Partners – DEPAL

Liverpool World Centre (LWC) is a charity and company limited by guarantee. LWC exists to make world issues relevant to the lives of people young and old. Education is a crucial part of people’s lives, therefore LWC works with adults and educators to facilitate understanding of global issues and promote positive social change. LWC has 8 paid staff, and 2 volunteers, but also has a bank of 8 associate workshop leaders. LWC was founded in 2001 and has worked with 237 of schools in Merseyside (50%), and over 2000 adults.

Liverpool World Centre chairs the national Consortium of Development Education Centres (CoDEC) and leads the TEESNet network in partnership with Liverpool Hope University.
Liverpool World Centre uses established and innovative participatory education methodologies to encourage inclusive education that is able to explore a wide range of global issues. The organisation works with schools, teachers, trainee teachers, community organisations, universities and informal education providers to achieve their aims.

LABC is a ltd. company founded in February 2019 and based in Torino (IT). LABC aim is to share and build upon the experience of professionals in the field of individual and community wellness, group-work, education and training, reintegration into labor market and project management.
LABC is a pan-European learning community, adopting and sharing the principles of:
– collaborative learning: we exchange, improve and share experiences, resources and skills, in order to optimize international and intermodal collaborations, develop and transfer of methodologies and praxis
– generativity: we establish, support and guide the ability to create, generate and produce new psychological, social and educational tools, models and praxis, with the aim of spreading them freely throughout the community

LABC is active and experienced in:
# care work, individual and community well-being through a widespread range of activities, including group work sessions, supervisions, training, consultancy on management, organization of public events, lectures and seminars
# Education and Research by designing learning methodologies and implementing training materials and tools dedicated to improve the awareness of participants and recipients on topics of particular interest in psychological, educational, social and environmental fields.

Address: via Musine’ 12
10143 Torino, ITA
Web: www.labcentro.it
Email: projects@labcentro.it

Liverpool Community Spirit

Is a grass-roots community education partnership and registered charity, founded in March 2002. We promote the diverse faith dimensions of community cohesion, inclusive community spirit and personal development in the Merseyside region, drawing upon the wisdom of our diverse faith communities.

Our work focuses on three areas:

Adult learning: developing and delivering our own bespoke personal development programmes for marginalised adults (long-term unemployed, poor mental health, isolation, offending behaviour) in the local community and in local prisons. We also deliver Faith diversity training for public sector workers.

Schools: we develop and deliver faith awareness training for Primary and Secondary school teachers across our region and for teacher trainees in three local Universities.

We deliver our unique faith awareness workshops for pupils of all ages. These include Faith encounter interactive workshops which we take to schools, but also workshops in our faith living rooms at our home base. The latter are called “At Home with (Islam, Judaism Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity etc.)” and provide an experience of encountering a living faith in a homely setting.

Finally, we established the UK’s first grass-roots Inter-faith Youth Council engaging 15-24 year olds from diverse communities in actively promoting community and social cohesion.

NEO SAPIENS is a European mobility and training social company which main aim is the design, management and implementation of educational, training, entertainment, culture and transnational mobility projects and local initiatives to promote training opportunities on non formal education and interculturality.

From the training centre and central office of the entity in Logroño (capital city of La Rioja), NEO SAPIENS offers supporting services focused on implementing this kind of activities and the development of pedagogic and learning materials related to them. With a social approach, the organisation provides to public entities, schools, non-profit organisations and individuals ofany age or background, help to carry out projects for education, social development or/and transnational mobility, and facilitates the staff and sources needed for their implementation. To develop these programmes, the entity counts on the support of a professional team with a wide experience on the field of training, European programmes management, working with fewer opportunities users, intercultural values, translation, communication and development of formal and non formal teaching methodologies.

Besides this, NEO SAPIENS also cooperates with different local stakeholders in order to offer organisations from other countries logistic facilities to develop mobility activities or projects in the region of La Rioja (Spain) (volunteering, internships, workcamps, etc.). To make this possible, NEO SAPIENS has a wide network of local partners including theatre and arts entities, VET schools, training centers, youth centers, leisure time activities providers, public bodies, etc.

Partners TfT is a Community Education / Community Development organisation. We began working in Ireland in 1981 and continue to work for social justice through grassroots community education. The approach we use is informed by a rich tradition of adult education in the context of community development, encompassing Anne Hope and Sally Timmel’s Training for Transformation, itself rooted in the work of Paulo Freire. Over the decades we have continued to learn and to develop accessible resources for adult educators and development workers across Ireland and beyond. Our own resources are gathered in Partners Companion to Training for Transformation and Partners Intercultural Companion to Training for Transformation, and From Seeds to Trees: A Resource for Organisational Development.
• We offer training in Creative Facilitation, Working and Living Interculturally, Community Leadership, Leadership in Intercultural Communities. Participants from diverse backgrounds learn to integrate a creative experiential participative approach into their work.
• We design, develop and disseminate educational resources and processes for those using participative and experiential education and group facilitation to engage and support people in poverty or social exclusion, and people wanting to develop self-reliant communities.
• We support organisations working on issues of social justice in their organisational development.
• We work with a very diverse range of groups who are engaged in a multiplicity of activities in different contexts. At the heart of all our work is the promotion of communal and societal engagement, participation and inclusion.

The Vardakeios School of Ermoupoli is based on Syros island in Greece and is an institute that organizes programs that focus on foreign language learning and self- enrichment activities. The school offers courses of Greek, English, Italian and French language and also workshops related to creative writing, art history and painting, puppet making and play workshops and many others that start during the year for local people and immigrants. Every year over 150 beneficiaries attend one or more language courses and workshops.

The school also organizes several intercultural activities such as storytelling from around the world, staging performances by multinational groups, cooking classes, multicultural culinary workshops, bazaars of Greek and foreign books. We try to establish a learning community based on participatory learning so as a result facilitators and beneficiaries can easily change roles according to the activities and the relevant competences.

Since 2009 Vardakeios participates in Grundtvig and Erasmus+ projects for Adult Education as a partner and a coordinator and has developed a strong national and European network of organizations that work in the same field. Through these projects and partnerships useful educational resources have been developed about digital storytelling, language learning through 3D environment or for organizing workshops based on healthy eating and multiethnic food.

Address: 8 Marten Nordestrom,
Ermoupoli/ P.C. 84100
Web: www.vardakeios.gr
Email: vardakeios@gmail.com
Tel: 0030- 2281082573

Diciannove società cooperativa was established in 2005 as as an ICT cooperative company, it focuses on support for organizations active in social issues, and it operates mainly in Northern Italy, providing solutions to health and social departments in 3 regional Health Dept and to the National Ministry of Education.

Diciannove counts 9 associated members and a wide network of collaborators. Both members and collaborators of Diciannove has a huge experience in intervention within the social and educational field, with adults as well with youngsters, in various different issues such as intercultural integration, social inclusion, work-life balance, application of ICT tools to health, education and social policies.

The management of projects both at local, regional and European level is part of the core business as well, together with collaborations for educational and training centres to provide course in development and management of European projects.
All consulting and management services are certified ISO 9001:2015.

Diciannove is also certified by Family Audit, the Italian standard certification for work-life balance in management and services provisions.

Diciannove’s mission is to provide, using mainly free software, a dynamic and flexible approach to ICT and social needs, highly customized web solutions, dynamic applications, e-learning, guaranteed data security, very high quality standards.

Diciannove’s developers are experienced in software design, development, localization and deploy.
The company is also a hosting provider and manages its own virtual Linux-based infrastructure.

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DEPAL Multiplier Events in Genova24 May 2022 - 12:09
In May 2022, two Multiplier Events were held in Genoa, Italy, for the DEPAL project. The first, open to all, was held on 9 May in the Condiviso headquarters, a Co-working and Digital Communication center, and was conducted by the representatives of the LABC project partner Paolo Brusa and Angela Salvatore, together with Anna Ponte […]
DEPAL Multiplier Events in Turin16 May 2022 - 12:35
LABC organised two multiplier events to disseminate the results of the DEPAL project. The first event was held in February following the transnational project team meeting, on 18 February 2022 at SPAZIOBAC – VIA COTTOLENGO 24, TURIN. The second event was hosted on 15 May 2022 by the CIRCUS VERTIGO CIRCUS ARTS TEACHING PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISATION […]
Impressions from the DEPAL Guide and Toolkit25 February 2022 - 09:16
Project meeting in Turin20 February 2022 - 17:35
On 17 and 18 February, the project partners met for their last meeting in Turin. The atmosphere was as cosy and friendly as ever, and was the backdrop to a two-year collaboration that successfully defied the restrictions of the pandemic to create resources for digital storytelling and participatory learning. A journey we were very passionate […]