Behind the Peace Education project...
The project is implemented in 4 countries: France, Portugal, Slovenia and Turkey, and is being developed by a consortium of 7 partners: led by a French association expert in European project management, and bringing together in each of the other three countries both a non-profit organization and a university, making it a high-quality cross-sector partnership.
France
ALDA - The European Association for Local Democracy
ALDA is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion of good local governance, namely through the empowerment of civil society and the promotion of active citizenship. It works across Europe (EU member states), in the Balkans and in recent years, in the South Caucasus and North Africa. In the framework of promoting good governance and citizens participation at local level, ALDA focuses on various themes, such as European integration, civic initiatives, youth involvement, human rights, immigration, equal opportunities, sustainable economic development and volunteering. ALDA is a membership based organization gathering more than 190 members (including Local Authorities, CSOs, youth associations, Universities) from more than 30 countries. ALDA is funded through membership fees and project funding from the European Commission (Europe for Citizens and ERASMUS + among the others), the Council of Europe and other public and private donors.
Türkiye
Paydaş Eğitim Kültür Ve Sanat Derneği
Paydaş is a non-profit educational institution founded by educators. The members are mainly the teaching staff at different types of organisations in the field education. The main aim is to include innovation into formal, non formal and informal education. In this respect the association's regular activities include organizing training which support the development of supportive educational activities for coaches, educators, facilitators in formal and non formal education. The activities cover the three main areas: education for personal and professional development ,innovation and digitalization. Running organizations to nurture reciprocal education between teaching staff and educational interaction is also one of the aims of the association.
Hacettepe Universitesi
Hacettepe is a research university committed to the promotion of excellence in education in line with universal values. Its mission is to educate and nurture students as individuals equipped with quality and depth of provision in all fields of science, technology and arts; to inspire intellectual curiosity and critical minds; and to contribute to society through research, technology, and public services. The vision of Hacettepe University is to become a leading university in the national and international arena, leading the change and development. Hacettepe University is one of the leading universities Türkiye, serving over 56000 registered students with over 3600 Academic Personnel. It was designated as one of the ten “Research Universities” in Turkey in 2017.
Portugal
Rightchallenge Association
The Rightchallenge Association aims at promoting vocational education and training as a mean of social inclusion and equal opportunities. It believes that education must focus on the integral development of all people, independently of social status, age, or gender. One of the organisation’s pillars is quality and access to lifelong learning and non-formal education. Rightchallenge works with specialists who have a wide range of expertise in youth work, training and education. They create resources and curriculum to support teachers, community educators and VET professionals to address the needs of their target groups, and works with policy makers and stakeholders to improve the skills of everyone that participates in non-formal education.
Angulos E Argumentos LDA
The Colégio São José de Bairros is a private school from kindergarten until secondary school. It offer music courses, Yoga, Karate, Tenis, Ballet, Sports, Football and Arts and promote sport as a healthy way of life, as an integration tool and as a form of physical, psychic and social development of students. The Colégio São José de Bairros developed projects of solidarity, environmental responsibility and promotion of humanistic value and develops every year an educational project that aims at the integral training of students, focusing on Education for Citizenship. The Colégio São José de Bairros is situated in a semi-rural area; and therefore aims to enlarge its students’ views of Europe and make them discover other cultures.
Slovenia
Zavod Boter
The Boter Institute operates primarily in the field of culture, but also deals with all youth, adults, seniors and involves vulnerable populations in its activities. It is committed to providing sports, cultural, artistic, educational and research activities for young people, so that they can spend quality leisure time and lead a healthy lifestyle. The Boter Institute's actions prevent and solve the distress of excluded groups (Roma, migrants, NEETs...), help raise funds for humanitarian purposes and promote intercultural dialogue. The topics covered are in the fields of IT, ICT, E Skills, digitalisation, digital literacy, programming, social entrepreneurship... Activities are organised to empower youth, adults, learners.
GRM Novo Mesto - Center Biotehnike In Turizma
GRM Novo Mesto is a Slovenian school with 1,200 students at secondary level and grades 6 and 7 in Bologna and 170 employees. Through profitable activities (agricultural and production, marketing, tourism, landscape management, environmental protection, etc.), students receive theoretical training and practical skills. GRM Novo Mesto directs the students towards finding solutions for their own business activity in rural areas or for self-employment. The centre's aims at promoting the development of rural areas in the broadest sense: the progress of agriculture, the protection of the environment and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage ; and develops study programmes for lifelong learning.
