Partnership

The Comparative Research Network (CRN) was founded in 2007 and worked since then in the field of non-formal adult, youth and VET education and research.

The CRN Network activities are divided in three vertical fields: research, education and publication. The research department aims to bring social sciences closer to society. Research fields are among others: European Borders, Civic Participation, Urban Issues, Peacebuilding and intercultural dialogue, diversity and citizens science. We are working on local projects in the city of Berlin with migrants on co-creating concepts of social integration, and is a wider scale on conversations of change and social cohesion and new concepts of diversity between local citizens and policy makers.

The training department is working on non-formal education in cross-sectoral approaches. Among others CRN is specialised in civic education and participation, cultural heritage, digital and media skills, storytelling, intercultural skills, green education, game-based learning and creative social entrepreneurship. The Education department is implementing training activities, train-the-trainer courses. It is developing methodological tool-kits, training plans and concrete tools such as online games, apps and handbooks.

The three columns are connected with three horizontal initiatives – the CRN Participatory Lab, combining research, education and publication of civic education and the CRN Peacebuilding Programme, which is performing research and training on intercultural dialogue and social integration, conflict management and peacebuilding in the Euromed, Eastern European and the Balkans and the European Circular Economy Education Initiative. 
Additionally, the CRN is specialised in creating and performing evaluation and dissemination processes in education.
The publication service of CRN is dedicated to publish OER, free-licence training materials, handbooks and support research publication. All books receive an ISBN and are featured in the Archives of the German National Library.
Due to CRN being organised as a transnational network, it has an international scope. At the moment, it employs 10 permanent and around 10 freelance staff, and has a network of more than 120 members, located in almost every European country.
As a NGO CRN is non-profit oriented and performs crucial part of its work on a voluntary basis. Major target groups of the CRN are beside trainer, marginalized groups, such as migrants, people in conflict areas, seniors and unemployed. We work towards helping citizens in diverse neighbourhoods to participate, fight social exclusion, create an ecological sustainable society and generally support the idea of a social cohesive Europe.
CRN is seeking to link social science with civil society actions – that is why CRN joined itself various local, national and transnational networks.
In its European Work, CRN coordinated or participated in projects in all educational sectors. Funding is coming mainly from EU programs, such as Erasmus+, CERV, Creative Europe, Horizon 2020 or REC and local funds such as Soziale Stadt or from the German Foreign Ministry.
Our Alumna consist out of more than 400 trainers and facilitators from all Erasmus+ programme countries.

CUS Torino (Centro Universitario Sportivo Torinese) is the largest multi-sport organization in Italy in terms of the number of disciplines offered, continuity, and the level of activities conducted.

Founded in 1946, CUS Torino boasts over seventy years of history, providing access to ten sports facilities and offering more than a hundred different sports activities. The organization also hosts tournaments, major events, and high-level competitive sports.

The primary mission of CUS Torino is to serve the university sports system in Turin, which includes Politecnico di Torino and the University of Turin, aiming to enhance the quality of life for students. However, its reach extends beyond the academic community, striving to engage the entire city by promoting the concept of an “Open-Air Campus” and attracting a growing number of off-campus, international, and Erasmus students.

CUS Torino is not just about sports—it is also deeply committed to social causes. In recent years, it has actively developed programs and events focused on fundraising to support solidarity projects and finance university research on cancer.

We make life more fulfilling for disadvantaged adults and children through football. Through our regular training sessions, young people living in extreme poverty, homelessness, in correctional institutions or as refugees are given the opportunity to shape their destinies through sport and our social services (job search, language training).
One of our mission to building bridges between social groups in conflict with each other through our Fair Play football Roadshow tournament. Our cross-border series of matches brings together key players from local communities, local authorities, police, local clubs and teams from disadvantaged communities to shape the rules of the game through democratic dialogue, so that they can take the spirit of a cooperative community off the pitch and into their everyday lives.
With traveling to the interational tournaments we give motivation for the disadventages people to worth to do for their dreams.