Short Description

Pandokrator Ltd. is a small enterprise established in Budapest, Hungary. During the few years of its existence Pandokrator managed to cooperate in 4 EU educational projects:

1. ‘The Game Changer’ project, as coordinator
2. ‘SoS- Soft Skills for Employability through Mentoring and Coaching’, as a coordinator
3. ‘Innovation in Digital Learning Material’: platform creation and development of interactive learning material in Maths
4. Erasmus+ Project, “Vet Safety”

Its main fields of research and actions are non-formal adult education: skills improvement and training, language teaching, coaching and mentoring, Horticulture, VET Standardization, and Sustainability.

Within the ‘SoS’ Project we developed 2 products: a printed ‘SKILLS TOOLKIT’ for unemployed people and ‘Guidelines for Mentors and Coaches’ to use the ‘SoS’ Toolkit and support unemployed persons. During the 2 years of the project, as a coordinator, Pandokrator has gained essential managing skills and knowledge on EU project procedures and cooperation.

Currently we are involved in an ongoing Erasmus+ Project, “Vet Safety” (2015-17) about:

• Improving safety & skills training standards relating to working at height activities in Agriculture, Forestry & the Environment,
• Development of new resources to support skills training instructors & assessors,
• Development of an International health & safety data warehouse,
• Harmonization & implementation of new European skills certification standards.

As for the intellectual capital of the company, Pandokrator’ s staff has decades of experience in formal – at primary, high school and University level – and non-formal teaching, training and academic research in the fields of:

• Mathematics – Teaching at University
• Climate Change – Leading the Climate Change Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Intercultural competency in public education (PhD research)
• Face to face and online language teaching and examining in public and private sector
• Curriculum development in public sector
• Horticulture Engineering and Gardening
• Sustainability
• Soft Skills improvement training in private and public sector
• Research on teaching adults online (in the framework of an EU Project)
• Research on soft skills (in the framework of PhD studies and an EU Project)
• Research on intercultural education (in the framework of PhD studies)
• Research on the assessment of intercultural and didactic competencies of educators in public and private sector (in the framework of PhD studies)
• Research on supporting methods: mentoring and coaching (in the framework of an EU Project)
• Research on safety strategies and accreditation in VET
• Training on soft skills development (in the framework of an EU Project and at organisational level)
• Development of online training material (in the framework of PhD studies and an EU Project)
• Authoring public school curricula (in cooperation with 1. the Ministry of Education and 2. Ministry of Human Resources)
• Online language teaching for adults and youngsters (in the framework of an EU Project)
• Examination of language learners (in the framework of the State Examination Center and an EU Project)
• Economic, Social and Eco Sustainability – sustainable gardening and training (at organisational level and in the framework of PhD studies)
• Project management in 5 EU educational projects in sum: on language teaching, online curriculum development, Maths, VET Safety and Accreditation
• More than a decade of classroom teaching experience at elementary, high school and University level 6 years of online teaching experience.