Tanja Lucaj

DIH Slovenia is a national one-stop-shop that provides, connects and supports knowledge, business and technology expertise, technologies, experimental and pilot environments, best practices, methodologies and other activities necessary to enable Slovenian industry to build digital competencies, innovation models and processes, support their digital transformation and increase their competitive advantage based on digitalization.

Severin Hutinski

The fundamental mission of the Central Slovenian Chamber of Commerce is to improve and shape the business environment, which consequently enables greater economic growth and competitiveness of companies from the region both domestically and internationally. At the same time, in accordance with the Chamber of Commerce Act, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (GZS) is an important and representative interlocutor of the state in shaping the economic system and economic policies, and it is a significant representative of the economy in international and chamber organizations.

Marjana SIJANEC ZAVRL

Building and Civil Engineering Institute ZRMK provides expert services and consultancy in the fields of materials and structures, living environment, building physics and energy, geotechnics and geology, transport and infrastructure, laboratory and in-situ investigations, and contributes to the sustainable development of Slovenian construction. We provide specialized training for engineers, architects, the public sector, investors, and building owners, we are an authorized training provider for energy performance certification experts.

Steiner Johane

The Greta du Velay is a public training organisation, managed under the supervision of Lycée Lafayette and gathering
21 educational institutions under the wing of the Ministry of Education (secondary schools, high schools and colleges). Around 70% of the activity consists in preparing qualified workers for companies and supporting their continuous learning
processes (analysis of needs, delivery of training, evaluation and follow up). Courses are organised in response to the local
and regional needs and to the demand of funders through call for projects. A variety of sectors are concerned such as
hospitality, cooking, industry (automation tools, maintenance, leatherwork…) and tertiary sectors (management, languages,
computing…). Courses can target the preparation of national diplomas or only the development of competences.
The other domain of activity consists in supporting the vocational inclusion of target groups such as young unemployed,
early school leavers, low skilled adults, migrants, through the development of basic skills (key competences, transversal
competences, digital literacy…), orientation and practices in companies, so that they are able to choose a career and
become employed.

Katarina Aškerc Zadravec

Ljubljana School of Business is an independent small private higher education institution in Slovenia, not belonging to any university. It provides professional study programmes fully accredited by The Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. LSB is entered in the register of state-approved study programmes providers at the responsible Ministry.
LSB has been established in 2010. It is owned by the company B2 which has been on the market since 1989 and is well- known in Slovenia for informal computer education and e-learning. LSB provides three bachelor’s study programmes (Business Informatics, Management, and Marketing Communication & PR), and two master’s study programmes (Management and Informatics and Marketing Management).

Štefan Čelan

SRC Bistra Ptuj is the leading development institution and acts as a mediator between the public and the private sector. As such, Bistra will continue with the promotion of economic and social development of the region and with the creation of conditions for spreading and managing knowledge at local and regional level. Our aim is to improve development dynamics within the region.

Prof. Dr. S. Alev SÖYLEMEZ

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University has the advantage of being born from Gazi University, one of Turkiye’s earliest and biggest educational institutions. Accordingly, Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences has continued its activities with the same highly qualified academic staff and physical facilities since it was opened in 1955.

With nine faculties, three vocational schools, three colleges and a conservatory, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University is Turkey’s youngest but the most experienced higher education institution.

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University is committed to significantly contributing to Turkish academic life as a research university specialising in social and administrative sciences.

Grecu Liliana

INCSMPS is a research self-financed Romanian institution, participating to the competitions by submitting the project proposals on the National and International research programmes. It has as object of activity: research and development in the field of social and humanist sciences, which fall into: CAEN code 7320, UNESCO code 5802.01. The institute’s main object of activity is to „carry out studies and research with theoretical-applicative character in fields of national interest regarding the human resources management, social development and social protection in Romania” The institute’s research activity is developed around 8 main thematic areas:

1. Family Policies, Social Assistance and Social Insurances,Labour Market and Employment Policies,
2. Human Capital Development, Training and Lifelong Learning,
3. Labour Market and Employment Policies,Labour Market’s Dynamics,
4. Labour Market’s Dynamics,
5. Equal Opportunities and Labour Market Vulnerabilities,
6. School-To-Work Transition and Mobility,
7. Social Inclusion, Poverty and Social Cohesion,
8. Wage Policies, Industrial Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Apart from the research activity in social and humanist sciences (NACE code 7220 – UNESCO code 5302.02), INCSMPS carries out other related activities, such as training or specialized consultancy. Based on a supple organizational structure, appropriate for “management by objectives” and “project management” approaches, the research activity is carried out in interdisciplinary teams (including researchers with different backgrounds and expertise: psychology, economy, sociology, pedagogy, etc).
As National Research Institute, INCSMPS is an organization in coordination of Romanian Ministry of Labour and Social Justice, which means that is is closely involved in the providing scientific arguments, information and data, to the decisions makers, for developing and implement the strategies and programmes.

Seda Naz Gunday

self-Learn is planned to be an innovative, extendible, and expandable mobile tool allowing the self-determination of the state of literacies/illiteracies of adults (level of their low-skilledness) and offering them upskilling to the next level and finally furnishing them with self-assessment mechanism aiming the valuation of their perception for seeing results of their upskilling efforts and in parallel, their self-development rates.

Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal

CTCP is a private, non-profit research institute and VET provider, founded in 1986, with more than 500 private companies as members, employs 65 engineers, senior specialists, technicians and trainers and works with approximately 30 external consultants/trainers in a regular basis. CTCP has premises in S. João da Madeira (near Porto) and Felgueiras, the North of Portugal, the two largest industrial area of Footwear in Portugal. CTCP aims at supporting all companies of the Footwear and Fashion cluster which is represented by 1900 SMEs.

The most relevant CTCP’s activities are: Quality Control Laboratory, Consultancy, Training, Marketing and Promotion, Research and Development, Health & Safety, Environment, Business Intelligence, Studies and comparative Research, Design and Prototyping, Gab Lab, Digital manufactuing and i4.0. In the field of training/employment CTCP is certified for providing Training by the Portuguese Government and offers more than 5.000 training hours per year of vocational and non-vocational training through classical training, work-based learning, training-action, e-learning, among other models and services, to more than 1500 people from low skilled to specialists in a regular basis.

CTCP has a wide experience in promoting, coordinating and collaborating with innovative projects, at national and international level in the field of R&D and Training/Employment, piloting innovative and green and digital solutions.