The active members of adult education organisations from Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus met 2011 November 1-2 in Kaunas Lithuania for the seminar “Creating Eastern European Network for Non Formal Adult Education and Exchanging of Gained Experience”. Totally 15 participants from five countries in different ages and with different background was the perfect base for learning from each other.
Many organizations, in the Eastern part of Europe, are nowadays familiar to the Scandinavian way of the Study Circle method. Very often these organizations have developed the methodology in project cooperation, or in other ways, with SV in Sweden.
Even so, ll these organizations have adopted the methodology in different ways, depending on country culture, different traditions and the present environment for the implementation of the Study circles and other connected Non Formal Education activities.
We have now indeed noticed a need for future cooperation and for continues exchanging of experience between all of us. Because of that we now invite partners from Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Sweden, Denmark and Russia to start this exchanging of experience, and we will also discuss if and how to create a useful network in this matter for the future.
During two day of work in Kaunas we have agreed on future cooperation plans, such as exchange useful study plans and study circle guidelines in English that can be used also in other countries and organizations. The international summer camp for study circle leaders is planned for 2012 summer.
List of presentations and mutual work documents can be downloaded here:
SV presentation
Study Circles Resource Program
Results of discussions
Lennart Falegård Summing
List of participating organisations of the Network with contacts:
Denmark
Liberalt Oplysningsforbund per@lof.dk
Sweden
Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan lennart@sv.se
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Center “Egida” rimus65@mail.ru
