspective. The main fields of intervention, contributing to increased social impact are:
- Raising human development and socio-professional integration to stimulate self-employment initiatives and empowering, up-skilling and re-skilling human resources and efficiency systems.
- Increasing and enhancing the quality, vitality and creativity of responsive and responsible European action-research.
- Exploiting empowerment measures in social, economic and educational contexts – seeking to equalize opportunities for an inclusive and accessible society for all, based on human rights and gender equality.
- Promoting the exchange of good practices aimed at safeguarding and improving the conditions of the local environments and the prudent and rational use of natural resources.
- Improving cross-sectorial and transnational transfer of expertise for a global smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
RESET
With over 20 years of combined experience in research and education, RESET invests on the creation, evolution, and revolution of social-driven concepts, systems and practices which prioritize humanity and respond to the most demanding societal challenges of our time. Our organization focuses on knowledge acceleration so as to amplify positive local, national, regional and global change.
The purpose of RESET is to promote a fair and nonviolent world through education, open dialogue, skill development among professionals and vulnerable groups, and constructive participatory action. RESET is working in close cooperation with governmental departments, local municipalities, NGOs, commercial entities, and educational institutions in order to address market, social, economic and cultural challenges.
I-SKILLS
I-SKILLS S.A. is one of the largest, most reliable and most well-established certification bodies in Greece. With many years of continuous presence and a steady provision of a wide range of high-quality certification services, I-SKILLS is today one of the very few accredited certification organisations in Greece.
Since 2007, when it was established it has developed and provided a wide range of certification services, in the fields of:
basic and advanced digital skills (such as basic ICT, multimedia content authoring, ERP FI User, web development, web design, system security, networks and database administration); entrepreneurial skills and project management Its focus and expertise.
However, its main focus have always been in the field of ICT. I-SKILLS is devoted to skilling, reskilling and upskilling individuals and in a continuous quest for new, innovative certifications and innovative exams’ assessment and management technologies