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Halldis.Bornes@vox.no, graciela.sbertoli@vox.no
helga.arnesen@vox.no, stine.aasheim@vox.no
www.vox.no

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• to initiate, coordinate and document research and development projects about all aspects of adult education
• to facilitate contact and collaboration among all national actors in the field
• to establish national and international networks for adult education
• to spread knowledge about important developments in the field both at national and international level

Some of our main areas of interests are:

• Adult learners that are in danger of marginalization:
  • adults with reading and writing difficulties
  • certain groups within the adult immigrant population
• Accreditation of prior learning
• Learning initiatives in the work life
• eLearning
• New Basic Skills
• Flexible open learning for adults
• Adult education: theory and practice
• Dyscalculia and problems with mathematics in adult learning
• Languages and intercultural aspects

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+ 33 491 37 33 24
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epff@wanadoo.fr
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basic skills teachers, basic skills learners, deprived parents, non formal education teachers, and works on such public issues as social, professional and parental integration, and the assessment and orientation of unemployed adult and young people (under 26).

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+ 353-65-6824819
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crws@eircom.net
http://homepage.eircom.net/~famlearn

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The project evolved ten years ago through, a literacy and numeracy scheme called Clare Reading and Writing. It identified a need for programmes that would support parents in ‘helping their children learn.’ Since then through research and experimentation the project has pioneered a number of different programmes. In 2000 it published a resource pack for facilitators of family learning. This is widely used throughout Ireland and seems to have formed a basis for the adaptation of family literacy programmes to meet the needs of participant groups. The project is funded by the Department of Education through the Adult Education budget. Programmes are delivered throughout Co. Clare in collaboration with education, health and social service agencies.

Family learning is an approach to intergenerational learning, which acknowledges family and culture as the foundation of learning.

Programmes aim to:

• encourage parents to recognise the unique role they have in their child’s learning
• highlight the importance of the home as a powerful learning environment
• build parents’ confidence and self-esteem as individuals
• promote positive links between home and school
• nurture and support lifelong learning skills

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+ 353 1 8554332
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Valleylodge4@eircom.net
http://www.nala.ie

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+ 31 13 5830 933
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N_erradi@rocmb.nl
http://www.educatie.rocmb.nl

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Mission
ROC Midden-Brabant wants to offer students and other participants the right competences, knowledge and skills through high quality education and training. It also wants to prepare them properly for their future in our multi-national society through contributing to their personal development. In a continuous dialogue with students and staff, with the business community and with public authorities in the region, ROC Midden-Brabant is always seeking for improvements and new answers to new questions.

Education with a Modern Vision
ROC Midden-Brabant offers all students equal access to all learning opportunities. Students are supported by personal tutors and much attention is spent to their enrolment and monitoring. The learning methods chosen by ROC Midden-Brabant encourage the students to carry out their assignments independently. Internet and multimedia applications are available in well-equipped open learning centres. The electronic learning environment is becoming more and more important in the support of all courses and in managing the personal portfolios of students and other participants.

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+ 48 42 631 58 32
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mkarp@wshe.lodz.pl
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+ 40/232/252850, + 40/232/252870
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acolib@euroed.ro
http://www.euroed.ro

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EuroEd Foundation aims at supporting the reform processes of civic society by promoting high-quality standards in concordance with European Community requirements in the field of education, civil society, public policies, youth, law, culture, mass media, regional development. Through its initiatives, EuroEd Foundation intends to act as a regional catalyst for debating and developing regional and international projects which should facilitate exchange of ideas and experience in the field of democracy and European Integration.

EuroEd has expertise in setting up and running a language centre, a resource centre, in designing training packages for teachers and autonomous students, curriculum and syllabus design, materials development and evaluation both for foreign languages and Romanian as a foreign language, life-long training (including international training in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Pakistan, Colombia, Thailand). It also has experience in implementing EU projects, British Council projects, initial education, youth club, life long learning , as well as expertise in quality standards, inspection schemes, assessment and self-assessment, education management.

In the field of materials development, EuroEd has experts who have developed: a) high school coursebooks for EFL, published by Oxford University Press and certified by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research; b) ESP coursebooks used by university students and professionals (business, law, medicine); c) Human rights coursebooks in English for high school students; d) in-house materials for Romanian as a foreign language for international agencies which work in Romania, diplomats, NGO volunteers, etc; e) training packages for FL materials developers.

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+ 44 121 643 0774
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jcollier@cflearning.org.uk
http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk

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+ 44 1482 331680
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Elaine.James@hullcc.gov.uk

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• Apart from our six permanent centres, across Hull we offer classes in over 150 different venues, such as libraries, schools, women’s centres and community centres.!
• We enrol over 17,000 people every year.
• We have partnerships with the BBC, Hull University, the NHS, Hull College, Hull’s City Learning Centres, Preston Road NCL, women’s centres, trade unions, the Trade Union Learning Centre and local schools.
• We have been hosts to delegations from Italy, Germany, France and Spain who have travelled here to see how Hull’s Lifelong Learning programme works.
• We have working partnerships with twelve European countries to draw EU funding into the City of Hull.
• Our modern languages programme has grown by over 300% and now offers language classes in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Greek. We are looking to expand this provision.
• We help over 3,000 people each year to improve their English and maths.
• We have a range of activities for families to learn together
• We have extended the range of arts and crafts courses and set up new specialist art rooms
• Hull Adult Education has the highest take-up of people categorised as 'disadvantaged' in the Humberside Learning & Skills Council area.
• Hull Adult Education is funded from national and international sources, drawing over £5m into the city.

Hull Adult Education receives nearly all of its budget from local, national and international agencies. The local Learning & Skills Council, in particular, is very supportive of our activities. The cost to Council Tax payers in Hull is almost zero.

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+ 44 207401 3382/3
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cft-galdwin@supanet.com
http://www.clpe.co.uk

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The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) became an independent charitable company in November 2002. Prior to this, CLPE was a self-supporting professional development centre working from within the London Borough of Southwark. The centre is still based in Southwark from where regular programmes of courses and conferences for teachers and teaching assistants are delivered. In recent years, CLPE has been subcontracted by the London Borough of Southwark to develop substantial programmes in family learning. Currently, CLPE provides programmes in family literacy, numeracy, ICT and language acquisition programmes for refugee families. Most programmes are delivered from Southwark primary schools although CLPE is developing opportunities to work with families from the centre.

The core aims outlined by the London Borough of Southwark that inform our family learning work are to:

• Raise levels of participation and achievement across the community and encourage family learning
• Priortise groups and families that experience barriers to learning
• Stimulating the demand for family learning

CLPE family learning programmes are targeted to reach parents in the borough’s sixteen priority neighbourhoods. These are areas where approximately 70% of the population lives in a ward within the 10% most deprived wards in the country. Consequently, Southwark is a regeneration heartland where major investment and renewal is underway.

CLPE’s family learning programmes are offered to families with children enrolled at Southwark nursery and primary schools or early years centres. The provision enables parents to build strategies to support their child’s learning both at home and in school as well as raise their own level of skills. Accreditation for adult learning is offered on most programmes.