Products already done within the project

The Grundtvig partnership “Practical Outdoor Education Techniques - POET” is a project designed for two years, 2013 – 2015. It aims to:

- provide adults with pathways to improve their knowledge and competences

-develop awareness of environmental and cultural similarity and diversity

-develop key competencies as: mother tongue&foreign language, creativity, cultural awareness and expression, digital, social&civic ones.

The activities consist mainly in:

a) common activities and games in the nature during the project meetings, round tables about what education outdoor means in each participant country, common workshops to design outdoor activities and the final products, cleaning environment/arranging a specific “project’s space”, where to plant a “project tree”, some “project’s flowers”, by using some ground, water and seeds from all the countries.

b) individual ones, done by each partner in its area, such as: taking care of the “project’s space” in each partner area, organizing summer schools in the decided partner institution, creating their part of the common outdoor games book, organizing outdoor activities with adults, exhibitions.

The final products of the project are: the project’s website, a common outdoor games book, photos exhibition, DVD, and European conference in the coordinating country, two summer schools.

The first project meeting was organized in the coordinating institution, ARED Suceava, on 14th-16th Nov. 2013, in Suceava, Romania, and consisted in introducing the partners, designing the following steps of the project, a round table on the education outdoor. Two participants from Cyprus and three form Spain attended the project meeting, and also the members and learners from the hosting institution got involved.

The products that have already been done are:

- greeting cards we sent each other by email, and uploaded into the e-group

- a calendar 2014, done by the Spanish partner

- a website: grundtvigpoet.wordpress.com, created by the Romanian partner.

The partner institutions of the Grundtvig project "POET"

The partner institutions of this project are:

Asociatia Regionala pentru Educatie si Dezvoltare (ARED) Suceava

The Regional Association for Education and Development (ARED) Suceava is a non-governmental organization, whose aims are to promote and support families, youngsters and people in need and in risk of social exclusion, to encourage the active learning, to promote democracy, living values and European citizenship. The associations’ goals are to establish partnerships with similar organizations and institutions from all over of Europe and to contribute to youngsters and adults’ development and their lives improvement.
ARED Suceava was established in September 2005.
The main type of activities that ARED Suceava is focussed on are:
- meetings with educational and cultural personalities from here and/or from Romania and from other countries;
- organizing workshops and seminars, training and qualification courses for teachers, , students, adults and other people working in the field of education;
- conferences, meetings with different specialists in education;
- LLP projects.
- Local projects: national conferences, summer schools, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
It has experience in running LLP projects, it was involved in a Grundtvig partnership called “Bum, Bum, Adolescence is Here!”, developed in 2006-2008, then, it was and still is a local partner in two Comenius regio projects, here, in Suceava.
It will be the coordinator of the project and will cooperate and actively participate to all the activities of the project.

Chrysanthou & Parouxis Consultants Ltd

The Cyprus economy heavily depends on tourism and the hospitality sector needs the support of professionals to deliver quality services. Chrysanthou & Parouxis Consultants Ltd has been actively involved in the Cyprus catering market since 2011, offering consulting and training services to new or existing businesses. The catering businesses (restaurants, bars, clubs, cafeterias and hotel catering services) require a combination of staff training which basically is divided into three categories: a) acquisition of technical skills b) sharpening of soft skills and c) team building. Often the catering businesses employ staff from various countries, a fact that forces the trainer introduce other techniques to make his training more effective.
The training offered is approved and, in some cases, subsidized by the Cyprus Human Resources Authority. In order to keep offering high standard services, Chrysanthou & Parouxis Consultants Ltd is in contact with catering vocational schools and adult training centres in Europe who give the opportunity to acquire new ideas and methodologies in professional adult training.
The company is run by two well experienced professionals who have strong academic background and have served extensively the hospitality and catering fields.
Christos Parouxis is a graduate of the Hotel & Catering Academy, Zoetemeer, Holland. He had worked in various five star hotels in Europe and Cyprus as an internal trainer for 18 years. He is a founding member of the Cyprus Sommelier Association.
Stephanos Chrysanthou is a graduate of the Hotel & Catering Institute of Nicosia and the French Culinary Institute of the USA. He worked as an Executive Chef for 9 Years in various five star hotels and for many years as a Sous Chef in Cyprus and the the USA. He is a member of Cyprus Chefs Association and runs his own culinary show on national television.

Municipality of Alcanadre, Spain

The municipality of Alcanadre, has a population of 1.000 inhabitants . This municipality is located within the Rioja Region (Spain). During summer period the population increases more than 5 times. Their proposals for development look for a sustainable local sector. Alcanadre has a strong touristic area with hotel and rural hostels that offer relax and a rest place for visitors in sports, landscapes and the Way of St James, land of wines.
The Municipality is focuses on the following key areas:
To favor the attendance of spaces and the fruition of cultural and tourism opportunities by all citizens groups (elder and disabled people, youngsters, new citizens and tourists) through the definition of methods, instruments and approaches able to improve the information and welcoming, and the requalification of the area giving a cultural interest for the inhabitants and visitors. It works in local sustainable development and new job opportunities in the tourism domains and others.
The municipality of Alcanadre our main work is focused on rural development, SME-s development, tourism development, and environment, preservation natural and cultural heritage, social cohesion and social enterprises.
We have experience as a lead partner and as a partner in local projects. The projects vary from tourism, ecology and communal projects to rural development and the establishment of partnerships with public or private organizations.
The social organizations of the town work in many projects with voluntary elder people related to environmental projects, cultural projects and green economy.

"Practical Outdoor Education Techniques", a Grundtvig learning partnership between three institutions for adult education from Romania, Cyprus and Spain.

The three partner institutions in this project are:

Asociaţia Regională pentru Educaţie şi Dezvoltare Suceava, Suceava, Romania

Chrysanthou & Parouxis Consultants Ltd, Limasol, Cipru

Municipality of Alcanadre, Spain

The project is designed for two years, it started on 1st August 2013 and will end on 31 July 2015.

The project aims to develop active practical competencies of teachers and adults involved in education at any level, by emphasizing the importance of taking education outdoors, no matter the age of the learners. It will also encourage the partners to share a variety of culture through education outdoors and to gain a better understanding of each partner’s life style and living values.

During this project, partners will develop communication skills, tolerance and active citizenship and it will also be focused on education for sustainable development, by using outdoors education techniques, such as games, summer schools, actions for preserving the environment. With the proposed activities, the project also promotes social inclusion and civic democracy, as it will use the good practices examples from the partner institutions.

It aims to encourage adults and teachers/trainers to work together and widen perspectives through their education in order to discover and valorize common living values differently emphasized in every country. It will show differences and similarities, as traditions, lifestyle, taking care of the environment, customs and culture among the participant countries. Within the activities, the partner institutions will research specific moral values including work, tolerance, self-respect, and respect for the environment and more than this, they will focus on education outdoors specific techniques. 

The project is designed for two years, it will bring together partners from Romania, Spain and Cyprus, who will work in order to achieve the project’s aims and to design final products agreed among the partners, such as: website, a common outdoor games book, photos exhibition, DVD, and European conference in the coordinating country, two summer schools.