These are the partner organisations of the project , responsible for the development of the different outcomes and the launch team for our European Initiative:

NEFINIA, a Dutch innovative consultancy company, founded in 2007, continuously offering an increasing range of added value products, services, solutions, best practices, commercial business developments, promotion of entrepreneurship for everyone. NEFINIA aims at serving as a best example of bottom up Institution Building effort towards EU Integration and regional competitiveness, playing a key role, contributing in the implementation of EU Regulations and Directives through its participation in EU funded networks & projects, at inter-regional level.

 

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Innovation Hive is a private non-profit organization located in Greece, specialized in the fields of research and innovation. Our actions aim to enhance the economic and social cohesion of European societies while our goal is to find solutions to the new innovation challenges, achieve growth, sustainability and maximize the impact to the society. The organization’s philosophy in order to achieve these goals is based on co-creation methodologies and a quadruple helix approach. The engagement of stakeholders from industry, science and society is aiming to create links between the businesses, the academia and the civic actors in order to develop a combination of knowledge, skills, tools, values and motivation. The final goal is to make the difference in local societies and to succeed at the highest level the principles of social innovation concepts.

 

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Innomate is a company that offers professional development seminars and develops software tools for teachers, educators and facilitators who want to be more effective in their teaching experience. Well-organized, accessible programs provide participants with theory, ideas, methods and techniques to be more effective in the teaching process. Innomate is also fully involved in the development of innovative learning tools and initiatives, including content development for online courses on related topics for different target users.

 

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International Telematic University UNINETTUNO (UNINETTUNO) is an international, private University located in Rome (Italy), providing distance education. The University has been established in 2005 and is organized into six Faculties (Engineering; Economics; Law; Cultural Heritage; Psychology; Communication Science). Its educational offer includes undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs (including PhD).  

 

UNINETTUNO delivers lectures and extra-curricular activities in Italian, English, French, Arabic, and Greek, through its own eLearning platform (www.uninettunouniversity.net). The platform is based on the research activities and the pedagogical model developed by UNINETTUNO Rector (Professor Maria Amata Garito), and then implemented by UNINETTUNO researchers and technicians. 

 

The University derives from NETTUNO newtork (NETwork Telematico per l’UNiversità Ovunque, in English, «Telematic Network for University everywhere»), consisting in a consortium of 43 Italian and foreign universities set up in 1992, able to provide distance education through television and internet to thousand Italian and foreign students. 

Today, 28.000 students are enrolled in UNINETTUNO. The University employs also more than 800 academics, and administrative and technical staff are employed at the University. Academic staff is enriched, moreover, by the presence of more than 500 adjunct professors, including professors from top Italian/international universities, and professors of practice selected from SMEs and large enterprise.

 

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Founded in 2010, Inercia Digital S.L. is an Andalusian organisation specialising in  training and innovation in digital skills at an international level.

 

A VET centre (Vocational Education and Training) officially accredited by our regional government and our main area of expertise is fostering digital and entrepreneurial skills, which we make accessible through our Virtual Campus, approved by the Regional Government of Andalusia as a Virtual Training Centre for Employment (# 66044).

 

Inercia Digital has extensive experience participating in innovative European educational projects and was appointed as a new member of the “Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition” of the European Commission in 2017. We’re also the proud recipients of the Certificate of Compliance AENOR EA0043 as a Young Innovative Enterprise in 2015.

 

Based on its expertise area, during the last few years we have created and led websites and e-learning platforms for education institutions/providers (such as schools, adult education centres, VET, etc.) in order to integrate ICT in their daily activities while developing extensive training on digital competences, web tools, e-learning, virtual opportunities and collaborative learning.

 

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Exeo Lab is a multivalent, flexible young company that envisions a sustainability-driven society and works to demonstrate that local development is the key to attracting projects, skills, opportunities and networks for community growth. The company is a partnership of policy specialists, whose founding members have more than a decade of actual experience in consultancy services to public and private entities. Its field of expertise lies with research and territorial analysis through innovative tools and technologies to support policy design in the innovative and emerging sectors. Also, Exeo Lab provides SMEs and innovative startups with advanced support in the field of business development, investment strategies, technology transfer and R&S. 

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EPRALIMA Escola profissional do Alto Lima - Cooperativa de interesse publico e responsabilidade limitada

 

Epralima is situated in the small picturesque town of Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, conveniently situated between the cities of Oporto and Vigo (Spain) and close to the coastal towns of the Atlantic Ocean. Epralima is a cooperative organization, composed by institutions deeply solidified within the social, economic, cultural and local levels, namely, the municipalities of Arcos de Valdevez and Ponte da Barca, the Northwestern Agricultural Mutual Credit Bank, the Commercial and Industrial Association of Arcos de Valdevez and Ponte da Barca, Artelima_Alto Lima’s Academy of Arts and the Arcuense Heritage Study Group.


Epralima has based its developmental strategy on preparing youths and adults for the exercise of qualified professions, by developing mechanisms that create closer ties between the school and economic institutions, as well as professional and cultural associations within the social tissue, in the name of achieving an integrated and qualified entrepreneurial training project, which meets the integrated developmental needs of the country, particularly at the regional and local levels.

 

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