PARTNERS
Pædagogisk Center Albertslund (PCA) is a regional Teachers Learning and Resource Centre for the municipality of Albertslund in Denmark.
PCA supports the pedagogic development through courses and in-service training for teachers and by making pedagogic expertise available.
Pedagogic personnel and advisers are attached to the centre, to which schools and preschool in need of advice and instruction can apply.
A number of CPD courses and activities are provided at the centre for teachers and pedagogic personnel from pre-school to secondary schools.
The Centre has excellent media-workshop facilities and provides technical and pedagogic assistance to teachers working on producing their own teaching materials. Up to date networked ICT is used throughout the Centre supporting both administrative and pedagogic needs. The Centre supports the compulsory schools in developing their own curriculum networks.
PCA has vast experience with international co-operation through participation in Minerva, Grundtvig and Comenius projects.
SK Vard is a football club with 1200 members, 55 teams and 220 leaders/coaches.
Inclusion is a key word in the philosophy of the club and it has systematically worked to include children with immigrant, refugees and asylum seeker background.
Vision:”Vard will offer the entire family an opportunity to be included, being our new fellow citizens, into an active club environment with all the rights and duties this entails.
ACTIVITIES:
- Accompany all children to training sessions
- Family visits
- Information to coaches, team leaders, schools, reception centres, local authorities and other partners
- Social arrangements
The Vard Model has resulted in:
- Improved language skills
- Developed social skills
- Positive leisure time
- Learn Norwegian culture
- SK Vard has got new knowledge that breaks down differences in culture and frees it from prejudice
- Adult immigrants take part as coaches and leaders, being good role models
With twelve years experience the club has a great competence in the area of inclusion, not only in its’ own club, but also in the local community.
The Change Institute is a specialist consultancy offering research, evaluation and organisation development services in issues of race, faith, diversity and identity and the development of cross-cultural understanding, awareness and competence for public and private organisations. Interventions include educational modules, analysis and evaluation of learning and development needs, audit and evaluation of how institutions are responding to diverse societies, through to the design and direct delivery of strategies and staff development programmes. The Change Institute focuses on a range of key fields that includes education, arts and culture and the challenges of integration and countering violent extremism. Education is a core specialism led by CI staff with a long track record of work to promote educational achievement, equality and intercultural education fields across all levels and sectors of education. Recent work includes authorship of a report titled ‘Fighting racism and promoting equal rights in the field of education on behalf of the European Network Against Racism, and collaboration in a LEONARDO project to develop an assessment tool for use in VET.
The Spanish Confederation of Education and Training Centres (CECE) is a not-for-profit employers´ and professional organization founded in 1977. It represents the whole educational sector in Spain from nursery school to university level and has federations in every Autonomous Community. Additionally, some sectoral federations like that of tourist colleges, hairdressers/beautician institutes or nursery schools are also members of CECE.The Institute of Education Technology (ITE) of CECE realizes its activities in four areas:
- assistance in the implementation of the European Quality Assurance System in its member institutions
- organisation of continuing training courses for teachers
- implementation of technological innovation in its members
- internationalization of the members
The Teacher Training Department of ITE develops continuous professional training (CPT) courses for teachers from all educational levels based on needs analysis and financed by different actors (European Social Fund, Autonomous Communities, Ministry of Education, employers contribution). The annual number of teachers who participate in these CPT courses exceeds 10,000.
Arsenal Football Club has recognised for a long time the power of football to create positive influence and connections at a cultural and sociological level.The Club has strong credentials in pursuing racial equality and have been at the heart of a multi-cultural local community for several decades. In the last decade they have combined long standing local community focus and heritage with the development of an international playing staff and brand that is a true global celebration of the power of the diversity of race and nationality.
Arsenal in the Community have a range of innovative schools programmes on a wide range of issues, from improving attainment to race and diversity education. Projects include the Local Schools Programme; the award winning Double Club an innovative education and football programme that also sees full time ‘Arsenal Teachers’ working in schools; ‘The World on our Doorstep’ celebrating the diversity of the local area and a Religious Exchange events and Maimonides Football Programme that brings together Jewish, Hindu and Muslim pupils into
mixed activities. Arsenal also undertakes extensive activity as part of Black History Month. Arsenal are currently working with the Commissioner for multilingualism from the E.C to encouraging young people to learn a foreign language.
PPS Karmøy is responsible for all in-service training for its 600 teachers and 90 support staff.
Karmøy has been involved in more than 40 EU-projects and in 2005 PPS Karmøy awarded the first national Comenius prize in Norway.
Personnel at PPS have many years experience of running conferences and being key-note speakers at courses.
The expertise of the staff includes:
- Educational innovation
- In-service-training
- Collaboration with universities on decentralized post-graduate courses
- Advise on methodology
- Co-ordination of pedagogical initiatives
- Advising pupils, teachers, parents and politicians
- Implementing external and internal evaluation
- Developing school management programmes
- Providing ICT support
- Operating a regional resource centre
Karmøy has also worked with schools on combating racism. Much of the expertise in this area has been acquired through participation in EU- supported actions. Since the 1997 European Year Against Racism Kamøy has collaborated with European partners in organising three anti-racist conferences, has developed Comenius funded intercultural education courses and produced an anti-racism package for all its schools.
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