Project Partners

Meet the dedicated partners driving the VRCARE project forward. Our partnership is composed of a mix of Public and Private organisations and stakeholders combining teachers, practitioners and partners with the capacity to change the old-fashioned pedagogy of social and healthcare education focusing on children and elderly by providing a new way of interacting and stimulating.

Axxell Utbildning Ab | Finland

Axxell offers upper secondary vocational education and training, apprenticeship training, for both youngsters and adults as well as workshops and adult education courses. In order to ensure modern and innovative pedagogy Axxell collaborates with different stakeholders both nationally and internationally. Axxell continuously works on developing tools that helps VET students graduate with the skills needed to be employed by the labor market. Axxell’s aim is to provide its students with positive learning experiences that they will take with them when they graduate.

Axxell is active in national and European projects that focus on e.g. equity and social inclusion. Axxell has been granted an Erasmus accreditation for both VET (2020-1-FI01-KA120-VET-092526) and adult education (2020-1-FI01-KA120-ADU-092528).

p-consulting.gr | Greece

p-consulting.gr is an IT and consulting company established in 2012, located in Patras, Greece. The company is providing:

  • IT services, focusing on web development, creation of online educational platforms, digital educational games, and other digital tools for companies, training institutions and organisations.
  • Business consultancy services to companies and enterprises in all sectors of economy.
  • Training services, which address the needs of entrepreneurs, but also of various target groups (VET teachers, VET students etc).

 

The company has a well-established network in Greece and all over Europe, as it has implemented up to now over 50 European projects, with the collaboration of over 180 organisations, among EU countries. It has also implemented hundreds of national projects and is supporting more than 250 organisations and companies in the field of IT and business solutions. Furthermore, the company holds 7 European awards of best practices from Erasmus+ projects.

p-consulting.gr is combining training and IT services, by focusing to digital interactive training, through developing and creating online training courses, educational games, gamification tools, web and mobile applications using new and innovative technologies totally respecting WCAG2.0 (accessibility protocols). Also, by investing in the field of artificial intelligence, the company utilizes advanced tools such as AI software for image, text, and video processing and for developing applications such as educational platforms, games, websites, etc. Additionally, the company is continuously updating with the latest solutions available in the market in the field of artificial intelligence.

Centro San Viator | Spain

Centro San Viator was founded in 1953 in the region of Encartaciones, in the province of Biscay, in a rural area where job opportunities are usually limited to agricultural and livestock activity. Located in a mountainous area with a rugged landscape, terrestrial communications present many difficulties that accentuate the lack of opportunities for the residents of the region.

Centro San Viator offers training from Kinder Garden to High School and also Formación Profesional Básica (EQF 3), Grado Medio (EQF 4) and Grado Superior (EQF 5) to meet the needs of more than 900 students working with a staff of about 100 professionals. Our VET offer includes: Retail, Car Mechanics, Mechanization, Electronics-Electricity, Child Education, and Geriatrics. We offer courses for unemployed people, in order to respond to the high percentage of unemployment that currently exists in this region. Complementing our offer, we also promote training courses for active workers.

We are a school with a strong social character and a priority objective: helping people with fewer opportunities, who find themselves threatened by social exclusion. CSV receives about 150 students a year who have been in the educational system, which has failed them.

We also have 6 full-time classrooms with about 70 young students (aged 14-20) that are mentally disabled, as well as two part-time classrooms. The goal of these classes is to help them to achieve their maximum potential, help them to lead independent lives, and to introduce them into the labour market if possible.

We have a department focusing on projects that increase the inclusion of excluded groups (or groups at risk of exclusion). From this area, we implement tailor-made training courses to increase the employability of these groups.

GTI - Galway Technical Institute | Ireland

GTI is one of the leading colleges of Further Education in Ireland, providing QQI Level 5 & 6 courses to over 1,000 learners annually. At GTI, courses are designed to be of immediate and practical use in the workplace or as a stepping stone to further study and higher qualifications. Everything our students learn will be valuable to them throughout their lives. Our Applied Learning approach is designed to enable students learn more effectively in real-life situations. Applied Learning provides our students with learning experiences that involve solving problems that are based on real-life situations. Examples include, learning the role of a sound engineer, in GTI’s state of the art sound recording studio, or working as a Beauty Therapist in GTI’s Poise Salon. Each department has its own unique real-life, real-time production/event/project. By bringing the real world into the classroom and the classroom into the real world, Applied Learning has become the most effective and exciting way to learn the key skills required for the 21st Century. GTI’s underlying philosophy is about learning together. This is centred on learner activity, collaborative learning and critically, learning to learn. GTI are delighted to have been awarded Erasmus+ 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 and 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 under the New Erasmus+ Programme. The Award of the Erasmus accreditation confirms that GTI has set up a plan to implement high quality mobility activities as part of a wider effort to develop our organisation.

GTI has built a bank of experience and expertise spanning almost 13 years which has had a profoundly positive impact on GTI’s development as a leading College of Further Education.  The Excellence Label awarded to Galway Technical Institute was based on the excellent quality of projects and development through Erasmus+ to date and will be recognized between the 1st March 2021 and 31st December 2027.

Bridgwater and Taunton College | UK

The College has an excellent reputation both regionally and nationally as a highly successful provider of education and training. The College has been designated an Ofsted outstanding, received 13 National Beacon Awards in recent years. Meets the Matrix Standard for information, advice and guidance services, our examination and course results consistently

place us amongst the best of all education and training providers in the South West. Bridgwater & Taunton College caters for more than 20,000 full and part-time students and employs more than 1,500 staff. There is a growing international community, with students studying from over 35 different countries. Bridgwater & Taunton College is a leading provider of business training to employers across Somerset and have an excellent track record in

providing certificated and bespoke training solutions for the business community.

There is an extensive curriculum, which covers the three key areas of:

  • Construction, Automotive & Engineering
  • Social and Healthcare
  • Land-based, Sport & Foundation Studies

There is also significant provision for students with additional learning needs. The College caters for all levels of study, from Year 10 and 11 school pupils attending on link and Diploma courses, right through to full Honours degree programmes. It is also one of a few Colleges outside the private sector to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma.

COMCY | Cyprus

CENTRE FOR COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT CYPRUS LIMITED (COMCY) is a non-for-profit Training, Research and Development Organization, active in the field of project management, training & consulting based in Nicosia, Cyprus. 

COMCY, focuses on the training and development of various target groups and sectors of the society, through the participation in EU programs and initiatives as well as at the implementation of training seminars in Cyprus and abroad.

The main aspects of experience and expertise of COMCY are:

  • previous experience in training and development activities (EU and National level)
  • expertise in the areas required and level of competence on it,
  • access to the direct and indirect target groups
SOSU Ostjylland | Denmark

Sosu Ostjylland is the second largest social and health care college in Denmark. We provide different educational programs and supplementary training of educated staff members for social and health care institutions for elderly and disabled people, hospitals, and psychiatry. We continuously develop innovative pedagogic and didactic training material, organize work practice, and work closely with employers in the field. We have more than 25 years of experience in training and further care staff education. We have about 150 full-time employed staff members and 20 external professionals connected to our daily praxis. In 2016 the college had more than 800 full-time students, and about 2.000 professional caregivers participated in shorter or longer supplementary training courses. Our students are 15 to 60 years old and have more than 50 ethical and cultural backgrounds. For the youngest, we offer short introduction programs of 20 to 40 weeks – to prepare them for a start at the main educational programs of either:

  • 14 months (Social and Health Care Helper) or
  • 32 months (Social and Health Care Assistant).

We are continuously involved in European projects, and it is not difficult for us to ensure the impact of project results inside and outside our organization. The results of our projects are directly integrated into the education of social and help care helpers and assistants at the SOSU Ostjylland college. As college graduates are future caregivers, they apply their new competences directly at their workplaces. Furthermore, SOSU is part of several national networks of Danish Social and Health Care colleges, benefiting from the project results. The college is also a member of several international partnerships and networks with stakeholders in the care field in many European countries. We always try to allow them to exploit our result as well.

Diefthynsi Deftrtovathmias Ekpaidefsis Aitolokarnanias | Greece

Secondary Education Headquarters of Aetoloakarnania (DIDE Aitoloakarnania) is located in the capital of the prefecture, the Holy City of Messolonghi. The Directorate of Secondary Education of Aitoloakarnania is responsible for: 43 Day High Schools, 2 Evening and 1 Special Vocational High School, 23 Day General High Schools (In addition there are 3 Junior High Schools with Senior High School Classes), 9 Vocational High Schools, 3 Vocational Schools served by 3 School Laboratory Centers, 2 Special Education Schools, and 2 Private High Schools. The management is divided in several departments:

Administrative, Finance, Personnel, Informatics, and Educational Affairs, headed by the Director of Education.

Its role is informative and guiding teachers about issues of their concern, teacher training and education, seminars,

conferences, workshops, student competitions etc. in public and/or private sector. The number of teachers employed amounts to approximately 1650 (permanent and substitute teachers).

Aims of the organization:

  • To improve key competences of adults and youth through the body of the Educational Advisors
  • To support the development of school education staff
  • To improve employability of adults
  • To share good practices in education
  • To support inclusive education