ENDING UP OF SET
OF TRAININGS WITHIN PROJECT «NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
IN EUROPE»
december
2005.
By the end of November, there have been ended up the last
two of 10 trainings«Non-formal Education in Europe
– a Step Toward Recognition in Serbia and Montenegro»,
organized and realized by «Hajde da...» Group, during past
two months, throughout Serbia and Montenegro. We've been talking
about position of non-formal education in our country, current
trends in this field in Europe, as well as about steps to
take towards better recognition and validation of non-formal
education in Belgrade,
Subotica, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Uzice, Nis and Podgorica.
Also people from other towns (Zrenjanin, Guca, Backa Topola,
Đurdin, Novi Kneževac...) have participated in almost every
training; news about this project and the trainings has been
put on several web sites; there have been published the three
articles in «Prosvetni pregled» newspaper, so we are sure
that the number of those who have been reached by the idea
of necessity of recognition of non-formal education in Serbia
and Montenegro is quite larger than the official data we have.
According to our data-base, there have been over
160 persons who took part in trainings in the 7 towns.
Our main target groups were representatives of governmental
bodies (Ministry of Education and Sports and Ministy of Labour,
Employement and Social Policy), National Employement Service,
formal-educational institutions, media, NGOs, scientific institutes,
institutions for adult education, but everyone who sees the
importance of non-formal education and is willing to work
on its promotion was wellcomed, so we also had representatives
of the Red Cross, Scouts Organizastion, business sector etc.
We will continue our work
on the promotion of non-formal education. Some of our very
next steps in that direction are organizing the Dialogue Day,
in cooperation with Forum Syd Balkans, and publishing the
set of reccomendations for recognition of non-formal education,
came as outputs from the realized trainings.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
IN EUROPE – a step towards integration of Serbia and Montenegro
into the common European educational space
“Non-formal Education
in Europe” is a project implemented by the NGO
Group Hajde da…and financed for the 80% of its total
budget by the European Union through EAR (European Agency
for reconstruction) that implements its requirements and lends
its supports to the project through its local implementing
partner EIF (European Integration Fund).
The achievement of the European Union’s goal to become
the world’s biggest knowledge based-economy has required
a policy development in the field of recognition and validation
of non-formal education.
This project aims at the dissemination of information to all
key-actors and stakeholders (NGOs, Ministry of Education,
Schools, Professional Institutes, Adult education institutions,
Employment bureau, students and journalists) about current
policy-practice development in the field of non-formal education
in Europe. The project also initiates in SCG and in the field
of non-formal education, a wider debate on policy-practice
development as a means of integration of SCG into the common
European educational space. The project consists in the development
of a training module, Training of Trainers, Multiplication
of the Module, publication on Non-formal Education and the
project Report including a Set of Recommendations for future
policy and practice development in the field of non-formal
education in Serbia and Montenegro.
Overall objective 1:
To disseminate information to all key-actors and stakeholders
(NGOs, Ministry of Education, Schools, Professional Institutes,
Adult education institutions, Employment bureau representatives,
students and journalists) and facilitate their better understanding
of current policy and practice development in the field of
non-formal education in Europe
Specific objectives:
a) To introduce trends and goals of the established European
cooperation in the field of education
b) To improve participants’ knowledge on existing policy documents
related to non-formal education/learning in Europe (European
Union and Council of Europe)
c) To present examples of non-formal education practices (methods
and methodologies) illustrating European quality standards
in non-formal education
d) To raise participants’ awareness of non-formal education
as source of lifelong learning, social development and increased
employability
e) To improve participants understanding of current challenges
for non-formal education, related to quality development,
recognition and validation of non-formal learning outcomes
in European countries
Overall objective 2:
To promote and support Non-formal education quality and policy
development in SCG as an important step for integration into
the common European educational space.
Specific objectives:
a) To analyse current policy and practice related to non-formal
education in SCG
b) To stimulate wider debate on recognition of non-formal
education in SCG
c) To collect and publish a set of recommendations for future
development and affirmation of non-formal education in accordance
with European policies and quality standards
d) To Increase visibility of non-formal education in SCG
The target groups involved in
this project are:
• 15 trainer-multipliers of “Hajde da...” Group
• Local NGOs active in the field of non-formal education
• Ministry of Education (e.g. Centre for teacher’s professional
development, Department for adult education, Youth sector)
• Schools (e.g. teachers, psychologists, pedagogues)
• Professional Institutes (e.g. Pedagogy, Andragogy, Psychology)
• Adult education institutions,
• Employment service representatives (e.g. vocational guidance
department)
• Students (e.g. teacher’s faculty, pedagogy, andragogy, psychology,
social work)
• Media (Journalists)
• Wider public
The target areas
The project will be implemented in both republics of Serbia
and Montenegro, in following towns: Subotica,
Novi Sad, Belgrade, Kragujevac, Užice, Niš, Podgorica
UPDATES and UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
ToT (training of trainers)
has been held in Belgrade from the 9th to the 12th of July
in the premises of Hajde da…(see attached pictures). During
that occasion four experienced and internationally recognized
trainers in the field of non-formal education adopted non-formal
training methods to explore together with the participants
the non-formal education training module to be multiplied
in the above mentioned 7 cities in Serbia and Montenegro.
By the end of July, a leaflet
containing basic info on non-formal education in Evrope and
in Serbia and Montenegro is going to be published.
An expensive publication
with 11 articles by international and national experts in
the field addressing all the most important questions (such
as validation and recognition of NFE) is going to be published
and disseminated by the end of August.
The multiplication of the
module in Serbia and Montenegro should occur from September
10th to November 31st. At present, a schedule and a timetable
of trainings is being organized according to the peculiar
needs of each city, of the project and to the availability
of the trainers-multiplyers. In order to promote publicly
the multiplication of the module, a
press conference will be held in Belgrade during the
first week of September.
During January-February 2006, a set
of recommendation on future steps sprouting from the
multiplication of the module shall be finalized and publicized
to further raise the awareness of all the relevant stakeholders
and governmental bodies on the importance of the validation
and recognition of NFE in Serbia and Montenegro.
