Fundación ASPAYM Castilla y León

The ASPAYM Castilla y León Foundation has been working in the field of social services, particularly in the field of physical disability, since 2004. It helps people throughout their life cycle and is supported by educational and social experts as well as researchers in the field. In recent years, the Foundation has developed several projects using new technologies and promoted their use as a tool to improve the rehabilitation and quality of life of people with disabilities. The youth department of ASPAYM Castilla y León develops many activities of promotion, non-formal education, employment, inclusive leisure, etc. One of the most outstanding examples is the inclusive camp developed by the organization, which has 22 years of experience and multiple awards, as well as the awareness-raising project “Put yourself in my shoes”, whose main objective is the standardization of disabilities in schools, community centres, youth organizations, etc.

CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development

CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 and based in Palermo, Italy. It leads a Network of more than 8 European and extra European associations focused on Education, Training and Social Development. CEIPES has expertise in Education, Transfer of innovation and Project management in different European programmes tackling the Education and capacity building of different target groups, from young people to adults, from women to unemployed, migrants and disadvantaged groups. It also promotes lifelong learning, vocational training and entrepreneurship with the aim of enhancing opportunities for youth and adults to improve and acquire competencies and therefore boost their employability and inclusion. CEIPES has several links with public and private local and international stakeholders that can contribute to the achievement of project results in terms of dissemination, exploitation and sustainability of them. CEIPES can count on experienced staff composed of professionals with different competencies and fields such as psychology, communication, training, international cooperation, social and cultural mediation, social assistance, ICT, digital manufacturing and law.

Rosto Solidário

Rosto Solidário (RS) is a Portuguese NGDO (non-governmental organization for development), established in 2007. The organisation is based in Santa Maria da Feira about 30 km from Oporto. RS aims to foster global citizenship and solidarity by enhancing local communities’ human and social development. RS’s core principles are civic participation, social integration, solidarity, networking and partnership. The organisation’s scope of work includes four main areas: International Development Cooperation, Global Citizenship Education, Volunteering and Family-based Social Support. Gender Equity, Human Rights and Social Inclusion are RS cross-cutting subjects. RS’s legal status as a public utility has been recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008. As a Portuguese NGDO Platform member, it is represented both in the Development Education Working Group and the Working Group on Ethics. RS is a credited host and sending organization for European Voluntary Service projects since 2011. Since the beginning RS is supported by the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ. It is also a member of the Plataforma das Entidades de Voluntariado Missionário (a national network of Catholic institutions that promote international volunteering programs). At the local level, RS is a member of Rede Social do concelho de Santa Maria da Feira (a local network of 115 organisations with social intervention programmes – following National Action Plan for Inclusion guidelines). Within this network, RS has been awarded four times in recognition of its work in volunteering and supporting local communities’ development.

GAMMA Institute

AICSCC is an NGO whose aim is to promote, develop, research and initiate activities in the field of psychology, psychotherapy and mental health in particular (training for specialists, workshops, non-formal education for adults and professionals), promotion of best practices; training for specialists in various branches of modern psychological and mental health; facilitating collaboration between Romanian specialists and experts from the international space.
AICSCC (with Gamma Institute as a brand), has 3 departments:

1. Gamma Training is the educational department of the organization and consists of 2 training schools: Systemic Training School and Self-Activation School. Systemic training school: launched in 2011, it is accredited by the Romanian College of Psychologists as a training provider in systemic psychotherapy of the family and couple, and incorporated the latest research related to clinical practice into the curricula. The aim of the training school is to create a national and international network of professionals trained to a high standard of quality and to offer a space of constant evolution to therapists of all specialties (couple therapy, child psychology, clinical disorders, etc.). A training group has a curriculum in a 4-year postgraduate format, with approximately 150 graduates so far. Graduates have the opportunity to work after graduation in the organisation’s private practice clinic and research department, described below.
2. Gamma Clinic is the health department of the organisation and has 2 parts: Gamma Clinic Psychology and Gamma Kids. Gamma Clinic Psychology offers different psychological services to adolescents, young people and adults with different problems, in individual, couple, family or group sessions. The practitioners are clinical psychologists and accredited psychotherapists. The other part is Gamma Kids, which is a department that aims to help children (of all ages) and their families with all kinds of difficulties. The issues addressed are: anxiety and depressive disorders, school maladjustment, learning disorders, speech disorders, bullying, family and social difficulties and not only. The psychologists involved in Gamma Kids are psychotherapists specialised in child psychological issues, clinical psychologists, speech therapists, psychotherapists and art therapists for children with special educational needs (including learning disorders). At Gamma Kids, we work with the child, but also with the whole family in a systemic approach and collaborate with teachers and other specialists. Activities are individual sessions, family sessions, parent sessions, workshops for children, art therapy workshops, trainings for parents and specialists.
3. Gamma Research is the research department of the organisation and aims to develop fundamental research in the field of neuroscience and consciousness, but also in the field of psychotherapy. Through this department, we want to develop new training curricula for professionals in the psychological field, develop new methods and instruments for high-level intervention.
   Our research platform brings together specialists from psychology, cognitive sciences, genetics, human sciences and child psychology (the psychologists working at Gamma Kids are also researchers in the Gamma Research department).

The Plan B Social Education Foundation

The Plan B Social Education Foundation is a private Spanish non-profit foundation, formally constituted and with self-management capacity. Our mission is to create social change that improves the lives of children and adolescents by providing them with opportunities for personal, social and educational growth.
We try to achieve this by setting clear objectives that we use as a guide to mark the path to follow in the work of the foundation.

• To develop a transformative participation.
• To comprehensively research, intervene and promote education as a tool for change.
• Empowering communities, promoting quality democracy and developing the environment.
  Our experience involves the design of innovative projects that we implement both nationally and internationally. The foundation disseminates its initiatives to a wide range of target groups, from children to youth and adults. We also try to accommodate groups with fewer opportunities and people from rural areas. The initiatives carried out by the foundation do not only focus on developing activities for each group individually, but also connecting different groups with each other to nurture social ties and participation dynamics between different groups, for example between children and the elderly.
  At the national level, we focus on offering educational opportunities for our target groups, based on the needs of the community, including work integration, democratic dialogue or support in multiple dimensions of the educational field.
  Internationally, we have implemented as coordinators as well as participants many projects supported by Erasmus+, KA1, KA2 and KA3 as well as the European Solidarity Corps with the aim to develop communities through socio-educational interventions with youth in Europe and abroad
  In line with our passion to empower different community groups, we fight for socio-educational rights and would like to be a reference partner for social education and to boost our efforts to achieve this goal.