Partners

Asociatia Oamenilor de Afaceri Arges

Arges County Businessman Association (AOA Arges) is an NGO, which was constituted in 2003, and has at the present time over 100 members from different sectors of activity, that play a big role in our regional development, our association being one of the social partners for discussions with Pitesti City Hall and Arges County Council.

Arges County Businessman Association organizes business events, training/educational courses and services for employees to step up their adaptability to change.

AOA Arges promote entrepreneurship and innovation, support for self-employment and business start-up. In cooperation with local universities, we offer trainings and internships to students and we also offer counselling in order to help them start their own business.

AOA AG promotes innovative teaching methods for educational practitioners (pedagogues, school educators, VET teachers) aiming to develop their teaching skills by equipping instructional materials, provide rich, relevant and innovative experiential learning methods.

AOA AG organize different qualification trainings and informal education: retail, IT, communication, work skills, developing soft skills, getting to work on time, getting along with others, sensitivity trainings and e-learning, our experts being experienced trainers, authorized by the National Agency for Qualification

Case

CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research is an independent, non-profit economic and public policy research institution established in 1991 in Warsaw. CASE carries out policy-oriented research and development assistance projects, aiming to provide objective economic analysis and to promote constructive solutions to the challenges of transition, reform, integration and development in order to improve the socio-economic well-being of societies.

CASE thematic areas include microeconomics and macroeconomics, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), trade, international finance, governance and political economy. Particular attention has been given to the European integration process and globalization, as well as EU relations with other regions of the world, including transatlantic relationship.

Today, we seek to take an active role in the debates on how best to meet the political and economic challenges facing the EU, including the issue surrounding monetary union. CASE has extensive experience in working with the international donor community: numerous assignments for the European Parliament, various Directorates-General of the European Commission, the Open Society Institute, Eurofound, UNDP, USAID and the World Bank. CASE relies on its pool of internationally-recognized economic experts and Warsaw-based staff to carry activities including conducting independent, high-quality research and analysis; advising governments, international organizations and the NGO sector; informing and encouraging public debate; disseminating economic knowledge and research results.

Idec

IDEC is a training consulting company located in Piraeus, Greece. The services offered span from training, management consulting, quality assurance, evaluation, and development of ICT solutions for the private and public sectors.

IDEC is an accredited lifelong learning center and organises in-service training courses for teachers and trainers, study visits, and informal learning activities for students in initial education and training and provides training courses and work placements for students in vocational training and people in the labor market.

IDEC has a long-standing experience in European projects, where it has been involved for around 30 years. We have worked under different programs and on different policies, especially in the area of Education and Quality: EQF, ECVET, Europass, EQAVET, validation of non-formal and informal learning, and in national reforms of education and training systems.

Aksantys

Aksantys is an independent, multi-disciplinary non-profit organization aimed at supporting and creating innovative IT solutions and educational programmes to boost the digital transformation in Europe and abroad. By possessing and developing unique abilities to collaborate jointly at the entrepreneurial, as well as policy making level, Aksantys’ mission is to strengthen the potential of the digital transformation to improve the economic welfare of societies.

Established in the UK and rebranded in France, Aksantys today provides innovative IT tools and programmes to the private and public sector, as well as policy advices and education in the field of digitalization in vocational education and training.

Drawing on an experienced in-house team, a network of experts and partners, Aksantys’ activities are territorially focused at the EU and African level.

Camin Alexia

Camin Alexia was incorporated in 2016 as a limited liability company. We carry out “activities of old people’s homes and homes for people who are unable to take care of themselves”, therefore in the social health care sector.

Our activity involves providing health care and individual care services for the elderly or disabled, who are unable to care for themselves and / or who do not want to lead an independent life. Care usually includes accommodation, boarding house, supervision and assistance in daily life, for example housekeeping services.

The activity takes place in 2 establishments, located in Pitesti, Arges county. We have over 60 beneficiaries, with greater or lesser health problems. Our activity has an eminently social character, but we also solve certain economic needs, both of the society and of the community as a whole: – the need of small private producers (agricultural, farmers) to sell products, of the market for what they produce in their households. – the need to increase the number of employees and to increase the revenues to the State Budget, through the taxes and fees paid. – reducing the number of unemployed in Arges county / South-Muntenia region and implicitly the pressure on the state budget. – the need of the state for taxes. – the need of employers to have employees with as few responsibilities as possible outside of work, to have the freedom and willingness to quietly engage in work issues, without having other constraints and concerns, thus being more attentive and involved in the activity daily from the company where he works.

We have 12 employees and about 20 collaborators, the main departments being: supply department public relations department financial department administrative department We have collaborations with similar units from our country, but also from abroad.

Gorna

The Greek Operating Room Nurses Association (GORNA) is a scientific non-profit association, operating since 1987 and representing more than 1,000 members who endorse its mission, that aims to promote, develop and maintain a high level of Perioperative Nursing (Operating Room, Sterilisation, Anaesthesiology).

GORNA organizes meetings and seminars all around Greece, as well as the annual Panhellenic Congress of Perioperative Nursing, while also publishes scientific handbooks and the scientific e-journal “Perioperative Nursing”, which has received national recognition. GORNA is also an active member and participates in EORNA, WFHSS, IFPN, IFNA and AORN.”

Panagia of Elpida

The Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul of the Catholic Church came to Greece for the first time in 1841, and settled in Santorini. They stayed there for 116 years until 1957 when they served the poor people of the island with various projects.

Four Sisters came to Ano Syros in 1872-1874. Their stay was short due to financial difficulties that did not allow them to properly secure a proper operation of their particular mission in the then rudimentary Workhouse “Agios Panteleimon-Agios Rocco” of the Catholic Church, next to Agios Sevastianos.

They returned to Syros in 1884 and settled in Ermoupolis at the invitation of the then Bishop.

In 1887 Sisters from the Ermoupolis community returned to Ano Syros and with sponsorship from the Catholic Diocese and the French Consulate, the rudimentary workhouse, complete with a new wing, was now operated as a French Hospital until 1952. Thereafter, it operated as a Nursing Home until July 1977.

In Ermoupoli in 1884 they settled in an old house near Agios Nikolaos. They bought 3 old houses near the Catholic Church of Evaggelistria, where they started in the early 1900s, the construction of the Foundation on the present Kalomenopoulou Street, which operated until 1974 as a school, orphanage, boarding school and French language school under the name of “Agios Vikentios”.

In 1975, work began on the building and its conversion to accommodate the 24 elderly people of Ano Syros and several others in July 1977 and it was renamed the “Panagia of Hope” HOSPITAL.

The purpose of the structure is to house, feed and care for our elderly fellow citizens regardless of religion and creed.

The “Panagia tis Elpidos” Retreat House accommodates 35 elderly people aged 80 – 99 years old and employs 24 staff members, of which 15 are elderly care workers, 5 nurses and 10 cabin attendants (caregivers).

We provide social care and primary health care services as well as psychological support to the residents.

We have a physiotherapy room, sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation since 2012, for the needs of the elderly for kinesitherapy, and occupational therapy is also provided to the elderly by the volunteer Sisters.