The Partners
This project stems from a partnership which brings together 5 pedagogical organisations from all corners of Europe – Romania, Greece, Estonia, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
The School Inspectorate of Bucharest is a public institution which carries out activities of guidance, control and coordinating the education and professional training institutions in Bucharest at the highest professional standards in order to contribute to the growth of the quality of educational services, improvement and increasing permanently the efficiency of the national educational system in Bucharest, and making it compatible with the European system.
The vision of the institution is: ensuring the educational needs of local community, promoting the educational partnerships, ensuring a quality management which is the main condition of evolution and development, promoting the European values. Its mission is to ensure the implementation of the national curriculum, the national educational policies and guidelines through supervision, counselling, monitoring and evaluation of the educational institutions under its jurisdiction, organizing and guiding the permanent training of teachers and school managers, promoting a wide range of training courses for initial and further training according to the national education policy.
The vision of the institution is: ensuring the educational needs of local community, promoting the educational partnerships, ensuring a quality management which is the main condition of evolution and development, promoting the European values. Its mission is to ensure the implementation of the national curriculum, the national educational policies and guidelines through supervision, counselling, monitoring and evaluation of the educational institutions under its jurisdiction, organizing and guiding the permanent training of teachers and school managers, promoting a wide range of training courses for initial and further training according to the national education policy.
UTH is the only higher education institution in central Greece. The University has 17 departments which are located at the four main towns of Thessaly. Specifically, the University has an Engineering School with 11 Departments, a Pedagogies School with 3 Departments, a Medical School with 2 Departments, and a Physical Education School with 1 Department. The University enrolls over 10.000 undergraduate and graduate students and has staff of 1.000 which includes teaching, technical, and administrative employees.
UTH acts as a consulting organization to the municipalities and authorities in Thessaly in subjects including educational strategies, economic development strategies, and technology transfer and has close ties with the educational community, the industry, professional organizations, and administrative authorities, including educational authorities, in the area of Thessaly. Examples of past consulting activities include the introduction of Internet services to all schools in the area of Thessaly, the development of an optical fiber network in Thessaly, and more. In addition, the organization has working relationships with the primary and secondary educational administrative authorities in the areas of Magnesia, Trikala, and Karditsa, all of which are located in the wider area of Thessaly as well as with numerous schools in the context of R&D validation activities.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department adopts a user centred R&D approach and has extensive experience in technology enhanced learning developed through R&D, integration of research and teaching at the higher education level, and collaboration with educational authorities in the area of Thessaly, nationally, and internationally. The Department offers expertise in knowledge and information management, educational services design, serious games in non-leisure contexts such as learning, social networking for education, Internet and distributed applications targeting wide target and economic sectors ranging from lifelong learning to science and culture.
UTH acts as a consulting organization to the municipalities and authorities in Thessaly in subjects including educational strategies, economic development strategies, and technology transfer and has close ties with the educational community, the industry, professional organizations, and administrative authorities, including educational authorities, in the area of Thessaly. Examples of past consulting activities include the introduction of Internet services to all schools in the area of Thessaly, the development of an optical fiber network in Thessaly, and more. In addition, the organization has working relationships with the primary and secondary educational administrative authorities in the areas of Magnesia, Trikala, and Karditsa, all of which are located in the wider area of Thessaly as well as with numerous schools in the context of R&D validation activities.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department adopts a user centred R&D approach and has extensive experience in technology enhanced learning developed through R&D, integration of research and teaching at the higher education level, and collaboration with educational authorities in the area of Thessaly, nationally, and internationally. The Department offers expertise in knowledge and information management, educational services design, serious games in non-leisure contexts such as learning, social networking for education, Internet and distributed applications targeting wide target and economic sectors ranging from lifelong learning to science and culture.
CERTH, founded in 2000, is one of the leading research centres in Greece and listed among the TOP-25 EU institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. It is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs. CERTH has important scientific and technological achievements in many areas including: Energy, Environment, Industry, Mechatronics, Information & Communication, Transportation & Sustainable Mobility, Health, Agro-biotechnology, Smart farming, Safety & Security, as well as several cross-disciplinary scientific areas.
CERTH is the main technical provider in the Language Games project, leading the Serious Games software design and implementation.
CERTH is the main technical provider in the Language Games project, leading the Serious Games software design and implementation.
Tallinn University is the third largest university in Estonia consisting of 6 institutes and 2 colleges. It has more than 8500 students as well as almost 500 faculty members and research fellows, and is the fastest growing university in Estonia. Its main strengths lie in the fields of humanities and social sciences, but it also has a strong and constantly growing component of natural and exact sciences, as well as a notable tradition of teacher training and educational research. The amount of applied research as well as cooperation with enterprises is rapidly growing in the field of fine arts, educational technology, health and social sciences.
Centre for Educational Technology (CET), established in 1998 is an interdisciplinary R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics. Scientific and technological qualifications of CET staff intertwine deep knowledge in educational research, open-source software engineering, and experiences of empirical research in authentic educational and work settings in the field of technology-enhanced learning, competency management, interactive media art, interaction design and Semantic Web technologies. The main ongoing research projects in CET are related to developing the next-generation distributed learning environments involving interoperable social software tools (ePortfolio, Learning Path Creator, Learning Object Repository and QTI test authoring/delivery tools) and Webservices (OntoSpace Explorer, Competency Directory, Competency Mapper, SCORM package delivery service). CET is also one of the key contributors to the technology-enhanced learning infrastructure of Estonian E-university (the consortium of all major Estonian universities), thus providing a unique opportunity to use almost whole higher education sector on the national level as a test-bed for TEL tools and methods. CET software development team has good experience in development and integration of new modules/plugins for Elgg, Wordpress and Moodle. CET has applied technology towards the enhancement of learning experiences among children with learning disabilities through the development of software applications towards this end.
Centre for Educational Technology (CET), established in 1998 is an interdisciplinary R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics. Scientific and technological qualifications of CET staff intertwine deep knowledge in educational research, open-source software engineering, and experiences of empirical research in authentic educational and work settings in the field of technology-enhanced learning, competency management, interactive media art, interaction design and Semantic Web technologies. The main ongoing research projects in CET are related to developing the next-generation distributed learning environments involving interoperable social software tools (ePortfolio, Learning Path Creator, Learning Object Repository and QTI test authoring/delivery tools) and Webservices (OntoSpace Explorer, Competency Directory, Competency Mapper, SCORM package delivery service). CET is also one of the key contributors to the technology-enhanced learning infrastructure of Estonian E-university (the consortium of all major Estonian universities), thus providing a unique opportunity to use almost whole higher education sector on the national level as a test-bed for TEL tools and methods. CET software development team has good experience in development and integration of new modules/plugins for Elgg, Wordpress and Moodle. CET has applied technology towards the enhancement of learning experiences among children with learning disabilities through the development of software applications towards this end.
edEUcation is a consultancy with expertise in working with schools, youth groups and training organisations on international projects in the UK and the EU. The consultancy is led by an experienced former secondary headteacher, whose school held the International Schools Award for its activities. He is assisted by six Associate consultants, with expertise in training, youth work and improving standards of teaching and learning. They have good links with HEIs, schools, youth and training organisations and national and local authorities. The edEUcation staff involved has experience of Erasmus+ and the former LLPs of Comenius, LdV, Erasmus and transversal projects. The Director and other staff have a background in Language teaching and the Director was a Governor of CILT, the UK National Centre for Languages.
edEUcation provides a range of services to organisations in the North of England aimed at school improvement, including upskilling of language teachers, teacher and youth worker training, coaching and mentoring with continuing professional development in several EU countries, modelling teaching, including creative methodologies, and supporting organisations in developing international links. The range of edEUcation’s work including that of its Associates means that it has an extensive network which provides access to schools, training providers and agencies both in the UK and across Europe. The philosophy of the company is to demonstrate effective improvement through practical activity.
edEUcation provides a range of services to organisations in the North of England aimed at school improvement, including upskilling of language teachers, teacher and youth worker training, coaching and mentoring with continuing professional development in several EU countries, modelling teaching, including creative methodologies, and supporting organisations in developing international links. The range of edEUcation’s work including that of its Associates means that it has an extensive network which provides access to schools, training providers and agencies both in the UK and across Europe. The philosophy of the company is to demonstrate effective improvement through practical activity.
The Secondary School of Silves has been over the years an important institution in the training of youth and adults. It is specialized in Professional Courses and has provided the business community as well as the higher education system with highly developed and recognized skilled young adults in their various career paths. The average number of students in the last years has remained fairly stable at around 2400 students. The entire group of schools comprises 274 teachers and 124 auxiliary staff. The group provides Courses of Education and Training (CEF-9th grade), Vocational Courses (10th-12th grade), classes of Education and Training of Adults (EFA), and Short Term Actions (354 students) that play growing relevance in the educational provision of the school.
The municipality of Silves is composed of 8 parishes with a resident population of 33,830 people (2001 Census) with over 60% of its population concentrated in the city of Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines. The total number of public schools of different teaching levels belongs to what is called Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves (Silves Group of Schools).
The impact and importance of tourism in the region is generating internal migration and invasion of domestic and foreign tourists, especially during high season-at the seaside, which is associated in recent times as the immigration phenomenon, and has brought to the Algarve (Silves) the issue of multiculturalism - the mix of cultures and ways of life and new issues of the forum of social and community integration, loss of identity roots, to which the school, of course, is not indifferent.
The municipality of Silves is composed of 8 parishes with a resident population of 33,830 people (2001 Census) with over 60% of its population concentrated in the city of Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines. The total number of public schools of different teaching levels belongs to what is called Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves (Silves Group of Schools).
The impact and importance of tourism in the region is generating internal migration and invasion of domestic and foreign tourists, especially during high season-at the seaside, which is associated in recent times as the immigration phenomenon, and has brought to the Algarve (Silves) the issue of multiculturalism - the mix of cultures and ways of life and new issues of the forum of social and community integration, loss of identity roots, to which the school, of course, is not indifferent.