The Family Footprints project is currently being developed by a team of 7 partner organisations from across Europe.
Read more about our project team in the following profiles:
Ireland
Ireland
The Rural Hub has been providing a wide range of community development courses for local residents to support greater community involvement and enhanced social inclusion, targeting growing isolation to achieve the integration of migrant communities with the host communities and their counterparts in other migrant communities. It targets a major part of its actions at people who have moved into the local area in the last 10 years which includes a significant Polish, Lithuanian, Romanian and South American and South African population.
Weekly drop-in events and community services for information, referrals and help with completing forms are also offered through our community outreach office in Virginia. In addition, The Rural Hub provides local community organisations, charities and civil society organisations with support and guidance in accessing funding and grants to enhance community life in our region.
The Rural Hub is continually developing its programme of Social Mornings and Educational Afternoons to fill the skills gap in the provision of alternative education in the community. The Educational Afternoon themes, which are community driven and subject to demand, offer introductory sessions and micro-learning to local businesses, community groups and residents on a range of topics.
Portugal
Portugal
StoryTellMe have been established in 2014 as the result of the joint efforts from a group of innovative and creative driven experienced professionals in the areas of digital literacy and educational project management. It operates in literacy combined with entertainment, through the publishing of personalized books.
StoryTellMe has specific expertise in the development of creative concepts for non-formal education initiatives and projects, where it applies its innovative digital products, materials, and approaches on different and diverse target groups.
Among others, the tools and methodologies used for this learning and process innovation are in the fields of Design Thinking, Storytelling and Creative Design.
StoryTellMe is an expert in media, video, illustrations, and comic solutions to use in learning environments. It works specifically in Social Marketing (social networks and network management), Engagement Platforms (digital tools to create engaging experiences on on-line challenges), and Animated Graphics (interactive formats or standard video).
Since 2017 StoryTellMe have participated in several European projects that approach an educational context and explore its models in different domains: female entrepreneurship, new concepts on English learning for tourism organizations, NEETS, prevention of radicalization, circular economy, and digital skills.
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
REINTEGRA is a not-for-profit organization, established in 1999 in town Krnov, in the Czech Republic. It has become a regional market leader in all forms of reintegration into the society and job market.
Our mission is to help disadvantaged persons, (such as minorities, migrants, people living with disability, people with learning difficulties etc.) to find again employment and to join the common life. And to develop and implement integration, educational and motivating programs that effectively support employment and integration of different groups of disadvantaged persons in the society and labour market.
REINTEGRA works with people from age of 6 when they start compulsory education at school till the final of active carrier life. Yearly we work with more than 500 people.
REINTEGRA also regularly participates in national and international projects focused on career guidance, lifelong learning, educational methods, coaching, e-learning, special methods for career counselling, integration programmes, etc.
Poland
Poland
Acumen Training is a private company specializing in training and consulting. The aim of Acumen Training is to support managing on the labour market and setting up own business. The company offers training and consulting, develops audio-visual learning materials, carries out research, designs and produces learning content. Our team is experienced in graphic design (creating logos and branding) and development of audio-visual materials (used in e-Learning and Flipped Learning). It has extensive experience in dissemination and promotion of projects. The company is based in Rzeszow, capital of Subcarpathian province in southern Poland.
Acumen Training is focused on supporting adult learners in integrating and reintegrating on labour market and providing consulting related to founding own business. The company also supports them in personal development through soft skills training (establishing relationships, stress management, problem solving, time management etc.) and computer service training.
Our team is experienced in creating training materials (including branding), creating audio-visual materials (podcasts, videos, educational escape rooms, mini-learning format resources). They are also experienced in conducting research and development of reports. We have the equipment to record and edit high-quality audio-video material. Our team also includes two graphic designers experienced in designing e.g. logos, newsletters, promotional materials and material branding.
Croatia
Croatia
The Adult Education Institution Dante is a competitive, modern, and efficient institution that has been carrying out adult education programmes in Rijeka, Croatia, for 30 years. Dante attracts numerous generations of adult learners by offering quality educational programmes and courses (focusing on foreign language learning, intercultural communication, basic skills, teaching methods and approaches, transferable skills, entrepreneurship, conflict management) that respond to the needs of modern society and contribute to the development of adult education at the local, regional, and European level.
The Institution closely cooperates with state institutions – the Ministry of Science and Education, the Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education, and the Croatian Agency for Mobility and European Projects. In addition to national cooperation, Dante has considerable experience in international cooperation and partnerships, having participated in the Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus+, Europe for Citizens, and the European Social Fund.
Dante is also a member of the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) and has hosted and organized numerous international meetings, training events, and conferences related to adult education. In particular, Dante has hosted conferences focused on key issues related to adult education in Croatia (Adult Education and the Labour Market, Developing and Understanding the Professional Identity of Adult Educators) as well as the 2018 ESREA conference on 2030 education goals and adult learning.
Germany
Germany
Skills Elevation Berlin FHB works to provide an alternative educational methodology to support the social, emotional, and cognitive development of marginalised groups and to support front-line educators at all levels to integrate new pedagogic approaches into their everyday practice.
The company is committed to providing a creative space where research hypotheses and findings can be validated through experimentation and testing in a ‘living lab’ with a view to developing new methodologies and resources to address persistent social, economic and integration issues that pertain in all EU Member States.
FHB is not a front-line service provider but rather focuses on applying the expertise available to design and produce state-of-the-art learning and teaching materials. It provides courses and seminars for education and training professionals based on the findings of the academic research conducted by its team of professionals who are drawn from several European countries.
Berlin has a reputation as being a centre for creativity and expression but beneath the surface there remains many problems that require different approaches than those provided by mainstream providers.
Sweden
Sweden
Gästrike återvinnare is an association of municipalities (five municipalities 200 km north of Stockholm). We are responsible for the waste management in the region (150 000 inhabitants). Collecting, treatment, planning administration and communication for the household waste but we are also on the market collecting from companies and shopping malls etc. We are 130 employees working on all the fields from Waste management experts, IT, marketing, economic, planning, collection personal and recycling yard personal.
We have vision “Together we are creating the daily environmental heroes for a world that last longer”.
We are working with education, communication, and behaviour changes with specialists such as our environmental pedagogues, communication department and international department. The target group is our citizens from the youngest to the oldest, companies, associations and organizations.
To support our work with local families to help them to manage the dual transition to a more sustainable, and more digital, future; Family Footprints project partners are providing families in our communities with access to the following training materials, or project results, as we call them:
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