Sedukon o.p.s.

SEDUKON o. p. s. was established in Ostrava as a non-profit company in 2001. Company SEDUKON is reserve as a non-profit organization, while the scope of the organization in Ostrava extended to Prague. Our activities are focused primarily on:

·         Education and vocational courses with emphasis on the development of innovative educational methods.

·         Education and personal development of differentiated groups of disadvantaged people with regard to the needs of their integration into the socio-economic environment of the Czech Republic.

·         Initiation, implementation and collaboration in projects co-financed by the European Union, both at national and international level.

·         Organizing courses, workshops and providing employment advice.

·         Cross-border cooperation and networking.

The company is one of the major regional non-profit organization focusing primarily on education and follow-up activities. SEDUKON, through cooperation with foreign partners and implementation of international experience, contributing substantially to better and more successful form of education in the Czech Republic.

Projects aimed at seniors:

Competencies for Seniors in Action

The project aim is to create strong partnership ready to efficient an offer of the solution for qualification and competences by expansion of the capacity a work structure of older people, to create considerable activities in their communities at European level.

Project partners:	XIBO Center (Romania)
	SEDUKON, o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	LEAM Développement et Gestion de Projets (France)
	Hungarian Telecottage Association (Hungary)
	AGORA – Associazione Culturale (Italy)
	Joniškio rajono švietimo centras (Lithuania)
	Krośnieński Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku (Poland)
	Akdeniz Üniversitesi Elmali Meslek Yüksek Okulu (Turkey)
	Arber Enterprises Ltd. (Great Britain)

Project description:

Ageing has a significant impact to the social perception of human, despite of this older people are still placed in a disadvantaged positions. In their effort to keep a balance for the situation, the NGOs which assumed missions on this matter have to face the lack of funds and the isolation from other contacts that could nurture their need of learning and exchange experiences

The project aims creates a strong partnership to offer solutions to building up capacities of the organization structure and achieving a higher activity and efficiency of elderly person in their communities at the European level.

The target group members are employees of non-governmental organizations working with elderly people. Target group contains of NGOs or other structures working with older people.

Activities/Outcomes:

·         Training PC courses, fundraising, writing and implementing project (introduction of the Grundtvig Programme) and foreign language courses.

·         Stimulate the cooperation between the target organizations: participation in the international meetings and workshops organized within the project – opportunities to establish contacts, discover cultural values, define common domain of interest, identifying a team building and sharing experiences.

·         The main project result shows the draft of a new international project created by the target groups, underlying the force of involvement of older people in community-level actions and wider.

Program 50+

Sedukon company project. in order to increase the employability of people over 50 years.

Project description:

The project is focused  at increasing employment and employability of persons older than 50 years in the Moravian Region.

Goal of the project is an individual approach to provide advice and support to 28 selected participants of the project - 16 candidates and 12 interested for jobs over 50 years.

The project will contribute to addressing the specific situations and problems of project participants in the labor market through:

-       -      Providing individual support and motivation of the target group (work, balance diagnostics, consultations, individual job counseling)

-       -      Raising the skills of the target group through the courses:

1)     Master in production

2)     Welding course

3)     The driver of the lorry

4)     Salesman

5)     Worker in banking

-       -      Support the creation of new jobs