The Office InterActors core partnership is made of 7 institutions from 6 European countries:

1.   EuroEd Foundation, Iasi - Romania 

www.euroed.ro
EuroEd Foundation have been highly active in the field of education for fifteen years, coordinating and participating in over 20 EU funded project, offering a vast array of foreign language courses and professional training courses, depending on our students’ learning aims and level, a private kindergarten and primary school where children are educated towards a European citizenship based on communication, initiative and creativity. EuroEd’s relevant experience lies with co-ordinating and participating in EU funded projects, as well as in strategies and methodologies of co-operation at local, regional, national and trans-national level. In addition, EuroEd Foundation co-ordinated and implemented over 20 national and international educational projects (educational management, teacher training, professional development of various categories of professionals, etc) since 1995. EuroEd is a founder member of QUEST (The Romanian Association for Quality Language Services).
 
2.    DHE Solutions Ltd., Lancaster - United Kingdom

www.dhesolutions.co.uk
DHE Solutions Ltd. is a private limited company registered in England. Its primary activity is consultancy in Education and Regeneration with a focus on Evaluation, Research and Development, European Programmes, Systems design and Grant acquisition. It is an SME with two permanent full-time staff and up to 4 part-time associate staff. It has extensive expertise in evaluation and, in relation to the proposed project, its Managing Director David Evans worked with one of the partners in the original InterAct project. Through  this involvement, DHE Solutions has built up an expertise in arranging, delivering and disseminating good practice around the InterAct model of online training. DHE Solutions was involved in evaluation of the InterAct project and is currently an evaluator on Grundtvig and Comenius programmes, as well as many education projects in the UK.
 
3. ISSA    - San Sebastian, Spain

www.unav.es

The University of Navarra has received official approval of its  4-year Degree in Management Assistance, which commences this academic year 2009-2010 in ISSA School of Management Assistants, the new denomination of the institute.
The qualification responds to the demand in the workplace for graduates with this profile, in the context of a globalized world in constant change. The complex management models in modern organizations require Management Assistants with a university degree who can liaise between Management and other levels. They will have specific skills and knowledge of the business world, as well as being fluent in at least two foreign languages.This type of university graduate already exists in other countries, where similar degrees, such as Management Assistant and Office Management, are offered.
The degree course will provide future graduates with the knowledge and competences needed to be able to manage the flow of work and communication in multicultural environments and to develop and maintain an extensive network of contacts which will facilitate this communication. In addition, the syllabus is designed to help students develop their own personality in all aspects: scientific, cultural, human, etc., while also stimulating their critical capacity and awareness of social problems.

4. SIH - Vilnius, Lithuania

www.sih.lt

Soros International House Vilnius (SIH) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1993. It is an affiliated member of the International House World Organization, a member of the Lithuanian Association of Adult Education, a member of the International FocusEd association, a Center of Foreign Language Teacher Training, recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania. SIH is IH World Organization approved Teacher Training Center as well as approved examination centre of Instituto Cervantes for Spanish and Pearson authorized tests centre PTE for English languages.

SIH activities include language  teaching  to adults and younger learners (12 languages),preparation for Cambridge Exams  and US school Admission tests, local and international Teacher- training programs, IH Consultancy-educational programs, seminars, conferences, orientated towards civil servants and business people, who seek to improve their professional and personal competences.
SIH has got experience in creating and participating in many international projects (Socrates Grundtvig and Lingua, Leonardo da Vinci), involved in Lifelong Learning Programme and NordPlus, has explicit experience in Adult Education, Intercultural Learning and Active Citizenship, Teacher-training, Language teaching and promotion. SIH long experience in coordinating projects was evaluated  on national  and international levels.  Two coordinated projects were awarded   European Label. Lingua 1 project was selected among 8 best projects for  presenting during  European Language day projects fair in 2008 in Brussels, and Grundtvig 2 project was presented during   Grundtvig 10th year anniversary conference, others included into the compendiums of good practice examples.

5.  Kindersite Project Ltd - New Barnet, UK

www.kindersite.org
 
6.  Educational programmes consult Ltd., BG

7.  GRETA du Velay, France

http://cri.velay.greta.fr

The GRETA du Velay - certified ISO 9001:2000 - is a regional group of 21 public educational establishments under the wing of the French Ministry of education. With 45 trainers, it is specialised in continuous and vocational training in various areas (audiovisual, catering, cooking, tourism, vocational integration, rural development, languages, management, industry, etc.). It co-ordinates a network of open learning centres in rural places. The transversal expertise includes training needs analysis, course design, community development, tutors training and development of e-learning services taking into account accessibility. It is part of the 258 GRETA network. Since 1992, it has implemented actions and research projects to develop the use of IT for all (young dissocialised, older people, immigrants, rural inhabitants?). It is board member of Creatif, the French non-profit organisation promoting open access to ICT. It is the French promoter of the European charter for social and digital inclusion.