EDUVIC SCCL is a non-profit social initiative cooperative that has been working for 29 years with the aim of providing services to people, with a special focus on children, adolescents, youth, and families. As a cooperative, EDUVIC’s organization and management are based on cooperative values, including mutual aid, democracy, equality, equity, solidarity, honesty, and transparency as characteristic features of their daily work.

EDUVIC currently manages numerous psychotherapeutic and socio-educational services and projects with various assistance objectives. These projects range from child protection and support (through EDUVIC · Infància i Adolescència) to individual or couples’ psychotherapeutic care (through P&TI), as well as support for high-level athletes (EDUVIC · Sport), vocational training (EDUVIC · Escola Itinere), and, of course, family support (EDUVIC · Famílies).

AGINTZARI is a social initiative cooperative committed to society by addressing social needs and generating social value. Therefore, it works on implementing innovative proposals and managing quality services aimed at addressing the social needs of individuals and groups in difficult situations.

In the field of social exclusion, the presence of the Agintzari group dates back to 1977. The Agintzari Association gained legal personality in 1983 and has since been actively involved in social advocacy, research, and care for minors and young people at risk and in vulnerable situations.

In 1991, Agintzari became a cooperative society, identifying in this business model a socio-professional framework consistent with its social purpose and allowing democratic management and commitment to society.

In 2000, Agintzari acquired the status of a Social Initiative Cooperative, indicating a non-profit entity, and was declared a Public Utility Entity by the Basque Government.

Since 2012, Agintzari has embarked on a growth strategy in three dimensions: more social initiative, more social action, and more social economy. This last key to social economy growth has linked growth to the creation of new cooperatives anchored in each territory: Zabalduz, a Social Initiative Cooperative; Adaka, a Social Initiative Cooperative; Hirube, a Social Initiative Cooperative; and Bogan, a second-degree cooperative that includes all of the above. Thus, in 2022, the cooperative group consisted of 986 people, 72% of them women, mostly professionals in social education, psychology, and social work, spread across the territories of Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, and Nafarroa. Nearly 95% of the activity falls within the framework of providing high-quality public services in the field of social services. However, Agintzari’s mission and vision have always led it to provide a social and technical response beyond the Public Services it manages.

The Caminante Association, whose administrative headquarters are located in Saint André de Seignanx, was created in 1997. In its basic philosophy, the Caminante Association recognizes that every person helped and/or their family has the right to be different without the risk of discrimination or social exclusion.

The Caminante Association allows everyone to live their citizenship through sustained support, and the main challenges for the professional teams that work in the various Caminante services are the autonomy of individuals, school integration, social integration, and opportunities for professional integration.

During its 25 years of existence, the Caminante Association has developed numerous services and projects (including European projects) and currently manages 29 establishments and services where more than 800 people are attended and supported.

In addition to all these services, the Caminante Association has carried out various European projects focused on family care and its individual members, and this experience is of particular interest to Hedera. These projects include CAPEvFAIR, focused on the care of vulnerable women in perinatal care in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, and the GEFA (Growing up as a family today, GIFT in English) project, in which 4 European countries (Spain, France, Italy, and Romania) are equally represented by social services and care for vulnerable families and universities to provide training to professionals in the same field.

The HoltIS Association is one of the leading providers of socio-educational services for parents in Romania. Established in 2014, it has been developing socio-educational services focused on families and their members in more than 1,022 different localities with a network of over 1,670 accredited professionals in socio-educational action for parents. In these services, HoltIS professional teams have assisted more than 27,300 parents, reaching over 44,900 children across Romania.

Starting in 2019, in addition to socio-educational services for parents, HoltIS has expanded its areas of intervention by integrating HoltIS Clubs for young people. Currently, up to 52 HoltIS clubs have been created in the Bacau county, in partnership with UNICEF representation in Romania, aimed at providing support and services to vulnerable families and their individual members.

The Italian cooperative Bottega Dei Ragazzi was founded in 2004 by the homonymous association, and research and socio-educational intervention in the field of child culture are key elements of its social action.

At the core of its work with children is the commitment to continuous training of its interveners to always experiment with new educational strategies in line with the socio-cultural context in which we live. The ultimate goal of their work is to focus on the individual and the growth of the child through reflection, study, planning, and a concrete commitment to implementing proposals and services for children and all those adults who support their growth.

Bottega dei Ragazzi develops various services that provide them with experience and knowledge in family psychotherapeutic care. Their local psychological well-being services (listening space, educational counseling and parenting support, psychological support and psychotherapy, family mediation, etc.) and various family centers (dedicated to the care and support of families and their individual members) managed by the organization are particularly relevant to this project.

Sébastien Roux has over 17 years of solid experience in the field of European programs and, in particular, the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), which in 2014 became Erasmus+. Attached to the central administration of the French Ministry of Labor (Ministry of Social Affairs), he initially worked on the European Social Fund within the ministry. Then, he was made available to the Erasmus+ France agency between 2006 and 2009.

Sébastien Roux created the sole proprietorship Preface in 2009. Specializing in the Erasmus+ program, he assists organizations in the design and management of Erasmus+ projects in the sectors of education and vocational training and adult education. His experience is, therefore, dual: both in monitoring these projects when working within the Erasmus+ agency, and in supporting and managing this type of projects as a consultant.

He has a high-level experience in the Erasmus+ program, with the particularity of covering the entire life cycle of a transnational cooperation project: from its genesis to the final evaluation, through administrative and financial management. He also has a deep knowledge of European policies and priorities in the field of education and vocational training.

He provides training on the Erasmus+ program and on each of the two types of projects, mobility and cooperation projects (KA1 and KA2), and leads workshops for the implementation of European projects.

Finally, Sébastien Roux is part of the mobility developers network of the Erasmus+ France agency, which takes over the agency’s role in information and promotion of the program. He is also an external evaluator for this agency requesting cooperation projects (KA2), continuously since 2014.