Project Coordinator

Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca – CSFVM

Città di Castello, Perugia – Italy Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca is a non-profit organisation which develops innovative educational initiatives and offers a broad spectrum of multi-disciplinary research expertises and training activities. The Centre plays a key role in the field of education and culture on local level, expecially for its experiences in school management and evaluation of the teaching and learning processes; in the national management of interdisciplinary research and training in co-operation with the Universities; in the field of international research and vocational training WEB-SITE www.montesca.it

Partner

Provincia di Perugia

Perugia - Italy The Province of Perugia is a Local Authority with statutory, normative, organisational, administrative and financial autonomy. It is an organization intermediate between Region and 59 Municipalities. It has a complex organisation and divides in six areas coordinated by a General Direction. The areas are concerned with: building; road conditions; environment; economics, cultural and social activities; work, training, education and internalization of factories; staff, communication, budget and financial services. WEB-SITE www.provincia.perugia.it/formazione

Centre for Educational Initiatives Association - CEI

Sofia – Bulgaria CEI is a non-governmental, non-profit association aimed at enhancing innovative educational initiatives and facilitating educational reforms through co-operation between institutions on regional and European level. The main objectives of the CEI are: to assist in the improvement of the quality and cost-effectiveness of the educational reform process in Bulgaria on civil and public administration level in the context of European integration and regional co-operation initiatives in the region; to support the development of educational instituting into enhanced contributors to societal building, especially with regard to democracy, human rights, and minority rights. WEB-SITE www.cei-org.bg/bret

Department of Information and In-Service Training of Teachers – DIUU

Sofia – Bulgaria The Department of Information and In-Service Training of Teachers carries out in-service training seeking to extend the qualification of pedagogical staff working within the system of secondary education. The training in question aims to: develop the professional competence of pedagogical staff; orient teachers in the common tendencies of educational strategies in the European countries; help teachers and school principals assume new responsibilities as well as master an apply new modern educational technologies in order to enhance quality in education; respond to personal and professional interests of pedagogical staff and assist their professional development. WEB-SITE http://uni-sofia.bg/faculties/diuu/index.html

Università degli Studi di Perugia – SSIS Perugia

Perugia - Italy SSIS of Perugia is a University School of Specialization, instituted by MURST (Ministry of University, of Scientific and Technological Research) in 1998. The mission is to professionally train secondary school teachers. This is realized by following those rigorous qualitative criteria that have been developed overall European Institutions with an expertise in training scholastic staff at their first working experience. WEB-SITE www.unipg.it

IMCS Intercollege Ltd

Nicosia - Cyprus Intercollege is the largest private institution in Cyprus with over 5000 students. It is an independent, co-educational, equal opportunity institution of higher education, which offers a wide range of programs to students from around the world. The College offers undergraduates studies in business, science, education and the liberal arts, as well as professional programs. Postgraduate programs have a strong social science emphasis and are currently offered in international relations, psychology, sociology, education, special education and business. WEB-SITE www.intercollege.ac.cy

Confederacion Española de Centros de Enseñanza

Madrid – Spain The CECE is a non-profit employers´ organization founded in 1977 that represents an ample educational sector in Spain. It has branches all over the Autonomous Communities via Federations and Associations in numerous provinces of Spain. Each one of the federations represents teaching centres within regulated and non-regulated sectors. The ITE-CECE is an investigation and management institute. This Institute was created by an agreement in co-operation with the Ministry of Education to provide training for all the staff implicated in the Educational sector. It comprises the following departments to respond to the necessities of the sector: Training, Quality, ICT and European WEB-SITE WWW.CECE.ES

Grup Scolar Tehnic de Transporturi Cai Ferate

Iasi – Romania The Technological Railway High School can be traced back 30 years ago. We are a vocational high school, but deliver both academical and vocational education. We prepare students for the railways professions. We are located in the industrial area of the city of Iasi , Eastern Romania. Our students are mainly boys -due to the field they are prepared for railways. We treat especially the students with special needs: the disabled ones-who are integrated in the educational process, and others with social and economical problems. We try to deal everything together and to strengthen the links between school and families. We've been trying to improve the civic and ecological education taking into account the standards of Europe and the level of our industry development. Our students have also religions classes: both Orthodox ( most of the pupils are Christian Orthodox), and Catholic. Even our religions development is very alike the European one. Besides, our city, Iasi, is religiously considered to be one of the points of the European cross of religious relics pilgrimage. We are highly helped in the process of education by the Railroad Regional and by Community Authorities. WEB-SITE http://liceulcfr.is.edu.ro/

Casa Corpului Didactic Iasi

Iasi - Romania The organization works as information, documentation and counselling centre, and carries out in-service training seeking to extend the qualification of pedagogical staff working within the system of secondary education. WEB-SITE www.ccdis.ro

Bolu Il Milli Egitim Müdürlügü

Bolu –Turkey Our institution, Bolu Province Directorate of National Education works under the Turkish Education Ministry and conducts the services of administration, personnel, education, in-service training of teachers and other staff, the training of teacher candidates, budget, investments, investigation and guidance in educational institutions that are subsidiaries of the Ministry of Education. WEB-SITE http://bolu.meb.gov.tr

University of Crete - Natural History Museum of Crete

Iraklion – Crete – Greece The Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) was established as a department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Crete. NHMC pursues interest in: basic and applied research for the protection and conservation of the natural environment; management and conservation of the Greek natural ecosystems; development of botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological collections; life long learning for public environmental awareness and sensitivity. In the Museum permanent exhibition halls and under a regular basis, several educational activities are carried out, such as special interactive programs for schools, children, youth, families and adults, seminars for teachers, lectures, art and crafts and workshops. In parallel, printed and electronic material, exclusively for the environmental education of the elementary and secondary school, is produced today. WEB-SITE www.nhmc.uoc.gr