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Grundtvig
Because it is never too late
GRUNDTVIG
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Who was Grundtvig?

• Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig
• 1783-1872
• Danish clergyman and writer
• Father of folk school and adult education 

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Objectives?
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• 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
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• 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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Who can participate ?
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All persons or organisations involved in adult
education, including formal, non- formal as well
as informal sectors.
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Grundtvig actions
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• 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
1. Learning partnerships
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• 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.

Duration Two years
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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

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A large variety of topics

• Basic competences
• Active citizenship
• Foreign languages
• Environment sustainable development
• Arts culture
• Health and consumption
• Parental education
• Education in prisons
• .

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European partners

• 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 networks
• Compendium of good projects
• http//partbase.eupro.se
• Preparatory Visit or Contact Seminar
• Intranet of National Agencies

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Funding
All expenses mobility local costs
LUMP SUM linked with minimal number of
mobilities with activities carried out

• New!
• Support of learners participation through
  24-mobility partnerships (with a minimum of 16
  different adult learners).

80 at the moment of contract signature 20 at
reception of final report
Justification Transport tickets certificate
of attendance
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Deadline for submission 20th February 2009

• Activities starting as from 1
  August 2009

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2. Preparatory visits
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• 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 didnt 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
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• 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 daysgt6 weeks.
• Three fixed deadlines/ year (16/01/09 30/04/09
  15/09/09).

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NEW ACTIONS
4.Visits and exchanges of adult education staff
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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.

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NEW ACTIONS
5. Grundtvig Assistantship
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• 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 
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• 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
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GIVE (Grundtvig Initiative on Volunteering in
Europe for Senior)

• 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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• 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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