STRAPAC project is tailored to 70 service staff of religious communities and professionals in theology from poor regions/rural areas (religious leaders, priests,deacons,monks, sisters, workers in administration of religious communities, religious teachers, etc.), 10 members of each partner's organizations, 1000 active members of religious communities, 10000 other interested stakeholders and finally 100 people in need who will be directly and indirectly involved in the project activities or will benefit from its results. STRAPAC search to introduce these target groups new methods for fight against social exclusion at local level by offering innovative training tools and opportunities for learning mobilities.
The main project objectives are:
- To help service staff/religious professionals, belonging to religious communities in poor regions and rural areas, to develop basic competences and transversal skills, such as entrepreneurship, communication, and leadership skills, which will help them to tackle social exclusion more.
- To help representatives of religious communities from regions at grass root level and rural areas to enhance their multicultural skills to better cope with people with different cultural, ethnic or religious background and to increase their ability to hold inter-religious dialogue;
- To enhance the digital integration of learning through development of innovative on-line training tools to support reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- To create a strategic partnership network of representatives of communities with different religious and confessional background and to strengthen the cooperation between the participating organizations through exchanging of experience and good practices, which will help them to increase their capacity to develop new approaches for skill development.
Project partners
STRAPAC project involves an appropriate mix of 5 organizations belonging to different sectors of education. The partnership is built upon previously established network of organizations thanks to their joint participation in LLP funded projects. The partners are chosen among others due to the high professional skills and expertise, but also similar professional interests. They will bring the following competences and experience to the project:
Centre for dialogue between sciences and theology (University of Craiova) - Romania
CDST-UCV is a legal entity established in 2006, with members and specialists from 6 socio-humanistic faculties from the University of Craiova. It is in fact a form of research institute acting in the domain of educational services with members who are university leaders in the socio-humanistic field. The staff consists of ten permanent experts acting part-time in our research Centre. As an answer to the demands of the labour market, our experts succeeded to create within the University of Craiova a Centre for socio-professional evaluation and orientation for a career in the socio-humanistic area.
Regional Development Foundation - Bulgaria
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in 1925 and first opened its doors a year later, in 1926. The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Theology were founded in 1941. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest university in Greece. The main campus, located in the centre of Thessaloniki, covers an area of about 33.4 hectares. It comprises 10 faculties which consist of 40 schools and 1 single School Faculty. About 73.930 students study at the e University (65.026 in undergraduate programmes and 8.472 in postgraduate programmes, of which 3952 at Doctoral level). In the period 29.11-5.12.2015 the University was evaluated by an External Evaluation Committee, consisting of International Experts. It was evaluated with "Worthy of Merit" (the highest grade in a four grade scale), having received in the individual sections 11 "Worthy of Merit" and 15 "Positive Evaluation", which is considered an excellent evaluation for all sections. mes (Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus+ International etc.).