Inspire a love of learning. Grundtvig’s range of adult education opportunities are not about work related skills and qualifications. They are about learning for living and enjoyment; the kinds of learning that often go unrecognised.
Grundtvig helps to raise people’s life skills, knowledge and competences. This not only has a positive impact on the communities they live or work in, but also encourages a more accepting and inclusive society.
Grundtvig also puts adult education staff in touch with each other. Staff, volunteers, and trainers can spend time seeing how colleagues across Europe approach things differently – for example, by forming partnerships, undertaking job shadowing, or attending courses and conferences abroad.
To find out more about the different activities please visit the Grundtvig website.
Grundtvig is for adult education staff and adult learners who are over 25 years of age and are involved in non-vocational adult education.
Examples of the people taking part in the Grundtvig programme at the moment include:
- Learners involved in non-vocational adult education courses or projects
- Staff, volunteers, teachers and managers working in the field of adult education
- Freelancers, or those intending to work in adult education
If you are responsible for planning, managing or delivering adult education provision you can:
- Set up a partnership with other European adult education organisations to improve outcomes for your learners (and potentially thousands of others)
- Organise an exchange programme for senior volunteers across Europe
- Run workshops that bring together adult educators from across Europe and share your expertise
If you work directly with adult learners, or are planning to work in adult education you can:
- Go on a training course or attend a seminar or conference in another European country
- Attend a short job-shadowing placement or undertake a longer assistantship
Grundtvig offers a range of activities (also referred to as ‘actions’), which allow you to undertake different types of projects throughout Europe:
Partnerships – Share knowledge and improve adult education provisions
Senior Volunteering Projects – Provide learning opportunities for senior volunteers
Workshops – Run training on literacy issues for adult educators from across Europe
If you work directly with adult learners, then you can take part in the following activities as an individual:
In-Service Training – Participate in work-related training courses
Visits and Exchanges – Attend a conference or undertake job-shadowing
Assistantships – Gain work experience in another European country.
Before you apply, you will need to have a more detailed understanding of these activities. Visit the Grundtvig website to find out more.
Grundtvig In-Service Training
In-Service Training funds individuals, to enable you to attend a skills-based course in another European country to aid your personal development.
Mary Dowson from Bradford Community Broadcasting received 2011 Grundtvig In-Service Training funding to attend the META Europe: Media training across Europe course.
The course was a mixture of practical radio production skills and an exploration of how adult educators help others to learn especially when working with people who are not native speakers. It provided Mary, and her fellow participants, with a great opportunity to work together and to reflect on their own work and establish good practice in both creative radio production and their teaching.
Mary said of her experience "It was such a supportive atmosphere and so conducive to people getting the most from the experience. Learning alongside people from other European countries, provided a richness to the whole experience and we have been in regular contact with each other ever since, building on the network that we established in Spain."
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