REDTREE MAKING PROJECTS COOP. V.
Redtree Making Projects Coop. V. is a social cooperative active in the fields of education, training, and educational materials design by science and social affairs. Its aim is to help social and educational organizations to develop their framework and to improve the quality of their products through training, specific development plans, social studies, grant applications, legal advising, bureaucratic procedures, etc. We want to reach better educational levels and improve the employability and inclusion of students.
We also have close relationships of cooperation and joint work with very diverse social and educational organizations, such as associations of people with special needs and their families, educational centers, foundations, etc. This joint work done over the years has led us to opening new specific work fields for students with special educational needs (SEN), mainly the design of inclusive educational projects as well as the creation of new materials and tools adapted to their needs.
Redtree’s projects and areas of expertise are intersectorial, since we have been working mainly in 4 educational sectors: school education, professional training, adult education, and the training of young people through non-formal and informal education. This social cooperative has developed very diverse functions within these four educational sectors, ranging from the design of educational projects at the European level, of materials and educational tools, project quality control and monitoring, advisory and consulting functions, etc, plus the experience coordinating our own Erasmus+ projects, as explained in the next section.
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GENERAZIONE ZERO
GENERAZIONE ZERO is an organization of young journalists from Italy destined to fight the influence of the mafia in Italian society, especially the use it makes of the migratory processes that go through Italy. The mafia uses refugee camps and the illegal arrival of people to the Italian coasts to enrich themselves, appropriating everything that the arriving persons have, and forcing them to assume a debt that turns them into slave labor during many years. Ending this situation of injustice and systematic violation of human rights requires independent, courageous, and prepared voices to denounce it, which is the purpose of GENERAZIONE ZERO, to unify those voices and generate the means for them to be heard.
The entity was born in 2012 as an online journalism project funded by the EU within the “Youth in Action” program, and has currently grown to encompass dozens of young journalists and create their own dissemination channels like GenerazioneZero Italia, a webzine of criticism and freedom of information, of a purely legal nature that promotes and addresses universally recognized human rights, officially registered in the Ragusa Court nº11/05.
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GRETA DU VELAY
Greta du Velay is a public training organization that encompasses 21 educational institutions for adult education, secondary schools, and colleges, under the wing of the Ministry of Education.
Half of its activity consists of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in their learning processes, and the other half in supporting the social and vocational inclusion of disadvantaged target groups, such as unemployed or migrant youth, through activities like the development of key competences, transversal competences, providing support to discover and guide towards a career and employment, etc.
The entity was founded in 1975, with ISO 9001 certificate issued in 1998; it employs 4 training advisors and 40 trainers, and offers around 300.000 hours of training per year (to an average of 2000 to 2500 students).
Greta du Velay works closely with other non-profit associations and public organizations involved with young adults (like local missions, social workers, cultural centers, housing centers, information centers for young persons, women, and their families…).
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ELEN
The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) is a non-profit European organization and has as its goal the promotion and protection of lesser-used (i.e. regional, minority, indigenous, co-official and smaller national) languages, (RMLs), to work towards linguistic equality for these languages, and multilingualism, under the broader framework of human rights, and to be a voice for the speakers of these languages at the local, regional, national, European and international level.
ELEN’s purpose is to represent the 50 million people, 10% of the EU’s population, who speak a regional or minority language (RML); it represents 44 regional or minority languages in
18 States. Its work is divided into two main pillars: advocacy work and joint language projects that act to protect and promote RMLs.
The strength of the entity lies with its people and its member organizations, they represent the highest level of expertise in lesser-used language protection and promotion in Europe,
with experience from many linguistic situations. It includes experts in language planning, policy, rights, and revitalization, RML immersion schools, RML teachers, experts in
constitutional law, specialists in vocational language training for adults, as well as academics specializing in language revitalization and technology.
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LESVOS SOLIDARITY
LESVOS SOLIDARITY is a Greek NGO with the objective of improving the living conditions and social inclusion of newly arrived refugees and migrants to the Greek island of Lesvos.
To do this, it carries out many projects and activities, like the management of the “PIKPA” Refugee Camp or the start-up of the “Mosaik Support Center” adult training center, which is an open educational center specially aimed at refugees and migrants, but also at Greek citizens with training needs, thus promoting inclusion.
In 2012, at the time of the economic crisis in Greece, the solidarity network “The Village of Altogether” was formed. Soon after, a growing number of refugees started to arrive in the island of Lesvos. They were not given adequate support and many were sleeping in streets and parks. In 2014 PIKPA camp is hosting 600 refugees a day. The group supports members of the local community by providing food and economic assistance.
In 2015 PIKPA camp starts hosting the most vulnerable refugees in the island. The group distributes up to 3000 meals a day. PIKPA camp becomes a central distribution point for the
whole island.
In Apr 2016 LESVOS SOLIDARITY is formally registered as an NGO and in Jun 2016 LESVOS SOLIDARITY develops the Mosaik Support Centre. In Oct 2016 Efi Latsoudi, core team member of LESVOS SOLIDARITY, receives the Nansen Refugee Award.
- Our mission is to provide community-based solidarity spaces:
- SHELTER & SUPPORT, give dignified reception and support to people in need, including medical, psycho-social and legal support
- INTEGRATION, promote integration by developing skills and knowledge, creating job opportunities and connecting with local society
- HUMAN RIGHTS, advocating for an inclusive society which respects human rights
- Our vision is: to inspire society and to expand or solidarity model which promotes equality, trust, justice, respect for each other and for the environment, creativity, empowerment and active
participation.
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SMALLCODES
Smallcodes is a company devoted at protecting and promoting linguistic diversity through technology. It wants to create a network among minorities, with the purpose of guaranteeing each language a systematic and constant presence in the written and in the IT world. The language which are currently part of SC community and uses SC resources are Occitan, Sardinian, Ladin, Walser, Francoprovençal, Lombard dialect of Italian Switzerland, Cimbrian, Mòcheno, Plodarisch, Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico, Romani and much more.
SC intends to shorten the digital divide between majority languages and regional and minority languages. To achieve this goal, it produces software systems for lexicography, spellchecking and neology/terminology planning for lesser-used languages, plus systems for toponymy cataloging and bibliographic archiving. These five modules are, according to the policy of SC, the first step towards a modern use of the language.
SC is also involved with publishing projects (books, DVDs and e-books for minority languages), with the implementation of ICT resources for school education (teaching applications and e-books, language portals) and with geolinguistic projects (maps with the traditional geographic place names).
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AJMV
The Association of Muslim Youth of Valencia is an entity of national, apolitical and non-profit field, which aims to strengthen the ties of friendship between Muslims and the rest of society, convinced of the enrichment which carries a plural society based on respect and mutual knowledge. During more than 20 years of work, hundreds of young people have actively collaborated in projects developing with the neighbors of many places, but especially we have worked in the neighborhood of Orriols (Valencia), along with many social associations with the will to help people with fewer opportunities, improving the living conditions of all neighbors (regardless of their origin, religion or culture) and promote multiculturalism and integration.
