Partners
Babilon Travel NGO | Eduforma | Innovation Frontiers IKE | Mine Vaganti NGO | NGO Nest Berlin
Our individual perception of the world in which we live is different for each of us. The Universe, seen as the place and time where all our worlds coexist and interact, can be better, more enjoyable and even happier, if the differences between these worlds become parts of unifying bridges instead of bricks in dividing walls.
Babilon Travel NGO is designing programmes and projects that promote the social and economic inclusion of young people with disabilities or fewer opportunities, on local and European level. These programms and projects are widely using elements of non-formal education, intercultural learning, active European citizenship and volunteering. They address the fundamental need of young disabled people to leave their comfort zone (where they interact only with family, educators and friends – many of these also disabled), to be more involved in the local community, to increase their mobility, increasing this way, their chances of employment and making them active European citizens. On the other hand, the programms and projects of Babilon Travel NGO, are targeting the need of involving disabled and non-disabled young people in common activities. This way, the non-disabled youngsters have the opportunity to be more familiar with the world of disabled people, to better understand their needs, hopes and fears and realize that after all, these are not different of their owns. This way the non-disabled young people become ambassadors of their disabled peers in the local and international community.
In its programmes and projects, Babilon Travel NGO is developing inclusive activities, on local and international level, involving mixed groups of disabled and non-disabled young people, activities adapted to the needs of them all. Beside adaptive sport and outdoor activities, mixed groups of young people participate to a variety of national and European mobility projects (youth exchanges, study visits, etc.). Due to our extended partnership with local city halls, cultural and educational institutions, Babilon Travel NGO acts as a sending organisation for youth workers, educators and volunteers, involved in activities with young people with disabilities or with fewer opportunities, to a diversity of training courses, exchange of good practices, capacity building, etc., regarding non-formal education, intercultural learning, employability, entrepreneurship and active European citizenship.
Eduforma is an Educational Center accredited in Veneto Region for Lifelong Learning training interventions (VET), as well as for Guidance Services and Labour. Founded in 2003, was born as a company that has for object the drafting, marketing, organization and delivery of training interventions, information and professional guidance.
Eduforma offers training and management consulting services; it is specialized in the development of human resources, increasing people’s skills to face professional problems concerning their specific competences in the company where they work.
Concentrating on the continuous improvement of business organization, Eduforma helps the management making strategic choices, from the analysis of needs to the intervention planning, from their accomplishment to the analysis of the results.
Eduforma drafts, coordinates and manages training projects funded by the Veneto Region (through the ESF), targeted to unemployed youth and adults.
Eduforma is accredited as “Youth Corner” to implement the European plan “Youth Guarantee”.
From 2014, Eduforma has implemented 54 Youth Guarantee projects involving almost 550 young NEETs.
In the last 4 years Eduforma has regularly implemented training courses on basic and further specialist education in different fields, targeted both to high skilled and low skilled human resources.
Eduforma is, currently, involved in the implementation of the Erasmus for young entrepreneurs (EYE) since 2015 and is implementing 8 Erasmus Plus KA2 Projects with 8 different Consortia, while in the previous period has implemented Reactivate (DG Employment) and 4 more Erasmus Plus KA2 Projects.
Innovation Frontiers IKE is an innovative educational technology research company that specializes in creating educational, engaging, and entertaining learning experiences that incorporate innovation, creativity, and gamification to enhance flow for learners, established in Athens, Greece. Innovation Frontiers IKE believes that new generations grow up in a different world that requires new approaches to education and exploring new ways of using modern technology and modern teaching methods to improve the lifelong learning environment and make learning more accessible and more fun.
Mine Vaganti NGO (MVNGO) is a non-profit organization established in Sardinia in 2009, that today runs global activities. It is an educational training provider at local and European level. Its services deal with Project Design, and implementation, Thematic and Desk Research, International Mobility, and Consultancy at local, regional and European level for public and private bodies. MVNGO promotes and develops European and transcontinental projects in Youth/Adults/VET/HEI/Sport Sectors. At local level it coordinates activities that directly target Adults by educational means in cooperation with private foundations, such as “Fondazione Banco di Sardegna” as a pathway of employability and participation for disadvantaged Adult categories, including sensitive targets. “Mine Vaganti” means “something dynamic”, since the whole staff is made by international people inspired by social entrepreneurship and social purposes. The members of MVNGO operate in dedicated teams to create, develop, and implement international projects in research, innovation or exchange of good practices sometime reaching the target via seminars and/ or training courses. Within the MVNGO working teams, there are trainers/facilitators (Salto accredited) that enjoy a vast experience, and around 50 staff members among full-time, part-time and external employees. The mission of MVNGO is to promote intercultural dialogue, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion through Sport, Formal and Non-Formal Education including disadvantaged targets as migrants and people with disabilities. In 2012, MVNGO launched MVI, a network of 37 European NGOs and 8 associate organizations from Africa, Latin America and Asia aimed promoting the exchange of knowledge among professionals in the field of European design and managing international projects worldwide. Through the time, MVNGO has collected a particular experience in working with disadvantaged category of young as well as adult people. It has coordinated or participated at several international and national projects dealing with physical and mental disabilities using different tools to improve their standards of life: sport, culture, education etc. Among them, worth mentioning are: “Dis-Act”: a project enhancing the inclusive potential of Theatre as an instrument of opening opportunities and dispelling prejudice against people with disability through the production of quality educational offer for operators and disabled adults themselves in Devised Theater.; “Integr-Action Through ETS”: a project aimed at creating new opportunities of education and personal fulfilment for disadvantaged European adults affected by disability through delivering on educational formats and methods of customized learning based on Education Through Sport (ETS); “Re-Sport” a project focused on enabling young people with disabilities to participate equally in sports activities, taking into account their health condition. The project was thought particularly to people with disabilities after rehabilitation or treatment in hospitals; “Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD), a Capacity Building Youth project with the overarching aim of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with mental disability through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology; “Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids” The main goal of this project was to develop a modular based Physical Education methodology of sport activities, sport games and exercising for children and youngsters with mental and developmental disorders, illnesses and disabilities, with focus on the groups that have to overcome most obstacles in doing sports activities, sport games and exercising.
NGO NEST Berlin was co-founded in 2016 by 4 leading NGOs in the field: Mine Vaganti NGO (MVNGO), The Comparative Research Network (CRN), the InterCultural-Youth-Dialogue-Assocication (IYDA) and Mitosis Coworking Space.
At NGO NEST Berlin, years of experience in the fields of social innovation, European project management, transnational mobility, international cooperation and education, especially in the Non-Formal Education (NFE) sector, join forces to bring about social change.
Today the NGO’s ambitions find NEST involved as partner and coordinator in more than 30 Erasmus+ KA2 projects, across the different Youth, VET, Adult and Sports branches.
Topics we tackle are, among others, migrants’ integration, community building, intercultural dialogue, education through sport, social inclusion and gender equality.