Bildung und Project Netzwerk (BUPNET) is an Adult Education provider with extensive experience in supporting adult learners from all sectors in Germany. Established in 1985 as a provider of adult education in the fields of project management, vocational training and counselling, BUPNET has a strong multi-disciplinary team which develops and implements innovative training and consultancy projects locally, nationally and across Europe. The main focus of these projects is:

• the job security and career development of employees mainly small and medium enterprises and the consequent promotion of businesses
• the professional reintegration of jobseekers
• the development and testing of innovative educational approaches and methods

With a strong commitment to supporting continuing Professional Education they have helped many thousands of people to successfully meet the demands of a constantly changing world of work. BUPNET has an extensive network of cooperation partners eg chambers and associations, universities, municipalities and professional institutions both within Germany and across Europe.

CATRO Bulgaria is part of a leading Austrian consultancy company for education and training – dieBerater® which provides various trainings for individuals and organisations. Building on this solid international experience, and combining it with the local expertise of highly qualified national experts, CATRO Bulgaria provides consultancy services in the fields of strategic HR development and management, leadership and organisational change. It also offer career counselling, career planning and personal development coaching to individuals and teams.

die Berater is an Adult Education provider which focuses on vocational training and human resource development. It has over 50 centres in Austria and also centres in Slovakia, Slovenia and Bulgaria. With a broad portfolio in further education and training die Berater is amongst the largest private educational institutes in Austria. die Berater supports more than 20,000 learners per year many of them on job orientation and vocational qualification programmes delivered on behalf of the Austrian employment service.

Folkuniversitetet (FU) is a national Adult Education Association offering a wide range of VET and adult education training courses throughout Sweden and in several European countries. Through the cooperation with other FU offices in Sweden, FU-Uppsala has a national coverage. A leading provider of Adult Education and Lifelong learning in Sweden, FU-Uppsala has a long tradition of successfully introducing new teaching methods into adult education, including the latest developments in ICT. It provides both formal and non-formal educational opportunities and offers specific support for various disadvantaged groups eg. the unemployed, low-skilled, immigrants, refugees, people with physical and mental disabilities, and NEETS. The organisation is focused on the development of interventions that addresses social issues for various disadvantaged target groups in order to promote social/labour market inclusion.

VIFIN is a knowledge and research centre established by the Municipality of Vejle to collect and process knowledge on integration, and to develop and implement integration projects and activities. It creates, disseminates and mainstreams good practice on integration and social development at the local, regional, national and international levels with the vision to be the leader in knowledge building, dialogue and innovation on integration and development. VIFIN’s project portfolio ranges from online platforms for teaching Danish as a second language, to promoting entrepreneurship amongst migrants, strategies to include ICT in integration and cultural exchange among migrants through networking activities.

VIFIN has an established leadership in the use of digital-based technologies in language learning and integration. It provides training courses for teachers in e- and m-pedagogy and supports the development of migrant and refugee integration methodologies in partnership with institutions from Denmark and other European countries.

VIFIN works through a large network of language schools and learning institutions, NGOs, municipalities and regions and organisations engaged in integration work in Denmark and in Europe.