Sandgärdskolan is a secondary state school situated in the municipality of Borås in the south west of Sweden. Currently there are approximately 350 pupils in school years 7-9 (which means that they are 13-16 years old) in the school. Borås is the 14th largest city in Sweden, with about 110 000 inhabitants in the entire municipality.
Citizens In Power (CIP) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization that addresses the needs and demands of people through their involvement in social and civic life, by simultaneously providing them innovative material and free trainings related with a variety of fields, such as education (including on-line education), entrepreneurship and business, culture, labour market and lifelong learning.
CIP’s vision is to expand contemporary methods of different levels of education, by developing both formal and nonformal methods of teaching; collaborate with the relevant stakeholders to produce and promote research activity and creativity for the modernization of teaching; increase the employability of young people through entrepreneurship education, practical experience and lifelong learning, by simultaneously aiming to reintegrate the marginalized or disadvantaged groups, such as migrants and refugees, into the society and; support and train members of its local and international networks in various ways such as the exchange of information and good practices, through the sharing of experiences and ideas. All the aforementioned are being accomplished through forums, publications, conferences/seminars, networking, collaboration with other institutions and other activities.
CIP has already implemented a respectable number of national and EU projects, with a focus on entrepreneurship and business, vocational education, youth and adult education and school education. It has participated in a large number of ERASMUS+ activities, both as partner and leader.
Logopsycom is an education innovation center that creates and uses alternative methods or tools (digital or not) to accompany schools, VET centers, educational organizations, youngsters and parents. It was initially created as a care company, specialized in learning disorders, among youngsters, especially in “Dys” (Dyspraxia, Dysphasia, Dyslexia, etc.), also called Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) and therefore always works on the accessibility of content.
SPEL means “Society for the Promotion of School Establishments”. It was founded in 1990, by a group of experienced teachers, who wanted to create schools that would not only teach the students but also assist them psychologically and socially. Therefore, they created a school for VET and they strategically located it in a region of high unemployment and social problems. Its focus is the students, which traditionally demand an out-of-the-box approach to teaching; therefore, SPEL integrates various out-of-the classroom dynamics in the teaching process. Since Mathematics is a traditionally challenging topic to teach in out-ofclassroom environment, SPEL has a high interest in implementing the results of the project.
University of Thessaly, with 37 Departments, and 8 Faculties is a University with its own identity and with a prominent position in our national educational system. University of Thessaly provides undergraduate and postgraduate programs and extra-curricular modules in specific research and business fields, for over 43000 students. The main mission of the University of Thessaly is the promotion of scientific knowledge through research and the contribution to the cultural and economic development of the local community and wider society. It is known for its excellent research performance and outstanding scientific achievements, in accordance with the international standards. As one of the University of Thessaly central institutions, the Center of International Education (CIE) http://cie.uth.gr/ supports all major processes at the University and provides basic and individually tailored services in order to systematize and unify the decentral training in the various fields. The main mission of CIE is to provide a sustainable environment for potential international partnerships and to provide increased opportunities for research staff, faculty, students and other target groups to be actively involved in various international initiatives. Furthermore, CIE aims at establishing and organizing intensive short training courses.
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[Project number: 2018-1-SE01-KA201-039031]
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