Grundtvig

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Grundtvig

• European Funding
• For
• Adult Education

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Grundtvig

• Part of the European Unions Lifelong Learning
  Programme

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Our First Partnership Project( Europe Net 1)

• Partners from
• The UK
• Sweden
• Spain
• Poland
• Ran from 2006 to 2009
• Website at
• www.eurogrundtvig.net

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Europe Net 1

• Involved staff and learner exchanges
• Sampling of cultural and educational
  opportunities
• Examined ways of engaging hard-to-reach learners
• Looked at examples of good practice

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Europe Net 2 Our next project

• Will explore questions raised by our first
  project
• What methods of assessment are most motivating
  for adult learners?
• What are the best methods of engaging and
  retaining male learners?
• How can we encourage intergenerational learning?
• What do we need to do to attract older learners?

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Europe Net 2 - Partners

• Barnsley MBC Adult and Family Learning UK.
  Project Coordinator
• Utbildningscentrum, Örkelljunga Kommun Sweden.
  Project Deputy Coordinator
• Association Idem Spain
• Osrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli w Slupsk
  Poland
• (We hoped to be joined by a new partner from
  Bulgaria but their application was not
  successful)

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Europe Net 2 -Objectives

• 1. To identify forms of assessment which are
  motivating rather than de-motivating for adult
  learners.
• 2. To identify more effective ways of engaging
  and retaining male learners in disadvantaged
  areas so that they can follow pathways through to
  qualification and employment.
• 3. To find ways of re-engaging with older
  learners, fewer of whom seem to be taking part in
  adult education.
• 4. To jointly develop a report which identifies
  de-motivating factors in adult education and
  identifies best practice amongst the partners to
  remedy the situation.

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Europe Net 2 - Programme

• November 2009 first partners meeting in Poland.
  Discussion of programme and planning of work on
  assessment.
• November 2009 May 2010 carrying out research
  on good practice in assessment.
• May 2010 second partners meeting in Sweden.
  Review of assessment study and consideration of
  intergenerational learning.

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Europe Net 2 - Programme

• June 2010 November 2010 trialling of lessons
  learnt from assessment study and recruitment
  strategies.
• November 2010 Third partners meeting in Spain
  (?). Review of action research. Study visit
  concentrating on pathways to employment.
• November 2010 May 2011 action research on
  trialling best practice with staff and learners.

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Europe Net 2 - Programme

• February March 2011 4th partners meeting to
  plan final conference, to prepare recommendations
  for transfer of experience and transfer of good
  practice. Venue to be decided.
• May/June 2011 Fifth partners meeting in the UK.
  Final project meeting, review and consultation
  with learners. Dissemination conference with
  local partners.
• May/September 2011 Compilation of Final Report.
  Further consultation between partners and with
  learners.