Coordinator

CLAVIS / Denmark

CLAVIS is an independent educational  institution and non-profit company that aims to develop human language skills and overall competences in order to contribute to integration, inclusion, active citizenship and intercultural coexistence. CLAVIS means the key to language and competency. Thus, our educational profile includes a wide range of different learning/teaching/training services, ranging from language education for low-skilled ethnic minorities, to highly educated foreign specialists working in international Danish companies, furthermore international students, special offers for traumatized migrants and learners with dyslexics, public professionals from many different professions and, not the least, our long-term special offers to young bilingual learners, be it newcoming refugees, migrants and descendants. We have a comprehensive network to collaborating work places, universities and other educational institutions. We conduct a lot of on-the-job training, combining language learning and professional learning directly in the working and collegial  environments. We have a long tradition for online-based learning, and our centres are equipped with special videoconference-rooms designed with advanced communication technology.

Pernille Sederberg – pese@clavis.org

uniT – Arts Association at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz / Austria

uniT – Arts Association at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz is an initiative for supporting young artists and their work and for launching innovative creative positions and programmes in the interfaces of arts – education – social work, and it has two special focal areas in its work: 

The KUNSTLABOR Graz – dedicated to the interfaces between the arts – education – social work. Main target groups of the work are  elderly people, migrants and refugees, students and adults who want to make up their compulsory school qualification.

The DRAMA FORUM – supports the production of relevant texts for performance and makes it possible to hear, see and experience them.

Since 2002 uniT has been involved in many international projects in the fields of theatre, play writing, education and social inclusion by arts.

Ludwig Zeier – ludwig.zeier@chello.at

iberika / Germany

iberika education group gGmbH, based in the centre of Berlin since 1996, is a private non-profit adult education provider with many years of experience in teaching, training, counselling and managing European projects. Our main purpose is to promote education, international attitude and tolerance in all field of culture. For this purpose we organize and implement courses, seminars, workshops, meetings, exhibitions, performances and public discussions in areas of new teaching / learning methods, development and implementation of new tendencies and technologies in learning curricula, digital teaching and learning, motivation strategies for trainers and learners as well as development and inclusion of extra-curricular aspects. iberika also works with the Federal Ministry of Migration and Refugees to offer integration courses for recent migrants to Germany. These include language training from A1 up to level C1, but also intercultural skills, training for vocational integration and mentoring sessions for integration services. Our integration students come from all over the world and are often affected by unemployment and lacking secondary education. We collaborate closely with social services in order to improve the social situation and the vocational integration of our clients.

Jessica Borniger – jborniger@iberika.de

Idoia Martínez – idoia@iberika.de

CESIE / Italy

CESIE is a non-governmental organisation, established in 2001, inspired by the work and theories of the Italian sociologist Danilo Dolci (1924-1997). CESIE contributes to the active participation of people, civil societies and institutions through the implementation of projects on various thematic areas, towards the promotion of growth and development, always valuing diversity in the respect of ethics and human development.

Our MISSION is to promote growth through innovative and participative educational approaches.

Our objectives:

• To improve lifelong education in Europe through transnational projects involving local communities
• To promote sustainable development of neighboring regions and beyond through training and education
• To foster progress and innovation in Higher Education and Research
• To support learning mobility for people at all ages, across borders and sectors
• To stimulate local growth by adapting international good practices and methods

As a European centre of Studies and Initiatives, the organisation is dedicated to the promotion of research and development so as to increase and improve future-oriented innovation processes in educational, social, economic and cultural spheres believing in the cross-cutting of organisations cooperating within heterogeneous fields and sectors.

Giulia Siino – giulia.siino@cesie.org 

MAD for Europe / Spain

MAD for Europe is an international no-profit organization established in the centre of Madrid as a reference training institution and VET provider, specialized in European Training and Mobility programs. The organization is active in the labour market and in the fields of Education, Training and Culture.

Our paths are focused on entrepreneurship, creative industries, social work and voluntary services, education, refugees, training and promotion of new technologies, culture and art. 

Gregorio Garcia-Solans Molina – grego@madforeurope.org

EQuIP / UK

The EQUALITY AND INCLUSION PARTNERSHIP (EQuIP) is a charitable organisation with a vision of a place where everyone embraces difference and diversity, ensures opportunity, eradicates inequality of treatment and operates in a fair environment for all.

We work towards elimination of discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation through:

• A dedicated, confidential and free discrimination casework service.
• Working closely with other partners in the voluntary and community sector and with statutory agencies.
• Specialists in community engagement and promoting inclusion.
• Promoting equality through learning with a range of sessions including cultural awareness, equality and diversity, diversity management training and development.
• Research barriers to health and wellbeing especially amongst BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) and other equality strands.

Junaid Hussain – Chief Executive – junaid@equipequality.org.uk

Tel. + 00 44 1788 863117