ADULT EDUCATION - GRUNDTVIG
A Sporting Chance
The project intends to establish support centres for young people (between 16 and 25 years old), who are socially excluded. These centres will be established at local sports venues. The main idea is to use sporting venues as a subject for learning processes.
It will be the challenge of teachers to create assignments in the new learning environments, with the purpose of motivating young people. On four cultural situations in the Netherlands, Greece, UK and Sweden, local partnership will be established.
ACE - AdultCraftEducation
The project's objectives were to survey the situation of (handi)crafts people in the 5 participating countries and to identify best practice in adult training for them. The project achieved its objectives and produced the expected output, in particular a survey brochure on the (handi)crafts situation in each of the 5 countries, a best practice brochure and a training guide for educators/trainers, all products in paper and CD-ROM versions. Moreover, it is remarkable that the project will have an impact on crafts legislation (Romania, partly Czech Republic) and that training guidelines were taken up by the Viennese "Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur", a very traditional establishment with no guidelines for porcelain decoration so far.
CBCNET - Cross-Border Cooperation in Adult Education
This project is focused on the cross-border cooperation of institutions for adult education in European border regions.
The idea of the CBCnet is to connect adult education institutions within a European cross-border cooperation network to strengthen cross-border cooperation in European border regions through exchange of experience and learning from best-practice-models.
Other objectives of the project are offering support for cross-border cooperation, especially in view of cooperation with institutions from the candidate countries, the development of new project partnerships in border regions and the implementation of common and innovative strategies for future cross-border cooperation.
http://www.crossborder-education.net/crossborder/index.htm
WO-MEN: Gender Equality Creates Democracy
The project aims to promote European value on gender equality and democracy through lifelong learning and to develop quantitative and qualitative instruments to monitor the application of gender sensitive policies in the 7 partner countries involved. The project targets actors who can influence and improve gender-balanced policy on local, regional and national level ( policy and decision-makers, adult educators and leaders of NGOs).
DEWBLAM - Developing European Work Based Learning Approaches and Methods
The project aims at the development of work based learning approaches and models within different local European cultural and institutional contexts, through the creation of a European network of university and non-university partner institutions. The project DEWBLAM delivered a framework and guidelines for Work Based Learning in nine European languages. The major findings, including case studies from ten European pilots are available in a professional publication. Measures have been taken in the participating countries to implement the framework into national higher education policies and to accredit WBL programmes in participating countries.
LIM - Learning in motion
The main aspect of this project is to develop, examine and spread learning modules in outdoor education containing modules for both psychical training and sensitivity-training for the main target group: mentally retarded/handicapped adults. The target group is by natural reasons dependant of others - family, personnel at institutions, and colleagues at work - to maintain their needs of adult education.
GOAL - Generating on-line adult learning
GOAL planned to deliver a sustainable, innovative, accessible, transferable model of e-training capable of widest application:
- Build a European Partnership to create an original, innovative approach in the e-training of adults.
- Generate quality standards that underwrite the entire process of creation, development, delivery and evaluation of adult e-training
- Build a virtual 'desktop', 'manual' and multimedia 'toolkit' that creates transferable 'Training for Trainers' programmes
- Deliver, evaluate and revise this e-training, then cascade to diverse adult vocational target groups.
LLML - Lifelong Museum Learning
The project sets out from the idea that the potential of non formal learning environments - such as museums - should be fully exploited to fulfil the Community policies aiming at providing opportunities for everybody to learn and bringing learning closer to the citizens.
The project "Lifelong museum learning" addresses museum educators/cultural mediators in charge of adult education in museums or wanting to develop programmes addressed to addressed to adults in and with museums. It's a project that aims at designing, delivering and disseminating training and didactic material to support museum educators facing a new challenge in their work.
http://www.amitie.it/llml/en/index.htm
FORUM THEATRE - A method for adult civic education
The project intend to develop, test and disseminate - at the European level - an innovative cultural approach aimed to help different target groups (communities or marginalized groups) to be more visible in community life and, even more, to influence public policies. There will be common points and differences in applying Theatre Forum methodology to different target groups.
http://www.play-forumtheatre-change.org/
Untold Stories: Learning with digital Stories
The project will make toolkit-based access to the Digital Stories library and the training workshop resources and evaluation materials available to all for cascading to long term beneficiaries: migrant communities, all adult learners with a story to tell and cultural institutions and other interested informal learning providers. Untold Stories will also contribute to enriching the linguistic diversity of Europe by enabling migrants to create stories in their native languages, as well as those of their host country.
Innovative exchange of knowledge, experiences and methods based on cultural heritage of textil
The core objectives to be achieved are: • to develop adult educational method for renewal of the textile inheritance in order to inspire, stimulate and teach people in interest, handicraft people, designers, etc. how to use the collections of the museums as inspiration sources to create innovative new products; • to provide direct access to objects of the museums and develop methods to handle them in order to find innovative methods for adaptability; • to highlight the value of our cultural heritage within the field of textile (dresses, cloths, interior decorations, accessories, etc.) and the value of diversity in Europe; •to strengthen the target group ´ s attractiveness in the labour market and to enhance their competences, motivation and chances to start up new businesses
The outputs, results and products are: • seminars and workshops for exchanging knowledge and experiences and for dissemination and exploitation; • curriculum and course material developed by the international partnership and translated to the native languages; • pilot courses in the 4 countries; • international pilot courses based on foreign textile heritage; • the innovative new products developed as the results of the courses and to prove theirs quality.
Cultural Vehicles in Education - assisting the needs of vulnerable social groups
The project is a piloting initiative focused on developing alternative learning methods and tools in adult intercultural education. The main goal of the project is to work out a new arts-based teaching methodology addressing special needs of vulnerable social groups (including learners with mental illnesses, learners with motor-skills disabilities, migrants and senior citizens). A special emphasis is placed on creating and testing mobilising mechanisms to increase the level of participation in lifelong learning of disadvantaged and reluctant learners.
Cultural Organizations as Learning and Communication Environments
CONNECTION project aims to strengthen the learning dimensions of cultural organizations (archives, libraries, museums, cultural centres) by adapting and developing specific adult education methods and providing techniques and instruments for organizational development and management. In the knowledge based society cultural institutions have an important mission to achieve and their role as learning environments for both children and adults needs to be enhanced. Although the contemporary dynamics require from cultural institutions to act in a pro-active, flexible and innovative way, many of them have difficulties to adapt and fully accomplish their educative potential for the communities and populations they serve.
Educating in the catering sector in 3 remote areas to save cultivated landscape
Edu-Cate Edu-Cate aims to develop an innovative course concept. The target groups are people working in the rural tourism catering sector: employees (such as cooks, service employees) and small scale entrepreneurs, in three European remote regions in Germany, Spain and Slovenia. The course is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of regional, organic and fair traded quality food and refers to the slow food idea. The project will not only provide information on these topics but also training, methods and practical tools for marketing, promotion, communication.
Stratégies innovantes pour la prévention de la récidive
C’est dans cette perspective que s’inscrit le projet « Stratégies innovantes pour la prévention de la récidive », qui essaie mettre en valeur l’impact que les politiques de prévention peuvent avoir sur le renforcement de la cohésion sociale au sein de la communauté, le point commun étant la focalisation sur la personne et sur ses relations avec la société.
New Bridges to Autism
New Bridges to Autism is a Grundtvig Accompanying Measures and aims to give more relevance to the outcomes of 2 Grundtvig projects: a Thematic Seminar Bridges to Autism that ended in 2006 and also a Transnational Project Socrates Grundtvig “Side to Side”, ended in 2005. Bridges to Autism made a survey in longlife educational needs of adults with autism, of members of their families and staff in European countries, especially those involved in the partnership of the project. It also found and disseminated examples of good practice in adults with autism lifelong education. Socrates Grundtvig Side by Side produced a Online Course and a Manual on Adult Education on Autism especially designed for members of families of people with autism and staff with no specific academic qualification in autism. The results of the 2 projects were disseminated online and in reviews and conferences through a great number of sites comprising the 85 member associations of Autism-Europe (an international association for Autism, partner of the projects). However the consortium that worked in these 2 projects has the aim to expand the outcomes to more European countries, especially the ones that recently joined EU and to exploit the outcomes giving them a high profile to raise awareness of relevant target groups: adults with autism, member of their families that work and live with adults with autism and staff.
Growing With Compost
The ''Growing with Compost'' project will initiate a dynamic partnership to develop much needed social economy composting projects across Europe. It will provide training and educational support to organisations and individuals that wish to develop local initiatives that combine the goals of providing adult education and training through social employment and in providing organic waste management and horticultural services. This will be achieved by creating a toolkit of resources that can support these projects in a number of ways.
SPICES - Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills
Creation of an innovative methodology and tools for need based InterCultural Communication (ICC) training in Second Language/Context Language Learning / Teaching (L2/Lc).
Promotion of ICC instruction for Adults. Report of the training offer in ICC & Lc/L2;
- definition of the linguistic-communicative needs of Adults in Mobility in bureaucratic- institutional settings;
- didactic prototypes (hardcopies and VHS/DVD);
- guidelines for an innovative training methodology and the Grundtvig training course;
- on-line publication of selected outputs.
SOCCER - SOcial and Citizenship Competence
SOCCER - SOcial and Citizenship Competence Recognition aims to:
- build up a database of best practice in citizenship education with youngsters and adults with a low education and a low qualification level;
- train educators in active learning methods (curricula, modules, games, edutainment...);
- look for innovative ways of evidencing (e-portfolio) and measuring progress methods;
- develop strategies for accrediting (= formal recognition of citizenship education);
- set up a "mobile team" of trainers, to train pedagogical teams on the spot in the divers countries.
TRAIN - Professionalization of Literacy and Basic Education - Basic Modules for Teacher Training
In order to survive in today's globalized world, it has become necessary for all people to learn (new) literacies and develop the ability to locate, evaluate and effective use information in multiple manners. In Europe the development of literacy and basic education is very different; that applies to the professional development of trainers as well. Professionalism within literacy and basic skills is a difficult subject because teacher and trainer have to deal with adults who are marginalised or disadvantaged. In addition to their reading and writing difficulties the students do have learning problems. Therefore teacher and trainer have to improve their knowledge about psychological and social aspects.
PAN European: European Network for organisations involved in adult prison arts education
This initiative arose through discussions between the European Prison Education Association, an NGO of the Council of Europe focused on Prison Education, and the Comenius Big Picture Network, exploring post-16 non-advanced arts education, during which the need was identified for creating a specific European network focusing on prison arts education. Issues of special concern related to the context, support, strategies and practice of delivering arts education for adult offenders and ex-offenders in a European context.
A variety of activities has taken place and already at the stage of progress report, and the project has achieved significant results. The amount of information that can be found on its website is an excellent indicator for this.
''Take A new Look'' - International and innovative model of work for staff educating parents of children with special needs
Project is aimed at professionals who educate adult parents of children with special needs (SNCh; that is children with developmental problems, disabled, foster care children). Numerous researches show that educators do not have sufficient tools to effectively educate the SNCh parents.
The main objective of project is developing and testing a 40-hour course for the educators of SNCh parents.
Innovative learning methods in adult education
The project idea comes from a previous transnational exchange partnership. All participants have been working with trainers and regularly analyzing their learning needs. Based on the analysis of motivational methods used in LLL it has been found that each institution is successfully using its method that is not well known to others or efficiently used. The aim of this multilateral project is to develop the most interesting methods (5) and implement them into the course that is included in the Comenius-Grundtvig database. Alongside innovative methods, new methodological material will be elaborated to increase the interest and motivation of adult learners in various educational areas and improve the quality and attractiveness of, and access to, adult education.
Identity and Difference - Creative Artistic Exercises as Didactic Support in Adult Education
ARTID develops and tests artistic activities for the promotion of key competences in adult education.
The partners will address very different target groups, which all are entangled in specific cultural and social tensions:
• Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland
• people with and without migration backgrounds in Germany
• members of different generations in Austria
• representatives of the Italian, German and Latin culture in South Tyrol
• people with and without ability restrictions in Lithuania
Moving Stories from across Borders Cultures Generations
This project encourages groups who are at the margins of society (older people, migrants, minority ethnic communities) to tell their stories, training them in the skills needed to bring such personal discourse into the public domain. These are stories mostly ignored or marginalised by mainstream media, but particularly well-suited to community radio which has a tradition of giving a ‘voice to the voiceless’. The project aims not just to give the story-tellers digital competence (recording, editing, internet radio, web design) but to engage in ‘crosstalk’ which moves between generations and cultures and includes a critique of mainstream media conventions and exclusions.
The virtual Anti-Violence-Campus at Second Life
Building on several European projects, initiatives and networks, the AVC@SL project aims at establishing a virtual Anti-Violence-Campus (AVC) in the virtual environment of Second Life. The project targets adult education providers as well as adult learners dealing with the overall topics of school bullying, violence, racism and xenophobia.
eMULTIPOETRY
The project attempts to inspire Europeans toward extending their language skills by way of international communication and exchange with the application of innovative multimedia and an ICT-based methodology. The authors of the project assume that, in the modern society, poetry has lost some of its specific force and vigour that carried humanity across civilization. The eMULTIPOETRY project applies an innovative approach for introducing multilingual poetry in a way that could widely appeal to young people in Europe.
European Strategy for Multicultural Education
The aim of the project is to initiate an EU-wide upgrade of local public libraries into Local Multicultural Educational centres (LMECs) with a European perspective. By upgrading local public libraries into Local Multicultural Educational Centres, the symbolic cultural capital of the local migrant population will become an integral part of local public libraries. By serving the community as a whole, the libraries will be enhanced into local contact points for implementing common European integration strategies.
Senior education and training internet platform
It is desirable to “tailor educational activity” to senior needs. In this case professional, family, leisure time and other priorities can be taken into consideration. The best way to achieve these goals is for seniors themselves to be able to create topics and forms of education. PC literacy can be a very powerful tool to fulfil this aim. If seniors acquire computer literacy, then PC will enable them to communicate both between each other and the lecturers who deal with individual topics.
Engage trainers in Learning MODules and matErial Creation
The project E-MODE aims at a targeted reinforcement of the trainers’ competences regarding the creation, application and evaluation of their own learning modules and materials, using ICT in this process.
E-Learning on EU - Adult Education for Teachers
The project addresses the special needs of teachers, trainers, lecturers and other staff working in education. Especially for this group of professionals, it is extremely important to have access to LLL, to learn to teach and to keep themselves up to date with modern learning methods. The aim of the project is to design and offer to the target group a product – an online course on EU topics which is easily accessible to all of them, which is modern, challenging, European, and which gives them the opportunity to improve not only academic knowledge but also other skills, e.g. digital skills and language skills.
Personal and Human Development, Psychodrama to help Disadvantaged
The PhD² project aim is to furnish transversal and specialist / professional competences to disadvantaged subjects through new training methods such as video-therapy and psychodrama to re-enforce the subject’s interpersonal relationships and to adapt / re-adapt them in the social and work context.
Tech-Connected Teacher
The purpose of this project is to improve the availability and quality of European training courses available to adult education teachers, managers and other adult education staff and to make adult education more accessible by bringing it online; while enabling adult teachers and trainers to find and to learn more about the educational potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) and to acquire recognition and accreditation of their learning.
International Academy of Experiential Education
The project will produce the following results:
• Bases of principles and training materials for quality experiential education: overview of existing practices of adults' experiential learning in the partner countries, common principles for quality of experiential learning, training materials connected to adult quality experiential education methodology;
• Channels for dissemination and exploitation of quality experiential education ideas discussed within the project: internet site, course participants’ folder (course participants’ individual projects and valorisation ideas), presentation of the project results in conferences, articles in specialist newspapers or news web pages about the project, publicity materials (posters, flyers).
Stimulating ICT Learning for actiVE Eu eldeRs
Project SILVER aims to create a sustainable digital literacy life-long learning programme to provide:
1. elderly citizens with the competences and resources necessary to benefit from ICT
2. school students and teachers with didactic experiences fostering the learning of skills critical for the 21st century (communication skills, social responsibility, inter-generational understanding, etc.);
3. local government policy-makers with a practical process and tool to tackle elders’ e-inclusion through a multi-stakeholder approach including schools, elderly people centres and other organisations working with the elderly.
Politics revisited: thinking crudely
The EuroPol Project (Politics Revisited: Thinking Crudely) intends to tackle the identified and statistically-proven decline in political participation at a European level. The incapacity of traditional political forums to involve and motivate people needs to be addressed in order to avoid a situation when democratic institutions lose their legitimacy. The project aims to make politics attractive and interesting by producing a set of training materials (a combination of printed manual, DVD with video scenarios, and e-politics software) directed at adults (young and old).
Movable Barres--music & dance in offender learning
The project's main aims are:
• To identify current activities in music & dance in adult prison education across Europe
• To create, pilot & disseminate a practical educational model (a multilingual, multimedia learning package) for using music & dance in adult prison education across Europe
• To organise practical workshops for exchanges of information & best practice between centres experienced in using music & dance in adult prison education and those with limited experience, including specific training courses
• To develop strategies for promoting the use of music & dance in adult prison education, particularly in centres where it not previously been used
• To develop an effective framework for employing the rich traditions of European music & dance, through the involvement of professional musicians & dance practitioners in adult prison education
• To develop the use of music & dance to explore and analyse personal and group reactions and relationships in prison education
• To explore the benefits of combining music & dance in a prison context
• To establish local, regional & national partnerships to support music & dance activities in adult prison education
• To encourage awareness of cultural diversity within Europe, through the creative use of music & dance in adult prison education.
DIGITAL ASYLUM-SEEKERS - Media education crash course for parents and grandparents
The DIGITAS (Digital Asylum-Seekers – Media education crash course for parents and grandparents) project arose from the need for a media education-related training action focused on trainers and teachers working with parents and older learners that is NOT confined within a ‘protectionist’ paradigm and is aimed at the ‘demystification’ of media.
BASIC WEB 2.0 skills by learning in family environment
The overall objective of the project consists of supporting and motivating the disadvantaged families with pathways to improve their knowledge and competences in ICT (Web 2.0), increasing the role of the family as main vector for society development and therefore mobilizing the family members to learn together.
Psychodrama on the educational stage
The actions undertaken will foster cooperation of psycho dramatists and adult educators and a further growth of actual implementation of concrete psychodrama techniques with a view to empower adult students from marginalised social contexts to gain an insight into their own potential (POTENS) and develop social and personal competences accordingly, which will put them in a stronger position in society and in the labour market.
Developing the tacit knowledge economy
The project will develop and provide:
• A virtual workspace for retirees to facilitate extension of their working life
• A pedagogical strategy aimed at encouraging the continued active participation of retirees
• An induction and training programme for retirees aimed at imparting necessary technical skills
• An interactive Web 2.0 site facilitating user created content and mentoring in key areas
• A business model to support the "Tacit Knowledge Economy in all partner countries.
jennifer.land@meathpartnership.ie
Changing methods in teaching migrants
This project aims to adapt existing and developing new teaching methods which should support teachers of vocational training in their teaching of mixed groups (migrants and non-migrants). The project focuses on the teachers’ perspective - based on the concept of intercultural education, teachers are invited to reconsider their perspectives and enhance their teaching competences and spectrum.
