ALA

Ciara Murphy
cmurphy@aontas.com

Each year the EAEA recognises excellent initiatives in adult learning by presenting the Adult Learners Award (Grundtvig Award). This year the topic of the award is intercultural dialogue. In order to reach as many candidates as possible, the EAEA invite you to nominate a project or initiative that you know of or to forward this information to other multipliers. EAEA are especially eager to receive applications from outside of Europe.
 
For excellent projects with the focus on intercultural dialogue in non-formal adult learning and education 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
 
Criteria:
 
·         The project must have a clearly defined aim of facilitating intercultural dialogue
·         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 is completed or is close to completion
·         Projects can, but need not be supported by the European Commission (and can, but need not be Grundtvig projects)
 
 
What do we expect?
 
A description of your project:
 
What were the main goals of the project
What you actually did and how you did it
Which was (were) your target group(s)
What was special about your way of working and what processes or partnerships were important
How you got people involved
 
Some explanation about the impact:
 
What the impact for the participating organisations and the target group(s) was
How you recognised and how you tracked success
What you have learned from this piece of work  what would you do again or differently next time
 
And finally:

   ix.        What made this project special and what could others learn from it?
 
Send nominations to:
 
EAEA
For the attention of Ms Gina Ebner
Rue de la Concorde, 60
B-1050 Bruxelles
Tel. + 32 2 513 52 05
Fax + 32 2 513 57 34
e-mail: gina.ebner@eaea.org
 
What is offered?
 
·         The Award  a specifically designed piece of art for the coordinating organisation and certificates for all partners
·         An invitation to 2 persons from the winning organisation to the EAEA General Assembly 2008, including travel and accommodation. The EAEA General Assembly this year takes place in Ireland.
·         Publicity for the winning project(s) via the EAEA website and the mailing list to 130 organisations in 41 European countries
 
Entries must be received by
Friday,5 September 2008
 
For more information about EAEA and the Award, please visit www.eaea.org

You may submit a description of your project in one of the following languages: English, French, German and Spanish. The selection of winning projects will be made by a jury, consisting of EAEA members and other organisations with an expertise in intercultural dialogue.
 
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