About partners

KPSKC (Klaipėdos miesto pedagogų švietimo ir kultūros centras) is an education and cultural center for teachers and the main area of the center’s activities are related to education and training. The center is located in Klaipėda town, our staff is 13 persons, and 8 are working in education and cultural areas. The center represents more than 100 primaries, secondary schools, pre gymnasiums, and gymnasiums and there are constantly going on different kinds of events.

The main activity is to provide Klaipeda City Municipality school heads, their deputies for education, department heads, teachers, pupil support specialists (hereinafter – persons and/or schools) with information, counseling, and other assistance. The aim of the KPSKC is to enable and encourage individuals to acquire and develop competencies to ensure high-quality education.

Colegio Seneca S.C.A. The school was founded in 1982 in Córdoba (Spain) and today it has about 700 students and a teaching staff of 50, ranging students from 3 to 16 years. So we include Nursery, Primary and Secondary education, as well as Support and Integration Classroom. The school fosters diversity in education and tries to educate solidarity and environmentally respectful people with a high critical capacity, teamwork, and compromise with innovation. These are our essential values.

The school has a dynamic spirit and we are involved in multiple plans and projects:

• As regards its ecological commitment, Colegio Séneca has been awarded the prestigious prize “Bandera Verde” (Green Flag) granted for its initiatives related to the environment protection.

• It is also a bilingual school, involving all stages from 3 years.

• Sport is a very important issue in the school and they canalize it through the club Decorseneca, with sections in handball, indoor football, basketball, gymnastics…

The school follows the standards of quality of the European System UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2008, first certified in 2007-08 and extended every year. Since that date, it is committed to being successful in the annual revision of all the teaching and learning procedures, as well as those related to the improvement of our Cooperative, so it is exposed to annual audits.

In 2019 the project Superhero was awarded as the Best Educational Project in Spain by the Princess of Girona Foundation, developing the entrepreneurial talent of our pupils and involving all the educative community, but also families and neighbors. The Superhero was focused on the human values and the inner individual potential (the hero inside me) and the personal relationships (the human aside).

Colegio Séneca is a member of ACES (Andalusian Social Economy Schools Association), which includes more than 100 schools in the region. Since 2016, ACES gave us the Seal of Educative Excellence, which acknowledges the quality in the management of the center, offering families guaranteed services.

ASOCIATIA DEMETRIUS is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 in Iasi, Romania that organizes activities with public impact, addressing adult people, professionals, youngsters, and children with a focus on disfavored groups from urban and rural areas.

Asociatia Demetrius provides research and methodological professional support, organizes seminars, training, outdoor events, contests, and educational support projects, engages in charity and humanitarian projects.

Asociatia Demetrius also provides formal and informal adult education, health education and health promotion, social and psychological counseling, e-learning and ICT skills, social and health research.

2o Geniko Lykeio Neas Ionias Magnisias in Volos is located in Nea Ionia, a suburb of the city of Volos, in central Greece. Our school is a general senior high school with 35 teachers of various specialties and about 300 students - medium size for the Greek standards. The age group of our students is 15 up to 18 years. The school provides a General Day Senior High School curriculum, as defined by the Ministry of Education. In 10^th grade, the curriculum provides general education, while in 11th grade the curriculum is more specialized in terms of students' preferences. In the 12^th grade the curriculum prepares students almost entirely for the national examinations. 3 orientation groups are offered: Humanitarian Studies, Positive & Health Studies, Economics & Informatics Studies, opening up perspectives for university departments and searching for a place in the labor market.

The age group of our students as mentioned before, is 15 to 18 years old, coming

from diverse family & socioeconomic environments, with increased needs for expansion of

their skills and their horizons. The economic crisis and the recession have hit our region very hard. Due to the lack of a diverse career choice, , students tend to continue their studies in high school, with the hope of a better future. A significant number of students belong to vulnerable social groups (Roma, single mothers, migrants) and there has been an increasing influx of refugee children into the student community in the last 3 years. It should be noted that these students have particular learning profiles and their needs in education are considered special.

In order to increase students’ motivation and reduce drop out and/or failure, the school staff have undertaken several Erasmus+ projects so as to reinforce students in as many ways as possible. The thematology of these projects include:

1. basic principles of entrepreneurship;

2. creation of portfolio;

3. literacy and creative expression;

4. health and wellness, sports and healthy living;

5. peer to peer education;

6. development of digital skills;

7. respect for other cultures, actions to bridge differences;

8. cinema, theater and creative expression;

9. life counseling;

10. green energy;

11. basic principles of STEM;

12. utilization of cultural heritage in the preservation of national identity;

13. integration of refugees in student communities;

14. basic principles of using new technologies in education.

NGO „CREATIVE FUTURE IDEAS“ is working with different youth groups and organizations, schools in the non-formal education field. Our trainers and workers have big experience in using non-formal training methods in education, organizing seminars, conferences, events. Our NGO is open to all people who wish to participate actively in non-formal education activities and provides a variety of opportunities to spend their leisure time, develop their creative abilities, and knowledge of their profession in scientific, technological, artistic, sports, tourism sections. NGO main activities with schools pupils are concentrated to:

1. Prevention addictions and bad habits: alcohol, drug consumption, smoking, gambling. NGO provides for people with addictive diseases psychological consultations, meditations, non-formal training, events, conferences, provide lectures in schools, helps addictive persons to realize the right to self-realization.

2. Organizing different activities for healthy lifestyle promotion.

3. Interactive training in team building, promotion of social inclusion, critical thinking.