Social Cooperative Enterprise of Cyclades-KOINSEP CYCLADES ALTERA VITA

ALTERA VITA is a scientific research centre and implements education and awareness programmes, working with volunteers in the areas of Environment and Culture and Social Intervention programmes at the community level. ALTERA VITA. organizes domestic and transnational training sessions on a wide range of topics. To this end, it collaborates with a network of experienced trainers and experts in various fields. Experts with special knowledge, experience and training in their subject offer the opportunity for trainees to follow a flexible program from wherever they are, with only limited access to the internet, to increasing social and professional changes in areas such as the social economy, Health Promotion, Organic Farming, Environment and Sustainable Development, the Arts and Culture, Pedagogy, Psychology, new technologies. All our courses have a European dimension and most of them have been developed in the framework of European projects. ALTERA VITA also works with youth programs related to the environment and Health Promotion. Through Health Promotion programmes, there is an opportunity for teamwork. Youngsters, get to know themselves, gain personal development skills and related in a different way with their teachers and their parents. Our distance learning system is based on the use of e-Learning MOODLE platform. The Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Developmental Learning Environment) is a certified free educational content management software (Course Management System). Actually, we develop with our team, the SOCRATES VIRTUAL project, an innovation, for Computer and Mobile Learning, Serious Games and Virtual Reality for Educational purposes, such as Virtual Class, Virtual training for Disable people, skills for employees of enterprises and Public Entities. ALTERA VITA includes the preparation and support of vulnerable adults and minors for their social reintegration and promotion in the labour market. In this direction, the organization provides psychosocial and professional counselling support to people in this social group. Altera Vita participates at the European Network of Social Authorities. ENSA is a network of cities and European Regions that has the aim of promoting international cooperation in the social field. ENSA was established by the Veneto Region in 1999. Since then the network has developed and supported solid partnerships between a wide range of European Regions and has carried out seminars, conferences, study visit programmes and exchanges of operators. The co-operation between partners has brought about the opportunity to carry out several projects financed by the European Commission Collaborating with ENSA is a way to increase the dialogue with the European institutions and to become part of an international platform to implement shared projects. http://www.ensa-network.eu/ ALTERA VITA is also active Member of the European Network of Youth Theatre. http://www.crearc.fr/pages-new/?ref_partie=jte&trad=fr ALTERA VITA has a theatre workshop with the participation of adults and teenagers. More than 15 years, the theatre group, through drama therapy and group processing techniques, created scenarios, which was presented at the Young European Theatre Network in Grenoble-France. The Young European Theatre Network was born from the Young European Theatre Rencontres which have been taking place in Grenoble since 1989. It has been made official during the seminar which was held in Grenoble, in May 2004, and which gathered participants from 18 European and non-European countries.