IT Partner Searching - Grundtvig Learning Partnership

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed a project idea from an Italian organisation for a Grundtvig Partnership focused on social integration and labor market.

More information: here

Grundtvig Learning Partnerships partner searches from Italy

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed two project ideas  for Grundtvig Partnership projects from Italy.

Project proposal 1
Project proposal 2

Project idea for a Grundtvig Learning Partnership

Grundtvig synthesis proposal

The Valdarno school-net includes a group of schools with different levels of education concerning also education  for adults, brick-and–mortar institutions, evening schools for  degree attainment, on the-job-training, professional courses, English courses, Information Technology courses for adults, adult literacy courses, pupils’ parents classes, immigrants literacy classes and teacher training.

As some issues emerged from the analysis of our territory’ needs, such as unemployment, underprivileged people, immigrants, women and young people facing jobs difficulties and people with special needs, it is significant to manage training courses aimed to the reinstatement and the retraining in workplaces, social inclusion, social competence, the promotion of active citizenship, personal achievement towards long life learning and active ageing process and cross-cultural communication improving the knowledge about the European  cultural and social diversity.

The project is aimed to the pooling and sharing  experience among all the European partners in order to achieve concrete and innovative results with indisputable European value,  identifying the right practice and efficacy methodology to avoid the natural wastage and adapting the long life learning process to the adult learners’ real needs as for as jobs,  personal development, competitiveness and employability.

We state that giving more resources to adults orientation  would be a strategic element for their social inclusion. This project also seek to  provide a professional profile (trainer) for teachers and adult students providing them with ways to improve their knowledge and skills, competence, teaching tools and indications to be shared with other European countries. In addition, we foresee  to make an online tools kit containing all the materials gathered during the project  time and to use it again in  future in order to improve the quality level for Adults Education and to help make lifelong learning opportunities more widely known and available to citizens.  

CONTACT PERSON

Mrs Camilla Raspini camilla.raspini@gmail.com

Grundtvig Courses

Dear Colleauges

I am Andrea Peraldo, project manager at Pixel, an organisation specialised in European cooperation in the fields of education, training and culture.
I would like to inform you that it is now possible to enroll in the 2013 editions of the courses Pixel organises in Florence:

1.European Project Planning (to be held in Florence: Edition 32 from 4 to 9 February 2013; Edition 33 from 20 to 25 May 2013; Edition 34 from 7 to 12 October 2013)
The course will provide participants with the skills for successfully accessing European funds in the field of education, training and culture

2.European Project Management (to be held in Florence from 4 to 9 November 2013)
The course will provide participants with the skills for successfully managing European funds in the field of education, training and culture

3.European Projects for Schools (to be held in Florence from 6 to 11 May 2013)
The course is addressed to schools teachers and staff who wish to acquire the skills for successfully accessing and managing European projects in the field of education

4.Edutainment: Videogames and Media for Education (to be held in Florence from 25 to 30 November 2013)
The course is addressed to teachers who wish to acquire the skills for using Videogames and Multimedia for educational purposes

5.Media Education for teaching and learning (to be held in Florence from 21 to 26 October 2013)
The course is addressed to teachers who wish to acquire the skills for using new media for educational purposes

The participation to the in-service training courses can be fully funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme.
The courses are included in the Grundtvig/Comenius database http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase
Therefore those who wish to participate can obtain a training grant to cover both the course fee and accommodation and subsistence costs (in the Database course codes are: European Projects for Education: IT-2013-860-001; Edutainment: IT-2013-861-001; Media Education: IT-2013-859-001; European Project Planning: IT-2013-855-003; European Project Management: IT-2013-854-001).
The deadline for sending the grant application to the National Agencies is 17 September 2012
For more information about the courses please visit www.pixel-online.net and http://europlan.pixel-online.org or write an e-mail to: training@pixel-online.net 

Grundtvig training courses in Sicily (Italy)

‘Centro Cultura di Scienze Sociali – Magistero di Servizio Sociale’, located in Caltanissetta (Sicily – Italy), will be hosting the four following courses in the context of the 2012 edition of the Grundtvig programme:

1)    Maccalube mud volcanoes in Sicily: an open-air laboratory

(Reference Number : IT-2013-890-001)

2)  Literature and the promotion of cultural decentring: reading literary texts through the paradigms of Gender, Post-colonial and Cultural Studies

(Reference Number: IT-2013-888-001)

3)    Media education for a critical analysis of television contents

(Reference Number: IT-2013-852-001)

4)    DWD Dealing With Diversity - Intercultural training and diversity management Course

      (Reference Number: IT-2013-853-001)

Further information about the courses (such as date of start/end, contents and methodologies) can be found both within the COMENIUS AND GRUNDTVIG In-services database by respectively clicking on the following links:

1)   http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=33823

2)   http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=33790

3)   http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=33824

4)   http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=33825

and on our website at the following link:

http://www.magisterocaltanissetta.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=8&Itemid=26&lang=en

We would like to remind those who might be interested in attending one of the abovementioned courses that applications for grant contribution towards course fees, travel and subsistence costs need to be submitted to National Agencies by 17 September 2012.

Magistero di Servizio Sociale

Via Sardegna, 17

93100 Caltanissetta

Italy

Tel.  +39 0934 596830

Fax +39 0934 557873

e-mail: info@magisterocaltanissetta.it 

web-site: www.magisterocaltanissetta.it

Partnership Proposal - FORTES srl - Vicenza, Italy

Dear Colleagues,

My name is Andrea Cecchin and I am European Project Manager in FORTES SRL – Vicenza, ITALY.

I am writing to you in order to introduce our organisation that since 15 years  manages successfully European projects, tutoring of internships for European students and graduated, seminars and training programs for experts and teachers. Our core business is the “Leonardo da Vinci” program, but we are also  active in all LLP Programs. We are developing and improving mobility and cultural programmes by promoting them throughout Europe, increasing their quality and variety.  

FORTES and CSR

FORTES srl , under its social vocation and its mission to promote the social, cultural and economic life of the people, wants to strengthen and clarify its commitment to carry out its core values. Hence our philosophy: FORTES SRL operational procedures are inspired by the principles of the European Corporate Social Responsibility (ISO 26000) and they are available in our Code of Ethics. We want to see ourselves  like  a working group that offers self-image of a cohesive team, reliable and professionally capable towards our young and old users that are following training courses. All actions towards them want to support both civil and professional growth.

Activities which may be of interest

If you are looking for an Italian Partner our organisations will be happy to support you in mobility projects (Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus or other programs) so you might consider us as a new Italian partner with considerable experience.

We offer quality training placements in internship companies in Vicenza (Veneto Region, 70 km from Venice) for young students or workers who would like to immerse themselves in the Italian language and culture while improving their professional career.

Of course we also offer visits or Seminars for European experts who are interested in establishing links with and studying business in the Veneto region. We are in touch with a network of companies  in our region who are certified in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social cooperatives.

We can organize learning/training experiences, even short term (2-3 weeks), for groups within the IVT. These programs include thematic workshops and visits to companies and educational institutions of the area (plus of course cultural visits).

Why Vicenza?

Vicenza is known worldwide for being artistic home of Andrea Palladio and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, but it is also an important industrial and economic heart of a province dotted with small and medium enterprises whose manufacturing base is at the first place in Italy for turnover in exports. So we can offer a large variety of companies, in  different economic fields available to host training students.

For further  information, we attach some documents about us and our activities. If you would like to find out more about us please contact our European programs department directly by e-mail to coord@fortes.it

Italian School of Psychologists_Grundtvig

Organisation
Name Scuola Superiore di Psicologia Applicata „G. Sergi“
Type of organisation non-profit, education institution
Address F. Carbone, 4 89015
City Palmi (Reggio Calabria)
Country Italy
Email segreteria@scuolapsicologia.it
Website www.scuolapsicologia.it
Description of the
organisation
The School, founded in 1974, implements training activities, study and research on
the whole territory of Calabria and Italy.
It has legal recognition D.P.G.R. No 929 of 19.04.1983 and is accredited as
Institute for Higher Education Calabria Region, Continuing Education, Training
Requirement; Utilities Special: social disadvantage.
It’s a provider for CME (Continuing Medical Education) events and is UNI EN
ISO 9001 Certificate Authority : 2000 for Research, design and delivery of
education services and training, continuous training and orientation required.
It is' enrolled in the Regional Authority (Calabria Region) as an Insitute for Civil
Service.
Main educational
activities
Research, design and provision of higher and permanent education training services
and vocational – guidance services
Seeking for…
Coordinator
Partners x
Contact person
Name/Surname Assunta Carrà
Position President
Telephone +39096622136
Fax +39096622161
Email assuntacarra@gmail.com
segreteria@scuolapsicologia.it

Learning Partnership_Italy

Preliminary project title    Citizenship, lawfulness and educational processes

Who we are - Italian organisation
Name    Vivere la Cittadinanza
Type of organisation    Non profit
City    Conegliano
Address    Via XX Settembre 108/7
Telephone    +39 (0)438 369103
E-mail    info@viverelacittadinanza.org
The characteristics of the organisation (main areas of educational activities, who are adult learner, ect.)    "Vivere la Cittadinanza" is an Association of Social Promotion nonprofit, nonpartisan and nondenominational, which aims, among others, the following purposes:
-    To promote the priority of dialogue in sharing knowledge and perspectives that allow a social life in respect for human rights
-    carry out research work and dissemination of education, in schools and to focus on direct social dynamics involved in the dimension of active citizenship in order to address in a responsible and conscious of the challenges facing society.
Website

Contact person:    
Name/Surname
Position
Telephone
e-mail
    www.viverelacittadinanza.org


Alessandra Fardin
President
+39 348 5816019
alessandrafardin@gmail.com

Summary of the project
Aims, objectives, general approach    Co-operation and sharing with the participating partners will provide material with which to define a proper epistemological formulation of  Citizenship Education (history, language, method).

Activities
(number and aims of partners’ meetings, main national activities between partner meetings)
    4 partners at maximum, 4 international meetings, developing a questionnaire,  organizing two conferences  (the model already exists), summaring results, comparing  best practices.

Expected outcomes
(Results,  effects, products, also such as reports, wesites, ect.)    •    creating Reports,
•    defining some indicators of lawfulness, website,
•    creating an European network for exhanging citizenship programme
•    exploring strategies and methods about education about/for/throught citizenship as a school discipline
•    promoting active participation in the society
Group of adult learners at which the project is targeted    Adults, youngsters, school children, and senior who are interested in citizenship issues, citizenship as a subject, and who wants to teach citizenship.
Working language of the project    English
Duration    2 years
Role in the project    Coordinator

Potential partners
Types d’organisations, countries, etc.    Public or private, cultural centre, adult education provider

Hosting partner_Italy

Why not Palermo for your Leonardo da Vinci Mobility placements?

Are you applying for a Leonardo da Vinci Mobility action and you are looking for a trustworthy  partner?

Are you looking for high professional placements for your students, professionals and participants?

Through a rich and ancient history, Palermo is today a dynamic multicultural place, where to live a mobility experience means not just high quality education but also a cultural immersion experience. To spend a mobility period in Palermo means to breath its traditions, which are present in the every-day life and which express Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman cultures, in a city which is over 2,700 years old.

The enrichment of a mobility period has, in Palermo, the added value of a enjoyable whether in all seasons, a fantastic natural landscape, a  tasty gastronomy and a energetic cultural environment. For all these reasons, together with the existing excellent training opportunities and very cheap services, the city is the ideal place for a Leonardo da Vinci placement.

In this sunny environment, CESIE is successfully working from 10 years. CESIE is a no-profit organisation active in countless Mobility projects, with a long experience hosting VETPRO, IVT and PLM projects. We are able to support placements in all different sectors thanks to our wide established network of SMEs, large businesses, public institutions and third sectors actors.

What support do we offer?

- City centre accommodation (a variety of choices to all needs!)
- Airport Transfer
- Monitoring
- Language Training courses
- Cultural and Social activities
- Local Transport
- Final Report
- Europass Certificate
- 24 hours emergency support

You can know more about us visiting our website www.cesie.org and about Palermo visiting www.palermotourism.com.

If you really want that your LdV project represents at the same time a matchless formative period and a life-chance cultural experience, rely on CESIE as a both highly successful and competitive hosting partner. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

For more details, please do not hesitate to contact me,

Many thanks and my best wishes,



Silvia Ciaperoni

Project Manager



CESIE - Centro Studi ed Iniziative Europeo

Office: Via Roma 94 - 90133 Palermo, Italy

CF: 97171570829

Tel: +390916164224 - Fax: +390916230849

cesie@cesie.org - www.cesie.org

Municipality partner_COM_LDV_GRU

Dear Sir/Madame,

My name is Lucia Coletti, EU project manager with experience on LLP (especially LdV, Comenius and Grundtvig projects).
I contact you on behalf of the Municipality of Monza (www.comune.monza.it), with the "Osservatorio Scolastico" service, which supports and implements the activities of the Educational Dept, and is a best practice at regional and national level. 

The reason I am contacting you is to ask you if you are maybe going to apply with a project, under LifeLongLearning Program.

Please, find following the experiences and expertise of Osservatorio Scolastico; also, they are very enthusiast to improve their knowledge at EU level and willing to get involved with an experienced partnership.

I kindly ask you to put me in touch with potentail partners at EU level.
In case of interest to involve us as partner for a project proposal, please do not hesitate to ask!

I look forward to speaking to you soon

Many thanks and regards!

Contact details:
Lucia Coletti
email: coletti.lucia@gmail.com
skype: lucia.coletti

Italy_Grundtvig_Cultural Restoration

Proponent: Cultural Association “OLIM” (Rome – Italy) gathers professionals in the field of archaeology, restoration, cultural didactic, and uses experts in the field of rehabilitation of people with special needs.

Program: we wish to participate at the program “Grundtvig 2012”.

Title of the project: Usability and accessibility of the museums. To build and experiment a correct exhibition - to spread the best practises.

Focal points of the project:

The project is divided in the following points:

-         the study of laws and regulations in the countries of the partners about usability and accessibility of the museums;

-         the applications of laws and regulations;

-         the study (and the divulgation) of the best practises;

-         comparison between the countries of the partners: strengths and weaknesses;

-         to build a laboratory to develop ideas and projects about usability and accessibility of the museums;

-         to organize a cooperation with associations working with people with special needs;

-         to build a pilot exhibition and experiment the degree of usability.

The last phase of the work will be the dissemination of results; it will be built a web site, a publication and a final meeting.

Contacts:

Dario Scarpati

Scarpati.dario@infinito.it

Phone 0039  3398266457

Barbara De Propris

depropris@libero.it

A project proposal for Comenius Multilateral Projects from Italy.

Please read the full proposal here

Grundtvig partner_Italy

Митко Шалев, Теодора Гюрова, Лъчезар Африканов, Петя Аспару

• Preliminary project title (if any)

Arts and Self empowerment

• Institution

Name	La Brezza (The Breeze)
Type of institution	Voluntary Organisation – not for profit
Adress	Via Leopardi, 39
City	10093 Collegno - Turin
Country	Italy

Main activities of the institution

We are a Voluntary Organization that since 2001 has been working with inmates in order to offer them possibilities for expressing themselves all together in group with our volunteers. For this purpose, we deal various types of art and expression workshops inside the jail. During these ten years we have realized different workshops: expressive writing, painting, computer, journalism, printing, decoupage, bookbinding. All the products of these workshops (drawings, paintings, poems, dramas, etc) are promoted inside and outside the prison, for increasing the awareness about conditions and potentialities of detained men and women. All activities are carried out in close collaboration with the penal Institution.

Connection between the activities and adult education

Providing informal learning opportunities for detained adults is a real and urgent necessity. The prison population has a common condition of hardship and fewer opportunities, but many different troubles: immigration, drug addiction, mentally illness, life imprisonment, dropping out of school, homophobia. In our experience we have found that arts (and volunteering) are most effective ways to combine the different realities during the educational process.

·         Seeking for...

Coordinator	X
Partner	X

• Project proposal

Main covered fields	To create an European network for exchanging experiences of educational and/or vocational work with inmates or other disadvantaged people.
Target groups	People (volunteers, trainers, social workers, psychologists...) who work with prisoners and other disadvantaged people, especially using arts, one selves expression and working in group.
Objectives	·         To explore learning processes and methods in other countries. ·         To cooperate in making a common social skills program for disadvantaged people. ·         To compare different experiences and reflect together about some topics: e.g., volunteering, arts, group dynamics, multicultural context... ·         To learn new skills, forms of artistic creation and methods.
Activities	According to the interests of the partners, we are up for organizing a meeting in Italy and to visit other organizations.
Outcomes	Depending on the features and the suggestions of the partners, La Brezza is interested in: ·         making a common performance/art exhibition ·         realizing a publication about the works and shows in European-wide Given that is our first European project, we expect to continue working with the other international partners, making web tools (as newsletter, web-site…) and improving our language skills.

• Potential partners

Private and public organisation focused on social skilss, art and disvantaged contexts.

• Contact person

Name	Lucia Sartoris
Telephone	0039 335.201.937
E-mail	labrezzatorino@gmail.com

хова, Виктория Юнакова

Grundtvig Learning Partneship_Italy

Dear Organization,

I would like to enquire your interest or the interest of one Bulgarian
organization in taking part to a Grundtvig Multilateral Project that we as
Cooperativa Sociale Borgorete (type A social cooperative based in Perugia,
aimed at social inclusion and targeted inter alia at local community
development, member of CNCA national network and of several EU network
through affiliation to Consorzio ABN) are building.

The project is focused on adult intergenerational learning and Key
competence acquisition through:
1) autobiography building methodology

2) exploration and elaboration on the theme " memories of volunteering
experience.

What kind of partner we seek? A subject working with local communities,
also among disadvantaged groups.

Basically the theme of memory of volunteering experience (even non
institutionalised one...) becomes a "learning stimulus", where the
learning process concerning basic and Key competences will be enacted by
the activities concerned with elaboration of memories.

For instance: writing with PC (basic writing skill and digital one) ,
drawing on internet to reconstruct the places, finding people of the past
and contacting them through facebook (digital competence), video making
(digital competence), etc.

Civic Competence is by the way the Key Competence underlying all the
process.

The product will be a sort of "transnational volunteering memory diary and
a transnational volunterring competence portfolio"..... a sort of
compendium of the competences of a volunteer done within a cross cultural
perspective.



Might be this of interest for you, I'll send more detailed information as
for instance concerning budget.


Thanking you for kind attention,

Kindest regards, +

Corinna Bartoletti
Coop soc Borgorete
Perugia (Italy
progettazione.europa@borgorete.it

Grundtvig Learning Partneship_Italy

Project priorities:

General priorities

- Encourage cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work

Support initial and continuous training of teachers, trainers and education and

training institutions' managers

Grundtvig priorities

- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of cooperation between organisations

involved in adult education throughout Europe;

- To facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and their transfer,

including from a participating country to others;

- To improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult education organisations.

Minimo number of countries: 3

Project lenght: 2 years

Deadline: 21st February 2011 in Italy (please check with your National Agency)

Link: http://www.programmallp.it/index.php?id_cnt=131

Implementation of innovative tools aimed at the creation of a common framework for the evaluation and competence recognition of people with special needs in line with the International Classification of Functioning

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS:

Although since at least the last ten years the subject of disability has been one of the European priorities to increase development and employment, nowadays the level of participation of people with special needs into the social and working life is not still high enough. Member States have achieved a lot of results to increase the accessibility to social life and the quality of mandatory education but the employment rate of disable people still remains low everywhere. It’s also very low if we consider the target of people with physical and mental disabilities (the employment rate of disabled people is stable at 50%;is at 27% for people aged between 16 and 24;barely 24% of people aged 16-64 in case of intellectual disabilities) (cfr “Situation of disabled people in the EU: Action Plan 2008).

Regularly the same document point out the crucial contribution that education and continuous training can give for the working inclusion of the specific target groups, especially when integrated models of training on the job are mixed with the traditional educational method. Not even the most advanced States in this field have got a fully satisfying system if we analyse results and effectiveness of actions, even if there are training experiences realized by the cooperation between training organizations and enterprises.

Therefore deepening the transnational knowledge can be useful both to improve effectiveness of actions and to speed up the innovation processes and the diffusion of models into those countries that are less developed in the field.

PROJECT IDEA:

The project idea, assuming that the work is one of the basic mean for the validation and personal recognition of the individual, for the positive building of the personality and the acquisition of a social role into the community, has the specific aim, by the transnational cooperation, to deepen methodologies and tools in use to evaluate and validate competences of people with special needs aimed at the work placement.

The project specific objective is to investigate how in different countries involved into the project tools and methodologies for the work placement of disable people have been integrated in the light of the International classification of Functioning (ICF) elaborated by WHO (World Health Organization). ICF is a new concept of disability, which for the first time takes into consideration also contextual factors. In fact not only does it affect people with physical or mental problem but also healthy persons, where there is the need to evaluate his/her health state. The main interest of ICF is indeed for the evaluation and functioning, in other words to understand how a person “works”, not what a person is able to do today but what he will be able to do introducing changing in his / her life. Besides the importance of this new classification, if at national level some integration efforts to integrate it with the tools in use for the evaluation and certification of competences of disable people can be registered, at international level we are still far away from the realization of common recognised instruments.

In conclusion the aim of the project is to make arise analogies and methodological and instrumental differences among the countries involved into the project (for example about competence balance) aimed at the working placement of people with special needs in line with the new classification.

SHORT ACTION DESCRIPTION

The project will be realized by the following actions:

Preliminary analysis and best practices exchange:

Realization of working groups into countries involved in to the project whose objective are:

- Mapping the existing practices and experiences, methodological models in use, lexical etc. integrated with ICF ;

- List of models in use in different countries

The working group will be realized as follows:

- Staff meetings / comparison among staff of the countries involved

- Meeting with training centres staff and managers

- Guided visits to educational organizations, public authorities, enterprises

Implementation of a prototype: Preparation of common tools prototype (ex competence balance tool) specific for the target group that combine medical diagnosis to training portfolio, to working competences and communication and relationship skills of the target

Test of the model

Experimental test of the competence balance model to a group of 10 participants in each country involved into the project after the agreement with family communities centres for people with special needs etc

Final

Preparation of final documents

Preparation of documents with the description of final prototype and their publication by leaflets and internet. Implementation of a plan for the project sustainability in order to go on with the activities after the end of the project lifetime

PROJECT CONTACT

Erica De Paoli

ericadepaoli@yahoo.com

0039 3899616208

SLYPE erica.de.paoli

COORDINATOR

Geminas S.r.l Italy

http://www.geminas.it/

ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION

Geminas is the result of a professional and institutional growth process which led FORMAZIONE DOMANI and GN to make a joint venture in the field of training and work placement services.

Our experience and know how has been developed starting from 1997 in the strategic areas of counseling, vocational training, enterprise start up, equal opportunities and research of new job roles.

The target of our activity are:

- Public authorities

- Fundations

- Social and volunteering associations and private organizations

- Educational and school institutions

- Small and medium enterprises

Geminas is registered and accredited by Region Lombardy to provide

- Training (vocational training and continuous training)

- Counseling

- Work placement services

Geminas by its training centers located in Region Lombardy has got a smart and effective organization, which can guarantee direction, coordination, secretary and administration activities.

The organization has got a structure which provide the best quality in planning, programming, didactic organization and accounting activities.

To do that besides its experienced training and counseling staff, Geminas collaborates with external experts in different fields