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Lebensqualität durch Nähe

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Today municipalities are looking for solutions to handle the profound changes in the social and civic landscape as well as activating their citizens in participating projects. Challenges like social integration of migrants, demographic and structural changes are demanding for municipal cooperation, especially in rural areas. The solution to deal with this challenges is an active engagement and par...
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Life Skills for Europe

Start date: Dec 28, 2016, End date: Dec 27, 2018,

This project brings together partners from Denmark, Belgium (Europe), the UK, Greece and Slovenia in order to improve basic skills provision by explaining, further developing and upscaling the life skills approach. Many disadvantaged people have few possibilities to escape the low skills trap, and they often lack the know-how to access social services, proper health care that goes beyond urgencies...
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Implementing Outreach Empowerment and Diversity

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The project is the follow-up of a Grundtvig network that elaborated guidelines for trainers/staff in adult education and policy recommendations for policy-makers for engaging disadvantaged learners. The partners now want to implement the principles: Outreach – Empowerment – Diversity (OED). The participation in adult education has stagnated or even decreased in some countries while we do know th...
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Let Europe Know about Adult Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Research has shown that several target groups, including adult learners and adult education professionals, can best be reached in a journalistic manner. Therefore journalistic means, such as journalistic articles, campaigns, online media and mass media play an important role in raising the knowledge and awareness about learning as an adult. However, adult education institutions often do not have t...
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Transnational Peer Review for quality assurance in Validation of Non Formal and Informal Learning (VNFIL) Extended

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The 'European Peer Review VNFIL Extended' project aims to extend the current European Peer Review for RVC methodology to more European partners in more countries, establishing Peer Review to complement and enhance the usual quality assessurance systems in Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning (VNFIL). Building upon the results of a series of previous European programmes, the project seek...
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Professional development through learning exchanges

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Context:AONTAS have a long history working and engaging at a European level. AONTAS is represented on the Board of the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) and acts as the Irish correspondent for the Infonet project. In 2014 AONTAS were assigned the role of the National Co-ordinator for the Implementation of the European Agenda for Adult learning which runs until 2018.Over the n...
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Financing Adult Learning and Education

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

In most European countries, financing (non-formal) adult education remains problematic. In contrast to the formal system, the sources of financing are fragmented. On the side of public authorities, there is a distribution across different ministries, regional and local authorities and communes. Employers obviously play an important role as do public employment services. In many countries, the lear...
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SMART Generation - Smartphone potential and educational resources for young generation

Start date: Dec 15, 2015, End date: Dec 14, 2017,

The smartphone is the personal media that has become more widespread among children in the last decade and it has become overwhelmingly a part of their lives, and as a symbolic element characterizing their culture, which is often perceived as essential,. However, the use of the smartphone without adequate precautions exposes children to various risks. In fact, it can produce adverse effects on men...
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A Toolkit for Developing, Implementing and Monitoring Adult Education Strategies

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth acknowledges lifelong learning and skills development as key elements in response to the current economic crisis, to demographic ageing and to the broader economic and social strategy of the EU. The crisis has highlighted the major role which adult learning can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults - in part...
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Job shadowing in der Europäischen Erwachsenenbildung

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project is implementing a two months job shadowing period in the larges and most important representation organisation for general adult education in Europe - EAEA (European Association for the Education of Adults) in Brussels. Based on the wish for a stronger and broader European perspective and strategy within the sending organisation (Erzdiözese Salzburg) one staff memeber will take a 60 da...
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Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

EAEA’s longer-term objectives are increasing participation in adult education, esp. by raising awareness for the wider benefits of learning; Promoting excellence and effectiveness in policy making and policy implementation through civil society proposals; New methods for engaging new learners and innovation through co-operations, new methodologies and international work.The following activities ar...
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Live and Learn - Audiovisual Stories of Adult Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Our project is inspired by two observations, shared by most European education policy documents and relevant studies. Firstly, there is a clear need to increase participation in adult education across Europe; and secondly, new ways of sharing best practices among European adult educators must be found. We want to address this need in an innovative way: through the medium of videos. We will produc...
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Action plan for validation and non-formal adult education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

In 2012, the Council approved recommendations on validation. The plan is that member states have validation systems in place by 2018. We have now had 20 years of national and European practice, but it is still very fragmented. Later this year, the Commission will also publish an updated version of the European Inventory on validation and new Guidelines. However, the partners believe that MSs will ...
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Developing participative processes for the generation of a financial education curriculum addressed to young adults at risk

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Financial markets have become increasingly complex and, in consequence, individuals everywhere need to improve their understanding of financial products and services. In addition, individuals today have greater responsibility for their financial well-being. A wide process of financial education is required in order to configure a critical and informed citizenship able to understand and make fundam...
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Kosmopolitisches Denken und Gestalten - ein Gelände europäischer Bildung. Künstlerisches Arbeiten mit dem geistigen Erbe von Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) in der Idee der Sozialen Plastik.

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

This training is positioned in the context of civic education and Social Sculpture and explores the relation of Dag Hammarskjöld’s thinking and value in and for the sphere of a European dimension of education. It also explores what his ideas toward the shaping of a humane and viable community have in common with core ideas in the field of social sculpture and how they can be taken forward by such ...
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"Vi er også europæere"

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The aim of the project is to strengthen DAEA’s lines of action which are innovation and development of non-formal adult learning, looking after the interests of our member organisations, provision of high quality service for the members and DAEA’s role as the voice of the non-formal adult learning sector in the public debate. Two of our board’s headlines describing how the non-formal adult learn...
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Demokratie lernen und leben

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

Bildungshaus Schloss Retzhof, an adult education centre of the Styrian Government, is presently the only full accessible adult education centre in Austria. Very important for us is the opportunity of participation in activities and offers of our institution to at best all people. Therefore our efforts aim to establish a barrier-free and inclusive thinking institution. We are surely a best-practice...
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N/A

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

EAEA’s longer-term objectives are increasing participation in adult education, esp. by raising awareness for the wider benefits of learning; Promoting excellence and effectiveness in policy making and policy implementation through civil society proposals; New methods for engaging new learners and innovation through co-operations, new methodologies and international work.The following activities ar...
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Staff mobility

Start date: Sep 20, 2014, End date: Sep 19, 2015,

Background of the project: AONTAS is seeking to develop its work at the EU level and strengthen existing partnerships, by integrating an international dimension to our membership services, raising awareness regarding EU adult learning policy, share best practices of Irish adult education and in particular community education; including non-formal adult education and the learner voice. Objectives: ...
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N/A

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

EAEA is a transnational, non-profit NGO with 116 members in 40 European countries. The aims of the work programme are to improve European policies by linking them to the practice of adult education (AE) in Europe and beyond; to propose a strategy for increased basic and transversal skills levels; to raise awareness of AE in other LLL policies in the EU; to contribute to the Open Method of Coordina...
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Generations in Action - The Role of Intergenerational Learning for Active Ageing (GoAct)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

The EU is faced with the prospect of a population that is getting progressively older. Many policy-makers, social insurance organisations and the general public associate with ageing pains and nursing cases. However, old age must be regarded not as an illness but as a highly complex progressive process requiring a new approach to social inclusion. The project partners are planning to raise the awa...
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Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling

Career guidance without frontiers : In an attempt to give career guidance counselling a more multicultural and multilingual element, the project partners have produced an online glossary and a multilingual guidance book. This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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European Adult Education (Young) Professionals Learning Platform

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

Many adult education staff do not have formal training in AE.EAEA knows from members that there is huge need & interest to learn more about European policies, programmes and other countries’ systems & innovations.We therefore propose an online learning format in order to reach more participants and to make it affordable. An exchange between staff generations,the learning from experts but also peer...
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European InfoNet Adult Education II

The main objective of European InfoNet Adult Education (European Information Networkfor Adult Education = InfoNet) is to disseminate information about trends, project andresearch results, the latest developments, best practices and the latest news from themember countries of the European Union. It also seeks at a European level to developand establish European awareness among the network members.I...
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Managing Quality of Adult Education in Europe

The majority of quality management systems originated within the private sector and target large business enterprises. As a result, there is a need for targeted quality management in the area of adult education which is often delivered to users by SMEs. This project will research existing quality management systems for adult education in the partner countries and will go on to develop a series of ...
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InfoNet Adult Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

The InfoNet Adult Education network began in 2005 and has since continued to escalate both in terms of membership and activities. Bringing together key adult education journals and publications alongside large national and international education and training bodies such as the EAEA and UNESCO, the network forms the backbone of the European Infonet platform aimed at improving the flow of informati...
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ROM-ACT:Widening Roma women's access to non-formal and informal validation systems

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

The ROM-ACT is based on the contributions and recommendations from previous research projects in the field of non-formal and informal learning validation systems to promote social inclusion of the Roma women. The Roma community has developed specific abilities and competences related to the type of work they have done, but most of them do not have academic degrees and formal work experiences. Thus...
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Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

The BeLL-study examines the wider benefits of liberal adult education in nine European countries. The target group are active adult learners, highly educated as well as lower educated persons, who have participated in liberal education courses and therefore experienced wider benefits. Recent studies demonstrated that non-formal adult education can lead to several wider benefits (Manninen 2010; Sch...
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Outreach, empowerment and diversity

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

This network will bring together 16 organisations from 14 countries. Our aim is to tackle the need for outreach to marginalised groups, especially migrants and ethnic minorities, for the development of more diversity in adult education, and especially the inclusion of learners’ voices, and for the empowerment of its learners to become active European citizens.We want to - provide a collection and ...
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AZIONI DI SISTEMA PER I CIRCOLI DI STUDIO NELLA FORMAZIONE CONTINUA

The project sets out to promote training for trainers in non formal and continuous vocational training. A primary aim is to define a 'Model of competences' for trainers and disseminate this; furthermore, an analysis of best practice will give rise to a 'Transfer Model'. This model will come by through experimentation and will focus on the introduction of Study Circles to allow transmission of in...
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European InfoNet Adult Education III

Start date: Oct 1, 2012,

Disseminating information and reporting on trends, project/research results, developments, best practice and news in the area of adult education from all European member states as well as EU institutions is the core activity and objective of the unique journalistic service “European InfoNet Adult Education”. This service has been developed as media network since 2005 (InfoNet I and II) and indepen...
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