Our team

Education Centre Geoss is non-profit adult education center founded and owned by the Municipality of Litija. They are implementing publicly recognized formal secondary education programs for adults, higher educational programs for adults, informal publicly valid educational trainings for young people and non-formal education programmes for different target groups for more than 60 years. In recent years, increasing attention has been given to various projects that develop and encourage lifelong learning among different target groups, mainly vulnerable, and to implementation of social and digital agenda, regional development and territorial cooperation, encouraging the development of youth programmes and entrepreneurship in the region. At our work we follow the local, regional and wider national and European goals and needs and thus addressing different strategies at all levels.

Land is a non-profit social enterprise created to support research and innovation in the field of agriculture, thanks to national and international initiatives focused on ecological transition, environmental, economic and social sustainability.

Land can count on a farmstead located in the Palermo area. It is a cutting-edge agri-working space immersed in a beautiful natural landscape, capable of hosting the beneficiaries of its environmental, educational and cultural activities, along with its staff. Land promotes a green revolution by aiming at innovating and encouraging entrepreneurial projects in different domains, including rural development, community resilience, renewable energy, ecological transition, sustainable tourism and mobility and the creation of a Living Lab in the area. Our team organises environmental education activities targeted at disadvantaged groups, youth and women, collaborating with schools and local educational agencies.

Euracademy Association is a non-profit European membership organisation officially established in 2004, with headquarters in Athens, Greece. Euracademy’s vision is to promote capacity building in rural areas through lifelong learning and transfer of good practice and cooperation between different actors of rural development in the EU. The Association has members from over 20 European countries, including universities, research institutions, academics, policy makers, social partners, local development managers and others. The Association has conducted a multiplicity of activities, including regular face-to-face learning in 18 annual summer academies, one online summer academy, e-learning courses, publication of over 16 books, networking, research, project work, and has organised numerous conferences. The Euracademy network carries the experience of 19 years of developing and implementing capacity building and lifelong learning initiatives for sustainable rural development across Europe, taking an integrated approach to rural development, i.e. considering all the different sides of development and the different routes that can be used to achieve a sustainable future.

Xwhy specializes in applied humanities and social sciences, our team is striving to explore social, cultural, ethical and other everyday contexts of people and to find sustainable solutions for the issues. Our aim is to pioneer a new, enriched vision of research and design practices – a well-thought combination of both empowers to make better decisions and create an impact. Our focus is sustainability and culture related projects. We base our work on participatory research and active stakeholders’, communities’ involvement in the process.

The activities of the non-profit association “Caminos” founded in 2014 are dedicated to the field of education and social work.

Our name “Caminos” (Spanish for “paths”) indicates the importance of finding new ways to reach goals and discover individual resources and opportunities to overcome challenges together. We focus on the development and adaptation of innovative methods on a European, as well as on a national level in Spain.

Our main objectives include fostering exchange and communication, improving individual opportunities of development, supporting the social inclusion of young people and disadvantaged people and developing innovative methodologies in the field of training, education and social development through national and international cooperation.

The Agricultural Institute of Slovenia is the leading research institute in the field of agriculture in Slovenia. It comprehensively deals with the issues of modern agriculture and is expanding its activities into the fields of environmental protection and ecology.

The Agricultural Institute of Slovenia is a public non-profit research institute that performs fundamental, applied and development research and specialist tasks in agriculture, publishes the results of scientific research work as well as professional and supervision work, performs tasks based on authorisations and accreditations and checks the quality of agricultural products and products used in agriculture.

The Institute also engages in the training of producers, education of young persons and consultation for various users in agriculture.