Objectives
- To set up a consortium which will take the lead in networking to apply the results and outcomes of past and current Grundtvig Programme actions in the field of community-based training and learning in order to draw maximum benefit from the exchange of good practice and implications for European policy
- To develop the European dimension of the consortium, providing feedback on the application of the core principles of Community Development to training and learning systems at a national level within the context of the Lifelong Learning Programme and making connections with other member states
- To set up an interactive network combining Relay visits, electronic networking and increased mobility for exchange of learning and good practice linking the national and European level, with a focus on links with Grundtvig actions
- To animate the interactive network by establishing multipliers who are in touch with local level trainers engaged in training and learning for Community Development
- To increase networking from practice to policy specifically in relationship to the draft European guidelines for training and learning for community development developed in Budapest in 2006
- To extrapolate shared lessons on data collection and analysis for core indicators: Civic skills and Professional Development from exchanges in line with the Open Method of Co-ordination
Partners
- Coordinator: Combined European Bureau for Social Development, CEBSD (Belgium)
- Samenlevingsopbouw Vlaanderen (Belgium)
- Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives (Bulgaria)
- Community Development Foundation (United Kingdom)
- KSS (Denmark)
- PBW, Paritaetisches Bildungswerk Bundesverband (Germany)
- Desenvolupament Comunitari (Spain)
- CESAM (Sweden)
- Community Workers Co-operative (Ireland)
- Netzwerk (Germany)
- ARCD (Romania)
- HACD (Hungary)
- PACT (Romania)
- CKO – Centre for Community Organising (Slovakia)
- The Ideas Bank (Norway)
