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Summary of this Learning Partnership
Community centres reflect the challenges of a continuously changing rural landscape and are essential cornerstones of rural communities. They play a key role in maintaining a stimulating learning environment in the rural area, as in many regions they are one of the few facilities and meeting points. These venues have different names: village halls, kulturhus, etc. Besides a broad range of other activities, these centres offer or facilitate non-formal and formal education: basic skills, entrepeneurship, courses for elderly people, training for local organisations and volunteers, etc.
In Learning Heart partners will focus on the educational role of community centres in order to build up or strengthen this role for the whole community, especially responding to the needs of the low-skilled population, volunteers and groups that find traditional education venues a barrier to learning.
Partners will arrange study visits, exchange good practices and do practical research on several topics: conditions for optimizing education in rural areas, new educational concepts, quality assurance, rural networks for education and participation. In each country learners will be involved in the discussions. Every partner will involve a second circle of organisations around this project. The aim is to strengthen the educational role of the community centres.
Project partners
Foundation for Folkhighschoolwork in The Netherlands, NL
Foundation Doarpswurk, NL
Hungarian Folk High School Society, HU
Dafni Kentro Epaggelmatikis Katartisis KEK DAFNI, GR
Danske Forsamlingshuse, DK
Norfolk Rural Community Council, UK
Aberystwyth University, UK
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