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IFOA – Istituto Formazione Operatori Aziendali (IT) (www.ifoa.it) is a private not-for-profit Training and Employment agency, established in 1971 and appointed since 1999 as a national VET center, with 12 sites all over Italy. Standing out as one of the leading private training centers in Italy, IFOA delivers traditional and blended-learning post-diploma (EQF 5) and post-graduate (EQF 6 and 7) programs for young unemployed, as well as lifelong training, consultancy and technical assistance to individuals, businesses and public bodies. IFOA is currently an accredited EVS organisation participating in Mobility Schemes, and holds an Erasmus+ VET charter.
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AKMI S.A. (GR) is the largest VET provider in Greece and one of the 7 largest in Europe. It was founded back in 1989 and is active in 7 cities across Greece, representing almost 60% of the total VET sector in the country providing post-secondary education, of EQF levels 3-5. Every year, approximately 14.600 active students are enrolled with the aim of studying one of the 107 specialties, in more than 340 laboratories in 14 different sectors within more than 37.500 m2 of infrastructure across the country. AKMI is the only National Contact Point of European Vocational Skills Week (EVSW) in Greece, since 2020, and the only Greek Centre of Vocational Excellence, partner of the European Network for Excellence, developed by the European Training Foundation.
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The mission of NAVETQ is to create a unified national system of vocational qualifications based on the Albanian Qualification Framework (AQF) leaning on the EQF. Since the very beginning, NAVETQ is acting as a public institution providing expertise in issues of VET development and lifelong learning. NAVETQ is responsible for the development of vocational qualifications and standards (from level 2 to level 5 of the AQF), for the development of frame curricula and assessment methodologies and instruments. NAVETQ cooperates with the private sector in order to address the labour market needs in terms of vocational qualifications for the different economic sectors, as well as with experts/practitioners of the education and training field.
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AITA (AL), the Albanian ICT Association, was established in 2007 as an initiative of Albanian enterprises working to address the needs of the IT sector. Besides aiming at supporting and providing services to Albanian enterprises, among AITA’s objectives is providing capacity building in new technologies and improving VET and school IT education. In this streamline, AITA established an ICT Academy that performs Capacity building, online training, professional certification, curricula design and program for Universities, VET, re-qualification in IT, career guidance, establishment of ICT clubs, etc.
