Partners

The Hallgarten Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca Foundation (FCSVM) is internationally renowned for top quality research and training in European research and cooperation, design of innovative education and training methods and approaches, Cultural and social promotion, information technology and communication, new combinations of didactics and technology, education for European integration and cooperation in the field of education at local, regional, and European level. By Villa Montesca, in 1909 Maria Montessori organized the seminar that gave birth to the first publication of the scientific pedagogic method universally known as the ‘Montessori Method’. The aim of the Foundation activities is to help establish an efficient educational system which can help to overcome the barriers to education, speed up the recognition of learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal, and non-formal approaches to encourage an active participation in the learning process also by those people who, owing to marginalization, may be excluded from it. One of the main achievements pursued is to enhance and promote a holistic and flexible approach to education, sustaining the different actors of the Educating Community in their effort to make education inclusive and democratic.

Desarrollo para la Formación e Integración (DEFOIN) was born in 2009 with the idea of promoting training for employment and integration of employed and unemployed workers; a crucial necessity at a time when the economic crisis hit, and the skill requirements of workers were high. DEFOIN has extensive experience in the comprehensive management of training plans, as well as specific solutions tailored to the need of design, management, and delivery of continuing and occupational training for businesses and employed and unemployed.

GALE promotes the full inclusion of people who are disadvantaged because of their sexual orientation, sexual identity and their expression by identifying, enhancing and sharing educational expertise. It is a global network of educators dedicated to this goal and a supporting foundation supporting educators through cooperation partnerships.

GALE is the inventor of the My-ID educational method. Originating as a method to integrate LGBTIQ+ issues in schools, it has been broadened to become an effective way to integrate diversity, tolerance and emotional intelligence in education. This involves a deeper approach of learning of diversity, empathy and peaceful communication and action for both students and educators.

Eurotraining is a Vocational Educational Centre of national scope, specializing in the sectors of Entrepreneurship, ICT, Financial Management and Tourism. The organization aims to satisfy the needs of enterprises, bodies & organizations both in the public and the private sector, by addressing the labor potential of the market who wants to upgrade their qualifications and abilities. This may include unemployed people, newly employed people, new and young entrepreneurs, employees, disabled people, enterprises officers, graduates of high schools and Universities, and others.

CESIE is a European Centre of Studies and Initiatives based in Palermo, Sicily. It was established in 2001, inspired by the work and theories of the sociologist, activist and educator Danilo Dolci (1924-1997).

Our mission is to promote educational innovation, participation, and growth. CESIE’s slogan, the world is only one creature, express the philosophy for which the organisation works: inclusion and equity for all.

CESIE is structured in 6 main units:

• Higher Education and Research: fostering progress, sustainable and responsible research and innovation in Higher Education and Research Systems;
• Rights and Justice: promoting equality, protecting the rights of people, preventing and developing responses to violence and discrimination;
• Adult: upgrading lifelong learning in adult education, boosting innovative practices and developing key competences for adults;
• Migration: developing effective and inclusive approaches for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants;
• School: improving quality and efficiency in school education;
• Youth: enhancing active citizenship, training, education, and mobility of young people.

The Jaume Viladoms school was established as a cooperative of teachers which was largely formed by Jaume Viladoms’ students. In 1984-85 the Obligatory Education for teenagers from 12 to 16 was introduced, and the school decided to join it, given its experience and its educational profile. The ‘Jaume Viladoms School’ was one of the four private centres that started this educational system up in Catalonia.

In 1991, the centre the “Continuous Training Department” was created to offer a new alternative education and is for this reason that it collaborates with the Department of Labour.

The Iedersland College is an intermediate facility, a small VMBO school with LWOO for basic and framework-oriented learning pathways.

Since its founding in 1917, Doukas School has always tried to keep up with the latest trends in education. In its 2,5 acres it has set educational and athletic facilities amongst the best in design and construction. Doukas School is a K-12 educational Institution, offering to its 1600+ student body one of the finest educational and athletic programs in the country.