Center Education 2000+ is a non-governmental, apolitical and independent organization offering educational consultancy. The Center - founded in December 1999 – has been part of the Soros Open Network until 2012, as the most important network of non-governmental and civic organizations in Romania.

The mission of the Center is to promote the values of a knowledge-based global open society by:

• Supporting the development of an open and democratic public education system in Romania, whose characteristics are: transparent and fair competition, cooperation, support for individual initiative and innovation in this field;
• Promoting the initiatives that aim at equal chances in education, student-centered learning activities, a broader community involvement in school life and the development of educational reform implementation patterns that can be replicated nationwide.

 

Areas of Expertise

Educational policies - analysis, development and implementation

• Consultancy and specialized expertise services for analyzing and developing educational policies - national and local, global and sectoral;
• training for development and implementation of institutional education policies;
• developing and implementing local strategies for education-based sustainable development; management for various educational programs.

 

Institutional capacity building

• Consultancy for school development and school improvement processes;
• school and community issues;
• parental involvement;
• improving education in disadvantaged areas and in multicultural settings;
• rural education; vocational education and training;
• improving education for Roma community.

 

Human resources development in/for education

• Training of trainers and teacher training for Romanian and foreign experts in different areas such as: curriculum development, assessment, active learning, school-based curriculum, student guidance, educational management and reform implementation processes;
• teacher support in designing and implementing innovation. Training foreign experts in reform design and implementation issues; book development.

 

European and regional integration through education

• Adult education, community learning, distance learning, peer counseling, e-learning; study tours and experience exchanges for teachers and experts from Romania and from other countries, etc.

 

Services

Centre Education 2000+ is the most important independent organisation with expertise in education in Romania and has a flexible network of institutions at educational system level, with professional human capital consisting of permanent employees and collaborators.

The centre developed a wide range of educational services that includes mainly consultancy and professional training.

 

A. Consultancy services

For education institutions and school organizations

• Need analysis in schools;
• Curriculum development at the school's decision for private schools and high schools;
• Facilitating the school - community relationship;
• Social development and improvement;
• Image creation and promotion campaigns for education institutions and organizations;
• Market studies for education institutions and organizations;
• Educational management.

 

For public institutions, non-government organizations, businesses, multinational organizations, international financial institutions

• Analysis and development of educational policies;
• Developing, organizing and implementing educational programs;
• Educational consultancy: curriculum, training and development of human resources, evaluation, school manuals;
• Study visits for experts in education and managers of the education systems from various countries;
• Design and implementation of educational programs at the request of customers (institutions, companies or Romanian or international groups);
• Project evaluation;
• Development of training policies for the beneficiary institutions.

 

B. Training services:

• Professional training and development in various fields of education - building the infrastructure for continuing professional development, training program management, training methodology, training teachers for new abilities and competencies, training in innovative teaching.

 

Advantages for the Beneficiaries

• Programs that are tailor-made to the customer's needs;
• Training adjusted to local and individual needs;
• An approach centered on the needs of the learning person;
• Complete offer of instruments for developing educational strategies;
• Support for developing institutional and human capacities;
• Instruments for the sustainability of projects.

 

The Centre Education 2000+ has a network consisting of four resource centers that are capable of offering expertise in the development of human and institutional capacities in all the historical provinces of Romania. Recently, a regional centre was created in Timisoara - CEDUConsult - as a component of the Training and Consultancy Department. CEDUConsult will be offering technical support and educational consultancy and will pilot the various products offered by the Centre at regional level.