by Carmen Stadelhofer
Within the Erasmus+partnership “Building bridges for Europe” (BBE) nine project partners from six European countries (Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia and Italy) created an online toolbox containing validated methods and projects, which support European awareness and critical thinking and help reducing prejudices about others.
The project partners worked hard for two years to provide and analyse the “best practice projects”. The result can now be seen online: www.bbe-toolbox.eu. The toolbox contains 27 projects and methods that are easy to call up and to be applied. The accumulated knowledge is available for free, to all who are interested in making use of the described methods. It inspires its users to further promote new methods in further education, education of adults, especially older adults, women, low-educated people, people from rural areas, migrants, etc. focusing on fostering European awareness.
During the project duration, the partners strengthened their working relations, exchanged experience and expertise in the provision of educational programmes in their respective countries. The project partners agreed upon continuing the European cooperation in the field of socially engaged education for the third age and continue to develop their intergenerational collaboration. The Project Coordinator was ILEU e.V, Ulm, Germany and partners ZAWIW, Ulm University Germany, University of Ruse Angel Kanchev, Bulgaria, LSFTB – The Writers` League Timisoara Banat Branch, Romania, Federation of the Universities of the Third Age in Italy (FEDERUNI), Public Open University Zagreb, Croatia, Slovenian Third Age University, Slovenia, Agora-Platform, Sofia, University Dunarea de Jos from Galati, Romania (Source: Carmen Stadelhofer, ILEU and DANET)
Once a Danube Networker, always a Danube Networker Ulm, October 2019
Some of the members of the Network Danube-Networkers will be taking part in new European projects starting in November, coordinated by ILEU. Connecting Danube-Neighbors by culture (CODANEC).The project will be financed by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. Members of the Network will soon be invited to participate. Discovering European Neighbors in the Third Age (DENTA), is another project financed by the Erasmus+ KA2 partnership program, with 8 partners from 6 countries (South-East, Central Europe and West of Europe). (Source: Carmen Stadelhofer)