THE LARA TEAM
The LARA consortium is composed of partners who have worked together in two previous projects LISA and LENA. Project activity has confirmed that the partners can and do complement each other in the skills that they bring to the partnership. Common ways of working, effective communication and commitment to both the partnership and the work have led to successful completion of the partnership’s aims. Good team work is a real strength of this consortium.
The project has been promoted by the Hamburger Volkshochshule in Hamburg Germany, with the coordination being provided by bia-net from Graz in Austria.
The LARA training package was written by the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester in England and the project evaluation led by AidLearn – Consultoria em Recursos Humanos from Lisbon in Portugal.
Athena, the Association for Education and Development of Women, in Ostrava, Czech Republic; ZDUS, the Slovenia Federation of Pensioners’ Organisations, in Ljubljana, Slovenia; with the partners in Hamburg and Graz ran focus groups to tests the ideas and then pilot the draft materials with different trainers and trainees.
The Federation of Swiss Volkshochschulen and the Volkshochschule beider Basel in Switzerland were associate partners in the project.
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Beneficiary:
Hamburger Volkshochschule
Hamburg, Germany
www.vhs-hamburg.de
VHS, Hamburg is Hamburg’s municipal centre of adult and continuing/further education. It provides about 7000 adult and continuing education courses, catering for nearly 80,000 students per year.
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Coordinator:
bia-net Netzwerk Bildung im Alter
Graz, Austria
www.bia-net.org
bia-net, Graz is a non-profit organisation. It is a platform for organisations and interested people who deal with the topic of lifelong learning in senior age.
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Partner:
University of Leicester
Insitute of Lifelong Learning
Leicester, United Kingdom
www.le.ac.uk/lifelonglearning
The University of Leicester is a leading research university with over 21,000 students, including over 10,500 postgraduates. Leicester has a long tradition of providing a wide range of adult education.
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Partner:
ATHENA
Ostrava, Czech Republic
www.athena.euweb.cz
Athena, Ostrava,is an NGO focused on empowerment and all-round support, training and coaching of women; including guidance for self-directed learning for mid life women, and development of e-learning for women.
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Partner:
ZDUS
Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://zdus-zveza.si
ZDUS, Ljubljana, brings together over 400 associations with 260,000 members who are pensioners from all over Slovenia. It is mostly directed towards education of older people to help them maintain and active and healthy life and to engage in voluntary and community activities.
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Partner:
AidLearn
Lisboa, Portugal
www.aidlearn.com
AidLearn, Lisbon is a SME created by experienced professional women. Its mission is to provide high quality and innovative education and training courses for individuals and groups of marginalised and socially excluded adults – concentrating on personal development and diagnosis of learning needs.
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Silent partner:
Verband der Schweizerischen Volkshochschulen VSV
Bern, Switzerland
www.up-vhs.ch
VSV offers its members various services and represents the national universities in Switzerland and Europe. VSV aim is to promote adult education and integration into a lifelong learning system and development and expansion of national universities, regional organisations and those in different cantons.
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Project Number - 142317-LLP-1-2008-1-DE-GRUNDTVIG-GMPThe project LARA has been funded with support from the European Commission. This webpage reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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