Centrum Innowacyjnej Edukacji

EU Legislative Interests

Life long learning and self development through innovative tools aplication Improving Vocational Learning system across member states Counteracting youth unemployment Reforming formal education Encouraging business and non governmental organizations to participate in the education process Advocating for implementation of innovative practices in all levels and kinds of education Extention of Outdoor Learning practices Counteracting depopulation of mountainous and deprived regions Counterating exclusion and intolerance European Green Deal

Communication Activities

CIE has begun its activity in 2015 through MENTOR programme for the teachers of formal education and New Education Forum ("NEF"). NEFs are organized in the EU Member States. The Forum’s primary aim is (i) a constant search for tested educative solutions and (ii) building support for their effective implementation. Our NEF horizontal priority is bridging local and regional solutions with the European institutions to help adjust education to dynamically changing labor market. Since 2016, we meet at the end of the year in the European Parliament tin Brussels to summarize lessons learned from the regional NEFs and to present and discuss with European decision-makers recommendations reached during the year. In 2024 CIE organised or coorganised New Education Fora in: - Vigo - 1.2024 - Cracow - 3.2024 - Olsztyn - 4.2024 - Vilnus - 12.2024 and annual in Brussels in November. 38th NEF in Brussels was organised in the European Parliament and started with young people from the EU countries presenting their recommendations for changes in education. Further we beneftied from networking and conference part which also took place in the European Parliament and concerned new labour market challenges connected with work after coal mines will be closed. The debates and presentations focused mainly on: - European Green Deal - European Skills Agenda, with strong emphasis on transversal and digital skills. More information is provided in the Reports from regional and European Forums available at neweducationforum.com. New Education Forum - NEF, created in 2015 by the Center for Innovative Education, is a platform for exchanging knowledge, experience and contacts in the field of educational innovations. NEF works across Europe, bringing together representatives of over 380 institutions from 17 EU Member States: European regions and cities, higher education and research institutions, as well as employers from a variety of industries. The first NEF meeting - cohosted by MEP Mr Jerzy Buzek, the Forum’s First Ambassador - was in 2015. Since that time, 37 regional and annual NEF meetings (including 7 in the European Parliament) have been held, each on international level, attracting over 4.200 participants. We have been proud to host many outstanding panellists, enough to mention Mr Tibor Navracsics, the EU Commissioner for Education who opened the first New Education Forum Warsaw in 2015, Valdis Dombrovskis (the EU Commissioner), Montserrat Gomendio (Deputy Director, Education and Skills, OECD), Thérèse De Liedekerke (Deputy Director General, BusinessEurope), Dominika Bettman (CEO, Microsoft Poland), Sophia Eriksson Waterschoot (Director, Youth, Education and Erasmus+, DG Education and Culture, European Commission) and many others. While defining the goals of these meetings, it is worth underlining: - Promotion of transversal competences as essential labour resources; - Improvement of the perception of vocational educational and training by preventing prejudice and exclusion; - Finding innovative directions for education, aiming to engage individuals in difficult circumstances, particularly NEETs, refugees, persons with disabilites; - Building bridges between EU regions and cities and European institutions with respect of the abovementioned issue. So far, NEF has taken place around Europe, including Gdańsk, Linz, Caserta, Edingurgh, Limerick, Santander, Warsaw, Brussels, Poznań, Comillas, Turin, Berlin, Olsztyn, Aberdeen, Opole, Bielsko-Biała giving the opportunity to build innovative education network, conduct debates and create valuable partnerships, analyze local conditions, raise questions and look for answers and practical solutions, meeting the needs of the local and European labour markets.

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

CIE is a member of the networks listed in the box below. The most important one is New Education Forum network, of which CIE is a founder and coordinator. New Education Forum network is a platform sharing knowledge and making influence among political decision makers at the EU level. NEF themes for each year are different: Importance of Soft Skills and Vocational Education and Training, Inclusive Education, Smart Education in Smart Cities and Smart Regions, Digital Education and others. The above NEF topics combine with good practices of enhancing partnerships between companies, public administration and education and research sectors aiming at time reduction needed to train qualified employees and in the same time fulfilled and engaged citizens. Network is composed of the panelists who are actively engaged to deliver narrative part of the NEF meetings and networking. So far there have been 40 New Education Forums held in the European cities.

Organisation Members

CIE participates and registers its events in the European Vocational Skills Week if the week falls close to New Education Forum dates. New Education Forum platform: newedufationforum.com Mentor 2.0 platform for teachers and school principals financed by Erasmus+ program: https://projectmentor2-0.eu/ NEMOR Mountains network: https://nemor.creaf.cat/ European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning - EOE network: https://www.eoe-network.eu SPARKS platform for VET teachers and trainers financed by Erasmus+ program: https://www.projectsparks.eu/ FOLM Consortium: https://www.folweb.com/

Additional Information

The incosistency of the data given between the amounts of donation and the total budget amount result most of all that some donations have not qualified as being below €10.000,00 and/or below 10% of the total CIE budget. The above donations were and are used for statutory, non-profit and not-for-profit activities of CIE foundation, as CIE is not representing commercial interests and its general interest is not other than filing proposals to receive funding for its statutory aims. To this extend, CIE: (i) promote its own interests and its principal purpose of establishment is of a non-commercial, business or profit-making nature; (ii) CIE promotes the collective interests of New Education Forum members, of which 50% or more are of a non-commercial, business or profit-making nature; and (iii) CIE's main purpose is the advancement of societal causes in the public interest, without prejudice to any ancillary economic activities CIE may carry out, e.g. administering own funds or property, or implementing programmes and projects, on CIE's own behalf or on behalf of NEF network members. CIE received its 20% of €91.410 funding from the EEA and Norway Grants for project POL, which concentrates on activating excluded persons on the labour market. CIE received apr. EUR 54,627 funding from INSTYTUT ROZWOJU JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO I M. ŚWIĘTEGO MAKSYMILIANA MARII KOLBEGO as a fund operator for one project - Future Bridges, which concentrates on bringing Polish and Lithuanian youth together for joint workshops, conferences and projects. E+ donations are typical Erasmus+ projects conducted within the international partnerships. The operating costs covered by E+ are limited to €500,00 for the Lead Partner and €250 for the remaining project partners per month. Apart from the above mentioned donations, CIE benefits from the work of volunteers on a daily basis, which constitutes apr. 15% of CIE's value of work. CIE does not have any subsidiaries.