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Improve your Education!

• 'Every person - child, youth and adult - shall
  be able to benefit from educational opportunities
  designed to meet their basic learning needs.
  These needs comprise both essential learning
  tools (such as literacy, oral expression,
  numeracy, and problem solving) and the basic
  learning content (such as knowledge, skills,
  values, and attitudes) required by human beings
  to be able to survive, to develop their full
  capacities, to live and work in dignity, to
  participate fully in development, to improve the
  quality of their lives, to make informed
  decisions, and to continue learning.'1
• 1 World Declaration on Education for All
  Meeting Basic Learning Needs (World Conference on
  Education 1990)

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Project

• Education Unlimited! is aiming at greater
  involvement of young people in designing their
  learning experience.
• Education Unlimited! will contribute to the
  improvement of young people's education in
  Europe, pointing at changes necessary to answer
  the current needs.
• Education Unlimited! will help young people to
  discover and benefit from opportunities that will
  increase their chances in work and study life.
• Education Unlimited! means more and better
  education!

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Target group

• Direct audience
• Students and youth leaders
• Academic staff and trainer communities
• Decision makers in the field of youth, education,
  employment and those who influence these
  decisions
• Indirect audience
• Civil society and media

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Lisbon Agenda, March 2000

• EU Heads of States and Governments agreed to make
  the EU "the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-driven economy by 2010
• Education Bologna Process (BP) as part of Lisbon
  Agenda aims to establish a European Area of
  Higher Education by 2010
• Objectives of BP
• Introduction of undergraduate and postgraduate
  levels in all countries
• European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
• Elimination of remaining obstacles to the
  mobility of students and teachers
• Implementing new ways of learning in the
  framework of life-long-learning (LLL)

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Current situation

• Higher education as concept of school-teaching is
  not able to develop in an individual the key
  competences defined by European Commission, or
  life skills defined by UNESCO. ? There is need
  for broader understanding of learning!
• The role of non-formal education (NFE) and its
  complementarities with formal education (FE) is
  neglected.
• Learning experiences acquired outside the formal
  education system are not equally treated on the
  professional market.

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Current situation

• The implementation of BP often provokes a lack of
  space within studies for extracurricular
  activities. (e.g. Project organization, active
  membership in NGOs or participation in
  international events.)
• Educational reforms are arranged on governmental
  level. ? They do not take into account feedback
  from the grass-roots!
• Potential of mobility programmes as chance to
  enrich both formal and non-formal education is
  often not being realized among students and
  universities.

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Our Principles!

• Improvement of European higher education!
• Strengthening involvement of young people in
  educational policies at the grass-root level!
• Bridging formal and non-formal education!

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Objectives

• Bring Bologna process and concept of LLL closer
  to young people on the grass-roots level
• Encourage proactive approach of young people to
  design their own education
• Contribute to the acknowledgement of non-formal
  education activities within formal education
  system

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Activities

• Inform local students about BP aims and their
  implementation as well as about the concept of
  LLL
• Preparation of user-friendly information
  materials and manuals explaining in a simple way
  about BP, LLL, NFE etc. showing examples of
  activities and ways to get involved
• Action Week on the topic of FE bridging NFE ?
  promote benefits from mobility as NFE activity,
  organising exchanges
• Training events for BP multipliers to pass on
  knowledge to peers in their university cities

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Activities

• Analyse impact of BP on students active in youth
  NGOs
• European-wide survey among students, about their
  attitude, knowledge and experience with Bologna
  process.
• Press conference at IFISO meeting in Brussels BP
  seen with the eyes of students that are active in
  NGOs ? Comparison of experiences regarding the
  impact of educational reforms (coming from BP) on
  their members.

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Activities

• Create platforms for young people to contribute
  with comments and ideas
• Discussion clubs via AEGEE locals open also to
  other NGOs and individual students to exchange
  opinions ? Presentation of outcomes to
  representatives of student unions and academic
  staff.

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Activities

• Strengthen the cooperation between student NGOs
  and university student unions
• Debates and workshops to come up with proposals
  for inclusion of non-formal education within
  formal education system.
• International study session/seminar Analyse the
  BP reforms from the youth sector point of view
• International conference about educational
  reforms with student NGOs and student
  representations of different faculties

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Activities

• Present the impact of NFE
• Official booklet about history and development of
  NFE in Europe in the last 20 years ?Success
  stories of NGOs' alumni (AEGEE and other youth
  NGOs)
• International conference on alternative
  education Role of NGOs and institutions as
  providers of non-formal education
• International conference involving UNESCO and
  World Bank Best practices of other countries,
  recognition of NFE in the global perspective

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Activities

• Promote the participation in NFE activities
• Joint letter-sending action letters from AEGEE
  members asking for recognition of their
  participation in NFE activities are being sent at
  the same time to respective ministers and to
  European-level decision makers ? flood effect

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Activities

• Initiate cooperation between institutions dealing
  with FE and NFE
• International study session/seminar on
  complementarities of FE and NFE AEGEE, Youth,
  Education units of Council of Europe, European
  Union, as well as European universities, labour
  market, youth NGOs and student unions discussing
  about actual system of education and proposing
  different structures of European core curricula

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Activities

• Encourage contributions from students who gained
  educational experience through mobility
• Post-exchange evaluation round collecting
  observations and conclusions about differences in
  educational systems of students coming back from
  educational exchanges ? proposals to be discussed
  with university followed by implementation

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Activities

• Foster thematic meetings on education between
  students and academic staff of different
  nationalities
• Thematic exchanges between AEGEE locals Meeting
  with their university staff, workshops on the
  educational systems of the sides participating in
  exchange
• Summer University Education Tour Debates between
  participants on different educational systems
  introducing interactive methodology of theatre
  forum or debate ? Result movie My perfect
  European education by AEGEE TV

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Activities

• Local interactions between young people and other
  stakeholders in education
• Study visits Trips to several cities in other
  countries where NFE is already acknowledged (e.g.
  Finland, France, Austria, Netherlands etc.) to
  meet stakeholders on education on local level ?
  explore hot issues regarding education, main
  challenges, best practices, and study the
  involvement of all sides in educational system

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Follow Up

• All contributions and results of local and
  international activities throughout the project
  will be gathered, presented online and used for
  issuing a result booklet
• Conclusions will be presented to relevant bodies
  at European level
• Bologna Follow-Up Group regarding the view on BP
  from NGO perspective
• European institutions regarding complementarities
  of higher education and NFE provided mainly by
  youth NGOs
• Governments and national bodies representing
  young people (student unions, national youth
  councils).

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Expected Results

• Presenting the impact of NFE and its importance
  along with FE
• Presenting best practices of recognition of NFE
• Reaching all actors in the field (NGOs,
  Government , international organizations) ?
  Efficient lobbying for recognition of NFE with
  joint efforts
• Giving contribution to the work of Bologna
  Follow-Up Group regarding complementarities of FE
  and NFE
• Increasing participatory level (or role) of
  students in Education processes (e.g. BP)

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Team

• Project Manager Asia Piskunowicz, AEGEE Poznan
• Content Coordinator Jan Tolkien, AEGEE Münster
• Thematic Coordinator (BP) Julia Drews, AEGEE
  Berlin
• Thematic Coordinator (Mobility) Mercedes
  Castillio Martinez, AEGEE Alicante
• Thematic Coordinator (NFE) Veronica Stefan,
  AEGEE Bucuresti
• Advisor Miljan Radunovic, AEGEE Beograd
• External PR Anna Shirokova, AEGEE Moscow
• Internal PR Violeta Joitoui, AEGEE Bucuresti
• European Relations Viktoriya Voytsekhovska,
  AEGEE Lviv
• European Institutions Tika Tsertsvadze, AEGEE
  Tbilisi
• FR Vaggelis Monoguios, AEGEE Athina
• FR/ Local responsible Karolina Zborowska,
  AEGEE-Slupsk
• Local activities Kadri Kalle, AEGEE Tartu
• Publications Jacqueline Emmerich, AEGEE Augsburg
• Follow-Up Coordinator Jonna Sijl, AEGEE Utrecht

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Questions?

• Contact us at
• education-unlimited-l_at_aegee.org