Center for Educational Initiatives

The proposed project is addressed to children, including those with movement disorders, aiming to palliate the emotional burden and help them cope in case of a serious natural hazard (primarily seismic and secondary volcanic) by raising awareness, improving knowledge on earthquakes and simultaneously, educating relative groups (teachers, parents etc.) on the best practices and state of the art responses.
The objectives of the project are:
• to identify, share and implement best practices and methodologies gained from previous EU projects and partners activities
• to study and analyse the needs in each participating country 
• to develop and realize innovative initiatives and actions aiming to raise awareness and increase knowledge of pupils on earthquake and volcanic hazards, including those with movement disorders
• to train teachers, parents or other relative groups to be able to contribute to children palliation in case of seismic hazard 
• to constantly evaluate actions and outcomes of the project
• to disseminate and share project’s results and outcomes to potential beneficiaries and broader audience on a constant base.

Project consorcium:

University of Crete-Natural History Museum of Crete, Greece - coordinator
Natural History Museum of Lesvos Petrified Forest, Greece
Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca, Italy
Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation, Greece
Centre for Educational Initiatives, Bulgaria
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Italy
Association pour la gestion de la Réserve Naturelle Geologique de Haute Provence, France

PROJECT AIMS

• To create, develop and promote a new pedagogical and teaching approach, based on emotional intelligence
• To implement programs in some school programs based on social and emotional learning (Social and Emotional Learning - SEL)
• To experiment it in two curricula (“Intercultural understanding” and “The development of the religion in Europe”)
• To provide teacher and students new tools and instruments (ICT) to teach and learn emotional intelligence in the curricul

Bridging Insula Europae main objectives are:

More information about the history of the project and the initiative as whole you can get at:

The framework of EUCLIDES proposal is the promotion and the enhancement of the dialogue between science and society -  a good number of scientific studies concern the quality of life of the European citizens. The objective is from the one side to get a knowledge society where democracy is guaranteed, from the other side to set up a reserve of professionals, which will be able to contribute to the knowledge-based economic development. EUCLIDES foresees a series of applications that may support policy makers to develop new educational strategies for the scientific subjects learning, such as: i)  the characterisation of a ODL platform for the implementation and evaluation of a Learning Team Centred Model for teaching sciences; ii) the research of efficient environments for building up knowledge and communication exchange; iii) the evaluation of the efficacy of the science-learning methodology through the Problem Based learning Model; iv) the setting up of on-line curricula, which are at the base of PBL model, v) the study of the acquired technical-professional competencies and of the interest degree by the students, as result of the experimentation phase

More than two years ago, partner institutions from Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, Romania and Turkey joined their efforts to work for the promotion of the Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek and Turkish languages in a regional, and a wider European context. Our efforts were aimed at increasing young peoples’ interest in learning these languages, as well as at encouraging their curiosity and interest in the cultures of their neighboring countries. The partnership was coordinated by the Center for Educational Initiatives Association, Bulgaria and the project was supported by the European Commission under the Socrates, Lingua program.

www.cei-bg.org/bret

INSULA EUROPAE aims is to promote in the institutions and in the educational systems of the partner countries the concepts of "European citizenship" and of "European dimension of teaching", through the realization of curricula and on-line didactical programmes to be experimented both by the students and by the teachers.
INSULA EUROPAE main outputs will be:

The project has the following goals:

1.    To identify the definitions of the “national” and the “civic” as practical orientations of self-experience and social action;
2.    To identify the interdependences and tensions between the practically effective definitions of the “national” and the “civic”;
3.    To measure the “strengths” of institutions and non-institutionalized groups in defining the “national” and the “civic,” and correlating them;
4.    To map the possible points of contact between “citizenry” and “nation,” i.e., the possible ways out of the separation of discourses and hence, out of the contradiction between the idea of individual autonomy and the idea of sharedness

The project "Education against Corruption" is one of the projects on a national scale, supported at the finalapproval of grant projects in line "Civil Society Development Programme"  Phare 2004.
The project provided training in areas of about 150 teachers, conducting and willing to conduct training program on "Anti-corruption", as covered in this training and representatives of the Regional Inspectorates of the Ministry of education  and school boards that are directly related to the subject. Through the implementation of two national contests -- most well developed model lessons in the program and student work related to the fight against corruption, teachers and students were involved in increasing the potential for conflict of corrupt activities. roundtable at the end of the project will bring together countries in education and promote public discussion of education as an instrument against corruption.