LIVE (Learning In Voluntary Experiences)
The LIVE partnership shares two key things in common: learning and
volunteering. The partnership asserts that volunteering, in itself, is a
learning experience whether formally through the acquisition of formal
qualifications or skills, knowledge and confidence gained through
informal learning. The project sought to share experiences of learning
through volunteering and to produce a manual to illustrate its findings.
RAOUL – Raising Awareness Of the Use of Languages
The RAOUL project worked with five other European projects to create a
motivational tool for adults that would inspire them to undertake
language training for use in workplaces.
East of England
Projects: Case study details coming soon!
Learning Partnerships:
European Digital Older Learners (Edol)
EDOL introduces learners over the age of 50 to ICT, teaching them a range
of ICT skills. Through ICT, EDOL has allowed learners across Europe to
communicate with and learn about one another, giving non-English speaking
learners the opportunity to improve their language skills.
London
Projects: Case study details coming soon!
Learning Partnerships:
ICT a Gateway to Future for Disabled
People
The ICT a gateway to future for disabled people project evaluated the best
methods used in the field of ICT for disabled people at European level,
and identified, developed and produced learning materials that would
improve the methods of using ICT for disabled people. Overall the project
encouraged a positive attitude in society towards this marginalized group.
Learning, Life Histories and Citizenship
The Learning, Life Histories and Citizenship project, embeds a second
project called Share My Story: E-Learning and Citizenship. In combination
the projects focus on how ‘excluded’ groups, including ethnic minorities,
adults with learning disabilities and economically marginalized women, can
find a voice in the European debate about active citizenship. The project
used life history techniques to explore the concept of citizenship in
three European countries, with an underlying recognition that citizenship
has both a collective and individual dimension.
CITTA: Women Learning for
an Active Citizenship
The aim of the partnership has been to encourage a transnational exchange
of successful basic training models for women living in urban areas that
are geographically and socially disadvantaged. An active exchange of
information, in the framework of lifelong learning, supported women living
in these areas to explore new possibilities and achieve personal
development.
North East
Projects:
META Europe: Media Competency And Cultural Empowerment
META Europe is a European training course entitled Speaking Out! –
Media Competence and Cultural Empowerment - focusing on media
competence and new technology. The University of Sunderland’s media
department (including its student/community radio station, Utopia FM) is
one of the partners in this project.
A Sporting Chance
Using sporting venues as a stimulus for learning was attractive to
disadvantaged groups in this project. A sporting chance set out to
encourage new basic skills for all, through encouraging more investment
in human resources to promote innovations in teaching and learning,
rethinking guidance and counselling and bringing learning closer to
home.
Learning Partnerships:
Learning Partnerships
Working with four other European countries the Learning Partnerships
project promotes reciprocal learning in terms of the discovery and
exploration of the organisational structures, methods, working patterns,
approaches and activities of the five participating countries.
Specifically the learning focus concentrates on four themes;
intercultural learning, rural issues, gender and equality issues and
disability, the latter being a new opportunity for learning exchange
amongst the countries.
Embracing E-Learning
Embracing E-Learning aimed to bring together teachers, trainers and
learners
who had some experience in e-learning, to enable them to participate in
a ‘pilot’ project’. The project set about to test the potential for
e-learning and m-learning to engage adult learners fully in lifelong
learning.
Creative and Performing Arts in the Community
(CAPAC)
The CAPAC looked to address inequalities often encountered in the world
of art. It is perceived that participation in art activities is often
the domain of people from higher socio-economic backgrounds, and that
opportunities for others to perform, record and exhibit are very rare.
The aim of the project has been to identify common problems and share
good practice amongst European partners in relation to the participation
of local people in visual and performing arts, and to engage adults in
local arts projects.
New Approaches for Adults Learners and
Their Multiple Intelligences
The New approaches for Adult learners and their multiple intelligences
project set out to explore Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligences (M.I.), which stipulates that it is of the utmost
importance that we recognise and nurture all the various human
intelligences. Instruction in school, at most, should acknowledge
students’ various strengths and weaknesses. Teaching methodologies must
therefore be tailored in such a way as to ensure that we teach
everything in multiple ways. Subsequently the project aimed to enhance
learning opportunities for adult learners through organised seminars to
share expertise, knowledge and experience of M.I. The project aimed to
establish pilot projects based on M.I. and to implement these new
approaches to teaching and learning techniques, keeping learners
involved at all stages in the planning, implementation and evaluation of
the project. Overall the project aimed to use each partner’s strength in
the organisations and to share best practice through a catalogue of best
books where each partner listed good books for the partners to share.
Northern Ireland
Projects:
Arts and Crafts across Europe
The Arts and Crafts Across Europe project aimed to share knowledge and
skills about a range of traditional and modern arts and crafts from
participating countries and to create archives detailing each craft and
how it is made.
Learning Partnerships:
Women in Europe
The main aim of the Women in Europe project was to promote the value of
education and training amongst disadvantaged women in Europe, with a view
to using their skills and knowledge to develop an information bank in the
form of an online directory of locally based women’s services and
ultimately to establish a women’s network.
Individual and Distance Learning
The Individual and Distance Learning project created an online learning
resource that could be shared across different learning groups and
cultures, to provide learning resources for those individuals who did not
use established learning centres. The partnership organisations shared
experience on how learning modules could be delivered to other European
cultures with the objective that each partner was to design a learning
module relevant to their level of expertise.
Linking the
European Family
The Linking the European Family project aimed "To provide adults in
disadvantaged communities with the opportunity to work with their children
and with educators to improve their contribution to the enhancement of
their children’s/students school success".
North West
Projects: Case study details coming soon!
Learning Partnerships:
Welcome to my Home
The Welcome to my Home project set out to develop a strong learning
partnership, which engaged adult students from minority communities in
developing inter-cultural competencies by exploring tourism in
non-traditional tourist destinations.
EUROVISIO
The Eurovisio project aimed to make lifelong learning more visible in
the communities of the four partnership countries.
Knowing me Knowing
you
The Knowing me Knowing you project aimed to create a space for post-16
education and training practitioners working in formal and non-formal
adult education sectors within the European Union and beyond, annually
for three years, to develop a shared understanding of multicultural
education and present a range of curriculum solutions as good practice
guides.
Scotland
Projects: Case study details coming soon!
Learning Partnerships:
I-NET Learning: Intercultural Ethics
The objective of the project was to raise intercultural awareness and
exchange good practice about the teaching of adults from different
cultural backgrounds.
Principally the project aims to strengthen the capacity of local community
organisations, adding value to their activities by developing an adult
learning dimension. This was achieved through establishing adult learning
centres within community-based non-governmental organisations in three
enlargement countries - Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
Learning Partnerships:
ICT a Gateway to Future for Disabled People
The ICT a gateway to future for disabled people project evaluated the best
methods used in the field of ICT for disabled people at European level,
and identified, developed and produced learning materials that would
improve the methods of using ICT for disabled people. Overall the project
encouraged a positive attitude in society towards this marginalized group.
South West
Projects: Case study details coming soon!
Learning Partnerships: Case study details coming soon!
Wales
Projects:
OSMOSYS (Organising SMO’s employees approaches
to lifelong learning at SYStem level)
The overall aim of the OSMOSYS project was to break the barriers between
corporate, formal and informal learning by reviewing and introducing a
context-based approach to modelling Adult Learning Centres (ALC) and a
negotiated and integrated way to report learning results.
Learning Partnerships:
Linking the
European Family
The Linking the European Family project aimed "To provide adults in
disadvantaged communities with the opportunity to work with their children
and with educators to improve their contribution to the enhancement of
their children’s/students school success".
The Three Cs – Coping with Cultural Change
The overall aim of The Three C’s project has been to identify, transfer
and develop innovative methods in formal and non-formal adult education to
cope with socio-economic changes. These are changes identified by learners
from a vast array of backgrounds, knowledge and interests.
The Three C’s project shares best practice and utilises learning methods
to enable participants to enrich their lives and gain greater
understanding of similar concerns in other European countries.
Learning Partnerships:
Supporting the Future
The Supporting the Future project enhanced guidance and counselling
services delivered to parents/carers of young people with hearing
impairment in their transition to adult life. The project worked with two
other European countries, Malta and Sweden.
Yorkshire and the Humber
Projects:
Arts and Crafts across Europe
The Arts and Crafts Across Europe project aimed to share knowledge and
skills about a range of traditional and modern arts and crafts from
participating countries and to create archives detailing each craft and
how it is made.
Learning Partnerships:
ICT a Gateway to Future for Disabled People
The ICT a gateway to future for disabled people project evaluated the best
methods used in the field of ICT for disabled people at European level,
and identified, developed and produced learning materials that would
improve the methods of using ICT for disabled people. Overall the project
encouraged a positive attitude in society towards this marginalized group.
Belonging
The Belonging project aimed to develop materials and teaching and learning
approaches to encourage citizenship amongst people who are not originally
from the partner towns. For example, the UK partner was working with
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students, including many
asylum seekers and refugees. The project aimed to share and develop good
practice on a transnational basis, develop standards in integrating
citizenship in ESOL programmes/second language programmes and promote
innovation for learners, enabling contact with learners in other countries
and mobility. Learners developed citizenship and ICT skills as part of the
ESOL programme.
