Consortium

Fundacja NOVA

The NOVA Foundation has been active since 2009, with a primary focus on education, community activation, local development, entrepreneurship, and strengthening the non-governmental sector. The foundation has extensive experience in implementing projects that aim to enhance education quality, promote social integration, and support the professional development of teachers, educators and community leaders. It operates both nationally and internationally and has established strong partnerships across Europe to improve education and promote youth and adult learning.

Scope of Work & Areas of Activity:

Educational Programs: The foundation has implemented various projects aimed at improving the quality of education, particularly in early childhood and primary education and vocational training. Through collaborations with schools and publicadministration, the foundation has developed initiatives that support both teachers and students, enhancing their educational opportunities.

Teacher Training and Professional Development. As an accredited by the Pomeranian Board of Education (Pomorskie Kuratorium Oświaty Accreditation no 212/2023) Teacher Training Centre, NOVA Foundation offers high-quality professional development programs for teachers and educators. These programs focus on improving teaching practices, fostering innovation in the classroom, and supporting teachers’ ongoing professional growth. The foundation’s teacher training initiatives have been key to enhancing educational quality in local schools mainly in Pomeranian region.
International Cooperation & Mobility Programs: Through its involvement in the Erasmus+ and European Social Corps Programmes and other international initiatives, the foundation facilitates educational mobility for volunteers, students and teachers, offering opportunities for internships and exchanges across Europe.

Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of Western Macedonia

The Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education in Western Macedonia is a regional educational organization in charge of the administrative and educational supervision of all schools and decentralized structures of the Ministry of Education in the region. Its main purpose is to coordinate and implement the educational policies of the Greek Ministry of Education and to implement various educational initiatives. Being in charge of 410 primary schools and 126 secondary schools, the organisation works closely with the Educational Support Centres for Special Education, Environmental Education Centres and Educational Innovation Hubs of the Directorate, the schools and supervised entities in the region and takes initiatives so that teachers stay updated with innovative educational policies and effectively cater for the educational needs of contemporary student community.

KMOP – POLICY CENTER ASBL

KMOP-Social Action and Innovation Centre was founded in Greece, in 1977, with the aim of combating poverty, strengthening social cohesion, and protecting fundamental human rights.
In recent years, alongside these core goals, KMOP has increasingly focused on the emerging challenges faced by modern societies, such as social isolation, inequalities, sustainable development, demographic ageing, and the risks posed by artificial intelligence. By combining hands-on experience from its social and educational services with research and statistical analysis, KMOP is uniquely positioned to provide technical assistance and policy recommendations to governments and institutional actors in Greece, Belgium and across the European countries where it operates. Over the last two decades, KMOP has launched more than 450 social innovation initiatives, positively impacting over 400.000 individuals with the support of both institutional and private donors. Additionally, KMOP actively participates in international networks that align with its mission including: COFACE Families Europe, the EQUALS Global Partnership, the Greek National Referral Mechanism for the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking, the Athens Coordination Center for Migrant and Refugee (ACCMR), the European Migration Forum, the Radicalisation Awareness Network, the Hellenic Platform for Development, and the Diesis Network.

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID

The origins of the University of Valladolid (Uva) date back to the 13^th century (1241). Since then, this academic institution has grown and adapted to modern times to become one of the most important universities in Spain.

Its activity is carried out in four campuses, located in Castilla y Leon: Palencia, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid. It offers a wide variety of defrees with programmes in the fields of Science, Humanities, Engineering and Architecture, Health Sciences and Social and Legal Sciences. In total, 68 bachelor’s degrees, 15 joint study programmes, 65 master’s degrees and 29 doctoral programmes are offered in its 26 centres, 59 Departments, 12 University Institutes and 4 Research and Technology Centres.

Its commitment to lifelong learning, its leadership in mobility and extensive network ok international relations, its prestigious research centres, its enormous cultural and sporting potential and its social and environmental commitment make up an exceptional academic environment, comparable to that of the oldest and most prestigious European universities.

In addition, Uva has consolidated the overall score achieved last year in several of the most relevant national and global rankings such as Shangai, CYD or U-Ranking.

A & A EMPHASYS TRAINING CENTRE LTD

The Emphasys Centre, was established in 1998, and operates as an Education, ICT Training Centre, Research and Software Development Centre approved by the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth. It is organized in 4 inter-related departments:

The Education Department which offers validated and accredited IT courses, as well as Career Counseling Services.
The ICT Training Department which includes two highly equipped units: (a) the STEAM Unit which offers courses to young people combining Robotics, 3D Design and Printing, as well as Coding through Video Game guided with ‘Lego Education Trainer’ instructors, and (b) EU Training Unit which provides wide selection of Erasmus+ KA1 Learning Mobility Courses for EU professionals and citizens.
The Research Department that works with several organizations on EU projects under a number of funds (e.g. Erasmus, AMIF, AAL, Justice)
The Software Development Department which is involved in the design, development, pilot-testing and evaluation of various e-learning tools, games, mobile apps, platforms, websites, applications and assessment portals etc.

Emphasys is an active member of many networks such as the European Digital Learning Network (DLEARN), CONNECT INTERNATIONAL and CRES – Centre for Research and European Studies – Future Business.

Agrupamento de Escolas José Estevão

The Cluster of Schools named AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS JOSÉ ESTÊVÃO was created in April 2013, however the schools which are in its origins are older and have a long way done. Its Secondary School has more than 150 years old. This cluster of schools works with pupils from 3 years old up to the adult population. We have around 3 000 students between 3 and 20 years old. Regarding teachers and staff, we have around 280 teachers and 100 staff. In this cluster we also have another five schools besides the secondary one, where we develop the national curriculum with special emphasis on Science, Arts, Sports, and disable students.

As it is a big cluster of schools, we deal with different types of pupils who develop their skills in different places of our own city of Aveiro. In fact, we deal with a huge range of different types of students because our social context is different since the schools have different localizations and their publics have different backgrounds. In this different dynamic we also include several classes of the Professional Courses (VET Courses in the secondary school) in different areas such as ICT Programming, Sports, wooden furniture and construction design, photography, and communication, digital service and creative ceramics. Our Cluster of schools has a special role concerning the teachers and staff training, education for lifelong living. It is the head of the consortium responsible for the Training Teachers (Professional Development) and staff who belong to the schools near Aveiro.

For more than 20 years, we have been responsible for identifying, planning, organizing and executing all types of needs of teachers for more than 1200 teachers and 300 staff. Since we are aware of the importance of the changes inside the classrooms, as well as the importance to form citizens for international challenges within the soft skills for the 21st century, we go on trying to motivate our community to achieve a new stage, since our aim is to develop a serious and deep work with the students.

During these years we developed several different projects related to Technology, Human Rights, Future Careers, Science and Experiencing, bullying, Steam, transition between kindergarten and primary school, Empowering Teachers, Building Robots, (…) inside classrooms; The Best experiences of teaching and Learning; developing soft skills for VET courses students. Also — Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths for the Middle and Secondary pupils; – Learning English in the Primary School as a first Language – Bilingual project; and an Innovative Plan approved by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, Since March 2023 our Agrupamento has been certificate as Certificate Centre for VET Courses for students and teachers of VET Courses, EU. AEJE has also been award with eTwinning-School Label for 2024-2025, for the excellent work developed with different projects.