Preparatory Adult Education (FVU), the aim is:

• to give adults the opportunity of improving and supplementing their basic skills according to reading, spelling and communicating in writing (plus numeracy)
• to provide prerequisites for further education and participation in the society and exerting an influence on one’s own situation.

CVU Copenhagen & North Zealand comprises 10 partner institutions and a Department for Further Education and Training. CVU Copenhagen & North Zealand offers Professional Bachelor programmes, in-service training programmes, post graduate diploma degrees, and profession related research within teacher education, social education and health education.

CVU Copenhagen & North Zealand has a considerable international engagement and great experience with student mobility (primarily traineeship within the social educator degree), network projects and development projects (incl. projects in third world countries and other low income countries).

CVU Copenhagen & North Zealand has been granted the Erasmus University Charter.

VOX works to establish national and international networks for adult education, and to spread knowledge about important developments in the field both at national and international level.

ISSA, founded in 1963, is an institute dependent on the University of Navarra and was the first University College in Spain to impart training for management assistants at tertiary level. English and French or German are compulsory subjects during the three-year course. A multilingual model has been introduced this year, 2004-05, which will allow students to study 60% of the diploma in other languages. Personalized attention is given to help them acquire and improve skills and competences required in the workplace. All graduates are eligible to use ISSA’s work placement service throughout their professional life.

A high percentage of students take advantage of Erasmus exchange programmes with centres in six other European countries. The Institute has also been involved in several European projects dealing with on-line collaborative learning. Through an agreement with SUNY, State University of New York, graduates of ISSA may continue their studies to obtain a diploma in Business Administration at Tompkins Cortland Community College, or a degree in International Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

ISSA is situated in San Sebastián, capital of Guipúzcoa, on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea and 18 kilometres from the French border. Among other aspects, San Sebastián, or Donostia, as it is known in Euskera, is famous for its shell-shaped beach, La Concha”, its film festival and its gastronomic delights.

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Pixel successfully completed several training courses both in the framework of European funded projects and private fundings. Pixel is also constantly involved in research activities mostly related to the training sector.

Language Centre of Masaryk University caters for the needs of all nine faculties and provides courses in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Latin, as well as courses in Czech for foreign students. Teachers at the Language Centre focus mainly on the teaching of foreign languages for both academic and specific purposes.