Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate of National Education 

Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate of National Education started service as Maraş Directorate of Education according to the Law on the Organization of Education that was published on 22 March 1926 and went into effect on 3 April 1926. Our institution is working as the most authoritative public body planning and coordinating all formal and informal educational activities within the provincial organisation of the Ministry of Education. The institution is in charge of coordinating, regulating and auditing schools and educational institutions serving under the ministry in 11 towns, 2 of which are in the city centre. As of 2019, there are 956 schools/institutions, 474 subsidiaries, 9534 classrooms, 285.521 students and 14.337 teachers in the institution. The institution has an executive staff of provincial director, deputies and branch managers; supervisory board of education inspectors; a research and development unit of 9 people responsible for projects, total quality management, and strategic planning and 244 personnel.

Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate of National Education, with its 2015-2019 Strategic Plan, underlines the priorities of training young teachers who have universal values keeping up with the times; as well as earning individuals knowledge, skills and attitude on national and international levels; raising entrepreneurial, self-confident, responsible, articulate individuals open to communication and learning, and increasing national and international student/teacher mobility by using innovative approaches. In this regard, aware of the necessity of physical structure in schools, it expedited technical support and infrastructure of schools within the scope of Fatih Project in addition to promoting any kind of local, national and international project that will contribute to the enrichment of education.

Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate of National Education founded Research and Development unit under the Strategy Department within the context of Research and Development regulation issued on 25 June 2010, in order to participate in local, national and international projects. One of the primary goals of the unit is to prepare projects for Erasmus+ programs shaped by Lifelong Learning Programs and carry out its projects with great care.

Our directorate supplied the Research and Development unit with the necessary staff and technical support and has long been carrying out European Union projects and gained countless experience. The staff in the department are individuals who has taken an active role in preparing, planning and carrying out stages of many international projects before, and who have the goods, the sense of responsibility and the necessary mentality of project makers. The unit aims at doing projects and enriching the educational activities of Kahramanmaraş with these projects and has been carrying out important operations in this direction.

Furthermore, the staff in the unit have attended a lot of local and nation-wide in-service training concerning project cycle and management and so have been improving themselves in an academic and individual sense, and been in contact with other stakeholders doing projects. The staff will always be able to use these institutional project skills gained from training in this project effectively and will contribute to carrying out the project with the fewest mistakes possible with the help of years of experience.

Kahramanmaraş Dulkadiroğlu Guidance and Research Center 

Kahramanmaraş Dulkadiroğlu Guidance and Research Center is a public research institution. It has two departments. One of these are the services of special education. In this department, psychological counselors and special educators deal with diagnosis students academically and guide them for taking the best education program, then control the check these students academical level in every year. Special Education Department applies the intelligence tests to children learning deaf mental disabilities. According to the results of the test, they direct the children to the appropriate programs or schools, give information to parents about the children’s mental level and education possibilities, and visit the children in schools and get information about their development twice in a year.
The Other department, services of psychological counseling and guidance services give psychological counseling service to students and parents,makes radio programmes about education,publish books,magazines,brochures,gives education seminars to schools and reads opticals forms which students fill in schools then reports them to their teachers (example: students examination anxiety, makes co-operation with psychological counselors in schools, preparing educational programs for psychological counselors who work in schools.

Our Mission:
Our institution has been studying with societies and other public organizations, with its quality staffs. We are concerned with special education service, guidance, and psychological counseling service. We are offer service to the community using modern and scientific methods. We support lifelong learning.

Our Vision :
Being a guide in education and life.

1- Special Education Service: 
In this department, we are dealing with special needs people ( disabled children, all types of disability) and their parents. Special education teachers and psychological counselors work in this department.
– Educational diagnostics and evaluation
– To scan to identify individuals who need special education.
– İmplements intelligence tests
– Prepare training plans for special educational needs people
– To place children in a suitable program and school according to their mental level.
– To organize seminars and courses for parents, teachers, and managers about special education, types of disabilities, educational methods, new approaches.
– To follow the process of individuals who need special education.

2- Psychological Counseling Service: 
In this department we are dealing with children, teenager and their parents who faced psychological problems ( bedwetting, sibling rivalry, thumb sucking, depression, school phobia…etc). The psychologists work in this service.
– To follow guidance works carried out in all schools.
– Working in coordination with schools and other educational institutions in its area.
– To service protective and preventive psychological counseling.
– Organize seminars and course for students families, teachers and managers.

The Mancomunidad de la Ribera Alta

The Mancomunidad de la Ribera Alta is a local organisation that brings together all the municipalities in the region of Ribera Alta. It consists of 35 municipalities that group a population of more than 220,000 inhabitants, distributed over an area of 979.5 km².
The Mancomunidad manages different services of interest for the municipalities that comprise it, constituting a body of local scope where the debate those issues affecting the peoples of the region becomes possible.
The Mancomunidad is responsible for:
• Promoting effective services seeking the improvement of the entire population´s welfare.
• Promoting actions before institutions and public and private entities aimed at the improvement of services.
• Participating, organising and collaborating at a regional level on events that aim to publicize our region.
• Cooperating, participating and promoting the dissemination of study materials from our region, which are written in our language.

It has been established as the best regional entity best to promote initiatives and form part of certain European programs directed primarily in the region of La Ribera. In order to be able to develop its activities, the Mancomunidad receives funds from the municipalities that form it and subsidies from several public bodies. The Plenary of the Mancomunidad is the supreme organ of government and administration of the entity and is composed of members representing the member municipalities. The Chair, Vice-Chairs, the Governing Board and several informative commissions complete the spectrum of the governing bodies of the Community.

Currently, the Mancomunitat is a fully consolidated administrative body which offers more than 25 specific services in municipal management (provision of equipment and common materials, document storage, crane, sanctions management, drinking water supply), environment (collection waste, abandoned animals, technical reports), social services (direct assistance, protection of children at risk, dependency, drug prevention, consumer attention), culture (regional studies, promotion of the Valencian language, adult education, traffic education) housing office or legal assistance to women, etc.

Each department develops different activities addressed to city halls and citizens:
1. Environment:
• Waste Collection and Transport
• Environmental Reports Service
• Drinking Water Supply Service
• Selective Collection of Used Clothes Service
• Technical Assistance in Industrial Engineering Service
• Technical Assistance in Industrial Engineering Service
• Collection and Control of Abandoned Animals Service

2. Social services:
• General Social Services and Home Help
• Support Team for People in a Dependency Situation
• Specialized Service in Assistance to Families with Minors in Situations of Risk (SEAF)
• Community Prevention Unit in Addictive Behaviours (UPCCA)
• Mediation Agency for Integration and Social Coexistence (AMICS)
• Municipal Costumer Information Office
• County Housing Office (OCH)
• Information and Advice for Women (SIAD)

3. Culture, education, sports and youth:
• Archive services
• Road Safety Education Service
• County Studies Service
• Adult Training
• Valencian Training and Promotion Service
• Joint Exchange of Local Police Officers
• Vehicle Removal Service (Tow Truck)
• Computer Assistance Service
• Managing and Dealing with Disciplinary Proceedings Service
• Towable Lifting Platform Service
• Equipment Transfer for the Holding of Public Events
• Mechanical Sweeping Service
• Post services

4. Economic promotion, tourism and energy:
• Entrepreneurship advisory service
• Economic viability plans
• Enterprises processing set up
• Employment service
• Tourism promotion
• Municipal Energy Manager Service (ESCO)
• RES and EE promotion and installation
• Covenant of mayors management

5. International relations:
• Strategic advice and policy briefings on issues of regional interest
• Coordination of European funds
• Coordination of EU projects

Currently, more than 220,000 people benefit themselves from the services offered by the entity, which is the largest Mancomunitat in Valencia according to the number of municipalities represented and fourth in terms of population.

In its twenty years of operation, the institution has represented and defended the interests of Ribera Alta according to the founding principles of “developing all the services and resources that municipalities need” and “ensuring the regional level, understanding and unifying the region as a natural, historical, integrated and inclusive community”.

Colegio Hernández S.L.

Colegio Hernández S.L, was formed in 1973. It is located in the town of Villanueva de Castellón, with a population of 7500 inhabitants. It is a predominantly rural area dedicated almost exclusively to the cultivation and export of oranges. In recent years it has suffered from very high rates of unemployment. In our School, the levels of Pre-Primary, Primary and Mandatory Secondary Education are taught. The faculty consists of 30 teachers and in the current school year 2017-2018 we have a total of 355 students. Most of our students come from the locality and surrounding villages, although in recent years we have welcomed newcomers from different countries, most of them from Eastern Europe, Romania, Ecuador, Brazil and Morocco.
We have students of educational compensation (23%) and specific educational needs at all stages, this fact has led to the need to adapt to the new socio-economic and cultural reality of our community and, therefore, among the programs applied in the school. We have a Compensatory Education Program to guarantee the right to an equal opportunity education for all our students and to prevent possible cases of early school drop out. We also have a Classroom for Attention to Diversity and logopedic care.

We have implemented a Plurilingual Program in Pre-Primary and Primary educational levels. We are part of the Network of Plurilingual Schools in the Valencia Region and the Network of Quality Schools (Level III). Since 2011 we have implemented a Quality Management System. This implementation implied a Strategic Planning of our organization in order to reach levels of excellence, within a Process of Continuous Improvement, and as a Critical Success Factor we have the participation in European Projects. Our aim is for students to become active and healthy European citizens and to encourage their participation and commitment to the school to improve their performance and achievement of educational objectives and also to their society. We believe that by applying for this project we will be able to improve the climate of the school, promote education in values, foster intercultural understanding and exercise active European citizenship. The School Board and the Parents’ Association support and value very positively the participation of our school in European programs.

36,6 Competence Centre 

36,6 Competence Centre (based in Lodz, POLAND) is an umbrella institution gathering professionals from many fields establishing interdisciplinary Experts Zone for the local development through international experience exchange.  Their motto (Main idea behind): 36,6 ºC means balance: Balance understood as local society quality of life increase through competencies development of its inhabitants within the support of well-qualified experts conducting educational, research, cultural and vocational guidance-based activities under the framework of international projects. 36,6 is a positive figure (ideal temperature of a human body), it gives you guarantee you are healthy.

36,6 Competence Centre makes an attempt that every individual could have that kind of guarantee for healthy society at the end, healthy in many sense leading to quality of life at four levels so to achieve work-life balance: 4e: employment, education, entertainment/ private sphere environment/ eco-awareness.

Exemplary activities undertaken within the recent years:
Research carried out in Poland on: little scale urban trade, migrants & refugees, lone parenthood, renewable energy sources, chemical industry, primary & secondary education, labour market, beneficiary outcomes tracking, hospitality industry, basic skills (literacy, numeracy), European literature, scientific subjects promotion, truck-drivers sector, guerrilla method in language learning, drama in adult education, multilingual strategies and tools for teachers to promote an inclusive education, circular economy, 4.0 Industry and ICT based evaluation methodology to assess the social impact of work- linked training.

Participation & co-organisation of international events:
Berlin(DE), Glasgow(Scotland-UK), Mojmirovce(SK), Caen(FR), Leipzig(DE), Athens(GR), Brussels(BE), l’Aigle(FR), Belfast(UK-NI), Ostrava(CZ), Vitoria(ES), Zagreb(HR), Lodz(PL), Oslo(NO), Jesolo(IT), Neuruppin(DE), Istanbul(TR), Nicosia(CY), Bayeux(FR), Vila Nova deFamalicao(PT), Zurich(CH), Florence(IT), Warsaw(PL), Stoke(UK), Venice(IT), Bilbao (ES), Silkeborg (DK); Kaunas (LT), Pesaro (IT), Valencia (ES), Viterbo(IT), Baden (AT), Padova (IT), Jonkoping (SE), Vire (FR), Hamburg (DE), Abano Terme (IT), Rouge/Voru (EE), Koping (SE), Vienna (AT), Porto (PT), Linz (AT), Dubrovnik (HR), Riga (LV), Leon (ES), Valencia (ES), Bratislava (SK), Durango (ES), Tel-Aviv (IL), Edinburgh (UK), Bugibba (MT), Albacete (ES), Helsinki (FI).

Activities performed by 36.6 Competence Centre:
VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) co-development covering: training content development and adaptation (Articulate Storyline), educational films production, e-learning tools provision (Moodle);
Vocational guidance, coaching & counselling provision (e.g. within skills audit tool kit application);
Methodology development on beneficiaries’ outcomes tracking;
Conducting eco-awareness campaign in VET sector;
Publication along with National LLP & Erasmus Plus Agency in Warsaw on ECVET;
Deliverance of soft skills & empowerment workshops, teachers’ training eg. with usage of drama; literacy & numeracy courses for adults (Polish language as a second language included);
Provision of internship programmes (recent interns came from Slovenia&Italy).

TARGET GROUP
Local society members regardless their age, gender, nationality, cultural background, religion belief, level of education, requiring further development as to acquire knowledge and skills adjusted to the changeable situation on the labour market on one hand and as to be included into the local society on the other hand.

PARTNERS (COMPETENCE PANEL)
Centerko – Regional Center for Volunteers in Lodz,
FabLabLodz – Foundation promoting innovation through collaborative work in Lodz
Art Incubator – Incubator for Creative Industries in Lodz
Arterion – Technological Incubator in Lodz
Technical University of Lodz& University of Lodz/ education at tertiary level, research& development;
SmartLy, Anagram Film, TrendyArt, Momint/ film recording and production – new media included;
Mydesign & GRAPH / graphic design, printing office;
TeamCoaching Comprehensive/ coaching, training; Done/ on-line tools, e-learning
Career Office UŁ/ employment agency; Mosqi.to/ interactive agency;
Euro-Konsultacje & 7Words/ translations, ESF assessment, language teaching;
Lodz Trekking Club/ recreation association; FLIPPER Swimming School; Alfa&Omega Computer School;
School4Child/ pre-school &primary &secondary school with licence of Dalton Association
Alteredukacja/ alternative methods in education; TOE / secondary school;
ŁCDNiKP/ Lodz Centre for Teachers’ Training; Catering & Hospitality Vocational School in Lodz;
Polska Izba Turystyki Ziemi Łódzkiej (Polish Chamber of Tourism in Lodzkie Region)
Lodzka Akademia Futbolu / a football academy from Lodz; RKS (Athletics Club for Olympic Games).