Not directly related to museums, rather an adult learning newsletter from EPALE.
It's well worth keeping tabs on what they are saying/doing. You might find ideas
to develop, contacts to make and funding to apply for.
When it comes to museums and adult learning you have to be "in it to win it"
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> Date: 30 January 2016 at 00:06
> Subject: [epale newsletter] Prison education, adult learning in 2016, funding
> for refugee projects
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> ======== PRISON EDUCATION, ADULT LEARNING IN 2016, FUNDING FOR REFUGEE
> PROJECTS ============================================================
>
>
> *Join the EPALE community*
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/user/register/adult-learning* now to rate,
> comment and contribute!*
>
>
>
> Dear EPALE colleagues,
>
> *Happy New Year!*
>
> 2016 has arrived and EPALE community members have jumped into January with
> renewed enthusiasm.
>
> Expert contributor Simon Broek put his fortune-telling abilities to the test
> and analysed how accurate his 2015 predictions for adult learning
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/looking-back-predictions-adult-learning-sector-year
>
> were (EN, PL), while Graciela Sbertoli, Chair of the European Basic Skills
> Network, looked at why the adult learning sector must unite to raise the
> level of basic skills in Europe
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/your-new-year-resolution-uniting-major-push-raise-adults-basic-skills
>
> in 2016 (EN).
>
> The EPALE team was also in the spirit of renewal as we looked forward to
> changes being made to your EPALE site in 2016
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/epale-2016 (DE, EN, ET).
>
> *EPALE Prison Education Week*
>
>
> January saw the EPALE community come together to celebrate its first Prison
> Education Week
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/epale-prison-education-week! National
> EPALE teams across Europe joined forces to share resources, events and expert
> blog articles:
>
> * Yoga instructor James Fox
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/interview-questions-james-fox-prison-yoga-projecttold
> EPALE how he converted prisoners in some of America's most challenging
> jails to the benefits of yoga - and how he's rolled out the project to
> prisons in Europe
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/interview-questions-james-fox-prison-yoga-project
> (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, PL).
>
> * Find out how a project that spanned the breadth of Europe created
> alternative tools for communication between prisoners and their teachers
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/how-we-developed-dialogue-prisoner-reintegration
> (EN).
>
> * Annet Bakker, Chair of the European Prison Education Association (and a
> teacher with 25 years' experience), made the case for looking beyond
> certificates for validation of prisoner education
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/education-adult-education-prison-education
> (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, PL).
>
> * If you haven’t already, read our interview with former coordinator of
> the Grundtvig programme, Alan Smith. He gave us an overview of what prison
> education in Europe looks like today
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/interview-alan-smith-importance-prison-education
> – and what needs to be done to improve for tomorrow (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT,
> PL).
>
> * And catch up on EPALE’s three-day text-based discussion
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/discussions/epale-prison-education-week,
> which was moderated by Dr Joe Giordmaina http://www.josephgiordmaina.com/,
> an expert in prison education from the University of Malta.
>
>
>
>
> *News from around Europe*
>
>
> In January adult education remained high on the agenda in Europe:
>
> * In Estonia, the Confederation of Trade Unions defined adult education as
> one of the three priority areas in its 2016 work programme
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/et/content/ametiuhingud-selle-aasta-olulisemad-teemad-tooturul-taiskasvanuope-tervislik-too-ja
> and described it as ‘the key to economic development’ (ET).
>
> * Meanwhile in Germany, the Federal Agency for Civic Education announced
> that they will provide funding opportunities for pilot projects relating
> to asylum seekers and refugees
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/de/content/foerdermoeglichkeiten-fuer-modellprojekte-zum-thema-flucht-und-asyl
> (DE).
>
> * This school year in Antwerp, Belgium, 175 parents will learn Dutch
> together with their children at school
> https://ec.europa.eu/epale/nl/content/ouders-en-kinderen-samen-naar-school
> – the aim is not only to improve parents’ language skills but also to
> improve communication between parents and school staff (NL).
>
>
>
>
> *Join now!*
>
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> these posts. Join now
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