Project Towards and European Teacher Portfolio

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BalkanPlan Ltd. Company presentation 99
G.S.Rakovski street, Sofia 1000,
Bulgaria www.balkanplan.eu

• Project Towards and European Teacher Portfolio
• Meeting 8 10 Dec. 2008, Konya, Turkey

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Description

• BalkanPlan Ltd is a consulting company located in
  Sofia, Bulgaria.
• BalkanPlan Ltd provides consulting services,
  technical support and project materialization in
  the following sectors
• Education and training
• Information and communication technologies
• Research and technological development
• International relations
• We specialize in subjects concerning policies,
  projects and initiatives of the European Union
  and national initiatives.

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Education and training services
Main field of consulting activities Supporting
modernisation of education and training in the
context of the Information and Knowledge based
society and the actual needs of the labour
market. We focus our activities on initial and
continuous vocational education and training as
well as education and training programmes for
adults.

• Types of consulting services
• Preparation and realization of projects and
  initiatives related to initial and continuous
  technological and vocational training and
  education of adults
• Elaboration of situational and training needs
  analyses, market researches and final users
  satisfaction analyses policy assessment
  analyses
• Provision of feedback for the educational
  systems, thereby improving the existing methods
  and approaches in the fields of training and
  education as these have been developed at
  European level

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Education and training services - 2

• Types of consulting services
• Elaboration and localisation of innovative
  materials for education and training adapted to
  the new society requirements
• Cooperation strategy Establishing networks
  bringing together all relevant players in the
  educational process like teachers, policy makers,
  industry, local authorities, parents, NGOs,
  technology providers, etc. and providing floor
  for discussions (organizing conferences,
  seminars, focus groups, etc.)
• Identifying and analyzing good practices and
  developing specific plans for their transfer into
  a new context.

Our partners and clients Public authorities
(central and local (municipalities)), state
agencies, universities and other education and
training providers, NGOs, social partners, SMEs,
etc.
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The project Care Talents

• Care Talents is a Multilateral project for
  transfer of innovation developed under the
  sectoral programme Leonardo da Vinci (Lifelong
  Learning programme)
• The period of its realisation is from 2007 to
  2009.
• The aim of the project is transfer into the
  Italian context the system for validation of
  informal learning, currently operating in France
  ( V.A.E.) by the development of a specific set of
  instruments (grids, procedures, exercises and
  evaluation tools) covering the recognition of
  competences of people working in the social
  sector acquired during their work experience. The
  project aims also to assess the conditions for
  the transferability of the model and tools in
  Bulgaria.
• Project partnership Italy (coordinator), France
  and Bulgaria,
• For more information www.caretalents.it

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