Adult Education in Cultural Institutions in Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey [antikvár]

~CONNECTION - CULTURAL ORGANISATIONSEducation and Culun 06 w COMMUNICATION AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Ufelong Learning Programme Project number: 134326-LLP-1-2007-1-RO-GRUNDTVIG-GMPI. Research contextCONNECTION - Cultural Organisations as Communication and Leaming Environments is a project financed in the framework of the programme Lifeiong Learning - Grundtvig sub-programme.CONNECTION project aims to promote learning as social constructivism and to improve the capacity of cultural institutions to be active players in adult éducation field, to forge new relations with and within the community and to contribute to the social cohésion and cultural dialogue.Objectives:1.To provide cultural institutions with concrete tools for their transformation into dynamic and flexible structures.2.To contribute to the implementation of adult éducation methods and practices in cultural institutions.3.To involve adult educators, cultural workers and cultural managers in the design, testing and development of project's outputs, so as to make sure their needs are taken into considération and addressed throughout the project.4.To promote learning as social constructivism within cultural institutions.5.To stimulate/raise the interest of cultural institutions to introducé and develop adult éducation methods as part of their activities.The main activities of the project include research activities, design and testing of educational materials destined to cultural professionals, cultural managers and trainers from the field of adult éducation. They were conceived and conducted as to involve and to support the employees and institutions from adult éducation field, especially the ones developing non formai and informai educational programmes and activities.The project partners have diverse institutional profiles: the Centre for Professional Training in Culture is a public institution under the authority of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Religious Affaire and National Héritage, the Bulgarian partner (Integra Association) is a NGO in the field of éducation, training and qualification, European Pőle of Knowledge is a network of schools, associations and institutions Italy-wide, the Lithuanian partner (Institute of Mobile Technologies for Education and Culture) is a private not-for profit institution offering guidance in advancedThis project has been funded with support trom the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responslble for any use which may be made of the Information contained therein..