CESO – Centrum voor Europese Studies en Opleidingen

           (Centre for European Studies and Training)

Type:
Stichting (=association without members, not-for-profit organisation)
 - Consultancy European programmes (until 2002 external expert of two big Regional Training Centres in Maastricht and Heerlen). Main areas: education, training, schooling, ICT in education and SMEs, information society, European citizenship, gender mainstreaming.
– Development of projects; role as promoter/ co-ordinator or as a partner in Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates-Grundtvig, Social Exclusion, Connect, Prince, etc. 

Expertise:

CESO participated in three projects on Social Exclusion; three projects of the Italian organisation Cittadinanzattiva.

CESO worked in the role of consultant for setting up a Second Chance School in Heerlen, NL,(contract European Commission)

Executed the evaluation of the pilot-project Second Chance Schools (1995-2000) for the European Commission.

Partner in two relevant Leonardo da Vinci projects (EDYCATE: entrepreneurship, youngsters at risk; PACE: development of partial qualifications)

Partner in the Grundtvig-4 Network OASIS: gender mainstreaming and adult education.

Expertise in project organisation: 1991-1995 national coordinator in the NL of the Community Initiative EUROFORM.

1970-1991: course leader and director of the folkhighschool and Europehouse (Valkenburg, near Maastricht): European democratic education/adult education courses.

Specific tasks in Soccer:
Management of the project, co-ordinating role of the partnership, responsibility for the two researchers and for monitoring + evaluation. Organising of transnational meetings in Maastricht and Brussels.

Size:
since 2003: 1 person, no learners (before 2003: 1,5 + free-lance collaborators 4 – 7 people)

Specific tasks:
Management of the project, co-ordinating role of the partnership, responsibility for the two researchers and for monitoring + evaluation. Organising of transnational meetings in Maastricht and Alden Biesen.

Personnel:
2 persons: manager and expert in the field of civic (adult) education & secr.-administrative support