THE EAEA AWARD FOR ADULT LEARNING
(Grundtvig Award) 2010
2010: Innovative Approaches in Adult Education and Learning - Key competences for social inclusion
Each year, the European Association for the Education of Adults celebrates innovation and excellence in adult education. The Grundtvig Award highlights project results that produce new ideas, new partnerships, new methodologies and a new understanding how we can work in adult learning. In 2010, EAEA is looking for projects that tackle Key competences for social inclusion.
The European Commission has identified eight key competences: communication in the mother tongue; communication in the foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; interpersonal, intercultural and social competences and civic competence; entrepreneurship; and cultural expression. All these competences can contribute to the better integration of socially excluded people. We think that there are additional (mainly interpersonal and social) competences, which can contribute to social inclusion (e.g. being able to deal with change, managing crises in one´s life, knowing and defending one´s rights, etc.).
We are looking for projects that demonstrate that the learning of key competences can contribute to social inclusion. You can either refer to the key competences as they are defined by the European Commission or explain how the competences in your project can be understood as key competences and how they contribute to social inclusion.
For excellent adult education and learning projects with the topic ‘Key competences for social inclusion´ in two categories:
1. European projects:
- EU + candidate countries need to be transnational (a minimum of 3 countries involved)
- All other European countries need to be either transnational or have a strong national partnership with a diverse range of stakeholders
2. Projects from outside of Europe
Projects can but need not be supported by the European Commission (and can but need not be Grundtvig projects)
Criteria:
- The project must clearly demonstrate how the teaching and/or learning and/or development and/or implementation of key competences have contributed to social inclusion.
- It must have evidence of outcomes, such as a report, DVD, or any form of verification
- It is desirable that the project is transferable and/or useful for others
- The project or the initiative should be up and running for at least 1 year and/or be close to completion.
What do we expect?
A description of your project:
- The main goals of the project
- Which key competence(s) did you focus on and how did you work with them?
- What you actually did and how you did it
- Your target group(s)
- What processes or partnerships were important
- How did you get people involved
Some explanation about the impact:
- How did the project contribute to social inclusion?
- The impact for the participating organisations and the target group(s)
- How you recognised and tracked success
- What you have learned - what would you do again or differently next time
Entries must be received until Tuesday, 3 April 2010, at the
EAEA main office
To the attention of Ms Gina Ebner
Rue d´Arlon, 40
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tel. + 32 2 234 37 60
Fax +32.2.235.05.39
e-mail: gina.ebner@eaea.org
You may submit a description of your project in one of the following languages: English, French and German
What do we offer?
- The Award and a certificate
- An invitation to 2 persons of the winning organisation to the EAEA General Assembly 2010, including travel and accommodation. The EAEA General Assembly this year takes place in Armenia.
- Publicity for the winning project(s) via the EAEA website and the mailing list to 128 organisations in 42 European countries
