Partners

Rinova Limited / United Kingdom

Rinova is an innovative, employee-owned independent social enterprise specialising in the following areas:

• Employment
• Skills and Learning
• Arts and Culture
• Social Action and Enterprise

We support our clients and partners through a range of services, which operate on a stand-alone or integrated basis, including:

• Funding development
• Partnership management
• Learning Design
• Capacity Building and Training
• Promotion, dissemination and quality assurance
• Research and evaluation

Our team at Rinova consists of more than 20 staff and associates with unrivalled experience in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of learning and skills-based social, cultural and economic development programmes.

CESIE

CESIE is a non-governmental organisation, established in 2001, inspired by the work and theories of the Italian sociologist Danilo Dolci (1924-1997). CESIE contributes to the active participation of people, civil societies and institutions through the implementation of projects on various thematic areas, towards the promotion of growth and development, always valuing diversity in the respect of ethics and human development.

The organisation is dedicated to the promotion of research and development so as to increase and improve future-oriented innovation processes in educational, social, economic and cultural spheres.

BUPNET / Germany

BUPNET GmbH, founded in 1985, is an adult education provider based in Göttingen, Germany. Its mission is the promotion of innovation in education and training.

BUPNET works both in the vocational training and in the (informal) adult learning sector and is an expert organisation especially at the interface between both educational fields covered by the Erasmus+ Programme and former Lifelong Learning Programme.

BUPNET is one of the founding organisations of REVEAL the Research and Evaluation Group for Validation, Evidencing and Assessing of Informal and Non-formal Learning that developed the unique approach LEVEL5 to validate informal learning.

die Berater^® / Austria

“die Berater” Unternehmensberatungs GmbH focuses on adult education vocational training and human resources development. Founded in 1998 by Martin Röhsner, die Berater® now employs about 350 people in over 30 locations throughout Austria.

Our services are aimed at private individuals, national and international companies and organisations in all sectors and of any size, as well as the public sector, including the Austrian Employment Service (AMS). We are planning, organising and running staff development and education programmes for around 20,000 participants each year.Our main aims are to motivate and qualify people to make full use of their potentials in the economy, at the labour market and in their personal lives.

die Berater’s main fields of activities are:

• Adult education and vocational training
• Coaching and counselling
• Outplacement
• New media
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• bridges to europe: EU projects and EU project consultancy

Contents and methodologies of our training offers include e-learning and are tailor-made according to the needs of our customers.

die Berater® was awarded with the Austrian state award for adult education. and is certified – apart from several Austrian quality assurance systems for education and training – according to IS0 9001:2000.

SOSU Ostjylland / Denmark

Sosu Ostjylland is the second largest social and health care college in Denmark. It provides different educational programmes – as well as supplementary training of educated staff members – for social and health care institutions for elderly and disabled people and for hospitals and psychiatry. It also educates staff for childcare institutions.

The college has more than 25 years of experience in training and further education of care staff and since 2007, validation of prior learning has been a part of its activities. It offers special educational introductory programmes for immigrants and refugees.

The college has about 150 fulltime employed staff members and 20 external professionals connected to our daily praxis. The students are in the age of 15 to 60 years old, and have more than 50 different ethical and cultural backgrounds. For the youngest the college offers short introduction programmes of 20 to 40 weeks – to prepare them for a start at the main educational programmes of either:

• 14 months (Social and Health Care Helper)
• 32 months (Social and Health Care Assistant) or
• 24 months (Pedagogical assistant)

Sosu Ostjylland is continuously involved in European projects and can ensure impact of project results: both inside and outside the organization. The results of the projects are directly integrated in the educations.

MMC Management Center / Cyprus

MMC Management Center was founded in 2002. Its main focus is training, personal development, consulting and event organization.

MMC consists of three departments: 

1. Training and Development Department organizes in-company and public learning solutions for personnel, middle level management, executives and disadvantaged groups.

MMC is aiming at providing quality learning solutions that will enable our customers to reach business excellence.

2. Event Management Department organizes conferences, exhibitions, business games, public lectures, lifestyle events and other events. Major events include the Annual Conference for Personal Assistants and Executive Secretaries, the annual sales conference and the Manager’s Toolbox 

3. European Projects Departments designs and implements European Projects that evolve around Quality in VET, Adult Learning, VET, Employability and Personal Development.

MMC has expertise in the development of Qualification frameworks based on EQF and ECVET as well as modular curricula and assessment tools, e-learning platforms and webinars, Quality models for quality in VET, Curricula and training packages for the key competences (ERF), Curricula and methodologies for several disadvantaged groups (unemployed, immigrants, asylum seekers etc), design of awareness campaigns.

Rogers Foundation / Hungary

Based on Carl R. Rogers’ thoughts we believe that a person can understand and fulfil him or herself through living, personal experiences and in accepting relationships. Our mission is to ensure this accepting relationship to people, and to have people understand and become conscious about its importance. Also we would like to understand and prevent all barriers against building up these relationships. For this purpose we organize and run educational, experiential activities, as well as organize researches, projects and services.

As a permanent educational institution we still maintain the successor of the Rogers Secondary School, the Rogers Academy, where young people looking for an alternative for traditional education can find their place. Besides it in the last ten years we have implemented more than 50 educational projects in different areas but with common approach: drama pedagogy, arts therapy, free play, game-based learning, emotional intelligence, systems thinking, leisure time pedagogy, talent development, e-learning, sustainability education, human rights and equal opportunities, person-centred organizational development.