Partnerships 2010 - 2012

 
 
 
 
"New and Alternative Tourism Enterprises"

 

    1st Epaggelmatiko Lykeio Dramas

The name of the school is 1o Epaggelmatiko Lykeio Dramas (Drama is the name of the city, located in the northern part of Greece). We are a secondary education level school and we offer technical education. The age of the students is 15-18 years old.

 Our graduates have got access to Universities and labour market. In our school there is a large number of migrants students mostly coming from countries of the former Soviet Union and also economic immigrants from other Balkan countries such as Albania and Bulgaria. The percentage of immigrants students in our school is almost 20% since our prefecture has common borders with Bulgaria. Also there are many students that have been born in Germany by Greek parents who emigrated to Germany for work in ‘60s and now have been back. Also there are some gipsy people.

 All these categories have similar problems on education, language and adaptation. Moreover, lots of our students come from single parent families and families with intensive economical problems since our region has strong unemployment problems. Furthermore, our students have difficulties in linguistic and general subjects since the school is vocational and students have low self confidence.

 

    a) Uchisar Belediyesi

The area is a famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.
Uçhisar was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1985. Our region is as a capital of Cappadocia.
Uçhisar municipality was founded in 1930. As a municipality, we have got 9 units which are for our publics to overcome some problems, cooperation for steady and effective development and supply harmony among staffs and Mayor.
We're coordinator institution for this project. We haven't got participants with specific needs.
Also Uçhisar has got highest fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, big and gorgeous hotels, alternative tourism preferences.

b) Anatolian Balloons
Uluer Havacılık Turizm ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi
Sıcak Hava Balon Ucusu

Hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, which has now identified with the region, started in 1989. The common opinion reached at International Balloon Festivals is that Cappadocia is the most pleasant place in the world to fly a balloon. During the past 20 years the number of companies doing commercial flights has reached nine. And due to competition for profit instead of quality has resulted in the fact they have overlooked important issues such as service quality and passenger safety.

 Since the day it was founded, our company, seeing this defect, has not made any concessions concerning safety and new equipment and has not refrained from any expense that will lead to being the “best there is”. None of the twenty five balloons in its possession are promotional advertisement balloons and they are all the companys own property. The fabric used on all of our balloons enjoys special quality and design and they all bear the name of our company.
All the baskets we use are designed for VIP use, and its only in the baskets of our company that you will see the same number of safety belts as the number of passengers. All our baskets are insured according to the number of passengers. Another source of pride is the 35 passenger balloons and baskets are produced by Lindstrand, one of the greatest balloon manufacturers of the world, who is producing all our equipment. Another balloon that only we have is the one person Cloudhopper. This balloon will be used for promotional purposes during festivals and it will also be rented out to clients who have a pilots license. The sort of flights we do here can not be done, with the same security, anywhere else in the whole world. We're one of the partner institution in this project. We haven't got participants with specific needs.

 

  Zespol Szkol Technicznych im. gen. Wl. Andersa w Bialymstoku

General Wl. Anders Complex of Technical Schools in Bialystok is located in the north-east part of Poland sometimes called the Green Lunges of Poland but it is also in disadvantaged area sometimes called Poland D because it is one of the poorest regions in Poland, where a lot of people doesn’t have work. It functions since 1929. For over 80 years our school has trained 16 300 graduates for the needs of the city and region.

 Among our students there are scholarships grantees of Prime Minister, Minister of Education, the Mayor of Bialystok. We have many winners of the international competitions and contests. Our boxers are masters of Poland and EU. Our school provides wide range of after school activities, such as: school radio relay centre, European and billiards club, dance group, sports sections: handball, basketball, table tennis, football, volleyball, boxing and shooting section.
We prepare students for different specializations (4 – year technical college - wood technology technician; metal technology - car service and repair work, modern manufacturing techniques, metal welding techniques; organization of catering service technician, hotel industry technician, qualified touristic technician; 3 – year profile secondary school: Classes in the sports disciplines like: shooting sports, boxing techniques; 3 – year Vocational School - car mechanic, ironworker, carpenter, roofer).

Most of our students comes from poor families, almost 85 % of them are from the rural areas of our region. Not many students get a job after they degree. Many of them would like to work in EU countries. The problem is that employers would like to engaged them but they don’t speak vocational English. We do what we can for them but lack of material for teaching vocational English is one of the biggest problems. Our institution employ counselors who support our students help them how to write CV and how to pass a job interview. We help our students how to access the labour market and we try to find a new possibilities to train them in a new ways and methods.
We would like to be an equal partner in the project.

 

    Gymnasium “Dr. Ivan Panov”

Gymnasium Ivan Panov it's an high school with 225 students from 14 to 19 years and 9 classes.
The students learn English and German and tourism hotel and catering. They have practices and stages in firms. The students have a good general knowledge and are interested in learning more about other countries and people. Business creation can be a real option for their future employment.

 

  NIEUWE MEDIA SCHOOL

MISSION:
The no-profit association “Nieuwe Media School “wants to stimulate and realise the educational use of new media in schools, training centers and adult education, also for disadvantaged groups.

MAIN GOALS ARE:
- The development of e-learning-platforms
- The sustainable development and sustainable education
- The promotion of the European awareness and partnerships

ACTIVITES:
Therefore the Nieuwe Media School organizes workshops, courses and in service training’s on these issues.
The NMS is provider of non formal adult education. The NMS trained schools, trainers and teachers of more than 25 European countries on very different issues.
The NMS is participating in the development of e learning platforms on the Internet as BridgED (Leonardo) and Explorian. (IWT-Flemish government).
The NMS is participating in several European programmes as Socrates, Comenius, Leonardo, Grundtvig, Equal and Info 2000 e.g.

TARGET GROUPS:
The Nieuwe Media School directs especially to teachers, schools and Life long Learning centers.
An other target group are organisations involved in sustainable development. NMS developed this aspect in Comenius and Grundtvig projects as Bisel (biotic index for water assessment), Comenius Freshwater Network, and Sustainable Development and Information Technology in adult education.
NMS coordinated a Grundtvig 1 project T4ADDY and a Grundtvig partnership DYS-LEARN for teachers/trainers of dyslectic adults and participated at an Equal project for adults with a learning disability. NMS will coordinate a Grundtvig Senior Volunteers project SUSTAIN with an Italian partner to support disadvantaged people e.g. immigrants to active citizenship.