Practical learning for adults
The Grundtvig programme focuses on the teaching and study needs of those in adult education and alternative education streams, as well as the institutions and organisations delivering these services. Supporting lifelong learning and mobility in this way also tackles Europe’s ageing population problem.
There are also actions supporting adult learner mobility, such as exchanges and, now in the 2007-2013 programme, so-called 'European Assistantships'.
Objectives and actions
Specific aims are to:- Increase the number of people in adult education to 25 000 by 2013 , and improve the quality of their experience, whether at home or abroad
- Improve conditions for mobility so that at least 7 000 people per year by 2013 can benefit from adult education abroad
- Improve the quality and amount of co-operation between adult education organisations
- Develop innovative adult education and management practices, and encourage widespread application
- Ensure that people on the margins of society have access to adult education, especially older people and those who left education without basic qualifications
- Support innovative ICT-based educational content, services and practices
Actions include support for:
- Mobility, including visits, placements, 'assistantships', adult education exchanges (i.e. staff training and professional development) and the preparations needed to plan the exchanges
- Grundtvig Learning Partnerships focusing on themes mutual interest to participating organisations
- Multilateral projects for improving adult education systems through the development and transfer of innovation and good practice
- Grundtvig Networks of experts and organisations working on developing adult education, spreading good practices and supporting partnerships.
At least 55% of the total funding for Grundtvig should go towards mobility and partnership activities.
