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Academy of Mangement (Poland) – Coordinator

The Academy of Management is a private University situated in the second biggest city in Poland, Lodz. It was established by the Association of Polish Educators in January 1995. The Academy offers BA, MA studies and post-graduate courses in following areas: Management and Marketing, International Relations, Banking, Philology, Computer Science. The Academy of Management is the centre of IT studies, since it offers program in Computer Science and organizes number of ICT courses for different target groups (women, unemployed etc). The program in IT offers following specializations: Programming Engineering, Computer networks and systems, Teleinformatics. The student environment is animated by number of IT experts who teach in enlisted specializations. Since the Academy implements internationalization strategy number of international activities are held in the institution such as: student and teaching staff exchange, cooperation with foreign academic centres, organizing international conferences, seminars, etc. Dealing with international dimension on institutional level is facilitated by qualified staff, also by specially developed administrative entities like International Relation Office or International Project Department.

Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen (Belgium)

KHKempen is a university college with offering bachelor and master degrees in de Kempen, a region in Flanders (Belgium). KHKempen has several research and development projects in the area of easy-to-read language and web site accessibility for people with mental disabilities. As a coordinator and partner KHKempen was involved in several EU-projects. KHKempen can rely on a multidisciplinary team of experts in its 10 departments and has a research group that with ICT and Inclusion as its primary focus. Within this research group (www.k-point.be) several projects, related to the subject are currently running.

Social Innovative Network Dr. Pretis (Austria)

S.I.N:N. is an internationally active reseach, counselling and training enterprise, registered in Graz, Austria. S.I.N.N. is primarily dealing with quality management, dissemination and certification in the field of disability, furthermore regarding needs assessment (including market research), evaluation and training for professionals working with disadvantagded groups (children with disability, frontline workers assisting PwD). S.I.N.N. cordinated a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project (www.eqm-pd.com) aiming to increase the quality of professional assistance for PwD and initiating certification processes (via online assessment instrument) for services supporting PwD. S.I.N.N. pays attention to full participation of PwD and aims to include PwD at every stage of the project. Both within eqm-pd and ebiff project S.I.N.N. was faced with certification processes and recognition of (prior) learning processes of professionals. Implementing VET systems therefore is a next logic steps of the development of S.I.N.N. S.I.N.N. understands evaluation and certification as dialogue processes, based on transparence and respect towards the partner. S.I.N.N. primariliy focuses its activities in East European countries.

Kutahya Local Education Directorate (Turkey)

Kutahya Local Education Directorate is a public organization which workspaces are providing the sustainability and the efficiency of education. It makes necessary arrangements and audits the schools, the teachers, the process and the quality of the education. In Kutahya province there are 10 schools for mentally disabled students (3 of them are public and 7 of them are private education centres). Totally there are 85 schools which are located in Kutahya province. The teachers of the mentally disabled schools attend ICT courses and in-service trainings which are organized by computer teacher trainers in Kutahya Local Education Directorate.

Applied Psychology Academy (Italy)

The Accademia Psicologia Applicata (A.P.A.) is an association formed by psychologists with good competence and experience in the fields of the psychology, psychotherapy, training and research. Association has a team composed of 40 trainers who are specialized psychologists. They implement more than 100 training opportunities for the schools. Association is involved in a lot of training courses as specialist on sensibilitation, information and prevention of psychological disorders on children and adult, as well as health promotion. Its mission is to create a place that can be a point of reference for the personal and professional training and development, to dedicate personal and professional experience to promote cultural integration and health of every man, coherently with the World Health Organization methodology, to work with schools and young people (an area of A.P.A. is specifically equipped for), to be an “info Point” for Youth about EU and youth policies (an area of A.P.A. is specifically equipped for). A.P.A. is also referent of a net of associations and private societies by the manifold competences and sectors of intervention (ICT services, research and development, e-learning, web solution: It area net. Accredited Training Organizations: IDEA; formAzione Europea; Cooperativa Nuovi Orizzonti; Panormus; Acas; Isfordd; Agency for the tourist development: Go Sicily; publicity agency: ADDUMA).