Universidade Sénior de Évora - Associação de Desenvolvimento Comunitário

Senior University of Évora (USE) is a private, non profit association that develops non formal educational activities for people over 50 years. We have about 250 senior students and about 30 volunteer teachers. In this project we propose to coordinate, we intent to involve more students (especially man) in the natural sciences classes and open our classes to the community instead of being just inside the institution. We've established contacts with some primary schools, so that we want to do some intergenerational meetings. We've developed activities in this domain and as it was a success, we will keep it as a good pratice, for our own activities and also for the project partners.

www.use.pt

Espiral Entitát de serveis

We work for the community and is integrated in a multicultural area. We also receive in our staff people that were granted with scholarships. We have previous experience in organizing ecological workshops. In 2005, we offered workshops about climate on the Mediterranean and vegetation problematic. We have documents about this topic and we would like to continue this process, that’s why we are very interested in participating in this learning partnership.

http://www.espirals.org/projectes/actuals/naturs_al/

Università delle LiberEtà del Fvg

Università delle LiberEtà is a life long learning centre that organizes courses and activities regarding different subjects. It deals with adult learners of all ages, cultural background, gender and ethnic provenience, with a majority of women , workers and retired people. It aims at:

being a cultural and formative resource for the whole community;

stimulating the learners to an active and fruitful participation, by proposing initiatives and projects and contributing to their implementation;

increasing the cultural horizons, from traditional culture to the new ways of learning;

innovating learning and teaching methodologies, pointing out that improving culture and learning is possible at every age.

In this project we intent to involve Natural Sciences courses and we intent to relate it to ICT area.

We have a stable group of ICT trainers who have experienced a joint work with other trainers of other subjects; languages, sciences and maths. We intend to involve in this project groups of adult learners of different ages to enhance the intergenerational exchange and learners of different cultural and social background to increase the intercultural exchange. Università delle Liberetà has all the facilities and contacts to host conferences, seminars or training activities on the subjects of the project.

http://www.libereta-fvg.it/joomla/

Sastamalan Opisto / Sastamala Community College, Finland

Sastamalan Opisto is a Finnish liberal adult education organisation situated in rural surroundings in Western Finland about 50 km from Tampere town. The college offers over 500 courses and 24 000 hours of teaching annually all around the vast town of Sastamala and in the municipalities of Kiikoinen and Lavia. The curriculum is created and modified according to the citizens’ wishes. There is a wide selection of courses ranging from woodwork to carpet weaving, flamenco to keep-fit classes, Facebook course to Chinese language basics as well as net courses in languages. The courses are open to everyone, regardless of a person’s previous education. Registration fees per course are usually from 12 to 75 euros.

Sastamalan Opisto has a Children and Young People's Basic Arts Education programme with a national curriculum. It consists of consistent art education to children and the youth. It provides fine arts education for children and your persons between the ages 5 and 20.

The college also has an Open Unversity department and Senior Campus. Studying at Finnish Open University is open for everyone and it corresponds to teaching received at universities. No formal initial education, such as a matriculation examination, is required to participate in the teaching. The students themselves are responsible for assessing whether they are able to complete university studies. Completing grades at the Open University is very useful for those who wish to become competent or develop in their profession. In addition, university-level studies offer a supervised chance to familiarize oneself with various disciplines. The senior campus is primarily reserved for seniors over the age of 55. Some of the studies are designed specifically for this age group, while some are regular studies organized at the college. The studies consist of Open University studies and teaching organized by the Community College.

Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca (CSFVM)

It is a non profit organisation established in February 2001 and located in Città di Castello (PG) a rural area in the centre of Italy.

It organises and develops training programmes and projects, and experiments new learning paths for studying and monitoring individual competences. Our team works with national and foreign researchers and operators in developing specific methods and tools in the field of education.

The Centre is a high level training organisation for post-graduate and post-diploma courses and for permanent education for adults based on the Lifelong Learning method.

In the Centre there are several student and learners with specific needs, with disabilities or other special needs, migrants.

It works also in the field of innovative teaching methods for new professional profiles in the European labour market as an experimental workshop where master plans are carried out in the fields of the environment, welfare, cultural assets and environmental protection.

http://www.montesca.it

Genc Yasamin Sesleri Dernegi - Voice of Young Life Association

Non-profit association located in a region providing migration and having rural and semi-rural employment problems. It aims to organize activities on issues which are seen as a problem and for young people with non-formal education to ensure community awareness.

Our organization has been established to raise Youth movement-oriented community awareness, education, Europeanness sized community information, to benefit from young people’s innovative and creative ideas, to support national and international community education projects, to prepare projects, to include the disadvantaged segments in the social aspect, to create active citizenship awareness and to support all efforts to carry out social, cultural and educational work of school-parent-student-educator feet.

Our Association has been operating since April 2009. It consist of 8 people in the management team and 17-persons in the founding team. Its members are working in many different sectors of the society. 11 association members participated in 11 non-formal courses organized by the Turkish National Agency. Furthermore, 4 people of the association members in 2008 LDV-Vetpro Project (Spain-Sevilla), 1 person in comenius in-service training courses (UK) and 2 other people in Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project in 2009 were included as participants. The Association has reached about 1200 young people in October 2009 at an information meeting to contribute to the community awareness of these young people.

Our organization is active relationship other government institutes, educational organizations and deal with regional all establishment. There are high accessibility for public. (all age group). We continue to build a botanical garden in our city. Young people are working about plants now.

www.gencyasaminsesleri.com

Health Psychology Management Organisation, UK

Health Psychology Management Organisation Services is a not for profit oragnisation and operate as 1st and 2nd Tier registered charity and a registered company limited by guarantee in the UK. As a 1st Tier orgnisation, we deal directly with clients and offer a range of psychological and social well-being strategies, mental and physical health services working in some of the most deprived areas in London and the UK. We aim our service provision and delivery at identifying and supporting marginalised and disadvantaged "hard-to-reach" adults, children and young people with long term mental and physical health conditions, within different community settings, with an outcome of improving their quality of life. Operating as a 2nd Tier organisation allows us to focus directly on staff and Co-operations in developing Workforce/Organisational training strategies with outcomes of improving health, work and well-being. The outcomes of developing our organisational training strategies are: developing frontline employee mentoring schemes and volunteer staff programmes; increasing access to training and development skills which reduces work place Stress and Anxiety and engage in research development with proven quantitative and qualitative methodologies. We additionally work with European partners on a number of European projects. Our International work also focuses on developing countries to improbve their mental, physical, social, educational, environmental and economic well being with many diverse projects.

For more information, please visit us on: Website: www.hp-mos.org.uk Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/hpmos