Call for Companies to Develop a Professional Training Course for Teachers

Deadline for submitting offers: December 28, 2021, 4:00 PM Contracting organisation: SmartUp Social Innovation Lab SmartUp Social Innovation Lab is a non-governmental organisation working in the fields of education, climate change, and public sector innovation. Our work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach aimed at creating an environment where different system actors can meet and, through a facilitated co-creation process, address existing social challenges. SmartUp operates within the ecosystem by connecting various stakeholders to promote and develop social innovations, building a society that is socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable. SmartUp was founded with the mission to catalyze social innovations in the country and the region.

Context In 2019, SmartUp began working on building the collective portal EDUINO, a web platform designed to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in early childhood through co-creation and innovation, involving teachers, parents, and children. As such, the platform aims to provide a favorable environment that supports socio-emotional development in preschool education, facilitates the implementation of national curricula, and provides better access to professional development materials for teachers. The collective portal EDUINO is implemented within the project: "Creating an environment that enables the improvement of teaching and learning quality through co-creation and innovation." The project is funded by the Government of the United Kingdom through the British Embassy in Skopje, with support from the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Bureau for Education Development, and UNICEF, and is implemented by SmartUp – the Social Innovation Lab.

Task objective The objective of the task is the technical development of a professional development course for teachers titled “Basics of Social Cohesion and Cultural Dialogue” based on existing materials (audio, video, documents, graphics, and presentations) in Macedonian and Albanian. The course consists of 5 modules containing videos, accompanying documents, and presentations. The developed course should be partially integrated into the existing EDUINO platform. Accordingly, the company engaged will be responsible for fully coordinating the process of developing the professional course, which includes:

• Design and editing of presentations in Macedonian and Albanian
• Creation of graphics for presentations in Macedonian and Albanian according to existing materials
• Audio and video transcription of materials from English into Macedonian and Albanian and formatting text to provide subtitles
• Creation of course videos by compiling English audio (introductory, main, and closing) with presentations in the appropriate language (MK and ALB) and integrating subtitles in MK and ALB accordingly
• Translation of materials into Macedonian and Albanian
• Design of materials in Macedonian and Albanian To submit a financial offer, the total amount of materials can be reviewed at the end.

EXPECTED DELIVERY AND TIMELINE

SELECTION CRITERIA Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria: Technical criteria: (70% of the total score) Previous experience in developing and implementing the same or similar projects:

• Graphic design and preparation of graphics and presentations (30%);
• Video production and technical editing (30%);
• Translation of materials (10%) The minimum threshold for considering financial proposals is achieving at least 80% of the technical criteria Financial criteria: (30% of the total score)

How to submit an offer Applications must be sent by email to the following recipient address: info@innovationlab.mk Interested companies should submit:

• Company profile
• List of completed past projects relevant to the task
• Resumes of key personnel who will be involved in the project implementation
• Technical offer with a detailed timeline Financial offer Submission deadline: 28.12.2021, 16:00 All bidders will be notified on December 31 about the outcome of the selection process.

More detailed information about the materials 15 Word documents and 1 PPT presentation need to be translated from English into Macedonian and Albanian. The translations of the Word documents into MK and ALB must be graphically edited and standardized. These documents are module descriptions, and some are accompanying materials such as exercises and activities. There are a total of 216 pages of Word documents, i.e., 73,481 words or 448,487 characters with spaces / 378,565 without spaces. The PPT presentation has 13 slides, 882 words. The translated presentations in MK and ALB should be appropriately edited like the other presentations described below. Link to example: 2 PowerPoint (6 MK and 6 ALB) presentations (374 slides) that need layout and appearance improvement. The current challenge is that the slides are difficult to read, partly due to overcrowding and partly due to graphic design. They need to be graphically edited to be easy to read, with a clear focus on each slide and a unified look within and between modules. Some of the issues identified are insufficient contrast between background and content and text alignment that makes reading difficult. Example of a presentation It is also necessary to rework some of the graphics to make them easier to read. During reworking, the structure and information of the graphics must be retained. The graphics are already translated, and the appropriate translations can be found in each of the presentations. Example of graphics expected to be reworked - link. 20 videos of varying lengths (335 minutes total) require transcription and translation - if the video is in English, translation into Macedonian and Albanian is needed; if in Macedonian, translation into Albanian is required. Translations should be formatted as subtitles corresponding to the videos. Example 1 Example 2 21 audio materials with a total duration of 136 minutes require transcription, translation from English into Macedonian and Albanian, and formatting of the translation for subtitles.