CENTRO STUDI CULTURA SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE (CSCS) - Italy
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CSCS is a vocational training provider, active in the field of research on labour market and pedagogic innovation, as well as in the promotion of transnational cooperation on technical education and training. CSCS operates under a Quality Assurance System ISO Vision 9001 for: "design and supply of vocational training courses: compulsory education, further education, higher and continuous training, apprenticeship. Design and supply of mobility educational programmes(study visits and work placements) (EA37)". CSCS Quality Management Assurance System is certified by TUV. CSCS is the Italian National Representative and Member of Executive Team of EFVET, the European Forum for Vocational Education and Training, based in Brussels with over 1500 members of all over the world. CSCS, as a training centre accredited by the Regional Government, provides initial vocational training, continuous training for businesses, vocational guidance and counselling and apprenticeship courses. Within the Quality Accreditation System of TVET schools in Tuscany Region Italy, CSCS obtained the approval with the highest average quality score among other 870 TVET private and public schools. To date, over 10.000 individuals have been trained by CSCS and it delivered accredited and certified training programmes to trainers, individuals, workers, trainees from vocational training system or students for formal and informal education. CSCS implements, in Italy as well as in other European countries, training programmes in many fields as also in ICT. Currently CSCS has been rated, by the European Commission, among more than 200 international institutions, as the most active performer Lead Intermediary Organisation of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs network, the latest new cross-border business exchange European programme. For the incoming of students to Italy, CSCS has created the Italymobility.com brand to receive inTuscany around 300 mobility learners per year from all over Europe and outside European borders to accomplish work placements and other numerous groups of stakeholders for study visits. In learning mobility, CSCS is not only at an Italian level being, as the founder of Europemobility Network (europemobility.eu), one of the leader organization across Europe, active in the provision of internships, language and cultural activities, study visits and also with the implementation of research projects financed by the European Commission. The Europemobility Network started in 2008 in partnership with Pricewaterhouse Cooper NL, to promote learning mobility for vocational training all over Europe and is today a consolidated network of training providers composed by 313 school members, covering 31 EU and not EU Countries, more than 70K Staff, 3K Mobile staff, 700 K Learners and 19K Mobile learners. The Europe mobility network is a right platform to conduct surveys and dissemination of results activities and guarantee high visibility to research activities and dissemination among schools and universities. Since 1994 CSCS has dedicated his efforts in establishing bridges across Europe in the field of vocational education and training being contracted in more than 50 transnational research and vocational training projects. CSCS is strongly committed to promote transnational cooperation as a mean for improving local vocational education and training schemes. Research projects promoted by CSCS aims at ensuring a great impact on local training programmes in terms of innovation, quality, methodologies, educational materials, integration of new technologies into teaching practices. Languages spoken in the CSCS’ offices: 1. English 2. French 3. Spanish 4. Romanian 5. Italian. Besides, CSCS is the European responsible of Europemobility Network, made of of 260 vocational training providers from 30 European member states who implement annually 16000 transnational exchanges.. CSCS is implementing various programmes and projects in Europe and in third countries and has a wide network of partners. Last, but not least, CSCS has a broad networkof partner companies in Italy who are active hosts for students, entrepreneurs and learners in general. For more infos please click https://cscs.it/
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Manager and Director - Giovanni Crisonà - CSCS
He has a Master's Degree in Education, University of Florence and he is an international consultant on capacity building in the TVET sector. He is a “Skill Assessor”, certified by Tuscany Region VET Authority and owns a Vocational Degree as a "Technical Director in industrial engineering" and a Master’s degree in Education. As a VET expert, Mr Crisonà worked from 1995 in transnational research and development projects of the EU Commission, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the ADB, the ITC ILO and for many other local, national and supranational organizations, stakeholders and civil society representatives, staff ministries, agencies and directors of private and public organizations giving advice, trainings, coaching support. In the field of TVET in general and in the Advanced Manufacturing sector in particular, Mr. Crisonà has negotiated and signed memorandum of understanding and agreements in Europe, Africa and Asia with public bodies, schools, regional authorities. Crisonà built his capacities conceptualising, designing, programming, implementing, monitoring and evaluating TVET initiatives, actions and communication activities, holding hundreds of multicultural trainings and meetings. He designed competency-based curricula and produced many original on-line training materials as also leaflets, training guides and didactic movies.
RESEARCHERS
Marialena Romanini – CSCS
Degree in Political Sciences, Master Degree in Scientific Communication and Journalism. Having studied Sociology, Human Sciences, and European financing programs, over the last 20 years, I have acquired expertise in design and management of international projects, specifically under the prior European framework programmes. Thanks to a strong background in R&D in the field of innovative training methodologies for work-based learning, work socialization process, apprenticeship, consultancy for organizational development of SMEs, I have reinforced a cross-sectoral competence useful in international project design and management. Today, as independent consultant, I love to support, people, professionals, companies and communities in exploiting the opportunities offered by EU funding. My Areas of Expertise are project design and management, Work Policies, Design & Development of Work Insertion Programmes, Organizational development and innovation, ICT-based training, networking.
TECHNICAL TEAMEnrico Valori – CSCS
Dr Regina Frank is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University (DMU), where she enjoys fostering critical thinking and entrepreneurial mindsets and skills of students of all levels (from UG to PG and Exec Ed), all the while encouraging activism in relation to global sustainability matters and UN SDGs. Regina has a distinctively international educational and professional background, having lived and worked in Portugal, Brazil, Switzerland, France and the UK. Her multicultural work experience encompasses both academic and commercial worlds, in a variety of contexts. Prior to joining DMU, Regina worked for over a decade at triple-accredited business and management schools, such as Loughborough University (Loughborough, London, and Singapore) and ESCP-EAP European School of Management (now ESCP Europe) in London and Oxford, as well as in industry and HEIs abroad. In academia, Regina has always particularly enjoyed interdisciplinary work. Today, her primary research interests include social innovation and entrepreneurship for poverty alleviation, for and with marginalised communities, and in emerging markets; and education for sustainable development. Current projects range from critical perspectives on entrepreneurship (research) to art and entrepreneurship for social inclusion. In the past, her dual exposure to corporate finance and strategic management led to her interdisciplinary PhD research on ‘Synergy valuation in bank mergers’. Subsequently, her work focused on high growth venture creation in the context of commercialisation of university science and research, and cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship education, for which she was awarded EU and US funding as Principal Investigator, while collaborating with a number of US American and Portuguese universities. Regina’s interest in applied research originates from her experience outside academia: Prior to returning to academia full-time, Regina worked in corporate finance and strategic advisory. At Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, UBS and Investcorp, her projects ranged from financial modelling of MBOs, valuations of cross-border acquisitions, to the management of a multi-billion dollar project in Brazil. Regina further consulted on business start-ups and family firms, and participated in the UK launch of Citigroup focusing on new models of financial education. Outside work, music has been a long-lived passion and source of inspiration in Regina’s life. Looking ahead – in entrepreneurial spirit – she plans to exploit synergies between music and management theory and practice. Additional roles at DMU: University Advisor of Enactus DMU, Employability Lead (for Enterprise Subject Group), Member of 'Education for Sustainable Development Forum' ('ESD Forum'). Summary: Researcher, educator and business adviser experienced in international and interdisciplinary settings. Fluent in German, Portuguese, English and French.
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| Enrico Valori | enrico.valori@cscs.it |