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INSTITUTO DE ENSINO SECUNDARIO "CAMPO DE SAN ALBERTO" - SPAIN

I.E.S “Campo de San Alberto”, in Noia is a public secondary school with approximately 500 students divided in the following: Compulsory education (12-16 years), Post obligatory studies (16-18 years), Vocational study courses (health, electronics and administration) and Adult education. There are three different levels in adult education: Level I (for those who can't read and write), Level II (equivalent to primary school level) and Level III (similar to obligatory secondary education).
We have been working with these levels for 22 years. Adult students are, mainly, elderly retired people, housewives, adults who had to leave school early and also students with diverse handicaps: young students with no basic qualifications, learners with disabilities, immigrants, and emigrants from Noia who returned mainly from Central Europe. The institution has participated in several Comenius and Grundtvig projects. There are 77 staff members. Teachers and students reside in various municipalities around Noia.

SECOND CHANCE SCHOOL OF VOLOS - GREECE

The Second Chance School of Volos is a public school which comes under the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, through the General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning and it offers a certificate that is equivalent to the junior high school certificate.
Second Chance School of Volos offers intensive lower secondary school courses to adults who have not finished basic education and do not have the necessary qualifications and skills to adapt to modern vocational requirements. Anyone aged over 18 who has dropped out of school is now able to complete its compulsory 9-year education and continue with the Unified Lyceum, Technical Vocational Educational Institutes and post-gymnasium IEK and to attend certain vocational training courses.
The curriculum addresses and reflects the current social and economic priorities and needs of the labor market. Emphasis is placed upon the acquisition of basic skills and the development of personal skills and abilities. In particular, the acquisition of general knowledge, the use of new technologies, the learning of a foreign language and career counseling improve significantly the access to the labor market.
As we follow an open and flexible curriculum, we have the opportunity to implement various projects and workshops in a local, national and European level. Our school participates in the Greek Network for School Innovation and in the Network of Second Chance Schools in Greece. We also participated in the European pilot project "Mind Mosaic" and in the Grundtvig learning partnership “Ways of attracting adults to keep learning” (2008-2010) and we are currently involved in the Grundtvig learning partnership “We are different, we are similar...we are Europeans!” (2010-2012). Our experience clearly shows that collaborative projects with a European dimension are the best means to achieve our goals, to help our students broaden their horizons and adapt to current socio-economic and cultural changes.

AQUILONIS D.O.O. - CROATIA

Aquilonis can help with defining of educational needs, for individual, group or entire organization.
Aquilonis offers a range of traditional quality courses in the area of business and information technology, and personal development, but also the ability to create specialized courses to match different needs. This education comes in the form of lectures, seminars and workshops. We can help develop a plan of education, monitor the results of education and evaluate the efficacy of investing in them.
Building a system for electronic learning, ie learning with the help of computers and networks is our specialty and our main aim is to teach people to optimally use them. In the construction of educational systems Aquilonis strongly relies on opened and free tools.

SOCIALGEST, CONSULTADORIA EM ECONOMIA SOCIAL LDA - PORTUGAL

Socialgest is a Social Consultancy company created in 2001 and is specialized in training and consultancy for the third sector and is a member of Euclid Network. The services Socialgest develops in institutions of social solidarity are as follows:
Professional training: adapted to the different realities of the institutions and in diverse areas of work: Gerontology, Management, Health, etc.
Social consultancy: for the creation of Private Institutions of Social Solidarity, implementation of Quality Manuals, Conception of social equipments, economic feasibility studies, elaboration of performance evaluation programmes, pre quality diagnosis and implementation of quality evaluation systems.
Lares.socialgest: it is an on-line website in which you may find all social responses for the elders, with information about old age
homes, day centres, third age universities, etc.
Socialgest works closely with the Association of Third Age University Network (RUTIS), being one of RUTIS best sponsor.
Socialgest will offer it’s now how on the area of training and consultancy as well as may use its contacts with RUTIS for future dissemination of the project.
All operational and financial management will be consistent with the assigned tasks during the project lifetime.
• motivating our learners to improving and practical usage of English (breaking the barrier of speaking)
• improving ICT skills of learners
• activating and integrating our learners through artistic activities
• exchange of professional and personal experience

ZIK CRNOMELJ - SLOVENIA

ZIK Crnomelj (Institute of Education and Culture Crnomelj) is a public institution and a non- profit organization founded by the community of Crnomelj in 1959.The institute was founded with the purpose of promoting development of adult education, cinematographic and culture activities.ZIK maintains the position of the leading centre for adult education the Belakrajina region, by offering assistance and by a variety of other educational and cultural programmes. ZIK takes part in European projects that stimulate the development of Human Resources and compensate for the lack of educational opportunities in the region.

The organization creates a working climate that stimulates their staff to further develop social and equal opportunities programmes for learning.In ZIK Crnomelj ten people are employed for the indefinite duration and one for fixed-term. Among full- time employees, three hold a MA degree, six a university degree and the two other employees are technicians. Each year a lot of work is performed by around 50 to 70 temporary employees, who have the necessary knowledge, skills, will and experience for achieving commonly set objectives. ZIK gives a great accent on development of educational and cultural programmes and projects destined also for marginal groups (unemployed, Roma, older learners, learners with disabilities, migrants).ZIK is also authorised institution of Examination Centre of the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language and State Centre for Exams.

Since 2003, ZIK participated in the project 'Offering Quality Education to Adults – OQEA', a self-evaluation model of assessing quality in educational organisations providing adult education. Among the indicators for assessing quality the OQEA model offered, ZIK decided for various fields of quality, especially those in which it wanted to implement improvements.In 2007, ZIK was given the award for outstanding efforts in developing quality in adult education in the category of educational organizations for adults by Slovene Institute for Adult Education. ZIK also have wide experiences with providing different national in international projects.