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Miðstöð símenntunar á Suðurnesjum (MSS) is a self-owned educational institution operating in the southwest of Iceland. It was founded in 1997 by the local communities, the labour unions, the Sudurnes Comprehensive College, key companies and the National Workers/Educational Association in Iceland.
Today there are 18 staff members, around 2.000 students and around 600 immigrants who study at MSS.
The main objective of MSS is to promote and assist in adult education in the community, with special attention to the increase of continuing education, increased personal skills and qualifications, as well as promoting the general well-being of the community.
The institution cooperates with schools at the university level, private schools, specialized schools and individual instructors.
The organization provides study and career counselling, diploma bridges, Icelandic for foreigners and different courses for immigrants.

BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH was founded in 1990 as an independent Austrian organisation for providing continuous training, vocational qualification and career services. Its main activities comprise the development of innovative training programmes for young (16+) individuals and adults, many of them disadvantaged and with migration background, on continuous and vocational training, counselling & coaching and activation for job seekers and employees. The training schemes are client-oriented and based on both the specific needs of the labour market and the participants’ individual situations, skills and competencies, previous experience and life circumstances.
The institute has its headquarters in Vienna and operates branches in the Vienna region for up to 15,000 learners per year with some 200 staff members. The innovative training programmes for different target groups include their own pedagogic and didactic approaches and materials, especially for social integration, empowerment, self-reflection and motivation, as well as ICT-based methods which are constantly being updated. As one of the first training institutes in Austria, BEST has become a certified provider of the ECDL European Computer Driving Licence, EBCL European Business Competence Licence and ECo-C European Communication Certificate, and offers respective training and exams. Since 2008, BEST has been an official CERTNÖ Training Centre certified by Danube University Krems and approved by the Lower Austria Government.

INTEMPORE was established in August 2021 as an organisation with the key scope of action “support activities in the field of education”, National Classifier of Economic Activities. The company was founded by Boriana Georgieva who is an international expert with many years of experience in managing, implementing and evaluating international programmes and projects in the fields of education and training, skills development and social inclusion.
INTEMPORE’s main goal is to contribute to enhancing the quality and relevance of education and training at national and international levels by developing personalised solutions in line with specific needs, as well as by consulting key stakeholders on how to enhance their services/offers. The company operates around four pillars: methodological support; training; advocacy; and evaluation. INTEMPORE collaborates with European partners (ranging from publishing houses to VET and HE providers) and with numerous VET schools and employer companies in Bulgaria.

DEKAPLUS is a training and business-consulting organisation, primarily focusing on the development of competencies and skills of SME management and first-line staff. SMEs, although they are the heart of every European economy, often lack skills and competencies due to a lack of resources or lack of strategic planning. DEKAPLUS’ primary line of business is to step into the SME and identify weaknesses that deprive its potential and offer remedies to eliminate them. In most cases, such remedies include training or the establishment of management systems to control and moderate the source of underperformance.

DEKAPLUS has members of staff who are trainers and consultants. Some of the trainings are delivered by a pool of external professional trainers and experts, each carrying a specific specialisation. Some of the courses lead to national (National Qualification System) or international certifications (BTEC, ACTA, ELA etc). DEKAPLUS also offers intensive courses as well as night courses to satisfy all levels of demand.

AEGARE is a business association that was founded in July 2011 to strengthen relations between Galician entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs based in Aragón and the banks of the Ebro. Since its inception, it has been supported by the Galician Institute for Economic Promotion (IGAPE) which belongs to the Xunta de Galicia.
The purpose of the Association, as an intersectoral business organization, is to:

Contribute to the improvement of the techniques of business management. Encourage the development of activities related to training for employment, research, development and economic innovation.

Organize meetings to exchange experiences and foster interrelation, to mutual collaboration.

Develop research projects and study of sectoral and territorial fields in the fields of training, social, economic, and
environmental, and all those related to the activity of the associates.