Institut für virtuelles und reales Lernenin der Erwachsenenbildung an der Universität Ulm (ILEU) e.V.

A European learning partnership project

                           

ODE –

Open Doors for Europe

Türöffner für Europa

Supported by the EU Sokrates Grundtvig 2 programme

September 2004 – August 2006

Project background

Experience shows: seniors often don‘t speak foreign languages

But this knowledge would facilitate accessing other countries and cultures

Project idea

Learning partnership to find new instruments:

„Door openers for Europe“

Door openers

Knowledge about key situations themes basic words rituals songs day-to-day manners

Base for communication

Learning partners

University of AlicantePermanent University Students & Alumni Association

Spanish National Association of University Programmes for Older Adults (AEPUM)

Istituto di Scienze Sociali “Nicolò Rezzara”, Vicenza

University of the Third Age, Łódź (ŁUTW)

Towarzystwo Wolney Wszechnica Polskiej, Lublin

Coordination: ILEU (in cooperation with ZAWiW and the association ViLE), Ulm

(University of the Third Age in Malta)

Action and methods I

Partner meetingsin Lublin (Nov. 2004), Bad Urach near to Ulm (April 2005), Łódź (Dec. 2005) and Alicante (April 2006)

Originally planned: partner meetings in Vicenza (Oct. 2006) and Łódź (May 2007)

Partner meetings

Getting to know the learning partners

Discussion of strategies and working plans

Working groups

Social and cultural events

Action and methods II

Regular working groups

Development, testing and translation of materials about different themes

Preparation for the website

Public relations

Participation in pc and language courses

Action and methods III

Use of information and communication technologies:mailinglistwebsite www.gemeinsamlernen.de/ode

Information and communication technologies

Use of the ICT can‘t be taken for granted

Usage as a part of the learning process

Support of the project and for informal contacts of the participants

Website I

Website II

ODE – Open Doors for Europe

Coordinator: ILEU, c/o University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany

www.ileu.net

info@ileu.net

Photos: taken from the project ODE and from photocase.com