Partners
Our team
Get to know our team and the organisations who are part of the SHIELD project.
Discover the partners’ websites and social media channels where you can find out more on the project and the activities of each organisation.
GIOSEF (Italy)
Coordinator
GIOSEF: Giosef Italy – Youth Without Borders Aps was born in April 1998 to promote active European citizenship and youth mobility.
Giosef strives towards the inclusion and participation of youth, particularly youth with fewer opportunities, in all areas of life.
Through our work, we support an ideal of Europe based on the values of solidarity, hospitality, democracy, peace, tolerance, and acceptance of diversity.
CESIE (Italy)
CESIE: CESIE’s mission is to promote educational innovation, participation and growth, through the work of its 6 Units. The Rights and Justice Unit aims to promote equality, protect the rights of people, including children’s rights, prevent and develop responses to violence and discrimination. We support the achievement of these objectives through the projects and activities we implement in favour of: Groups at risk of or victims of discrimination, hate speech, hate crime, violence (including Roma people, LGBTIQ people and minority communities); Children, Young People, Women and Men at risk of experiencing violence, victims or perpetrators of violence; Professionals, institutions, public and private support services.
BIRA (Spain)
BIRA: The objectives of the association are: building partnerships between national and international entities through the design of research and transfer projects; carrying out studies of a social, educational, technological or scientific nature corresponding to different areas of knowledge; training professionals in formal and nonformal education to adequately develop interventions; creating teaching materials and programs that correlate with scientific research; developing information, training, orientation and advisory services to educational institutions, social entities and organizations, measuring the impact of scientific research within society and other fields and carrying out tasks oriented to disseminating scientific knowledge and project results.
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Universidad de Alicante: The University of Alicante was founded in 1979 and today it hosts more than 29.000 students, 2.500 of them international students, and offers more than 39 undergraduate and 78 postgraduate programmes. Consequently, it is proportionally the fastest-growing university in Spain. The University houses 227 research groups in Social and Legal Sciences, Experimental Services, Technological Sciences, Human Sciences, Education and Health Sciences, and 17 Research Institutes. The University employs over 2.600 researchers/professors and administrative staff. It has strong leadership in terms of alliances with relevant stakeholders established and being exploited, thus a solid Institutional Relations strategy and plan. In this framework, current circumstances focus on approaches aimed at strengthening aggregation with other universities and institutions as a means to grow both nationally and internationally. The different activities and actions of the member universities bound by this common objective create a new collaborative scenario where the complementarity and the synergies they generate enhance and offer an innovative model of shared work. Since 2001, the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA) have launched a complete strategy to be fully in line with European Quality standards for both service and study programme provision, as well as the one related to the academic/research staff and students, mainly supported by the Technical Quality Unit (UTC).
Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work (The Netherlands)
DFW2W: is an independent, non-profit organisation which supports professionals (e.g. EU partners/institutes, municipalities, councils, provinces, governments, employment agencies, training providers, non-profit organizations), SMEs and (young) citizens in the fields of education, employment, job matching & mobility, traineeship, income, digitalization, social inclusion, social and cyber security, social innovation (migrant). entrepreneurship, startup, climate change and quality of life
Universität von Oldenburg (Germany)
Universität von Oldenburg: It is one of the most important and highly regarded educational facilities in northwestern Germany and specialises in interdisciplinary and sustainable development studies and renewable energy studies with focus on solar and wind energy. The university offers 95 courses of study. Due to the Bologna Process, in 2004 Oldenburg adopted Bachelor and Masters degrees in place of the former Diploma and Magister. One main focus of the university is teacher training, which was established during the 1970s and remains a strong presence with master’s degrees in teaching offered in all faculties.
Kmop (Greece)
KMOP-Social Action and Innovation Centre was founded in Greece, in 1977, with the aim of combating poverty, strengthening social cohesion, and protecting fundamental human rights. In recent years, alongside these core goals, KMOP has increasingly focused on the emerging challenges faced by modern societies, such as social isolation, inequalities, sustainable development, demographic ageing, and the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
By combining hands-on experience from its social and educational services with research and statistical analysis, KMOP is uniquely positioned to provide technical assistance and policy recommendations to governments and institutional actors, both in Greece and across the European countries where it operates ( North Macedonia, Belgium).
