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Lifelong Learning - Guide for applicants
Sectoral programmes : Grundtvig
What are the aims?
Specific objectives
- To respond to the educational challenge of an ageing population in
Europe
- To help provide adults with pathways to improving their knowledge
and competences
Operational objectives
- To improve the quality and accessibility of mobility throughout
Europe of people involved in adult education and to increase its volume,
so as to support the mobility of at least 7.000 of such individuals per
year by 2013
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of co-operation
between organisations involved in
adult education
throughout Europe
- To assist people from vulnerable social groups and in marginal
social contexts, in particular older people and those who have left
education without basic qualifications, in order to give them
alternative opportunities to access adult education
- To facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult
education and their transfer, including from a participating country to
others
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content,
services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
- To improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult
education organisations
Who can participate?
- Learners in adult education
- Institutions and organisations providing learning opportunities in
adult education
- Teachers and other staff within those institutions or organisations
- Establishments involved in the initial or further training of adult
education staff
- Associations and representatives of those involved in adult
education, including learners’ and teachers’ associations
- Bodies providing guidance, counselling and information services
relating to any aspect of adult education
- Persons and bodies responsible for systems and policies concerning
any aspect of adult education at local, regional and national level
- Research centres and bodies concerned with adult education issues
- Enterprises
- Not-for-profit organisations, voluntary bodies, non-governmental
organisations (NGOs)
- Higher education institutions
What types of activity?
The following actions are supported by the Grundtvig Programme:
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Mobility of individuals which may
include visits, assistantships and exchanges for participants in
formal and non-formal adult education, including the training and
professional development of adult education staff, especially in
synergy with partnerships and projects (in arranging for or supporting the organisation of such mobility, the
necessary preparatory measures have
to be adopted and care has to be taken to ensure that adequate
supervision and support is available for people in mobility) |
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Partnership (‘Grundtvig Learning
Partnership’) focusing on themes of mutual interest to the
participating organisations |
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Multilateral projects aimed at
improving adult education systems through the development and transfer
of innovation and good practice |
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Thematic networks of experts and organisations (‘Grundtvig Networks’) working in
particular on:
- Developing adult education in the discipline, subject area or
management aspect to which they relate
- Identifying, improving and disseminating relevant good practice and
innovation
- Providing content support to projects and partnerships set up by
others and facilitating interactivity between such projects and
partnerships
- Promoting the development of needs analysis and quality assurance
within adult education
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Preparatory visits: a mobility grant
to enable a representative from an institution either to attend a
contact seminar or a meeting with prospective partners |
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Other initiatives aimed at promoting the objectives of the
GrundtvigComenius
Programme ('Accompanying
Measures') |
What are Grundtvig actions?
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