Partners

Fondation Caritas Luxembourg

Applicant Organisation

29, rue Michel Welter
L-2730 Luxembourg
www.caritas.lu

Danielle Schronen
Tel +352 402131 255
danielle.schronen@caritas.lu

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

Through its research and analysis activities, Caritas Luxembourg contributes to deepen the understanding of societal themes relating to questions of justice and social action in favour of disadvantaged people, fostering innovation and knowledge transfer. The publication of the yearly “Sozialalmanach” clearly gives Caritas Luxembourg’s position on socio-political issues. The R&D department is regularly publishing studies, developing and managing new projects, some of which are funded by the EU, and designing and organizing trainings. Many projects have public or private partners. Collaboration with other research institution is clearly promoted (in Luxembourg: Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research, Université de Luxembourg and in Europe: University of Gent (B), University of Duisburg-Essen (D), University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (D), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e.V. – German Society for Nutrition (D), University of Plymouth (UK), University of Prishtina (Kosovo), Weltwerkstatt e.V. (D) or Universität zu Köln (D).

In the field of design and organization of trainings, Caritas Luxembourg has developed expertise for 15 years, especially for pedagogical teams in a non-formal education setting and low qualified persons. It is a recognized training center by the Ministry of Education and provides further vocational training for the social economy. It is involved in several inter-institutional and inter-ministerial work groups where it contributes to the development and the relevance of high quality VET.

Fondation Caritas Luxembourg has shown in the past that it has the needed expertise for successfully coordinating transnational projects. Due to its central position in Europe it will be able to disseminate the project’s results not only on a national level but also in the neighbour countries.

Marco Da Silva has a research Master in differential, social and environmental psychology. He works for Caritas Luxembourg since 2010 as a study officer within the department Research & Development. He participated in several national and international projects both as project team member and project manager. He is responsible for the training activities offered by Caritas Luxembourg where he is also in charge for the development and design of innovative trainings aiming at increasing the efficiency of social work and at promoting social justice. He is also a VET trainer and mentor in the field of non-formal education of children. (Marco Da Silva has left Caritas Luxembourg in October 2016 – Thanks for your contribution, Marco!)

After studies in social and organizational sciences, Dr Danielle Schronen has been working as a study officer and project manager with different public and private organizations and is with Caritas Luxembourg since 2005. She has been involved in EU funded projects since 2002, operating under different programmes (ESF, LEADER, Leonardo da Vinci, Interreg). She has contributed to the development of different curricula for further education (e.g. nutritional education; implementation of a pedagogical concept, training for low qualified persons wishing to integrate a non-formal education setting …). In charge of various websites, publications (corporate identity, editorial work and publishing) and public relation missions, she brings in a lot of experience useful for the dissemination work. Besides her master in intercultural management, she has been working in different countries (FR/DE/LU), with large European partnerships and is fluent in several languages (LU/DE/FR/EN) – valuable skills and experience for the good functioning of the partnership.

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ANTARES srl

Via Casilina 110/B
I-00182 Roma
www.antareseuropa.it

Pietro Ragni
Tel +39 690672516
ragnigsfe@yahoo.it

Delia Zingarelli
Tel +39 3472543515
d.zingarelli@antareseuropa.it

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

VOCIS is an interesting challenge for ANTARES; on one hand we can learn from the experience of our partners and on the other hand offering our experience in research, training for young people and quality planning.

In particular for the areas relevant the VOCIS Project we can remember some of ANTARES activities and competences. We organised in the past training actions on innovative topic to qualify or re-qualify both young people looking for their first entrance in the labor market and elderly workers risking to be unemployed. In several EU projects we successfully performed the Quality System plan starting from its first design up to the implementation and the final report.

Then ANTARES was one of the first private company to cope with the guidance environment (which is still quite weak in Italy) both offering knowledge support to singles and enterprises in order to perform informed choices taking into account the fast growing up of the opportunities. This was done with specific guidance-training projects able to re-plan the future trajectories, with a particular attention to the disadvantaged areas of the labor market. These activities also implied methodologies and paths for business coaching, and impact assessment for the guidance projects.

Moreover ANTARES studies, plans and experiments innovative distance learning offers (since the beginning of 2000) for basic and professional competences and teleworking solution (since the beginning of Nineties) for companies and public offices. These activities allow ANTARES to gain a large network of contacts both in the P.A. sector and in the private one; this characteristic will be useful during the project for at least three goals: a) the development of the Italian stakeholder reference group; b) the research on labour market needs & trends and c) the dialogue with public employment service.

During the last years Antares participated/performed several projects at European or national level which gave a significant know-how that will be useful for the EC-YP Project. We would like to remember only three of them. Some years ago we realised a monitoring project in order to analyse the Employment Services in the provinces of Lazio region, giving them several suggestions for a more efficient organisation. A couple of years ago we ended an interesting EU project (SC4SC) lead by an Austrian private organisation which allows us to use an advanced method of systemic coaching. Then, with the co-ordination of the BJC (IR), we performed a very interesting EU project on the guidance opportunities for disadvantaged people with the result of a web platform to support the practitioners in their activity.

Pietro Ragni – He is a Physics, senior researcher at National Research Council (Institute of Chemistry Methodologies), Director of the “Ionizing Radiation Effects” section, author of several dozens of scientific papers and scientific conferences contributions. He was member of the Scientific Secretary of the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific and Technological Research. He is also Director of INBB Interuniversity Consortium. He was invited speaker in several European conferences and workshops. He is one of the four partners of Antares, Research Director and the Head of the International Activities department within Antares. He has more than 20 years of managerial experience (both in CNR, in Antares and in other institutions). His managerial experience and good knowledge of several EU programmes, allows him to plan and implement complex projects, to manage human resources (also their on-the-job training), to contribute to the organizational development of the structures. In particular he has had the opportunity to manage and implement more than 70 National and EU projects (mainly in VET environment). He is expert for the assessment and the quality plan for complex projects and he was referee for the Leonardo da Vinci projects at national and European level and now he is Erasmus+ referee for IT Agencies.

Delia Zingarelli – She is a sociologist specialised in the labour market and organization field. She has been working for over twenty years as a researcher and a trainer. As a researcher, she plans and manages surveys and analysis on change management in public and private companies. She is often in charge of monitoring and assessment processes in Italian and European Projects. As a trainer, she works in need analysis, training programmes, working place organisation, project management and training for trainers. She has a great experience of planning and managing training projects both in the public and private sector. She is an expert in equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming approach and methodologies. She has taken part in several EU funded project (FSE, ADAPT and LLL Programme). In 1989 she funded in Rome (Italy), with three colleagues, a SME later named Antares and she is still one of the four partners of the company.

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Ballymun Job Centre co-operative society limited

Unit 36 Town Centre Ballymun
IE021 – Dublin
www.bmunjob.ie

Michael Creedon
Tel +353 1 8667000
creedonm@bmunjob.ie

Jennifer Hughes
Tel +353 1 8667000
hughesj@bmunjob.ie

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

The Ballymun Job Centre (BJC) will be responsible for the preparation of the peer coaching. The framework will be designed and developed by the BJC staff in cooperation with experts in the area, and piloted with a group of interested practitioners invited by BJC to participate in a pilot study. The framework will be adapted by BJC in cooperation with partners so as to ensure its relevance across the partnership. The BJC will also disseminate widely in Ireland and will participate in all meetings as required.

Nuala Whelan (BA., MSc., Reg. Work & Org. Psychol.,Ps.S.I.), Assistant Manager, Ballymun Job Centre. Registered Work & Organisational Psychologist with 17 years’ experience working with unemployed clients, Project Management of EU Projects (LdV, LLP, EQUAL), Design and Development of innovative methodologies and tools for working with disadvantaged job seekers, Research Skills. Within this project Nuala will bring skills such as Quality Assurance in Career Guidance and guidance into initial VET, Individualised career guidance strategies for disadvantaged Job seekers, design and development of evaluation tools, Analysis, process design, training planning and evaluation (including Social Return on Investment), Interagency working and building networks, Evaluation of Guidance element of the Ballymun Youth Guarantee.

Julie McCafferty (BA, MSc, Reg. Work & Org. Psychol.,Ps.S.I.), European Projects Coordinator, Ballymun Job Centre. Registered Work & Organisational Psychologist with 5+ years working on all BJC research and special projects particularly in the areas of development of innovative tools and methodologies, psychometrics, training development, evaluation (including Social Return on Investment) and assessing individual differences (within a Career Guidance service). Within this project Julie will bring her research, development, evaluation and theoretical skills.

Sabrina Staunton, BJC Financial Manager, is bringing 8+ years of experience of financial administration and management of national and EU budgets. Sabrina and her team will ensure the implementation of the BJC financial policy and procedures ensuring robust financial management and administration.

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University of Zadar

Ulica Mihovila Pavlinovica bb
HR-23000 Zadar
www.unizd.hr / www.mzos.hr

Zvjezdan Penezić
Tel +385 23 200655
zpenezic@unizd.hr

Daliborka Luketić
Tel +385 23 200513
dluketic@unizd.hr

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

The University of Zadar has among its resources experts for educational management, inclusive education and entrepreneurship education – who participated with different activities in scientific and professional projects at the university and also as members of research teams in other institutions in Croatia – and young people who finished doctoral studies and made doctoral dissertations in these scientific fields. Experts as students are motivated to participate in international projects in the field of education.

All colleagues are experienced in designing and delivering courses for students and adults who want to work in vocational schools. All are experts in curriculum designing, so that they can do the adaptation and test the educational material on the target population (students and professionals).

The experts have high research competences and will be able to contribute to the scientific quality of the outputs. They are in networks that will allow them to contribute to a wide dissemination of the project’s outcomes on a national and international level. Finally, the University of Zadar has the conditions, the resources and the expertise to organise all requested meetings in Croatia and to implement the dissemination strategy.

Zvjezdan Penezić was born in Bajmok, Vojvodina. After finishing elementary and high school in Zadar, he has graduated from the department of Psychology of the Faculty of Science and Arts in Zadar. His graduate work has been evaluated as highly valuable, awarded with the “Ramiro Bujas’ Golden Badge”. After the postgraduate study he obtained a M.Sc. degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1999 and his Ph.D. degree at the same Faculty in 2004.

Since 1996, he has worked at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zadar, first as a research fellow (1996-1999), as a science assistant  (1999-2004), higher assistant (2004-2005), assistant professor (2005-2010), and finally associate professor (since 2010). He has been elected  scientific advisor in 2016. Today, he is a head of Department and teaches general and personality psychology in different courses. Some of these courses he introduced to the study of psychology in Zadar (e.g. Psychological aspects of Internet, Evolutionary psychology).

He has published about 45 scientific papers and was editor of  the “Collection of psychological scales and questionnaires” (seven volumes), as well as of two scientific monographs. He was a researcher in numerous scientific projects that were organized at the Department of Psychology. As a member of organizational committees he has participated in the preparation of numerous international scientific conferences and was a technical editor of summary books of those conferences. He has about 70 scientific presentations at conferences in Croatia and abroad. He is a member of the Croatian psychological association, the Croatian psychological chamber and the European Association for Personality Psychology.

Daliborka Luketić, Ph.D. is assistant professor and researcher at the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Zadar. She received a Master of Pedagogy and Sociology in 2005 from  the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. At the same institution she gained a Ph.D. in the field of social science in 2013.

From the beginning of her professional scientific career she has been involved in the teaching process at the B.A. and M.A. pedagogy study programme (Basic knowledge on Education and Upbringing, Introduction to Pedagogy, Theories of Education, Theories of Education in Practice) and in other university study programs with the Program for acquisition of teaching competencies.

Her professional and scientific interest is focused on several areas of educational science: curriculum theory and practice, teacher education and training, educational theories. She has published several scientific papers mainly focused on researching contemporary educational issues like enterprise and entrepreneurial education.

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Caritasverband für das Dekanat Borken e. V.

Turmstr. 14
D-46325 Borken
www.caritas-borken.de

Marijan Renić
Tel +49 286194 5716
migration@caritas-borken.de

Stephan Rietmann
Tel +49 286194 5750
csb@caritas-borken.de

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

Over the past decade Caritas Borken gained qualified expertise and a huge range of experience in the fields of coaching, peer counselling and self-regulation skill trainings for the clients and target groups we work with. In general clients make use of social and counselling support when coping with external cooperation problems (e.g. social conflict, divorce, mobbing and so on) or internal cooperation skills (e.g. lack of trust into own skills, reduced self-esteem and so on). At Caritas Borken we follow a systemic approach and our staff is educated in a broad range of techniques such as brief therapy, family therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis, video based counselling and systemic therapy.

Being responsible for an area of about 100.000 inhabitants, we support between 500 to 700 clients − individuals, parents, children and social experts and multipliers (e.g. teachers) − per year. We deliver a huge range of individual therapies, workshops, social training groups, social projects (e.g. child protection, systemic hospice) lectures and courses for parents and lectures for students at University of Münster and are part of a regional professional network. Our partners are social service suppliers, medical institutions, EU-partners as well as Universities and research institutions.

One of our partners – Steinhübel Coaching – makes use of our expertise, that we offer to German industry and profit oriented enterprises, as for example Volkswagen Financial Services AG. For those clients we provide individual leadership coaching, peer counselling for human resource managers and self-regulation skill trainings for employees and managers. Our expertise consists in what we name clinical occupational psychology that consists of clinical and social work methods that we make use of in the vocational context.

The Integrationsagentur, the Agency for integration, on the other hand, supports institutions by initiation, directing and accompanying of the integration processes. It gives orientation, support and counselling to live and create a self-reliant and confident life in this region. The agency is in cooperation and networking with migration relevant initiatives and organisations, it collaborates with local and regional public administrations too.

Since 1999 the psychologist Dr. Stephan Rietmann, is head of the education counselling centre. He is trained in brief therapy, family therapy, diagnostic of personality and clinical hypnosis (Ericksonian Hypnosis) an expert for clinical psychology as well as occupational psychology.

As part of these networks Caritas Borken regularly publishes expertise, projects and professional experience in articles and handbooks for the target groups within the professional und scientific community. In 2014 we were co-editors of two books with about 1000 pages dealing with expertise in Coaching:

  • Ryba, A., Pauw, D., Ginati, D. & Rietmann, St. (2014 a). Professionell Coachen. Das Methodenbuch: Erfahrungswissen und Interventionstechniken von 50 Coachingexperten. BELTZ
  • Ryba, A., Ginati, D. Pauw. D. & Rietmann, St. (2014 b). Professionell Coachen – konkret. Das Fall- und Reflektionsbuch: Vom Erfahrungswissen zur Handlungskompetenz. BELTZ

Marijan Renić, Dipl.-Päd. works in the field of social consultancy for migrants since 1996. He is the head of the Integrationsagentur, an agency which supports the integration of migrants by counselling institutions and organisations in this field. He managed a lot of projects at last as the responsible coordinator of the Leonardo da Vinci project INPRO (http://www.inpro-childcare.eu) 2010-2012. The project development and management of intercultural opening processes are the actual priorities as well as the cooperation with stakeholders in this field.

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