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TITAN PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

The Titan Partnership is a unique cross-phase membership network of Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools, VET Colleges, Private Training Providers and Universities in Birmingham. Working together with businesses and community partners, we are helping to improve and enhance the life chances of children and young people across the Partnership. Titan Partnership is a charitable company limited by guarantee – registered as a company with Companies House (4005034), and as a charity with the Charity Commission (1081749). Titan is a Birmingham based partnership supporting more than 22 thousand young people and manages a budget in excess of £1 million.

Titan is located in the North West area of Birmingham, England’s second city that includes some of the most culturally and ethnically rich and diverse areas of Britain, but also amongst the most socially and economically disadvantaged. Every member of Titan is committed to combating disadvantage, with a shared belief in the tremendous potential and cultural richness of the inner city.

The Titan Partnership has over 50 member institutions. Many of these establishments are composed of between 70 % - 90 % of students from BME backgrounds. These include children from SE Asia and the Caribbean particularly but in more recent years from Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan, Africa and especially other EU countries including The Czech Rep and Romania and to a lesser extent Portugal. This project will enrich our pupils understanding of other cultures but also their understanding of the complexity and depth of our culture, tradition and values. The Titan Partnership will involve a number of Titan schools in this project. We will identify those schools and teachers’ best placed to meet and deliver the requirements of the project and participate fully in mobility activities and hosting events. We aim to involve schools with different ethnic cohorts in the project thus showcasing the depth of culture and traditions we portray.

The Titan Partnership has vast experience of leading and being a partner in a range of European projects. 2012 – 2018 and consequentially the organisation has established a culture of adeptness in dealing with Erasmus + and previous European projects with staff equipped to deliver well, with great experience and with flair.

Our experience includes project EUBULLY addressing bullying in the physical and virtual classroom incorporating cyber bullying. The project involved partners in Greece, Ireland, Romania and Hungary plus a drama education partner in Wales. EUGANGS projects about new skills and competences to address skills gaps and mismatch within the sectors working with Gang and Youth Crime across Europe. The project worked with partners from Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Romania. MLEARN was focused on training Teachers to use mobile hand held technologies within mainstream school education. Talented Children Project led by KPPP a ZDVPP Zlín in the Czech Republic, which aimed to up skill education practitioners and researchers to identify, recognise and develop the potential of talented learners. The EIGEP Project led by University of Beira was aimed at developing competences for teachers working with young people in prison and influencing senior strategists in the UK government and hosting events in the European parliament. The Eureka Project - Titan led The Eureka Project an Erasmus + Strategic Partnership, which was a successor to the Talented Children Project and involved 4 countries and 5 partners. Its aim was to improve teaching and the outcomes for Talented Children across Europe www.theeurekaproject.eu. It included the delivery of 2 five-day training courses on work with more able students including one in Birmingham on teaching interventions.

https://www.titan.org.uk

KING EDWARD VI ASTON SCHOOL

https://www.keaston.bham.sch.uk

WAVERLEY SCHOOL

https://www.waverley.bham.sch.uk

ASTON UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING ACADEMY

https://auea.co.uk