Who are we?

DIEFTHINSI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEYSIS NOMOU ARTAS

The Directorate of Secondary Education of Arta is the main government body responsible for all secondary education school units within the Arta prefecture. It is a unified service that is in charge of 17 Gymnasiums of General Education, 13 Lyceums of General Education, 4 Lyceums of Vocational Education and 1 Musical Gymnasium. Its main duties are implementation of central & regional educational policies, appointment of new or substitute personnel, educational guidance and counselling, coordination of initiatives and innovations viable in school classroom, the promotion of excellence and competence among pupils but among teachers as well.

The total number of students in the above mentioned school units is approximately 3020

The Directorate’s main duties are the implementation of central as well as regional educational policies, teacher allocation, and substitute teacher employment. The Directorate is also responsible for the guidance, consulting and general advice with regard to educational matters and it is the main coordinator of initiatives relating to sustainable innovative teaching approaches within the classroom. The promotion of excellence for students and teachers alike is also a major priority.

Over the past three years, the Directorate has successfully developed various educational activities aimed at bringing the teaching staff up to date with current developments relating to creativity and utilization of L.M.S. within the classroom environment, including the completion of a three year Erasmus+ project titled ‘E-Services Education’.

Furthermore, the significant educational experience of the Directorate’s teaching staff with regard to the organization and implementation of the National Curriculum stems from the extensive participation of our teachers to the learning and coordinating education programs of the National Strategic Framework of Reference (ESPA) in the field of special education and Information Technology, utilizing innovative learning tools.

In particular, these programs fall into the basic action framework 1, 2 and 3 of the strategic education program titled ‘Life Long Learning’, consisting of:

  • Specially designed educational support programs for the introduction of special needs students into the formal educational process.
  • Program for customized educational support for special needs students, aimed at bringing those students to the maximum level of their ability and development through the utilization of new technologies as well as through the use of digital educational material.

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AYDIN IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU

Aydın Provincial Directorate of National Education is responsible for the central administration of all aspects of education (formal and informal education) and related services in Aydın province. It is also in coherence with 17 district national education directorates affiliated to itself. The Directorate’s main areas of responsibility are pre-school, primary, post-primary and special education; the promotion of community relations within and between schools; and teacher education. Its primary statutory duty is to promote the education of the people of Aydın and to ensure the effective implementation of education policy. In the whole Aydın province there are 180.198 students, 14.647 teachers, and 857 schools. The vision of Aydın Provincial Directorate of National Education is “To be a model city in education for a new and powerful Turkey”

We are an institution that adopts national and universal values, provides participation of stakeholders, develops with the concept of lifelong learning, and works to provide national education services to the people who are studying in our province by using the resources that are available in an efficient, productive and proper way.

Main Values and Principles:

  • We use Research and Development effectively
  • We are open to innovation and change in the direction of universal and scientific principles.
  • We support the personal development of the staff and we believe in the importance of ongoing improvement.
  • We believe that quality will increase with regular monitoring, measurement and evaluation
  • We believe that shared information can be managed. We respect the value judgments of society Strategic Aims:
  • To ensure access of individuals at all age living in our province to formal, informal and non-formal education that will contribute to their physical, mental and emotional development regarding the basic principles of our National Education System.
  • To contribute to the development of individuals in all levels of educational institutions as healthy, equipped and successful individuals in all aspects of social , school and business life by gaining them knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors at national and international levels.
  • Building an organizational structure in which;

-human resources are used effectively and efficiently-physical and financial infrastructure is strengthen by the budget of the ministry, assistance of charities, grants and funds

-quality working culture is created within the system of management and organizational understanding

-the usage of information and communication technologies is increased

-todays educational system is highly and efficiently supported. Strategic Objectives:

  1. To increase the participation and completion rate in all education levels until the end of the planning period.
  2. To increase the learning competences, academic achievement levels, the success of national / international competition and central examinations of the students.
  3. To educate our students in line with the needs of the today’s world and labor markets and to increase their qualifications and competences in this way.
  4. To increase the competences of foreign language learning and to increase the participation rates in international projects of the teachers and students.
  5. To ensure the balanced distribution of human resources ,to provide effective and efficient use of them and to increase the operational capacity of the institution by improving the qualifications of the employees
  6. To increase the number of schools / institutions affiliated to the Directorate and to upgrade their qualifications to contemporary education standards.
  7. To improve the functioning, visibility and stakeholder satisfaction of management-organization activities

Its key functions include:

  • Delivery of curriculum
  • Advising teachers on the determination of education policy
  • Framing legislation/Implementation of educational Law
  • Allocating, monitoring and accounting for resources
  • Through the Education and Training Inspectorate, evaluating and reporting on the quality of teaching and learning
  • School Improvement, monitoring the performance of all schools
  • Inspecting school development plan
  • Developing local, national and international projects
  • Providing in-service training programs for education staff.
  • Supporting Vocational and technical high schools providing training in occupations and giving access or leading to the qualification of specialized worker and technician.

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ASOCIACION MALAGUENA DE EDUCACION Y FORMACION EUROPEA
(A.M.E.F.E.)

A.M.E.F.E. is a private and educational institution in Málaga. Founded some years ago that represents an ample educational sector in Spain. Some of the purposes of the Association are:

  • Organize and conduct cultural activities to further development , conservation and cultural diffusion.
  • Information, training and development of European programs in Andalusia, especially those related to language learning and new technologies applied to any educational level
  • Training through courses and conferences partners / as volunteers / as and citizens in general.
  • Promote and strengthen the bonds of friendship between European society and community

Andalusian society closer to new cultures through lectures , debates , panel discussions , exhibitions, and projects.

  • Promote and disseminate European culture within the Andalusian society, in the first instance within the educational community for a sociocultural exchange whose fruit is mutual understanding and improving coexistence between both.
  • Encourage, within the framework of the educational community , research and knowledge from a historical , anthropological , social, cultural, humanistic , ideological and political European perspective.
  • Encourage cultural , educational and scientific experiences and to promote research contributing to the understanding and knowledge in Europe.
  • Preparation of studies that help to increase awareness of new technologies in the field of education in Europe.
  • Contribute to conservation , intervention, improvement and dissemination of historical, artistic and ethnological heritage of Andalusia in Europe.
  • Develop advocacy, development, research, and publication of works related projects generating new technologies , heritage and culture of Andalusia.
  • Promote the Andalusian public participation in European projects of any kind, and channel cultural concerns. Spread the culture of cultural pluralism and coexistence and tolerance in Europe.
  • Being a tool of integration and coexistence between different cultures on our continent , promoting the development of a process of integration of European citizens who have not yet been integrated into our society.
  • Defend the legitimate rights of European citizens who comprise a minority in different social and cultural fields (people with disabilities , dependents, persons with disabilities , people suffering exclusion ) .
  • Promote education and dissemination of knowledge as vital to the goal of tolerance and peaceful coexistence instrument.
  • Promote and collaborate actively in all tasks aimed at education and training for the understanding of the natural environment as well as any activity that promotes the creation of a sustainable development of the planet on which look you benefit the environmental health and conservation or protection of Nature , Environment and Climate Change.
  • Develop solidarity and social action aimed at the most disadvantaged and needy groups through European cooperation projects and development activities.
  • Develop projects and environmental activities for ecological environmental protection, through awareness campaigns , information and education .
  • Development of relations between European people and other related cultural institutions .
  • Promote and support the creation of study groups or entities whose primordial end is the development and the social , cultural and economic development, the development of Andalusia and creating initiatives , economic activities and jobs.
  • Commissioning contact Andalusian and European citizens for learning European languages.

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CNIPA PUGLIA

The Italian Organisation, C.N.I.P.A. PUGLIA, is a historical training school, which has operated in the Puglia Region for years now, with offices located both in big centres and in smaller ones. The Puglia Region is a historically social-economic disadvantaged area with complex problems which are hard to solve. This territory presents, except for a few urban areas, a development index which is lower, not only at a national level but also in comparison with the rest of the Italian southern regions included in the Convergence area. The population is damaged by this, but women and men, with an evident educational gap and who intend to enter, or re-enter the labour market, are they that suffer most from this situation. The situation gets even worse when we speak about people living in the suburbs in discomforts and privations conditions like migrants. With its projects, C.N.I.P.A. PUGLIA, in the last ten years, has investigated the problems to people living in disadvantaged areas and at the risk of criminality. The results are discouraging: high unemployment rates, low education rates and low use of training and working opportunities. A lack of communication of the available services among the population must be also pointed out. It is clear that if the Apulia Region doesn’t improve its human resources policies, these problems will even get worse and the gap between this area and the rest of Italy will widen. It is absolutely necessary to develop learning and training skills, as indicated by the EU guidelines, to aim at the improve the professional skills required by the local productive system, to ensure full equality of access and to promote the continuous learning among these populations. C.N.I.P.A. PUGLIA goes exactly in this direction: this Body, in fact, has been working for years by professional training to the real regional needs and always is aiming at the inclusion of people at risk of social and cultural alienation. Its target groups are minors at risk, students having educational disadvantage, geographical and social disadvantage, immigrants, disadvantaged women, jobless adult women and men with educational and training gap, etc. Its current professional training is, also, addressed to people with an obvious educational gap that no find work. According to principles of accreditation for professional bodies, CNIPA Puglia works in four macro typologies of

Vocational Training: Compulsory Education: As provided by 144/99 Act, vocational educational training for disadvantage young with the aim to return they at school or address they to the labour market. The Body is a leader, especially in the training centre of Lecce, for the highest rate of reemployment of young people at work.

CONTINUING EDUCATION: Continuous Training: training for employees of companies for their professional updating.

VET for people in disadvantaged areas and at social risk: C.N.I.P.A. PUGLIA careful to the needs of disadvantaged people, offers its services to drug-addicted people, alcoholics, exprisoners, prisoners, migrants and refugees.

For its activities, C.N.I.P.A. Puglia has seven schools in the major cities of the Region. Within the scope of our organisation, 35 teachers from different branches work. We have realized that schools are living difficulties in meeting the needs of children who live in disadvantaged areas. In this information era with education students should grow up according to the needs of 21st century. As the project concerns the out of school activities for gifted students, we wanted to take part in the project to make our students benefit the outcomes of the project. We have giftes students in our schools, we try to do different activities with them. We wanted to share our applications as well as seeing others and Italy is famous for its historical attractions. So we think we are very suitable for using museum in education.

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