GRUNDTVIG PARTNERSHIPS

INFORMAL LEARNING FOR ADULTS

(IOLI)

SUMMARY

The purpose of the planned partnership is to bring together a range of organizations that aim to provide aduts with ways to improve their knowledge and skills through informal learning opportunities. The consortium brings together all the skills and competences required to carry out the work programme, and there is an appropriate distribution of tasks across the partners.  In addition, the consortium is a multi-actor consortium, possessing the skills and competences required to ensure that the work programme can be undertaken efficiently, effectively and professionally.  There is an appropriate distribution of tasks and a balanced implication of different partners with complementary competencies and countries in the implementation of the work programme. There are 9 institutions of different type (NGOs, Universities, SMEs and research centres) from 9 different EU countries in this consortium, some of which have recently joined the EU like Cyprus and others being in the pre-accession stage like Turkey.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTNERSHIP

The purpose of the partnership is to build a consortium of experts that will share their knowledge and expertise about informal adult learning in various EU countries. The experts will provide background information about their countries’ policies and resources on informal learning. The emphasis will be on opportunities for informal learning in various subjects that are provided to the public (adults) through informal learning contexts such as long-distance courses, internet courses, environmental parks, natural history museums, science centers, galleries, nature trails and others. Teachers, museum staff, explainers, curators, parents, and researchers in different EU countries have different knowledge and experiences, so in order to achieve an impact on knowledge and understandings of informal learning and to bridge the gap between formal and informal learning opportunities for adults, a European rather than a national or local approach is needed. The target groups of the project are adults of any background with interest in informal learning, such as museum staff, science communicators, curators, teachers, artists, and the general public.