GIE - The Group for European Integration

Adult Learning and European Idea

Title: Adult Learning and European Idea

Project type: Grundtvig Workshop

Ref. no.: 2009-1-DK1-GRU13-00824

Promoter/coordinator: Esbjerg Højskole, Esbjerg, Western Denmark

Duration: 04.01.2010 – 13.01.2010

Actual stage: Finished

Summary: The programme of the Esbjerg Højskole addresses adult Europeans, interested in discussion about the vision of adult learning in Europe.

Objectives:  The programme has as objectives:

-          to create a general view about what Europe is with its reality and ideals, pedagogical identity and historical development of the ideas of education.

-          to emphasize the discrepancies between the ideas and the reality of mobility and the opportunities in adult learning across Europe

Target group(s): Adults from 25 to 50 years. The programme addresses to all countries of the EU.

Outcomes:
- Seminars with open participant-led discussions

- Video-presentations

- Seminar presentations by internal teachers

- Seminar presentations by eminent external visitors

Partnership: Participant countries were:

-         Bulgaria

-         Czech Republic

-         Denmark

-         France

-         Germany

-         Latvia

-         Poland

-         Romania (Ramona MIHAILA – University of Pitesti; Ionut Marius CIUCA – Group for European Integration)

-         Scotland

-         Turkey

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