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Grundtvig
Because it is never too late
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Who was Grundtvig?
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig
1783-1872
Danish clergyman and writer
Father of folk school and adult education
Objectives?
• To provide adults with the possibility to improve their knowledge and competences and to help them adapt to the constant evolution of labour market and society during their whole life.
• Focused on all forms of permanent education for adults.
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More precisely:
• To promote mobility and cooperation.
• To offer alternative opportunities of training to vulnerable groups.
• To support innovative practices.
• To promote the use of ICT.
• To improve educational aproaches and management in adult education organisations.
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All persons or organisations involved in adult education, including formal, non- formal as well as informal sectors.
Who can participate ?
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Grundtvig actions
Centralised actions → Executive Agency 1. Multilateral cooperation projects : development and transfer of innovation,
production of educational tools (in the field of adult learning).
2. Networks : exchange platform.3. Accompanying measures: support various activities which, though not eligible
under the main Actions of the Grundtvig Programme, will clearly contribute to achieving its objectives.
Decentralised actions → National Agency • Three ongoing actions : learning partnerships, preparatory visits, grants
for in-service training.• From 2009, four new actions : study visits, assistantships, workshops,
senior volunteering projects.
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EXISTING ACTIONS
What does a Grundtvig Learning Partnership consist in?
Cooperation project between organisations working in the field of adult training which want to work together on a topic of common interest.
• Integrated into the activities of the organisation.• Process-oriented cooperation.• Involvement of learners.• Lighter application procedure : access to the programme possible for
small(-scale) organisations.
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Duration:Two years
Examples of activities:
• Local work on the project.
• Transnational work meetings.
• Study visits between partners.
• Exchange of trainers and learners.
• Exchange of good practices.
• Common products/outcomes: publications, exhibitions, performances, DVD…
A large variety of topics :
• Basic competences• Active citizenship• Foreign languages• Environment & sustainable development• Arts & culture• Health and consumption• Parental education • Education in prisons• ….
Participants:
Minimum 3 partners from 3 countries(including at least one member of UE)Organisations from adult education field,universities, non-for-profit associations and the like, NGO, etc.
How to find partners?
Existing networksCompendium of good projectshttp://partbase.eupro.sePreparatory Visit or Contact SeminarIntranet of National Agencies
European partners:
Funding:
LUMP SUM= linked with minimal number of
mobilities& with activities carried out
All expenses: mobility & local costs
80 % at the moment of contract signature
20 % at reception of final report
Justification: Transport tickets & certificate of
attendance
New!Support of learners’ participation through 24-mobility partnerships (with a minimum of 16
different adult learners).
Activities starting as from 1 August 2009
Deadline for submission : 20th February 2009
2. Preparatory visits
Grant enabling people working in adult education institutions from at least 3 countries to meet in order to set up a Learning Partnership.
Important to meet before setting up a project ! Many partnerships encountered difficulties because: partners didn’t know each
other, did not have the same expectations, represented structures that differed too much , or because they did not get involved to the same extent…
New! From 2009, also for : senior volunteering projects, multilateral
projects and networks
Practical details:- Flexible deadlines.- Grant: travel & subsistence.- Max 5 days.
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3. Grants for In-Service Training
To improve motivation and competences in teaching, counselling and managing through participation in a training course abroad.
• Accessible to: staff (in a broad sense) from the adult education field, trainers of education staff, persons in retraining scheme in the sector of adult education.
• Various thematic areas : pedagogy, didactics, management, coaching…
Practical details:• Online training catalogue / trainings not mentioned in catalogue.• Grant: travel, subsistence, registration fees.• Min. 5 days=>6 weeks.• Three fixed deadlines/ year (16/01/09; 30/04/09; 15/09/09).
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To enable the staff (present or future) from the adult education sector to take part in study visits abroad.
= Very flexible!
• Wide access : staff (in a broad sense) of adult education sector, persons in retraining scheme and students in the sector of adult education…
• Different types: observation internships, assistantships, study visits, conferences, …
• Various thematic fields: training, management, adult education policy…• Duration: 1 day to 12 weeks.
Practical details:- Flexible deadlines.- Full grant : travel, subsistence, (possible) registration fees.
4.Visits and exchanges of adult education staff
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NEW ACTIONS
5. Grundtvig Assistantship
To enable the staff (present or future) from the adult education sector to take part in an assistantship abroad in an organisation involved in adult education.
• Wide access : staff (in a broad sense) of adult education sector, persons in retraining scheme and students in the sector of adult education.• Various tasks: training and/or other activities.• Variable autonomy.
Host institutions : European database/National Agencies websites.
Practical details:• Duration: 3 to 9 months.• Grant: travel and subsistence.• Fixed deadline / year. (31 March 2009).
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NEW ACTIONS
6. Grundtvig Workshops
To enable adult learners from different European countries to take part in workshops (learning events).
• Various topics: art, music, science, languages, issues of common European interest, citizenship, intercultural dialogue.
Practical details:• It is the institution , wishing to organise a workshop for adult learners that
applies for a grant to organise the workshop: – will propose the content of the workshop.– will receive financial means to organise the workshop from A to Z.– will select the learners according to previously defined criteria.
(* Particular attention should be paid to disadvantaged social groups).• European catalogue of approved workshops.• Fixed deadline / year. (20 February 2009)
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NEW ACTIONS
7. Senior Volunteering Projects
Cooperation between a host/sending organisation for an exchange of senior volunteers.
• Volunteering = experience of informal learning.• Non profit-making activities.• Volonteers aged 50 years old or over.
Practical details :• Cooperation of 2 years.• Exchanges involving 2 to 6 volunteers.• Duration : from 3 to 8 weeks.• Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable social groups.• Funding: lump sum to both organisations.• One fixed deadline / year. (31 March 2009)
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NEW ACTIONS
GIVE (Grundtvig Initiative on Volunteering in Europe for Senior)
For more information:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc848_en.htm
A copy of the official Call 2009 and of the Guide for applicants will be available for consultation by participants during the whole seminar!
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