Partners

InnoGrowth-European Association for Innovation and Growth

is a Bulgarian registered non-profit association.
InnoGrowth operate as an innovation agency and strives to develop integrated support services in the fields of innovation, eco-sustainability, knowledge and technology transfer and training.

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Aris – professional training and research

was founded in 1987 with the aim of delivering and design integrated project in the field of professional training, advanced research and counselling.
Main areas of expertise are:
– VET, coaching and  …

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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI)

was established in 1991 to provide a unified identity to university faculties and schools operating in the area of Castellon. The service-orienteers of UJI enables students and lecturers to participate in a myriad of joint activities with society’s members.

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Sofia Municipality (Bulgaria)

Sofia is the 14th largest city in Europe with a population of 1.4+ mln. people (2020). It’s the capital and the biggest economical, political, tech, administrative, cultural and educational centre in Bulgaria, concentrating ≈40% of Bulgaria’s GDP, 50% of FDI, 19% of the country’s population and 20% of the workforce.

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Lights (Latvia)

LIGHTS is small and medium sized innovative social enterprise established in 2019 with the aim to improve the lives of seniors on different levels and contribute to silver economy of European Union. Mission of the company is to develop innovative projects which will provide alternative solutions to standardized social care for people who have reached retirement age, as well as to their rehabilitation and SPA services. Motto of the “LIGHTS” enterprise is: “Our seniors deserve the best!”

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Medardas Cobotas University of the Third Age (Lithuania)

Medardas Cobotas University of the Third Age (further MCTAU) was founded in 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is a non-governmental organization, the activity of which ensures a better social integration of seniors into society, promotes their effective, productive and purposeful life and supports their working capacity as well as their physical activity and mental health.

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InnoGrowth
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATION AND GROWTH

We boosts innovation and entrepreneurship and support the development of dynamic pan-European partnerships between leading universities, research labs and companies.
InnoGrowth works to facilitate purposeful cross-sector conversations that challenge and inspire people to use innovation to increase social impact.
Our goal is to enable the business to actively participate in the sustainable development of the civil sector, to be involved in civic causes, and to come up with more successful solutions that will reach more people.
We developing new ideas, services and models to better address social issues. It invites input from public and private actors, including civil society, to improve social services.
InnoGrowth offers enterprises a full range of services to facilitate market intelligence and to stimulate innovation.
The main services include the creation of networks; cooperation with enterprises, schools and universities in the field of vocational guidance; investor assistance; business consultancy, market analysis; benchmarking activities; training, seminars and conferences; communication services and press conferences; workshops and international matchmaking events; study tours, know-how exchange.
In field of distance and e- learning our effort is focused to:
– Promote policy and practice
– Promote research into the distance learning and improve it acceptance
– Promote quality of professional and ethical standards in distance learning
– Gather and communicate information about new developments in distance learning

– Create innovative and interactive e-learning courses.

Website: www.innogrowth.org

Aris
professional training and research

Main areas of expertise are:
– VET, coaching and mentoring aiming at improving managerial skills in the cooperative sector;
– studies and innovative courses aiming at improving individual skills and competencies, related to local development;
– Social inclusion thanks to active labour policies;
– Integrated and synergic actions at regional, national and European level;
– Specific actions aiming at curriculum development of new professionalism in the service sector.
ARIS is part of the National Digital Innovation Hub
Legacoop: RETE PICO 4.0

ARIS associates many social enterprises and cooperatives and act to share knowledge and know-how acquired by each, as a common value among its partners.
One of the main successful peculiarities of ARIS, is the ability to study, understand and tackle specific needs form cooperatives and enterprises, people who work for and territories they operate in.
In coherence with its mission, ARIS promotes in the field of:
– Vocational Education and Training:
– Qualification and professional training courses;
– Actions and projects funded by ESF (European Social Found)
– Actions and projects from European Direct access funding schemes
– Counseling and professional services in support of enterprises and cooperatives:
– Cooperative/Social enterprises Start-Up
– innovative organizational models
– Social Inclusion, labour integration and autonomous life development of people:
– Migrant, Asylum seekers and refugees;
– women
– people with disabilities

Website: www.arisformazione.it

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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI)

The service-orienteers of UJI enables students and lecturers to participate in a myriad of joint activities with society’s members. Educational excellence is based on a model encouraging lifelong learning, integral education and social engagement based on sustainable and cooperative values, including peaceful, equitable, supportive relationships and respect for the environment. Social and cultural developments have allowed UJI to fulfil its internationalization. Internationalization activities focus on streamlined research and management processes, continuous quality and risk assessment, ethical positioning, quick adoption of advances in ICT.
The Institute of New Imaging Technologies (INIT) was created with an inherently multidisciplinary vocation and its aim is to include all the fields involved and that are necessary in the research and development of image technologies. INIT’s main objectives in the areas of new imaging technologies are predominantly intended to be:
– To impulse, to promote and to develop a quality investigation to achieve get an excellence research concerning that is reference in the subjects, disciplines included within the institute’s competence.
– To be a centre of quality research and professional training in new imaging technologies that allows INIT and the Jaume I University to offer a relevant and distinguishing teaching.
– To promote the technology transfer to the social agents, business and institutions using a clear service vocation to the society that increases the connection and cohesion with the social environment.
– To encourage and to actively impulse actively initiatives that bring near and connect the university with the social and productive environment, such as the creation of technology-based enterprises.
– To promote the collaboration and joint activity execution with other institutes and research groups on to national and international level.

Website: www.init.uji.es / www.uji.es

SOFIA MUNICIPALITY

Sofia is the 14th largest city in Europe with a population of 1.4+ mln. people (2020). It’s the capital and the biggest economical, political, tech, administrative, cultural and educational centre in Bulgaria, concentrating ≈40% of Bulgaria’s GDP, 50% of FDI, 19% of the country’s population and 20% of the workforce.

The municipal administration is structured in functional and sectoral departments and units, governed by Deputy Mayors, among which the ‘Digitalisation, Innovation and Economic Development’ department (Innovative Sofia), the ‘Social Activities and Integration of Persons with Disabilities’ department, the ‘Culture, Education, Sports, and Youth Activities’ department, and the ‘European Policies, International Affairs and Tourism’ department.

Innovative Sofia was established in 2020 to support Sofia’s development as a smart, digital, innovative, and tech city. Sofia Municipality and Innovative Sofia as its department are focused on constantly working to improve the urban environment and meet the challenges that the city is facing; to increase the quality of life for its citizens; to facilitate the city’s development as well as its international image as a digital, innovative, R&D, creative and entrepreneurial hub and preferred international destination for business and life.

The goal of Innovative Sofia is to be a leader and engine of the digital transformation of Sofia: to initiate and coordinate digital transformation policies along the verticals of urban governance, to reduce the administrative burden, to develop and implement more and better e-services for the citizens and businesses in Sofia, to implement open data platforms and smart city projects, to support Sofia’s development as a market creator and a city that stimulates innovation.

Website: www.innovativesofia.bg

LIGHTS

LIGHTS is small and medium sized innovative social enterprise established in 2019 with the aim to improve the lives of seniors on different levels and contribute to silver economy of European Union. Mission of the company is to develop innovative projects which will provide alternative solutions to standardized social care for people who have reached retirement age, as well as to their rehabilitation and SPA services. Motto of the “LIGHTS” enterprise is: “Our seniors deserve the best!”
Main assets of LIGHTS are high professionalism of multilingual staff, high quality of medical care, experienced projects management team, individual approach to each client and his needs, use of modern technology and equipment, as well for the Company is available 6848 m2 for 200 rooms and 3,78 ha land. Company possesses a venue which provides harmonious and eco-friendly environment without urban haste and noise and is perfect to implement different activities for seniors and stakeholders.
Main activities of the LIGHTS are focused on developing new instruments for social and medical care, personalized rehabilitation, fostering recovery of vitality, as well as organization of cultural and recreational events both for seniors and target groups with fewer opportunities.
Main advantage of the “LIGHTS” projects is innovative approach to care for seniors: we provide not a standard nursing home, but a top-level recreation and rehabilitation that creates an integrated health and positive environment for seniors.

Website: www.lightsas.com

MEDARDAS COBOTAS UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Medardas Cobotas University of the Third Age (further MCTAU) was founded in 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is a non-governmental organization, the activity of which ensures a better social integration of seniors into society, promotes their effective, productive and purposeful life and supports their working capacity as well as their physical activity and mental health.

MCTAU advocates for refreshing and obtaining a higher level of knowledge and skills promoting volunteering among students and teachers/ lecturers. Senior volunteers exchange their life-time experience and promote all kinds of activities against premature ageing.

MCTAU currently has over 2500 older adults-students of different nationalities from Vilnius city. The students at MCTAU can choose their learning subjects and lectures from a wide range of programmes offered by 12 faculties of the University such as Foreign languages, Literature, Handicrafts, IT, History, Culture, Artistic expression, Tourism, Health, Music, Social psychology, Politics, Law and economy. Apart from lectures, teachers and students at MCTAU organize exhibitions of handicraft, take an active part in sports competitions, visit theatres, museums, concerts, work in the Botanical garden in spring and autumn, organize numerous trips inside the country and abroad, arrange song and dance festivals, organize summer camps for all association members of the Lithuanian U3As etc.

Lecturers-volunteers from different higher schools and universities of Lithuania willingly share their knowledge and expertise with MCTAU students.

MCTAU has been engaged in a number of activities, such as participating in European projects (Erasmus+, Nordplus) as well as those suggested by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius city Municipality.

Website: www.mctau.lt/projektai