NVL-uutisia
May 2005
EU goes DIRECT
From 1 May 2005 anyone looking for information about the EU can turn to a new set of local outlets called the "EUROPE DIRECT Information Network". The network, spread throughout the Union, takes over from the Info-Points Europe and Carrefours, which traditionally provided the public with facts and figures on EU-related matters to urban and rural areas respectively.
Adult Learners' Week in the Netherlands
The Adult Learners' Week has been taking place in the Netherlands since 2000. The initiative for the project was taken by the Ministry for Education, the Foundation for Folkhighschoolwork (Commission International Contacts), the Beraadsgroep Vorming (national platform for non-formal education) and the Centre for Innovation of Adult Education CINOP.
EAEA Brussels moving
Dear colleague's and members,
we would like to inform you that, from 1st of June 2005, our new address will be:
University Cont. Educ. as a field of research in the extended EU
Report from a conference by the Krems Danube University (Austria) 28-30 April.
Financial regulations of EU and NGOs
The EU's Financial Regulation contains all the rules relating to EU grants which are made to NGOs. Many social NGOs - at European and national level - have long felt that the EU's grant-funding process should be made more efficient, less bureaucratic, and more effective in achieving the EU's aims.