The Institute offers guidance in advanced technologies and provides various services, consultancy, trainings and developments for continuing education learners.
The Institute provides support for learners in their professional development as far as computer skills and knowledge of information technology are concerned. The Institute targets include promoting international co-operation based on applying new technologies and internet tools. The Institute:
Initiates and coordinates development of applications of innovative technologies in the process of education.
Initiates and coordinates international ICT in education and culture projects.
Promotes international co-operation of adult learners and students on a web and mobile technologies based learning platforms.
Promotes training courses on computer literacy and use of innovative technologies in education.
Develops and disseminates the mobile learning tools.
Organises and prosecutes research on the practices of the modern ICT in education and culture field.
Organises in-service courses for adults on how to use ICT and how to apply this knowledge in education.
AGE, the European Older People’s Platform, aims to voice and promote the interests of older people in the European Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most. Everyone in the European Union is increasingly affected by decisions taken by its institutions : the Council of Ministers, the Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice. Decisions affect the daily lives of all its inhabitants - including older people.
AGE is involved in a range of policy and information activities to put older people’s issues on the EU agenda and to support networking among older people’s groups. Among our guiding principles is that a change of attitudes is needed to achieve a society for all ages, seeking solidarity between generations in a way that recognizes older people’s contributions to society. AGE is committed to combating all forms of age discrimination in all areas of life and aims to monitor and influence the implementation of the various EU initiatives in this area.
AGE was set up in January 2001 following a process of discussion on how to improve and strengthen cooperation between older people’s organizations at EU level. Membership of AGE is open to European, national and regional organizations, and to both organizations of older people and organizations for older people. Organizations of older people will have the majority of votes in AGE’s decision-making bodies. Membership is open only to non-profit-making organizations. AGE is co-financed by its members and by the European Commission.
AONTAS is the National Adult Learning Organisation, a voluntary membership organisation. It exists to promote the development of a learning society through the provision of a quality and comprehensive system of adult learning and education which is accessible to and inclusive to all.
The members of AONTAS who now number almost 600 comprise individual, organisational and associate (overseas) members. AONTAS promotes the importance of adult and community education as a key part of lifelong learning. It influences the development of policy and lobbies on behalf of the sector. It facilitates networking among members and supports their work.
The Association is an independent non-profit organisation and was legally established in Heerlen (Holland) on the 4th of June 1999.
The main aims of the Association are to:
organise exchange and transfer of experience between the
cities and collective territorial bodies who have set up or participated in setting up a Second Chance School within the framework of the programme launched by the European Union
assist cities and collective bodies who wish to set up a Second Chance School
promote the European concept of Second Chance Schools in general
Lunaria is a non-profit, non-confessional and independent association, free from political parties’ control and influence. It was founded in 1992 and it carries out research, training, and communication activities on fair economy and third sector, migrations and globalisation. It promotes initiatives concerning international volunteering and youth policies. Through its activities Lunaria experiments new forms of active participation and social transformation inspired by the principles of justice and social solidarity, democratic participation to community life, guarantee of civil, social and human rights in the national and international context.
Democracy, active participation, promotion of the voluntary commitment and of differences- starting from gender differences-, guarantee of the organisation’s staff rights, transparency in the relations with external subjects: these are the principles the association follows in its everyday life.
The New Media School is a non-profit organisation and therefore acknowledged as a corporate body by the Belgian law. Most collaborators are active in adult education, in higher or secondary institutes. They work with projects and activities of the New Media School, either as a volunteer or free lance.
The New Media School tries to enhance and to realise the educational use of new media in society and education. The NMS can provide activities, products and services related to these media: all graphic, multimedial, digital and electronic communication. The NMS wishes to co-operate with schools, publishers, providers and others, to enhance and to spread the educational means and contents.
Its purpose is to enhance the social development, through education and training, nationally in Flanders, but also internationally through European partnerships and projects
Main actions fields:
- environmental education: BISEL Comenius project: EU in service training for assessment of biological quality river water
- sustainable education: SDIT project: EU in service training
Sustainable development is regarded as a process with economic, ecological and social dimensions. Essential is the cohesion of these dimensions.
- E-learning: design & use of virtual learning platforms in education
cfr. Bridged and Explorian projects, Train the Teacher.
- Dyslexia and other Learning disorders for adult ecucation: EU in service training T4ADDY, Equal project Learning Gateway, Grundtvig project Dys-Learn.
Ljudska univerza Velenje is a non-profit public institution providing adult education.
It takes an active part in regional community by improving the education structure of the population, by motivating and informing the members of the community and by involving them in the educational programmes. We place much emphasis on improving the knowledge of languages and ICT skills of adults from the local area. At the moment there are 12 full-time employees and 130 contract staff working at the Ljudska univerza Velenje.
Years of tradition, the provision of expert knowledge and quality and friendly attitude towards our participants without doubt contribute to the fact that each school year more than 3.500 participants take part in various educational programmes.
In the school year 2006/2007 we organised 167 different programmes and carried out more than 32.000 lessons altogether. Mostly visited programmes were the programmes for gaining education, followed by statutory programmes and language and ICT courses.
All programmes are intended for adults (primary school for adults, programmes for vocational secondary education, professional secondary education, technical-vocational education, professional post-secondary education, language courses and ICT courses for adults and teenagers, training programmes for special labour requirements, study courses, leisure programmes, the national and international projects, …).
We must mention our well developed cooperation with numerous national and international partners, which is the key to achieve higher degree of educational and cultural level of the population. This is an important priority of the Europe.
That is why we as partners have taken part in various national and European projects since 1999. We were the first in Slovenia who received the award E-quality label for the project The new opportunity.
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