Project partners
UNESCO Institute for LIFELONG LEARNING (Coordinator)
Feldbrunnenstraße 58
20146 Hamburg, Germany
www.unesco.org/uil/
Contact: Ms. Maren Elfert (m.elfert@unesco.org)
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is a non-profit, policy-driven, international research, training, information, documentation and publishing center of UNESCO, focusing on adult and continuing education, literacy, non-formal basic education and lifelong learning. The main part of UIL’s work is carried out on the basis of joint research projects and cooperation for advocacy and policy development with education stakeholders (researchers, practitioners, decision-makers from government, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and private sector researchers) in all world regions. During the last five decades, UIL has made a major contribution to the development of adult and continuing education in the framework of lifelong learning.
As networking is a very important aspect of UIL's work, the Institute has been part of many international cooperation projects.
Anne Çocuk Eğitim Vakfi (AÇEV)
(Mother-Child Education Foundation)
34387 Mecidiyeköy
Istanbul, Turkey
www.acev.org
Contact: Prof. (Ms.) Sevda Bekman (bekman@boun.edu.tr)
Ms. Derya Akalin (derya@acev.org)
The Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) is a Turkish NGO founded in 1993 with a mission to empower people through education and enable them to improve the quality of their lives. AÇEV’s target groups are socioeconomically disadvantaged preschool aged children and their families. All of AÇEV's programs are based on scientific premises and developed in partnership with academics from reputable universities. AÇEV conducts research and develops and implements programs in its two main areas of expertise: early childhood and adult education. Its programs are implemented across Turkey as well as in several European and Middle Eastern countries, reaching 300,000 individuals and 3,500 instructors and teachers to date.
Programme design of family literacy projects in Turkey
Fondazzjoni Ghal Servizzi Edukattivi
(Foundation for Educational Services)
P.O. Box 1
Rabat, Malta
www.fes.org.mt
Contact: Ms. Mariangela Schembri Meli (mariangela.meli@gov.mt)
The Foundation for Educational Services (FES) was established in April 2001. It is conceived as a mechanism that works hand-in-hand with the Education Division at the Ministry of Education in Malta to provide, among others, a range of innovative educational initiatives in the field of literacy support, spearheading change within this sector. Among its initiatives are primary prevention and secondary prevention, family literacy programmes, capacity-building programmes for parents, writing workshops for children and adults, community lifelong learning centres, capacity-building of schools, training, research, international projects and publications.
The FES has successfully coordinated a Grundtvig 1 Project called “Parent Empowerment for Family literacy”/PEFaL (see power point presentation) between 2001 and 2004, involving the UK, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania and Romania as partner countries. As a result of this project family literacy initiatives have been initiated in partner countries with possible regional and national dissemination potential. The FES is also currently a partner in a Grundtvig 4 Thematic Network called “Results Exploitation of Project Research and Information on Social Exclusion Project” (REPRISE). The aim of this network is to share best practice and foster concerted national action in the area of contextualised adult basic skills provision. As a direct result of the participation of the FES in REPRISE, in February 2005, the Ministry of Education in Malta has set up an adult basic skills working group to develop a national strategy in the area.
Foundation “Etnokulturen dialog”
(“Ethnocultural Dialogue”)
Ljulin, Block 626
1336 Sofia, Bulgariay
Contact: Ms. Adela Levenova Stojanova (ethnocultural@abv.bg)
The Ethnocultural Dialogue Foundation is a non-profit organization implementing educational projects with children and adults from different ethnic communities – especially Roma communities. The President of the Foundation is Adela Stoyanova. Since 2001 the Foundation has successfully implemented several projects with the financial support of the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (IIZ/DVV). In 2003 the Foundation implemented the Second Chance schools funded by the IIZ/DVV. It also implemented the project Second Chance – Social Integration through Literacy in Sofia, Trun, and Breznik, funded by the European Commission in the framework of the PHARE program. The project involved 150 young Roma people who attended literacy and social skills courses.
Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung
(State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development)
Felix-Dahn-Straße 3
20357 Hamburg, Germany
www.li-hamburg.de
Contact: Dr. Gabriele Rabkin (gabriele.rabkin@li-hamburg.de)
The Landesinstitut (LI), founded in April 2003, centralises all offices that were formerly separate units of the Department for Education and Sport in Hamburg, including the state study seminar, the teacher certification office, the institute for teachers' further education, the state centre for media, the centre for addiction prevention, the advice centre for the prevention of violence and the advice centre for gifted children. The LI's central tasks are to train teachers, conduct state examinations, and maintain standards and develop quality education in schools, as well as to look after prevention, intervention and counselling. The Hamburg teachers' library, the media library and the development of teaching materials are also parts of its services. In addition, the office of the teacher training reform programme in Hamburg is based in the office of the director of the LI, Peter Daschner, who is also the state schools inspector.
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
76 Lower Gardiner St.
Dublin 1, Ireland
www.nala.org
Contact: Ms. Jenny Derbyshire (valleylodge4@eircom.net)
NALA is a non-profit membership organisation, concerned with national co-ordination, training and policy development in adult literacy work in Ireland. The Agency was established in 1980 and from that time has campaigned for recognition and response to the adult literacy problem in Ireland. Its mission is to ensure all adults with literacy difficulties have access to a range of high quality learning opportunities.
The main funder of the work of NALA is the Department of Education & Science under the auspices of Minister of State Sile de Valera TD. The local adult literacy service is provided by the 33 Vocational Educational Committees (VEC) and funded by the National Development Plan (NDP).
Università Popolare di Roma
Via del Corso, 101
00186 Rome, Italy
www.upter.it
Contact: Ms. Carla Barozzi (barozzi@upter.it)
UPTER (Università Popolare di Roma) is a non-profit cultural association active in the field of adult education. Established in Rome in 1987, UPTER arose out of the primary need to create a new – and affordable – educational experience for adults. Through the years, continuing education, which at first seemed to interest a particular category of senior citizens, little by little began to attract the interest of all those who had educational and training needs. Thus, UPTER turned into a true People’s University, on a European model, which delivers adult education.
UPTER has been particularly sensitive to the problems related to the integration of the immigrant population. Numerous activities have been organised and carried to completion in collaboration with local bodies: language courses in reception centres, courses for municipal officials working with immigrants, the organisation of opportunities for socialising, information and documentation services. UPTER has also carried out projects regarding autobiographical methodology and the collection of personal stories, which were also aimed at the migrant population.