Alytaus Adolfo Ramanausko-Vanago Gymnasium is a democratic and modern four-year gymnasium that has become a

leading school in town over the past decade, and we are proud to be listed in the Top 50 gymnasiums in Lithuania.

We have 611 students, aged 15-19. Our school does not have entrance examinations, thus we accept students with

different abilities and knowledge levels. Nevertheless, our graduates show good results in state examinations and enter

national and foreign universities and colleges successfully (about 80% every year). They are also active participants and

often winners of local, national, and international contests.

We have students from very different social backgrounds: 10% of them come from social benefit recipient families, the

majority consisting of middle-class families. 20% of students live in neighboring villages. The gymnasium has a strong, goal-

oriented team of 56 professional teachers who are constantly improving their qualifications. We have a very modern

chemistry laboratory, several IT classes, great facilities for sports. Six foreign languages are taught here.

The gymnasium focuses on quality education and constant improvement. Much attention is paid to extra-curricular activities,

personal needs, and individual development. We have 4 classes made up of gifted students who have to pass special

psychological and knowledge tests to be accepted. The gymnasium hosts The School For Young Chemists, Economics

Academy (in cooperation with Kaunas University of Technology), Tolerance Education Centre, Parents‘ Club, Students‘

Council, DofE program. There are different music, dance, theatre, literature, debate, photography, crafts, sports clubs

offered for students after school. We initiate and participate in international projects, encourage personal initiative and

professional development. The teachers are not only improving themselves but share their expertise with colleagues at the

local, national, and international levels.

iTeach International Training & Learning Institute is an educational organization that provides courses for teachers,

pedagogical staff, immigrants, adult learners, and adult trainers.

ITL INSTITUTE works in supporting and promoting education, culture, adult education, and lifelong learning; organizing

Strategic cooperation with associated groups; creating and encourage art in public; encouraging innovative work by means

of appreciation and other forms of encouragement; enhancement of international culture and art promotion.

Our mission is to involve adult learners, and immigrants in the educational, social, and cultural life of their communities.

Our organization offers courses on different topics related to the educational process in the field of training for developing

and improving teaching skills, soft skills, communication skills, teamwork, media literacy, decision-making, time

management, multimodal literacy, project management, etc. We have taught more than 30 different courses to more than

4000 learners.

iTeach ITL INSTITUTE focuses on the development of core 21st-century skills. Members of the organization are involved in

developing, evaluating, and managing various programs and projects in the social sector, education, IT, adult leadership.

Our objectives are:

• Ensuring the right to quality education and training for all, through an appealing curriculum and innovative strategies which

merge together formal and non-formal methods

• Facilitation of formal, non-formal, and informal training in the field of education for teaching and non-teaching staff

• Development of good practices in the field of technology used in learning and teaching

• Facilitation of parenting awareness and avoiding burnout, especially for the parents and caregivers of children with special

needs

In the field of culture and European Citizenship, our objectives are:

• Promoting active citizenship regarding sustainable development education and a sense of European citizenship

• Implementing adult education policy and equal opportunities which enable learners to develop skills in gender equality,

human rights, peacebuilding, ending violence, conflict transformation, tolerance, and non-discrimination

• Increasing the level of cultural sensitivity of adult learners through diversity appreciation, direct communication, and

exchange, and developing the ability to think critically, to assess honestly personal behavior towards other people and

cultures

• Enhancing the awareness of learners about intercultural communication to avoid stereotypes and prejudices about the

different cultures

“Educademy Prague“ aims to be a sustainable leading organization on the local and regional level, a reliable partner in the

creation and the implementation of educational policies along with all key stakeholders. Educademy provides its expertise

and assistance to enable local communities to overcome social and economic disparities of disadvantaged social groups by

developing specific and innovative actions. Educademy constitutes of several professionals such as psychologists, social

workers, teachers, and other associates that contribute towards achieving the organization’s main objectives.

The main objectives of Educademy are;

-Support and encourage young women, young people with fewer resources, and the fight against the NEET problem

-Provide local and international activities for social and personal competencies development

-Promote active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and intercultural awareness;

-Contribute to preserving or restoring environmental quality for sustainable future

-Undertake activities and actions in the field of Sustainable Development

-Give transversal skills based on Global Education principles in order to equip our target groups with activism for their work

for Sustainable Development Goals

-Ensure the integration of disadvantaged groups such as immigrants and disabled people into society

-Encourage intercultural dialog with the aim of promoting mutual understanding and respect among people from different

cultures

-Sustain the right to quality education and training for all, through an appealing curriculum and innovative strategies which

merge together formal and non-formal methods

Educademy has expert trainers, teachers to ensure the realization of these goals and support initiatives in line with these

goals. Also, Educademy has a wide network across Europe to take an active role in national and international research and

education projects.

Educademy`s VISION is to promote equality, and respect for all human beings, fight against discrimination and give value to

diversity.

Educademy`s MISSION is to promote sustainable development through education, and international collaboration.

"SC Psihoforworld" was established in April 2016 as a continuation of the "David AncaIndividual Psychology" Cabinet set up

in 2012. Legal change was made by expanding the psychological services of our company.

Our main activity is addressed to people with disabilities within the local community, so that - according to case studies - we

have developed the following therapeutic programs:

* children with disabilities (autism, mental retardation, Down syndrome and other conditions) have been included in

therapeutic recovery programs; in the process of recovery of deficient children, we use, effective and personalized methods

according to case-law (ABA/PECS/Montessori technique) and speech therapy software;

* for young people with disabilities who have difficulty in social integration, we have developed partnerships with schools

that offer educational services to young people without disabilities; through the specificities of the activities we implement

* to help raise self-esteem and self-image of parents with children / young people with disabilities, we regularly organize

group counseling sessions

To facilitate people with disabilities access to our company services, we have signed partnership agreements with the Braila

Inclusive Education Center (which educates pupils with special educational needs) and the General School Nikos

Kazanzakis

Also, in order to help integrate and combat marginalization of rural youth, we have a partnership with the educational

institution that educates about 70% of rural students, namely theSchool Group GH . K. Constantinescu (agricultural profile).

The main purpose of our work is to contribute to the social integration of young people with disabilities and young people

with social adaptation difficulties. As our company profile is in the field of psychology, we currently have 30 volunteers

(psychologists, psychologists and counselors) who contribute to therapeutic activities, so we can provide free psychological

services to people in need.

We define our foundation, according to the national, transnational, and European guidelines, a model of training services

offer with the following characteristics:

- Integrated model: each system (education, vocational training, and the labor market) while maintaining their specificity of

action, integrates with others to ensure services/actions aimed and focused on the actual needs of the users.

Each system contributes to the design and implementation of training / educational and professional citizen, taking the value

of a node in a network and operating company;

- Model oriented to the needs of the people, needs related to the exercise of citizenship rights, to the enjoyment of skills, to

the access and participation to the services that represent one of the challenges posed by the European Union on which to

measure.

- Model built around Local Training Pacts, which represent the place of consultation. Around their priorities and

circumstances, each territory was equipped with a shared strategy, articulated in the objectives and expected results,

activities, and indicators of the success of the strategy, and that through the centrality of education and training throughout

life, will pursue the goal of innovation, change and participation. This requires, on the part of each of the actors involved, to

rethink its supply system and therefore of organizational mechanisms, managerial, production, both from the efficiency point

of view that the effectiveness, in order to better qualify and finalize the services provided.

- Model coherent with the European perspective of the "lifelong guidance", because it takes as its objective :

1 . strengthening of guidance throughout life in order to provide users with the ability to manage their educational and

professional careers, as well as the moments of transition between the educational, training, and career paths.

2. improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the sectors education, training, and work and contribution to the reduction of

early school leaving, the strengthening of the meeting between demand and supply of skills, and increased productivity.

The Program Plan of the Foundation has been structured in accordance with these scenarios/objectives, assuming the

articulation of two lines of service Life long learning: The policy of promoting learning for life -long learning (or learning, also

known as the Lifelong Learning) is based on the awareness of the institutions that among their duties is also to facilitate the

exercise of the right of all citizens of all ages, social class or professional status, training, learn and grow, both in terms of

social and vocational education, for the entire life span. Ongoing formation is not understood only as learning for

employment, but also personal, civic and social, connecting to other key targets, such as employability, adaptability and

active citizenship. The people in this difficult moment in history - society, to bridge the deep sense of uncertainty that

pervades all areas of their lives, need to find individual solutions to socially produced problems. Lifelong Learning (Lifelong

Learning) is the solution, also identified as a priority by the European Community, to respond to the growing demand for

knowledge that the individual is having to respond to the world of work, in relationships with others, in living in general in a

multicultural, global, connected permanently. The person does not complete his training period with the completion of higher

or university education but continues to be formed not only professionally but mainly to get back on the topic continues to

produce, even in the deep, continuous and progressive transformation of the self.

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High school Ban Josip Jelačić offers several different programmes – both vocational (Hotel and Tourism Technicians,

Business Technicians, IT Technicians, Trade, Catering, Hairdressers and Beauticians) and general education programme.

We take pride in offering our students a great number of extra-curricular activities (facultative English/German/Italian, school

cooperative, drama group, choir, art group, sports groups...) as well as a lot of national and international projects that the

school takes part in.

We are actively involved in the eTwinning group The 21st Century Classroom and eTwinning projects Creativity with poetry,

Zoom in English with Web 2.0 Tools, STEAM and Robotic: a new learning approach, History and Its Effects on Today’s

Youth. Media Smart Citizens of Future.

These are some of the international projects we took/take part in: ACES project in 2011, Double Bourdain Project on

Holocaust, ALIANTE, SHE – School for Health in Europe, DSD (Deutsches Sprachdiplom), Day of Open Doors, Western

Balkans Business Challenge, Juvenes translatores, Hippo language competition, European Day of Languages, Junior

barmen cup, INTERSLAST, KAMELIA CUP.

Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement, mainly in the field of media literacy. The school has recognized the need to

boost media literacy because of the overwhelming influence media has on the students and their inadequacy to recognize

quality media products as well as to produce quality content of their own. That is why the school is taking part in a KA229

project Media Smart Citizens of Future. Working on the project, students will strengthen their resilience towards

manipulation, disinformation, discrimination as well as teach them to produce materials for different media types.

Multimodal literacy is a logical progression in developing media literacy since we feel our students need to be able to

communicate effectively in an increasingly multimodal world. The seminars, eBooks, podcasts, brochures about

cyberbullying, fake news, advertising manipulation, different media outlets created during the Media Smart Citizens of

Future project will be used to teach students the basics about media literacy. Being surrounded by multimedia technology

doesn’t mean they will be able to look at multimodal materials critically. We want them to be able to deconstruct the

multimodal text in order to learn how certain meanings are being made and then to create their own multimodal products

using digital storytelling. We intend to contribute to the Multimodal literacy project by creating a toolkit for deconstructing

different multimodal materials as well as scenarios for creating digital storybooks. We also plan to share examples of good

practice showing how it can be used in different subjects in order to promote interdisciplinarity, inclusion and responsible

citizenship.

Helga Kraljik has been an English and German teacher for twenty-five years. She was promoted to the advisor for the

English language in 2017. During that period she was the leader of the Peacekeeping English Project for the Republic of

Croatia (2000-2004), a member of the STANAG 6001 team while working for the MoD (2002-2004). In the sixteen years,

she has been teaching in high school Ban Josip Jelačić she was a member of the ACES 2011 - 2012 project on volunteering

and has taken part in the ESCL project. She has also been cooperating with the National Centre for External Evaluation of

Education since 2005 working on designing the test for the state matura as well as on the assessment.

She is the Erasmus coordinator at her school and recognized by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education as one of

the 510 most successful educators in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. Hers and her colleague’s project, Jane Austen in the 21st

Century, was awarded a European Language Label.

Ankica Šarić has been an English and Russian teacher for twenty-one year and she was promoted to the advisor for the

English language. She has been cooperating with the National Centre for External Evaluation of Education since 2009

working on the assessment. She is also at the head of the County Council for English language and is an Erasmus + deputy

coordinator. In 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 she has been chosen as one of the most successful educators by the Croatian

Ministry of Education and Science.