From 22nd to 24th of May the 25 partners of the European Network on Intercultural Learning in Adult Education (NILE) met for an intensive 2 day transnational meeting in Spain in the office of the Spanish Federation of Folk High Schools (FEUP) in the centre of the city.

EUROPEAN NETWORK ON INTERCULTURAL LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION (NILE) - Transnational Partnership meeting

The 4 working groups of NILE, which have been developing tools for advancing intercultural learning met for a last time to put some finishing touches to the products and to discuss the final dissemination event planned for 17th of September 2008 in Brussels. Other issues discussed were how to secure sustainability of the network after the financial support by the European Commission runs out at the end of September this year and the dissemination of the different results produced in the framework of the network.
The overall feed-back on the different products and the reflection of NILE partners on the intercultural dialogue that had taken place in the working groups to generate the different products made visible the full range of challenges, frustrations and satisfactions which are obviously part oft the process for finally developing a true European network identity.

In September, in the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, members of the network will present the intercultural tools generated in the 4 working groups:

• good practice examples from Austria, UK and Greece in form of 10-minute videos which can be used in trainings
• guiding principles for starting the process of an intercultural opening of organizations
• a ‘special´ 12 page newsletter on intercultural media and adult education
• a methodological guide for implementing intercultural activities

Information on the final dissemination event and all results will also be available as download from the website www. intercultural-learning.net.