EFLN
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Name of project:
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European Family Learning Network
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Abbreviation:
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EFLN
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Duration:
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2006–2009
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Programme:
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Grundtvig 4
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Website:
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Coordinator:
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Campaign for Learning, Birmingham, UK
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Partner countries:
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Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, UK
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Contact person at SIAE:
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Estera Možina, MA (tel.: + 386 1 5842 591, fax: + 386 1 5842 550,
e-mail: ester.mozina@acs.si) |
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Content:
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The project will establish a European Family Learning Network to create a mechanism for the on-going exchange of expertise, good practice, news, research and developments in the field of family learning, and to facilitate discussion and shared understanding of concepts/terminology around family learning policy and practice. The project will also identify new priorities and raise the profile of family learning across Europe by consolidating informal networks, contributing to the basic skills debate, influencing policy makers, and disseminating and mainstreaming family learning developments.
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Description:
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EFLN is a multilateral network and was launched in December 2006. It will focus on family learning in all its aspects and arrange three Grundtvig 3 seminars:
The topic of the final conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom (June 2009) is “family learning: delivering a learning society”. The EFLN has broad and inclusive definitions of both “family” and “family learning”. Primary target groups of the project are practitioners and managers within organisations which are interested in developing a family learning approach to basic skills and lifelong learning. The secondary target group is those who will benefit from the new family learning interventions that will be developed as a result of the network. This will mainly be families with low levels of skills in the different partner countries who need support to engage with learning. Within the partnership there will also be a special emphasis on migrant families and ethnic minority groups.
SIAE is taking part in the network with its expertise in developing programmes for family literacy as a part of family learning. The SIAE projects were introduced at the seminar in Nuremberg.
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| Results: |
The project will establish a website, cooperate in preparing three thematic seminars on family learning, and prepare a bulletin every six months with information for researchers, practitioners and policy makers on family learning developments in the EU. The project will conclude with an international conference on family learning.
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