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European Commission-Education
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Practical learning for adults
Launched in 2000 and now part of the overarching Lifelong Learning Programme, Grundtvig aims to provide adults with ways to improve their knowledge and skills, keeping them mentally fit and potentially more employable. It not only covers learners in adult education, but also the teachers, trainers, education staff and facilities that provide these services. These include relevant associations, counselling organisations, information services, policy-making bodies and others involved in lifelong learning and adult education at local, regional and national levels, such as NGOs, enterprises, voluntary groups and research centres.
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. |
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