FUNGIPRENEURS
FUNGIPRENEURS project form a community of practice integrated by 6 entities from Spain, Portugal, Austria, Cyprus and Ireland representing adult education providers, entities supporting vulnerable groups and experts in mycology, rural development, social entrepreneurship and digital transformation.
Technology-based forestry company (ETB) spinoff of the University of Valladolid, founded in 2009 and based in Palencia, Valladolid and Ávila that ensures sustainable forest management and its natural resources. Leader in Applied Mycology, which develops new research in the environment, innovates in forest management and cooperates in rural development. ECM is an innovative SME company, with 7 awards in innovation and entrepreneurship, highlighting the 1st Award of Excellence for Innovation for Rural Women (2010) from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPAMA). The services offered focus on forest management, climate change, CO2 reduction, environmental training and R&D projects linked to natural resources.
DISRUPTIA is at the forefront of digital transformation, dedicated to harnessing the potential of smart technologies to pave the way for a sustainable future society. As a digital transformation specialist, DISRUPTIA empowers educational institutions and public bodies by helping them set precise digital strategy objectives. The company's mission includes nurturing a robust digital education ecosystem and boosting digital skills crucial for digital change. DISRUPTIA's strategy encompasses the creation and deployment of cutting-edge solutions aimed at enhancing infrastructure and digital literacy, promoting effective capacity planning, and updating organizational skills. It also focuses on aiding educators to embrace digital methods confidently, advocating for continuous learning and staff upskilling.
Founded in 2017, Mindshift is a consultancy that elevates human capital, enhancing digital and interpersonal competencies within organizations and the broader society. With a footprint in both national and international markets, Mindshift's expertise spans a variety of crucial business domains: competence assessment and upskilling, training programs, coaching and mentoring, career management, and personal development planning. They also focus on equipping the workforce for emerging labor market demands, integrating young professionals through trainee programs, and crafting strategic communication approaches on social networks. Collaborating closely with local partners—including NGOs, educational entities, social economy agents, diverse industry sectors, professional networks, and public institutions—Mindshift fosters knowledge exchange, innovative practices, and empowerment.
Meta4 Innovations is a research and development organization that designs and develops innovative tools, methodologies,products and services in the field of digital learning innovation, sustainable development, social inclusion and technology empowered solutions that pragmatically respond to current social and economic challenges and simultaneously foresee and intuitively drive the changes needed to achieve future goals of a sustainable learning community. It has worked with social entrepreneurs, intercultural mentors from business and private economy as well as migrants active as social entrepreneurs in Austria. It supports the rationalisation of education systems and aligns the education programs to the contemporary socio-economic context. It has extensive expertise and rich experience in developing innovative teaching and learning methodologies, tools and resources and has specialised knowledge for designing EQF and ECVET based Training Curriculum for private and public educational institutions in VET, Adult or School education segment.
Research and Development organization which focuses on fostering social innovation that can bring about a positive change to local, national, regional and global contexts. CSI belief is that the four pillars of Social Interaction, Education, Development and Economic Rationalization coupled with fundamentally sound and sustainable solutions as well as disruption to streamlined solutions to systemic social problems can lead to creative solutions that impact significant change to the social fabric of every society. CSI is working closely to address market, social, economic and education challenges with governments, local administrative agencies, non-for-profit agencies, commercial entities, and educational institutions.
InnoQuality Systems (INQS) provides program and policy services designed to enable positive and progressive student and teacher outcomes in early childhood, primary, postsecondary, VET and adult education. Supporting learning across a lifetime from early care for infants and toddlers through college and workforce training, their innovative approaches and methodologies address critical questions and improve the quality of educational programs. Wealth of professional expertise and experience has generated a portfolio of evidence-based solutions and methodologies that can be applied to new challenges as the education landscape continues to evolve.
