Centrul Pentru Promovarea Invatarii Permanente is a Romanian NGO that works in Lifelong Learning since 2005. CPIP is committed to mainstreaming the principle of equal opportunities for all citizens in the public policies and associated practices, as an integral part of democratization and the creation of an open society, to re-define the status of community co-production in all areas related to lifelong learning. We support initiatives and run programs and projects that aim at cooperating and innovating for good practices in this field. This is done by taking part at diverse European initiatives and then mainstreaming in the regional activities the developed products and results. Our organization supports initiatives and runs programs and projects that aim at cooperating and innovating for good practices. CPIP’s main objective is to promote the lifelong learning through all relevant stakeholders. This is done by taking part at diverse European initiatives and then mainstreaming in the regional activities the developed products and results. We have so far worked in the area of:
- promotion of entrepreneurship in youth and special needs groups;
- social entrepreneurship;
- in social responsibility as part of two national networks;
- in regional development by working in health and safety for agricultural sector and in training rural developers;
- in SME development through collaboration with SME supporting bodies and by developing tools for integration of mobility workers.
We carry out several activities during the implementation of European projects, some of them are training, facilitating, counselling and integrating on the labor market disadvantaged persons, persons from rural and remote areas; creating teaching materials; organizing training sessions, multiplier events, conferences, meetings, etc.; work with youth, disadvantaged groups; promoting, disseminating and exploiting the products and results of projects, during their lifetime and beyond. The complex team of our organization is used in working in multicultural contexts with partners all-over Europe and in several cross-cutting areas, developing and implementing with monitoring and reporting activities at partnership level: custom dissemination strategies, tools and reports including project-targeted websites & social media, projects’ sustainability strategies, tools and reports, internal quality assurance at partnership level, including a high-level team of external evaluators where required, testing and piloting packages for trainings and tools developed in projects, including the setting up of plans, monitoring & reporting tools, up to developing partnership level reports of the tests and pilots with recommendations of adapting and adjusting, research packages on different education topics at European level, from scanning public policy down to the grass-root level of interviewing professionals. As we are team-players we were eager to join several networks relevant to our field of work: European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA), Dialogical Trainers’ Network organized by University of Leipzig; European Network for Local Development organized by the European Institute for Local development; KeyCoNET, an European policy network focused on identifying and analysing initiatives on the implementation of key competences in primary and secondary school education; European Policy Network on School Leadership through ESHA affiliation. Societal Network coordinated by Repere 21 and CRIES organizations, with the collaboration of National Agency for Community Programmes; RSC Social Network coordinated by Junior Chambers International, Romania;