EVTA

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EVTA is the European Vocational Training Association. One of Europe’s largest European networks for vocational training with more than 20 members in about 18 different European countries. EVTA has more than 15 years experiences in European projects and works mainly in the field of Lifelong learning, with specific topics as: quality assurance in VET, innovation in education, employability, qualifications development, ECVET implementation, mobility of learners and workers, entrepreneurship, anticipating restructuring processes, training of trainers and labour market involvement in vocational education and training. EVTA has set up in 2012 the "EVTA ecosystem". This ecosystem consists of 4 pillars: education, employment, innovation and entrepreneurship.

With its position and expertise, EVTA has a good position for providing expertise and dissemination in the field of Vocational Education and Training. EVTA is an NGO/ non-profit association - AISBL (Association International Sans But Lucratif). EVTA organizes twice per year a general assembly for its members, including a thematic conference which is open for other stakeholders as well. Themes which are addressed are all in the field of human capital development. During the conferences, workshops are held to show good practices of members and feed forward on issues for further developments and discussion in the network. EVTA organizes 5 times per year an executive committee with a limited number of members, EVTA has on a regular basis contact about the activities with the DGEAC and DG Employment and is part of the board of EUCIS-LLL. EVTA is also involved in several working/focus groups of the European commission to provide input on behalf of the VET providers association.

In 2010 EVTA has signed with 3 other VET providers associations (EVBB, EfVET, EUPROVET) a joint declaration under the Bruges Communiqué. EVTA has a long experience in restructuring processes. It is currently involved as leader in the project “Skills and Knowledge in Learning for Transition”, financed under the Progress programme. EVTA has also experiences in the following fields: pedagogical methods in education, communication and presentation skills, good practices and research in innovative learning and pedagogical methods.

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Contact person/s: Mr Tommaso Grimaldi
Full postal address: EVTA / AEFP, Rue de la Loi, 93-97-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +3222821019
Email: tommaso.grimaldi@evta.net
Partner website: www.evta.eu

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Knowl

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What is knowl?

Knowl is a social enterprise aiming to expand the knowledge capital and make the ‘knowledge society’ more inclusive.

Why knowl is innovative?

Because it brings together the academic, entrepreneurial and research communities at an interdisciplinary level and develops integrated pedagogical models encompassing a wide socioeconomic spectrum.

What we do at knowl?

We provide education and training in a wide range of topics, by exploiting the expertise of educators, academics, instructors, consultants and diverse social actors from various fields like lifelong learning, entrepreneurship and business, creative and cultural industries etc.

How we do it?

We design training material and implement face-to-face workshops and webinars with a special focus on the needs of social groups at risk, as well as companies, organizations and individuals. As a social enterprise, knowl is taking account of the different socio-economic factors of our target groups such as financial resources, educational and cultural background, providing flexible enrollment patterns, and producing socially redeeming value for all.

How you can contribute?

You can attend knowl’s workshops and webinars and give the opportunity to someone who cannot afford them to participate as well. The low attendance fees that you pay cover the fees of an individual who cannot pay. You can buy a training coupon and give it to an individual you choose. Alternatively, you can be a speaker or instructor in one of knowl’s workshops and webinars on a voluntary basis.

Knowl is about networking

We create and maintain strong and productive synergies that are truly socially responsible with the private and public sectors, aligning activities with initiatives within the corporate social responsibility patterns of companies, enterprises and organisations. We mainstream the collective input and achievements of knowl initiatives, through publications, research reports and yearbooks, enriching the knowledge base.

Knowledge is free and inclusive

Our philosophy adheres to the principles of social entrepreneurship and social economy, putting people and social welfare before profits.

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Full company name: knowl Social Enterprise for Education & Lifelong Learning
Contact person/s: Ms. Sofia Ioannou
Full postal address: 335 Acharnon str, 111 45, Athens, Greece
Tel: (+30) 210 83 12 868
Email: info@knowl.gr
Partner website: www.knowl.gr

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Omnia

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Omnia, The Joint Authority in Education in the Espoo Region is a multisector education provider and a regional development center in Espoo and Kirkkonummi with over 860 staff and 10 000 students in vocational education and 50 000 learners participating in open courses of liberal adult education. We offer innovative learning environments and beneficial partnerships both in national and international education development projects. Omnia received the national education quality award in 2013 in addition to recognition for the most innovative learning environment.

Omnia, The Joint Authority of Education in the Espoo Region consists of:

• Omnia Vocational College, offering upper secondary and vocational training for young people after comprehensive school or general upper secondary education
• Omnia Adult Education Centre, offering basic, further and specialist vocational qualifications and tailor made courses for adult students
• Omnia Apprenticeship Training Centre, offering vocational education organized at the workplace, supplemented with theoretical studies
• Omnia Youth Workshop, offering support and training for young people who are unemployed or without a study place
• Espoo Adult Education Center for open studies, for personal choices, life-long learning and human growth.
• Espoo Senior High School for Adults offers high school studies for the matriculation certificate and general education for people of all ages throughout the day.

Omnia is also the home of a unique entrepreneurial hub. We offer premises for entrepreneurs bringing together entrepreneurs, students and teachers from all levels of education. InnoOmnia is breaking boundaries and is in itself a radical innovation combining the worlds of learning and work.

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Contact person/s: Ms. Leena Vainio / Ms. Mimmi Heiniö
Full postal address: Kirkkokatu 16 B, Espoon keskus, Finland
Tel: +35840126 7277
Email: leena.vainio@omnia.fi
Partner website: www.omnia.fi

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Vocational Center of Pärnu County

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Vocational Center of Pärnu County is the biggest educational institution of Pärnu County and has students from every county in Estonia. Altogether there are about 170 employees and 1300 students. In department of adult education we have 200 students learning on post-secondary vocational education level and about 2000 students on different training courses (including courses for start-up entrepreneurs).

The main aim of the school is to satisfy educational needs of the community, from initial vocational training to broad based continuing education.

The mission of the school is to train, in co-operation with social partners, employees with relevant qualification for working life. Active participation in networks and regional development activities. Our vision is that the school has high reputation and acknowledged learning environment, training future employees who are competitive both at local and international labour market.

Vocational Center of Pärnu County offers students vocational education on the basis of a basic school education and on the basis of a secondary school education. In some specialities, it is possible to study without gaining previously basic school education. There is a possibility to acquire vocational education in session learning in some specialities.

Besides vocational studies for students, our school offers a wide range of courses and development programs to adults and one of our priorities is to level and encourage lifelong learning.

In Vocational Center of Pärnu County there is a possibility to study in the following departments: technical department, hospitality services and accommodation department, adult education department and Voltveti Training Center.

All the school’s curricula have business and economic basic module. In Estonia our business services curriculum group is divided into three categories:

1. Leadership and management curricula are: business administration, small entrepreneurship (level 5).
2. Accounting and taxation curricula: accountant (level 5)
3. Secretary curricula: secretary work (level 4)

We also participate in different local and International projects. Our school has been a promoter, a coordinator and a partner in various International projects.

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Contact person/s: Ms. Teele Luks, Ms. Sirje Pauskar
Full postal address: Niidupargi 8//12, Pärnu 80047, Estonia
Tel: +55642968; +37253308710
Email: teele.luks@hariduskeskus.ee, sirje.pauskar@hariduskeskus.ee
Partner website: www.hariduskeskus.ee

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SYNTRA Flanders

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The Flemish Agency for Entrepreneurial Training - SYNTRA Flanders is a public agency, working in the policy areas of Education, Work and Social Economy.

SYNTRA Flanders is -in the Flemish Region- the agency responsible for the co-ordination and financing of the training towards entrepreneurship, both in the short (adults) and the longer run (young people). SYNTRA Flanders collaborates with several entrepreneurial education and training providers in Flanders, in particular with the SYNTRA training centres.

The core of the SYNTRA training system is the methodology of alternating training and education.

Within the scope of the INCUVET project, our focus will be on the apprenticeship system, which is a specific formula of VET, aimed at young people (15 – 18, and 18+) who are participating in an alternating training scheme. During the week, the young people learn and work during 4 days in an SME, and they attend one day of vocational and general educational courses in a SYNTRA training centre.

Moreover, SYNTRA Flanders is actively involved –both on policy and operational level– with the Flemish “Entrepreneurial Education Action Plan”. In this area, the organisation is responsible for the management of the Competento website (www.competento.be). This is a virtual knowledge centre opening up, valorising and disseminating existing initiatives, materials, tools and methodologies on the transfer of entrepreneurial competences, and this in the context of education and training for the whole of Flanders.

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Contact person/s: Mr. Ben Bruyndonckx
Full postal address: Kanselarijstraat 19 B1000, Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32497593321
Email: Ben.bruyndonckx@syntravlaanderen.be
Partner website: www.syntravlaanderen.be

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Tknika

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Tknika is a centre promoted by the Basque Department of Education, Linguistic Policies & Culture, under the direct auspices of the Sub-Department of Vocational Training.

Innovation is at the core of Tknika in its ongoing efforts to place Basque Vocational Training at the European forefront.

Tknika is modelled after some of the world's most advanced vocational training centres. Through networking and direct involvement by the Basque Vocational Training teaching staff, the Centre develops innovative projects in the areas of Applied Research, Entrepreneurship, New Learning Methodologies, Improvement and Innovation, Internationalization.

Tknika is the innovation tool for the Basque Vocational Training System. Under TknikaINNOVA, the Centre's innovation management model, Tknika incorporates into its activities companies, technology centres, research centres, universities and other institutions that can add value to the system – all based on the dynamic of open innovation.

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Contact person/s: Mr. Víctor Arias
Full postal address: Zamalbide Auzoa z/g. 20100 Errenteria, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Tel: +34943082900
Email: barias@tknika.net
Partner website: www.tknika.eus

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Valnalon

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We are an agency of the regional government of Asturias (Spain) with a remit to implement the regional action plan for entrepreneurship. To do so, we bring together decision-makers, teachers, entrepreneurs, employers, third sector organizations and other social agents in the design and delivery of enterprise education projects in primary, secondary and VET schools.

Our team designs and publishes teaching resources, provides teacher training and offers advice and continued support to an extensive network of schools implementing different entrepreneurial education projects.

At the international level, we have developed some experience in the coordination of European projects (ADEPTT, COPIE). Lately we have been involved in “Entrepreneurship360”, an OECD/EC joint initiative to offer a freely available self-assessment instrument that will support institutions and individual teachers in advancing their strategies and practices to promote entrepreneurship, as well as to develop a platform for exchange amongst peers.

Another core area is providing advice to hundreds of entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies devising specific training courses for entrepreneurs and start-up methodologies.

We do firmly believe VET schools are in a position to steer a multi-stakeholder process where local authorities, employers, start-ups, teachers and students come together to shape the way enterprise is embedded in the curriculum confronting, in a collaborative way, challenges that are highly relevant for the students and the community.

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Contact person/s: Mr. Iván Diego
Full postal address: Hornos Altos s/n. 33930 Langreo, Spain
Tel: +34985692227
Fax: +34985683193
Email: ivan@valnalon.com
Partner website: www.valnalon.com

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Militos Consulting S.A.

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Militos Consulting S.A. is a unique and innovative 360° consultancy firm that counts many successes and recognition in the European and national market for 14 years. The company has a strong European profile and international experience in the provision of integrated and innovative consultancy services in a wide spectrum of sectors and fields, such as Communication Planning, Event Design and Organisation, New Media, Dissemination and Public Awareness, Online and Social Media Web development and design, Video Animation, Consulting and Research in Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, VET, Culture, Politics, Employment and Social Affairs, etc. to public and private institutions, interested in benefiting from the growing economic and technological capabilities of the European and international environment.

Within the last 5 years, Militos has organised more than 125 multidimensional events and dissemination actions with more than 35.000 participants. Moreover, with a track record of over 40 EU-funded projects and actions as Leader or partner, Militos Consulting S.A. has sound experience in project management of large-scale and complex projects as well as in depth understanding of European policies. In this respect, Militos constitutes the first choice of many European bodies as Dissemination and Communication Consultant for European transnational partnership projects.

More particularly, an expert in mentoring, entrepreneurship education and skills’ training and development, Militos has already implemented or is currently implementing more than 10 related European projects, such as Mentee, We train 4 jobs, I-SKILLS, Biz on board, High Heels, Mentering, LadybizIT, Fresh Start, Women@Business, and the officially recognised as best practices, Business Mentors and Mumpreneurs. The key to Militos’ success is its unique strategy and method: for each single action a tailor-made approach is developed that suits best the needs of the target group and the overall aim and message of the event or campaign.

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Contact person/s: Ms. Christina Frentzou
Full postal address: Acharnon 335, 111 45, Athens, Greece
Tel: (+30) 210 6772129
Fax: (+30) 210 67 72 116
Email: frentzou@militos.org
Partner website: www.militos.org

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