Izobraževalni center GEOSS d.o.o. Cesta komandanta Staneta 2 1270

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Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917

Organisation

PIC 932356435 Organization ID E10076694 Full legal name (National Language) IZOBRAŽEVALNI CENTER GEOSS D.O.O. Full legal name (Latin characters) EDUCATION CENTRE GEOSS LTD.

Acronym IC GEOSS D.O.O. National ID (if applicable) / Department (if applicable) / Address Cesta komandanta Staneta 2 Country

Region Zasavska P.O. Box 34 Post Code 1270 Registration Number 3394930000 VAT number SI10607838 CEDEX / City Litija Website www.ic-geoss.si Email [email protected] Telephone 1 +38618980570 Telephone 2 +38631759355 Fax / Profile

Type of organization (Please choose from School/ Institute/ Education centre - Adult the drop-down list on the right side) education Is your organisation a public body? NO Is your organisation a non-profit? YES

Legal representative Title Mrs Gender Female First Name Sabina Family Name Rovšek Department / Position Director Email [email protected] Telephone 1 +38641906436

Contact person Title Mrs Gender Female

Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917

First Name Sandra Family Name Katić Department / Position Head of Informal Education

Email [email protected] Telephone 1 +38640358587

Background and Experience Education Centre Geoss Ltd. (IC Geoss), Litija, Slovenia has 60 years of experience in the field of education and regional development in and wider in the region of Central Slovenia. The owner and the founder of Education Centre Geoss is Municipality of Litija. IC Geoss offers a comprehensive range of educational programmes: 11 secondary VET programmes and 6 tertiary education programmes, as well as numerous non-formal education programmes (general education, training and courses). In recent years, increasing attention has been given to various projects that develop and encourage lifelong learning among different target groups and to implementation of social and digital agenda, regional development and territorial cooperation, encouraging the development of youth programmes and entrepreneurship in the region. At our work we follow the local, regional and wider national and European goals and needs and thus addressing different strategies at all levels. The goals of our organization are to improve learning outcomes through quality teaching and learning process, to train and engage mentors and teachers towards innovative and holistic approach towards learning, to empower and increase the self-esteem of the participants involved in adult education, to increase equity and inclusion for all vulnerable social groups with fewer opportunities, to target the socially excluded, early school leavers and less qualified adults, immigrants and intellectually disabled people, to enhance the competence acquiring among the professionals, especially in the field of entrepreneurship, education, tourism, youth work and local government. We are actively involved in our social environment and we are going to continue to bring economic and social improvements to it through the sustainable development of human resources skills and knowledge on multiple levels, which will be accessible to all people equally. Our organization is actively involved in empowering people from different groups, encouraging them on personal and professional level through implementation of multiple formal and non-formal educational programmes, individual and group targeted approaches and methods challenging their points of view and promoting lifelong learning as a value which can bring changes and improvements in people's lives and in the environment where we live. Activities of IC Geoss are carried out by 10 employees with masters degree level of education, pedagogical-andragogical studies or specializations and more than 100 contractual associates. In IC Geoss, approximately 1000 adult learners per year are involved in various educational programs. In our work we follow local, regional, national and wider European needs in line with European values. The quality of the educational process is managed by: - obtained the "POKI" certificate (Let’s offer quality adult education), which is carried out within the framework of the National Operational Program for Human Resources Development, -self-evaluation in accordance with the legislation and criteria NAKVIS - National Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Quality in Higher Education. We obtained again Erasmus charter for higher education – ECHE for programme period 2021- 2027 – CODE: SI LJUBLJA25 We have excellent material conditions for work: 4 general classrooms: in each with equipment for 30 people, 16x desk, 32x chairs, board, projector and projection screen, wireless internet, heating / air conditioning, access for disabled persons, computers, projection screen, LCD projector, flipchart. Computer classroom with appropriate / modern software, 18 screens 24 "; break room, meeting room - 20 participants. All rooms are accessible for disabled people. In case of organizing bigger events, we use conference rooms in the facility of Municipality of Litija.Key persons involved in the projects are: Sabina Rovšek, director has years of experience in managing and coordinating formal and non-formal adult educational programs and different national and European projects. She is a principal of secondary VET programmes and HVC programmes. She holds a master in lifelong learning management. As a member of the project groups, she has worked in

Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917

multiple projects financed by the ESF funds for education of marginalized groups. By now she has prepared several project applications and financial plans, coordinated partner activities and ensured the implementation of the planned tasks. Sandra Katić holds a master’s degree in History and master’s degree in Theology from the University of . She is a Head of Informal Education department in Education Centre GEOSS. She has years of experience in different types of curricular work, active participation in European projects and general contribution to the improvement of the quality of educational offer and life in the local community and wider. She managed and coordinated several formal and non-formal adult educational programmes and different National and European projects where she conducted researches and created innovative didactic approaches for different type of learners and developed new course material. She enhance professional learning through teacher story-telling, the use of visual methodology and classroom experiences. She works as a project manager and researcher on Erasmus+ projects, she is trainer of the trainers, she holds a diploma in the Art and Science of Neuro Linguistic programming, she is certified mentor of Study circles from Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE) and she is an additional expert associate of Academic quality assurance committee in department of Short-Cycle Higher Vocational Education. Sandra is mainly focused on developing new teaching methods on: pedagogy and andragogy, psychology, key competences for LLP, learning and teaching strategies, communication, intercultural curriculum, entrepreneurship, management, cultural heritage, leadership and transferable skills. Tjaša Kozlevčar is a bachelor of European Studies and second cycle graduate in International Business. She has extensive knowledge on the functioning of the EU, its institutions, polices, and critical thinking about global societal and business challenges. During her work, she gained experiences in the field of European cohesion policy; she worked on a project funded by the European social fund where she was responsible for carrying out project activities, reporting, organizing workshops, media relations, etc. Through her volunteer work for a NGO called Association for rural development, she was involved in several Key action 1 projects for young people under Erasmus + programme and in a programme Europe for Citizens - town twinning, where she helped coordinating the realization of the project, prepare materials and reports. Aleksandra Ceglar Vidmar started to gain work experience in the implementation of tasks at the Department of Environment and Spatial Planning in Municipality of Litija. She continued her work at the Development Centre Litija, where for almost 14 years she worked especially in the areas of European projects which represents an interest connection between the municipalities and the coordination of the Local Action Group in the field of rural development (LEADER or CLLD approach) and in Interreg Europe, Central Europe, Danube, MED and Alpine Space. In 2018, she continued her business career at the Public Institute Monastery Mekinje, where she worked for almost two years as acting director of the institution. In that time, in cooperation with the Municipality of , she contributed to the revival of the former Ursulin monastery into the new cultural and educational center of Kamnik. Jasmina Hlaj's formal profession is Slovene for native speakers teacher and art history teacher. She has several years of experiences with teaching in primary and high schools in Slovenia. She is focused on developing new teaching methods in formal and non-formal education. In her thesis titled Zgodovinski razvoj stripa in njegova edukativna vrednost (Historical development of comic book and its educative value) she was researching comic books with special attention to their potential as a pedagogic tool. She frequently uses comic books in her work with people in a formal or non-formal curriculum. She is co- founder of Utrinek sanj, Zavod za spodbujanje lepše prihodnosti where she develops and create mainly puppet related activities. Latest project where she participated as a co- mentor was workshop – production of a puppet movie from scratch – for youngsters and young adults. Jasmina has an extensive knowledge in Slovenian contemporary visual art, especially in a field of visual poetry, where she produced and/or prepared art exhibitions, wrote articles for accompanying catalogues, edited and proofread the catalogues. Currently she collaborates in few international Erasmus+ projects.

Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917

European Union granted project in the last 3 years Project Identification Applicant/ Project Acronym/ Project EU Programme Year or Contract Beneficiary Name Title Number Programme Erasmus+ Strategic OTA: Online Teaching Izobraževalni center Partnership 2020 KA2-SE-212/20 Advancement – Science Geoss d.o.o. for School through Art Education KA201 Programme Erasmus+ Strategic Combatting fake news in 2020 KA205-0CB9B61A Forwardspace MTÜ Partnerships social media - SPOTit for youth KA205 Programme Erasmus+ Strategic Gabinete de Upskilling by Creating Partnerships 2020 KA204-4E25ACDF Recolocación individualized Learning for adult Industrial Pathways education KA204 Programme Erasmus+ All In - All Inclusive – Strategic Akademie Klausenhof Adult Education and Partnerships 2020 KA204-9F715EE3 gGmbH Inclusion: new cooperative for adult approaches education KA204 Programme Erasmus+ FeSTEM - Female enpowerment Strategic Technologiko in Science, Technology, Partnership 2019 KA203-6B15AAF5 Panepistimio Kyprou Engineering and Mathematics for Higher in Higher Education Education KA203 Programme Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships Cultural entrepreneurship for 2019 KA202-5902A0C4 AARHUS UNIVERSITET for neets and start-ups - vocational RESONANT education and training KA202 Programme Erasmus+ Strategic Volkshochschule Learning Important Digital partnership 2019 KA204-E02CD356 Schrobenhausen ev Skills – LIDS for Adult Education KA204 Programme Erasmus+ 1st Generation, 2nd Chance: Strategic Let's fight School Dropout partnership 2019 KA204-B84B2724 CEPA Son Canals with Family and the for Adult Community Education KA204 Programme OpenEye - Open education for Erasmus+ University of South- Young Europeans through 2019 KA201-C3D02A3B Strategic Eastern Norway history, Art and Cultural Partnership Learning

Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917

for School Education KA201 Programme Erasmus+ K2 Cooperation Family education – MeTURA – for Back to the roots, innovation therapeutic family gardening Izobraževalni center and the 2018 KA2-AE-9/18 and therapeutic family Geoss d.o.o. exchange of cooking for independent life good of adult family members with practices intelectual disabilities Strategic partnership Programme Erasmus+ K2 ANCI LAZIO – HE.CO - Heritage Strategic 2018-1-IT02- Associazione 2018 Valorization for small local partnerships KA204-048199 Regionale dei Comuni communities for adult del Lazio education Integrated approaches to 595320-CITIZ-1- Europe for Unione degli sharing knowledge on Social 2018 2017-2-ITCITIZ- Citizens Assessorati Inclusion system of migrants NT role of EU Local Authorities Programme Erasmus+ K2 Cooperation for innovation RE-Inventing Europeans 2016-1-EL01- Eurocademy and the 2016 through History, Art and KA204-023722 Association exchange of Culture good practices Strategic partnership Programme Erasmus + K2 EE Advance - Entrepreneurial 2015-1-UK01- Strategic Ailsa Horizons Ltd and Employability KA202-013816 Partner- 2015 Advancement ships

Izobraževalni center Geoss d.o.o. DŠ: SI10607838 MŠ: 3394930000IBAN: SI56 0202 3025 7398 917