EMBRACE PARTNERS
EMBRACE
The Consortium of the project
About the Consortium
The Consortium composition mirrors the different roles and groups of partners necessary to achieve the project’s objectives and goals Each participant has been selected to complement and enhance the objectives and goals of the Call, ensuring piloting the project in Nort East region of Romania – particularly in economically disadvantaged areas. The collaboration aims to leverage the expertise of each participant, fostering synergy and maximizing the impact of the project. P1, P2, P3 with similar
expertise, will share equivalent responsibilities in the implementation across the three counties of the region (P1 in Iasi County, P2 in Bacau County and P3 in Vaslui County). This ensures comprehensive coverage and enhances the relevance and impact of the pilot program. P4 (FONPC), located at national level will provide expertise in child participation, child rights, measuring of impact and support for scaling up the project within Romania and across Europe, leveraging its extensive network. P5 will focus on innovative communication strategies, targeting specific groups, managing external communications, promoting the project and accessing resources from the EU level.
Fundatia Serviciilor Sociale Bethany (FSSB) – Project Coordinator.
FSSB is a non-profit organization that supports vulnerable children and their families by providing social services and educational programs. The organization has 30 years of experience in Romania, with operations in two regions: West and Northeast, including Iasi County one of the regions where the project will be implemented. FSSB provides therapy programs for children with special needs, psychological and social counselling services for families, school guidance and scholarships for students from rural areas, educational centres for children at risk of school abandonment, capacity building programs for local CSOs and volunteering capacity building programs as means of community involvement. At national level, FSSB is part of coalitions and federations advocating for improved legislation benefiting children and their rights. FSSB is accredited and licensed
Fundatia de Sprijin Comunitar (FSC)
FSC is a non-profit Romanian organisation registered in 1997 in Bacau (one of the project areas), NE Romania. FSC’s vision is to create a world where human rights are respected, and people have access to adequate, high-quality services provided by professionals in their own community. By the government decision FSC holds the public utility status since 2005. With a team of 150 employees and 250 volunteers FSC serves over 5,000 people annually by providing medical, social, and educational services. The services cater to various demographics, including older people affected mobility issues, illness, loneliness, as well as children, and families affected by social depravation, poverty and neglect., FSC also coordinates a centre for volunteerism that engages over 250 young people each year and provides accredited training to adults on topics such as home care for older people, combined arts work and project management., All services provided by FSC are licensed and comply with existing legislation. FSC holds the , guaranteeing the quality of services and level of development. FSC has extensive experience in incorporating into its care and therapeutic activities, recognizing their positive impact on well-being.FSC specialists designed the standards for the occupation and the training curricula for the field of combined arts work, which have been integrated into the national classification of jobs as . Over the years, FSC has trained over 2,500 (professionals working in care services: carers, psychologists, teachers, social
Asociatia ``Bună Ziua, Copii din România`` (BZRO)
BZRO is a non- profit organization specializing in child rights protection. Their mission is to support children, young people and the families to lead a dignified, well-being lives. BZRO aims to create to the best conditions for children’s harmonious development by providing support, and counselling for parents to enhance to their parenting skills. They also involve community members in volunteer actions and work to improve and diversify methodologies in the field of social assistance for families and children. BZRO has 25 years of experience in providing social services for children in vulnerable situations, as well as supporting their families. These services include prevention services to prevent the separation of children from their families, school dropout prevention services, and therapeutic services for children with autism, as well as parents’ school. In recent years, BZRO is increasingly receiving more and more requests from families or teachers and medical staff for psychological evaluation and counselling of children and young people, and from the experience of working with children in our programs, it was noticed an increase in the number of children with disruptive behaviours, emotionally fragile, children who fail to control themselves and become verbally or even physically aggressive with other children, and others are isolated and fail to communicate effectively with the group. BZRO actives in Vaslui county, one of the project areas.
Federatia ONG-urilor pentru Copil (FONPC)
FONPC is a Romanian legal entity by law, apolitical and without patrimonial purpose, established according to the Government Ordinance no. 26/2000. Set up in 1997, the purpose of the Federation is to strengthen, unite and represent in solidarity the member organizations working in the field of Welfare and Protection of the Child and the Family to ensure respect for the rights of the child as they are in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and European Conventions. FONPC is the unified voice of 65 Romanian NGOs, specialized in monitoring, developing and redefining public policies for ensuring the welfare of the child,
using and developing the experience and expertise of its staff and members. The Federation has implemented advocacy activities for improving the legislation related to children’s rights in Romania. For more than 25 years FONPC advocate for alternative care, access to education and high quality social, medical and legal services for the benefit of Romanian children. Over the years the Federation led or has been a partner to elaborate studies, research, analyzes and reports. In the area of Child Participation, involved children to provide feedback on tools for monitoring the implementation of Child Rights Convention, contributed to the child friendly version in Romanian of the EU Strategy on children’s rights, created Children and Youth Council (CCT), which contributed to the elaboration of the List of priorities for Romania for the Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Youth Report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). FONPC contributed to the advocacy campaign regarding the Child Guarantee by sending a letter to the Prime Minister of the Government of Romania and the Ministry of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities, creating a film, meeting with representatives of the European Commission, of the Eurochild European platform, with Romanian MEPs.
Evolutionary Archetypes Consulting SL (EA)
EA is an innovation research and science communication company. EA explores and assesses innovation strategies, resources, and technologies to empower the future game changers. With innovation research, we study and analyse knowledge that can inspire innovators and entrepreneurs to innovate and succeed. With science communication, we take encouraging insights from scientific and technology research and share the knowledge in everyone’s word. Horizon Europe collaborations allows us to get involved directly in R&D projects supporting the researchers with technology and resources. Companies benefit from documenting their narratives and their evolution over time. Understanding our story enables us to grasp our identity, determine our future trajectory and make informed decisions.
