Proiect promoter

Skills for Care and Development
Skills for Care and Development is the Sector Skills Council for social care, early years, children and young people’s workforces in the UK. It is an Alliance of 5 organizations:
- Care Council for Wales
- Children’s Workforce Development Council in England
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Scottish Social Services Council
- Skills for Care, the former Topss England, now dealing with adult social care in England
Skills for Care and Development is licensed by government to represent the interests of some 60,000 employers and 1.6 million workers. These staff are employed by a range of organizations - both public authorities and independent organizations, often commissioned by the public sector to deliver services but sometimes employed directly by people who receive the services.
In all cases, our drive is for appropriately skilled and qualified workers to meet the UK's current and future social care needs. To this end we work closely with service users and careers, education and training providers, national stakeholders and the health sector.
http://www.skillsforcareanddevelopment.org.uk  

Direktorenverein Österreichischer Sozialberufsbildung
DIVOS is the association of school managers/directors in the Austrian area of
social professions (social care; Sozialbetreuung). It is the only Austrian network
of social care education and therefore its influence covers the entire sector in Austria. In this project DIVOS will be responsible for piloting and evaluating the project materials in Austria.
www.divos.at

European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities
EASPD promotes the equalization of opportunities for people with disabilities, across disability and across Europe, through effective and high quality service systems. Main objectives are achieved through the so-called three pillars of EASPD:

• IMPACT: monitoring, responding to and influencing development of European policies
• INFORMATION: services to members (newsflashes, newsletters, network opportunities…)
• INNOVATION: Research and development (European Transnational projects)

EASPD today represents 8000 service providers’ organization throughout Europe and is the mouthpiece of the sector in both EU and CoE.
www.easpd.org

Association of Care Educators in Europe
ACE Europe is an European association of principals of vocational education in the field of social care for people with (learning) disabilities.
Our central concern is the development of a common European identity in the field of vocational training for social and social pedagogic work or social care for persons with disabilities
www.ace-europe.info/

Centro de Educação para o Cidadão Deficiente
C.E.C.D. – Centro de Educação para o Cidadão Deficiente (Education Centre for the Handicapped Citizen) – is a Solidary Non Profitable Cooperative, recognised officially as an Institution of Public Utility. It was founded in 1976 by Technical Staff and Parents of Children with Disability. Nowadays, C.E.C.D. attends more than 600 persons with intelectual disability and it has specific services and therapeutic programs for all ages and abilities, in order to enable and ensure the well being of the users, as well as their autonomy, independence and social inclusion.
In the ECC Project, C.E.C.D. is responsible to develop a pilot in Portugal and to create links with training providers and deliverers in order to develop assessment qualification standards and vocational training programmes. 
http://www.cecdmirasintra.org

Fundaţia Alpha Transilvană
Alpha Transilvana Foundation is an NGO which lends social support to the community, from children and adults with physical or mental disabilities to elderly people. Alpha’s priority is to create, develop and apply programs and projects for human beings with special needs. Objectives of the Alpha Transilvana Foundation include: prevention, early intervention and recuperation for children with neuro–psycho-motorial disabilities; vocational orientation for young adults with disabilities; social, medical, and psychological assistance for the elderly people. This organisation represents values, change and movement. 
www.alphatransilvana.ro/

Association for Real Change
ARC is a UK wide umbrella charity representing the interests of around 450 service providers who support people with a learning disability in the UK. A major part of its role is the promotion of education and training  amongst the workforce in the sector.  It also promotes best practice, service diversity, and represents the views of providers at a local, regional, national and European level. ARC believes that people with a learning disability should be enabled to be in control of their own lives to the greatest possible extent and that all services should promote rights, inclusion, choice and independence throughout the EU.  ARC is a delivery partner in the UK for the ECC and originally proposed
the idea for the project.
www.arcuk.org.uk

Social Care Institute for Excellence
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom.  Its aim is to identify good practice and help to embed it in everyday social care provision.
SCIE does this by:

• disseminating knowledge-based good practice guidance
• involving service users, practitioners, providers and policy makers in advancing and promoting good practice in social care
• enhancing the skills and professionalism of social care workers through tailored, targeted and user-friendly resources.

SCIE’s work supports the whole range of social care services for both children and adults. It covers physical, sensory and learning disabilities, older people's services, fostering and adoption, substance misuse and mental health.
www.scie.org.uk

Social Association St. Andrew
Is a German - Bulgarian Non-Profit Organisation.

This is a joint NGO shared between Germany and Bulgaria specialising in support services in the field of health, social work and education.

The Association is recognised officially as an Institution of Public Utility. Its Members are the Liebenau Foundation, the St. Francis Heiligenbronn Foundation, both working on a catholic base, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Metropolis of Varna and Veliki Preslav.

It was an early adopter of the ECC and is promoting it within Bulgaria where there is a need for such an award.

www.asociacija-sv-andrej.org