Cluj-Napoca, Romania

BLSH is a non-profit, non-governmental association providing foreign language courses in 13 different foreign languages in the form of general, intensive and total-immersion language courses all-year round, both online and offline. BLSH is also an examination centre for the ‘European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages’ (ECL). In the framework of the language programmes the school also engages students in various outdoor and cultural activities to boost their competencies and skills. These activities include treasure hunting, visits to nearby rural areas to learn traditional arts & crafts, group or pair outdoor activities or excursions combined with language learning. Linguistic summer camps for school students and team-building activities dedicated to staff members are organised fully outdoors and include hiking activities as well.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

SMGA was established with the main purpose to educate Slovenian mountain guides to the highest possible standard of safety and also to educate the public for safe mountaineering activities. The Association provides mountain guides training according to the IFMGA international standards. SMGA consists of approximately 80 members out of which 40 or so are professional mountain guides and others are part time mountain guides with different occupational backgrounds. This ensures that the members cover a wide variety of areas and can adapt individually to the clients and/or students.The main activity of SMGA members is guiding domestic and foreign clients in any mountaineering pursuit. Many  members also serve on different safety and educational committees both on the national as well as international level, in particular, the international Federation of Mountain Guides Association which acts as an umbrella Association for all IFMGA mountain guides around the globe.