European Training Center Copenhagen (ETCC) was established by the not-for-profit company Horisont -amba who has been working with social capital, cultural planning, LMS and inclusion activities for the past 25 years. ETCC is a modern training agency and project facilitator delivering cost-effective and efficient training seminars by utilizing the best-located facilities and partner opportunities in Denmark and Europe. ETCC is an agency organized as a network organization cooperating with Danish and international key-specialists in order to ensure the most updated and best practice-based training in the delivered seminars and workshops.

ETCC has developed seminars, workshops and training courses based on the newest knowledge related to the E.U. Structural and Cohesion Funds and European development programs. In this respect ETCC draws also on a broad experience on wide range of learners and is very competent in education and training of adults/youngsters and service and production issues focusing on behavioural changes among social actors and organizations. ETCC also has a wide range of experiences and know-how from the labour market training, health and social sectors when working in transition countries and has via its board and members a wide network of co-operators representing training institutions, NGOs and state institutions in Denmark especially, also Sweden, Finland/Norden Region and Norway too.

The training center deliver training for participants related to the creation of an accessible LMS for HEI and other purposes. The core team has all more than 30 years of experience working with EU programs in both Denmark, Scandinavia, new and old member states as well as accession countries, both as training providers and Project managers, team leaders and monitors / evaluators of EU projects.

The specific trainer specialists will be selected for each seminar. European Training Centre Copenhagen offers effective and participant involving trainings for individual trainees as well as tailor made training sessions and workshops-on-locations where the training sessions are combined with onsite visits and lectures. ETCC’s involvement  in this project is through cooperation with own experts on Learning Management Systems and two Danish universities, which focus on research and development in the areas of Networks, eLearning platforms and study program presentations. The main strategic objective of this cooperation is to excel in research and innovation required for the development of the knowledge society.

The target of its current exploration plan is to tackle the challenges that arise due to the massive volume of multimedia information, the need for ubiquitous and transparent network access anywhere and anytime, and the demand for personalized services through intelligent information processing. In this line of work, the cooperation focus on user friendly and intelligent interfaces of systems and
handsets based on semantically indexed information. E-learning (linked to other E-services) is a vital part of the development activities carried out, and the team of IT participating in the proposed project is the personnel is ETCC’s own experts which have considerable experience in the management and processing of multimedia information (compound text, images, video and audio files), with applications in various domains.

ETCC has a good experience in development and implementation of intelligent methods for multimedia content management, processing and retrieval and has the capacity to offer state-of-the-art trainings. In recent years, ETCC has participated in more EU and national projects involving multimedia management and processing applications in different sectors of the economy and society.
Our team developed e-learning environments able to handle multimedia representations in an innovative, transparent, and interactive way that facilitated learning in the respective domains.

The German-Turkish Advanced Research Centre for ICT (GT-ARC – http://www.gt-arc.com) is a non-profit research
organization that was initiated in 2010 by an agreement between BMBF of Germany and the Ministry of Transport,
Maritime Affairs and Communications of Turkey, with the aim of strengthening ICT-oriented R&D cooperation among the two countries. With this unique position, GT-ARC’s mission is to take a leading role in creating ICT-based innovation by
(i) bringing bright minds of the two countries together to design and develop core technologies for future innovative
solutions,
(ii) providing the framework for joint projects, staff mobility, idea exchange, and value creation.
 
GT-ARC has two colocation centers; one in Berlin and the other in Istanbul. The activities in this project will be undertaken by the Berlin office (represented by GT-ARC gGmbH). GT-ARC’s current work program focuses on the research topics of communications and data analytics with particular applications in smart cities and cybersecurity.

Major ongoing projects of GTARC include: CHARIOT, a scalable IoT Middleware Project funded by BMBF; CODA, an auto-ML project funded by BMBF with a focus on algorithm selection and hyperparameter optimization for machine-learning; and 5G-MOBIX, a large-scale project focusing on 5G for cooperative, connected and automated mobility funded by the European Union.
GT-ARC works in close cooperation with the industry; in particular with the official founding members of the GT-ARC
Institute in Germany, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, AOK, Telefonica, and TÜV Nord. GT-ARC gGmbH is officially recognized
as an affiliated institute of the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin).

It currently employs 15 full-time researchers, 13 part-time research assistants and several support staff in its Berlin office located at the university campus. Most of its researcher employees also pursue their Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science at TU Berlin. Besides
carrying out research projects aligned with its work programme, GT-ARC also contributes to the teaching activities at TU Berlin, in collaboration with the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DAI-Labor) and the AOT Chair, under the leadership of Prof. Sahin Albayrak.

Esquare is a research and educational organisation based in France, dedicated to the advancement of research and
innovation. We promote the educational and consultancy activities, psychological and soft skills development of youth and adults in order to be able to adapt and to integrate effectively in a dynamic society.

We aim to contribute to the society throughout lifelong learning in accordance with the current requirements of the labor market. We wish to enhance people empowerment, entrepreneurship, creativity, social inclusion and the acceptance of cultural diversity through intercultural learning. We help people to develop and execute their ideas and initiatives into concrete projects and we tend to develop their creativity, strengths and entrepreneurship skills. We adopt and implement various innovative initiatives in the field of formal and non-formal education, providing information, counseling, training to both young people and adult professionals.

Our Vision Provide you with realistic and executable recommendations to help you make the best decisions for the successful growth of your business and its expansion. To be recognized for our excellence in research advances and educational opportunities offered in diverse contexts and clients. Our Mission To be recognised as a key European provider of strategic consulting for the development and execution of growth strategies across major European economies. We bring education to a new dimension through innovative programs and instructional practices. Esquare is an innovative company focusing on 6 core areas of business, including:

1. Consulting and Research Studies
2. ELearning and Trainings
3. Web Development and Online Applications
4. Gamification Techniques for Web-Based Educations
5. Psychology and Soft-Skills Advisory
6. Project Management and Implementation
 

Paydaş is a non profit educational institution founded by reunion of educators. The members are mainly the teaching staff at different types of organisations in the field education. The main aim is to include art into formal,non formal and infomal education.

In this respect the association’s regular activities include organizing training which support the development of supportive educational activities for coaches,educators,facilitators in formal and non formal education. The activities cover the three main areas: education for personal and professional development  ,innovation and digitalization.

Running organizations to nurture reciprocal education between teaching staff and educational interaction is also one of the aims of the association .One of our main missions is to promote entrepreneurship and personal development. Our organization also focuses on developing some innovative training programmes, modules and tools to support the educational resources.

Thus, it will have far reaching impacts on the young population of Turkey and all Europe. PAYDAS cooperates with local and regional level which can involve in project activities related to the scope of the project. Striving to always enrich and improve the education that is provided by our organization, we have adopted and developed different training approaches.

Therefore, previous experiences give the organisation a unique insight of the practical aspects of implementing large scale co-funded projects and also provided us an extremely wide network of collaborating organizations from all over the world. PAYDAS has a huge network that allows the organisation to be in contact with other NGOs, schools, foreign partners, stakeholders, consulting companies, educational institutions and universities, experts, public administration, etc., and it works in close cooperation with all of them, which facilitates precise knowledge of the reality and direct contact with the target group of the project.

Vzw UC Limburg is a Higher Education Institution in Flanders, collaborating under the name UC Leuven-Limburg with 2 other HEIs: vzw UC Leuven (formerly KHLeuven) and vzw UC Leuven Comenius Lerarenopleidingen (formerly Group T).

UC Limburg is renowned for the high quality of its teaching, research & regional development. More than 30 professional bachelor, and lifelong learning study programmes are offered in various disciplines fields, with a focus on health care, social work, business & commerce, teacher education, science & technology.

UC Leuven-Limburg’s strong commitment to research ensures state-of-art training programmes for its 15 000 students. Priority domains of the institution are: regional development, blended learning (including development of MOOCs and Open Data Platform), lifelong learning strategies, internationalisation & research. The research policy is focused on market-driven applied research.

Central to the UC Limburg’s mission in the field of research is to develop innovative technology for companies, and to transfer new technology to the market. UC Limburg also provides consultancy and continuing education for local industries, organisations and governments. UC Limburg is member of educational networks across the globe and strongly collaborates with local, regional and national policy-making bodies, resulting in a broad network of stakeholders.

The Ministry of Education homologated EPRALIMA in 1999, as a private non-profit organization, based on a cooperative regime that provides vocational training at various European levels.

Epralima is composed of 3 branches: the head-office in Arcos de Valdevez; branch in Ponte da Barca and another in Ponte de Lima; a Skills Assessment Centre which recognizes, validates and certifies skills giving individuals an opportunity to receive academic equivalency; and finally a Technical Centre which works with transnational and communitarian projects.

Epralima contributes to projects due to its: broad knowledge of the region and close relationships with the target-groups; ability to promote the encouragement of networks and mobilize different organizations; experience in the development of different Work Packages: management, assessment, diagnosis, design and implementation. Its sustainability is linked to the dynamics of the Upper Lima Region, overcoming needs through training.