NGO SAAREMAA EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

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NGO SAAREMAA EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

• is founded in 1992
• Leonora Kraus
• 13.06.2008

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Saaremaa Educational Centre

• This is an adult training organisation.
• Saaremaa Educational Centre organizes
• popular educational and job training on the
• form of courses, seminars, workshops and
• conferences.

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Our target groups are

• disable people
• low educational level young people
• unemployed people
• single mothers with little children
• entrepreneurs
• people living in rural areas

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Our aims of activity are

• to help to develop Estonian adult education
  through lifetime learning
• to develop personal characteristics
• to acquire skills and knowledge useful for
  life

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In professional training we make co-operation

• with Saaremaa and Hiiumaa Labour Market Board
• with local kommunes
• with lots of enterprises of Saare County

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Saaremaa Educational Centre has a co-
operation contract with Estonian Housing
Association Union. We arrange different
courses in the field of residential
economy, leadership and management of housing
association.
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Saaremaa Educational Centre is the member

• of Estonian Non-formal Adult Education
• Association
• of Association of Estonian Adult
• Educators Andras.

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Training activities in Saaremaa Educational
Centre take place in the following fields

• Estonian social life, civic education
• Getting to know European Union, co-operation
  inside EU
• Everyday life, managing of disabled people,
  young and large families

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Communication skills, communication courses
and foreign language teaching Computer
training Adjustment training for unemployed,
their requalification and in-service
training Handicraft courses Entrepreneurship
and cooperation Saleswork and customer
service Counselling in the field of
cooperation and entrepreneurship
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THE MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS

• Every year since 2003 approximately 750 people
  have been trained and 50 courses have taken place
  in Saaremaa Educational Centre
• In 2000 Saaremaa Educational Centre was named
  the best adults training centre in Saare County
  and it was given an acknowledgement letter by
  Estonian Adult Education Association Andras

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• In 2004 to Mrs Leonora Kraus was given an
  acknowledgment letter for development popular
  education by Estonian Popular Education Union
• In 2007 to Mrs Leonora Kraus was given an
  acknowledgment letter for development popular
  education by Estonian Open Education Association

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PROJECTS

• 1. Cooperation project with Axevalla
• Folk Higher School in 1995 1997
• 2. MicroPHARE project Women in politics
• and in labour market in 1997
• 3. Project Cooperative Development
• Centre with Swedish Co-operation Institute
• since 1997 until 2004
• 4. Adult education research Saaremaa rural
• dwellers in labour market in 1998

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5. MicroPHARE project Social integration of
Young people in 1998 6. Adults training
project in Mustjala commune in 1998-1999 7.
Project Co-operation versus conflict in
1999 in Mustjala commune 8. School for mothers
with babies in 2000 9. Project
Entrepreneurship and cooperation in rural
areas in 2000-2002
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• 10. European Union project The development
• of rural areas in European Union in 2001
• 11. Project Women will be entrepreneurs in
• 2002
• 12. European Union project European Union
• why and how in 2002
• 13. The project financed by European Union
• Delegation Me as a citizen of European
• Union in 2003-2004

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• 14. Phare CBC project Developing womens
• entrepreneurship in West Estonia in 2003-
  
• 2004
• 15. Phare Youth Employment project
• EuropeAid/114246/D/SV/EE in 2004
• 16. Project Development of the Handicraft in
• the Islands European Union Social Fund
• in 2004 2006
• 17. EQUAL Project We Friends in 2005
• 2008

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• 18. EQUAL Project HAPECO in 2005
• 2008
• 19. ESF Project New possibility in labour
• market in 2006 2007
• 20. ESF Project Professional customer
• service in 2007 2008
• 21. Grundtvig 2 project Study, meet, share
• for equal uniqueness (sms 4 EU) in 2007
  
• 2009

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TEAM

• manager
  member of the
  board