Partners

Leading Partner
Designathon Works is a global movement empowering children aged 6 –12 to become changemakers for a better world. Using our unique Designathon method, combining design thinking, STEM, and sustainability, we empower children to invent bold solutions to real-world challenges. Each workshop is linked to a key social and environmental theme, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, nurturing critical skills like creativity, problem-solving, and global citizenship. Since 2014, we’ve activated over 200.000 children and 5.000 teachers in 59 countries. Through school programs, global events, and community partnerships, we champion children as powerful co-designers of a just, inclusive, and sustainable future.

KidHub is an educational and social innovation center whose mission is to ensure that every child becomes a creator. We design learning environments where children and young people actively learn through design, play, experimentation, and collaboration, connecting education with real social and environmental challenges. We believe in participatory, inclusive, and sustainable learning that strengthens creativity, critical thinking, and responsibility toward the community and nature. KidHub’s focus is on non-formal education for children and youth (ages 6 - 18), capacity building for teachers and youth workers, and linking education with sustainable development, design thinking, and maker culture. Our key themes include child participation, climate change, school gardens, science playgrounds, and learning in and with nature. Core activities include Designathon programs in schools and kindergartens, educational and maker workshops, training for teachers and youth workers, development of educational tools and methodologies, and international Erasmus+ projects. Through the Platform for Innovation in Environmental Education and intergenerational programs, KidHub builds learning communities at local, regional, and European levels.

The mission of Stiftung Lernen durch Engagement (Foundation for Learning through Civic Engagement) is to develop and promote the learning and teaching method Service-Learning so that young people, regardless of their backgrounds, can experience high-quality education while reaching their full individual potential and taking an active part in our democratic society. Stiftung Lernen durch Engagement has numerous cooperation partnerships with ministries of education and the continuous support of both public as well as private donors. At the core of the foundation is the Network Learning through Civic Engagement. Its members exchange ideas (e.g. at a yearly held national conference), reflect experiences and receive a variety of further qualification. The aim is to continuously improve the quality of Service-Learning practice and to increase awareness of Service-Learning in education politics.

NUCLIO is a non-profit organization and an NGO for development that brings together teachers and researchers from the fields of science, psychology of education and educational sciences. NUCLIO coordinates and participates as a partner in several national and international projects and initiatives that aim to promote innovation and development in education. NUCLIO coordinates a maker space in Portugal, leading several trainings for teachers, students and community on maker competences. The organization also coordinates the Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP), one of the largest teacher training efforts in the world involving over 100 countries. Since its establishment, NUCLIO has reached over 70 000 teachers at a global level. NUCLIO also promotes scientific outreach actions, such as night sky observations and talks with scientists in different scientific fields.

PAR University of Applied Sciences is a private, non-profit higher education institution based in the coastal city of Rijeka, Croatia. Focused on entrepreneurship and innovation, it integrates academic learning with structured work-based experience in close cooperation with industry partners, ensuring that students develop practical skills aligned with labour market needs. As a member of the European Dual Studies University (EU4Dual) alliance, PAR actively contributes to shaping the future of dual studies in Croatia and across Europe, while positioning itself as a dynamic, young, entrepreneurial university in the North Adriatic region.

The First Kragujevac Grammar School has, since its founding, stood as a prestigious educational institution and a school of special national importance. It was established at the height of the struggle for national identity and the independence of Serbian educational institutions. Throughout its history, it has endured the hardships and suffering of the Serbian people, emerging from every adversity stronger and victorious. Over nearly two centuries of existence, the First Kragujevac Grammar School has educated a great number of distinguished individuals. Today, it enrolls more than one thousand students, offers specialized study programs, and delivers a curriculum fully aligned with contemporary educational trends. In 2008, the school was officially designated a School of Special National Interest by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.