Apricot Training Management is an independent not-for-profit company in the UK that assists companies, organisations and individuals to grow through learning, training and development. Working with a wide range of private, public and third sector organisations, Apricot designs and delivers training, employability, outplacement and enterprise services. The company has a talented multi-disciplinary team which believes in working with individuals and organisations to bring fresh innovative ideas to the workplace.

Aydın Governorship, EU and Foreign Relations Bureau (shortly the EU Centre ), was established in 2010 in order to implement the legal and administrative reforms created during the EU membership process, their follow up, to introduce our membership process to society, to carry out works regarding the use of EU funds by public institutions, NGOs, private institutions and individuals and to guide the projects carried out within the city. 

 

In the process of our country’s accession to the EU, Aydın Governorship through the EU Centre has the responsibility of running on the basis of cooperation, communication and coordination in Aydın Region in the process of Accession to EU and put it into effect throughout Aydın.

The duty of this department can be categorized in to following three points: 

• To establish the necessary infrastructure, 
• To prepare the City’s citizens for the E.U. citizenship, 
• To make sure the citizens understand the process and implementations demanded by the E.U. which are binding for all E.U. member states.

Apart from this, the main duty of the organization is to provide training and advice about EU relations in co-operation with national/international organisations, cooperatives, associations, NGOs and institutions. It is an intermediary institution between SMEs and Chambers of Commerce & Industry and Exchange & EU. One of the most important mission of the Centre is to promote business activities and operations, give trainings at the local or international level. It has also the responsibility of supervising all the EU projects implemented in Aydın.

The EU Centre organizes regular courses, workshops on the demanded subjects required by the EU Accessing process as well as Project Cycle Management (PCM) E.U grants. The team has been organizing informative meetings for EU matters & funds, and project cycle management courses over 2000 people in the province and its surroundings and also have carried out many projects successfully

Vienna Association of Education Volunteers (VAEV) is a non-governmental organization, based in Vienna, Austria, formed by a community of passionate advocates committed to developing sustainable solutions to improve education and learning processes by conducting research, participating in projects and promoting innovation. Through continuous interaction of cross border collaboration, VAEV develops and delivers programmes in the form of community based activities to empower people, advocate for policy change and advance and strengthen access to quality education and learning opportunities for the most vulnerable groups. Our members are changemakers that strive to create lasting solutions that improve education and learning by promoting collaborative partnerships to share their expertise, insight, resources and best practices, undertake a number of activities and projects that contribute to the development of inclusive, equitable and quality education, and stimulate life long learning opportunities, specially for youth, seniors, people with disabilities, minority groups, refugees, migrants, and those living in areas of high social deprivation. These mutual-learning activities involve a wide range of issues and vary from different physical and digital activities, groupwork, volunteering opportunities, as well as capacity building activities related to diverse areas of education, employability skills and personal development that build a foundation for the future and bridge the gender and generational gaps. Our main goal is to promote and facilitate the exchange of ideas and create environments that enable open discussions and stimulate new thinking, as well as to improve physical, mental health and the general well-being of different social groups by building confidence and self-esteem. Our focus is directed to assist in self-development and personal responsibility with the aim of increasing employability/educational opportunities by engaging in structured, positive activities.

Instalofi Levante S.L. - FyG Consultores is a private, high-level training enterprise, pioneers in co-creation with companies, adults and young people in the training on innovative concepts, business creation, employability basic skills, literacy and numeracy skills, entrepreneurship and soft & hard skills training. FyG acts actively as an education and training company promoting and enhancing the development of adults seeing for new opportunities and helping them to become more employable, facing different factors of exclusion: youngsters and adults with educational difficulties, unemployed with economic or social obstacles.

 

FyG Consultores has experience in running a wide range of trainings courses and mentoring programmes for companies, entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, also with individuals from disadvantage groups. It acts a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information providing services of job insertion and intermediation on the labour market for unemployed as: orientation, training, assessment and information. 

European social entrepreneurship and innovative studies institute (ESI), founded in 2010, and is a non-profit organization that focuses on non-financial business supports, accelerates global, innovation-based impact entrepreneurship. We aim to create the most favorable conditions for the creation, development, growth, and expansion of social businesses in Lithuania and thus contribute to the overall economic growth. We want business decisions to have a positive impact on the society and communities in which we live and operate!

Our goal is to contribute to global positive impact by promoting a sustainable business environment, the emergence of new businesses, job creation, the development of innovation, and overall economic growth through training, consulting, and mentoring programs. Since 2010 The European Social Entrepreneurship and Innovative Studies Institute provides the highest quality training, consulting, and non-financial support services to private and public organizations, as well as representatives of academic and public sector institutions and institutions, as well as participates in the implementation of EU-funded projects. What's more, the ever-growing international community of social innovators # ChangeMakers'ON is successfully developing its activities in the annual #hakathons and #boostcamps. Don't miss the opportunity to participate!