Stand with Ukraine! Newsletter March 2022

Posted March 28, 2022 - 11:25 by Heribert Hinzen

DVV International has been working with local partners to promote lifelong learning and strengthen adult learning and education (ALE) in Ukraine for over twelve years. We would therefore like to provide an insight into the work that our colleagues and civil society partners have done in recent years.

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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 
 
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DVV International has been working with local partners to promote lifelong learning and strengthen adult learning and education (ALE) in Ukraine for over twelve years. We would therefore like to provide an insight into the work that our colleagues and civil society partners have done in recent years. 

Learn more about our engagement!
 
Angeliki Giannakopoulou 
 
Digitalisation and its relation to democracy is a topic that increasingly unfolds its duality, especially in the context of adult learning and education (ALE). The context paper “Digitalisation and Democracy” considers the concept of democracy, discusses digital rights in Europe and gives concrete key policy recommendations highlighting among others the need to recognise and support the role of ALE.

Read the policy recommendations!
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REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
 
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Donia Benmiloud
 
Citizenship education has become central to the field of adult education. DVV International’s work in North Africa is based on the four pillars of citizenship education: learning to know, learning to be, learning to live together, and learning to do. This work has now been translated into a photo feature recounting the journey of champions of citizenship education in Tunisia. 

Browse through the photo feature!
 
Galina Veramejchyk
 
In the framework of the Inclusive Cashier project, DVV International offered a training course with elements of dual vocational education and piloted a training course for a group of 12 people with disabilities. The training ended with a practical exam in the shop and a theoretical exam at the college. Six participants passed both examinations.

Learn more about the project!
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Adela Scutaru-Gutu
 
Because most Moldovian educators have emigrated to other countries, community learning centres are experiencing a huge demand for new specialists. DVV International Moldova therefore reconfigurated the existing curriculum globALE training programme into a concentric structure, based on levels of proficiency.

Learn more about the Moldovian experiences!
 
Dr Beate Schmidt-Behlau
 
The regional office of DVV International South America has produced ten audiovisuals providing evidence of the learning process and the impact of adult learning and education. The videos with the title CONTRA VIENTO y MAREA were used, among other things, in the form of radio programmes.

Watch the testimonials!
 
Dr Thomas Lichtenberg
 
The Adult Learning and Education System-Building Approach (ALESBA) describes a complex system which claims to take into account all components for a sustainable adult education system. In Uganda, DVV International and its partners piloted ALESBA in four districts. The goal of the collaboration was to systematically improve adult education using a systems approach.

Learn more about ALESBA in Uganda!
 
Caesar Kyebakola
 
In 2020, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in Uganda, with support from DVV International, embarked on the process of revitalizing and broadening adult learning and education (ALE) data management in order to develop a more compliant and robust ALE management information system.

Find out more!
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The EU funded project “Promoting Access to Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights to Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners in Tajikistan” aims to contribute to a peaceful and inclusive society through providing access to justice for one of the most disadvantaged groups of the population.

Learn more about the project!
 
 
INSIGHTS INTO THE GERMAN ADULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
 
Christian Sattler
 
With this year’s annual theme “United in Diversity”, Adult Education Centres (Volkshochschulen) all over Germany address a crucial challenge to our democracy: to strengthen the cohesion of society and address the diversity of individual identities at the same time.

Learn more!
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DVV International is the Institute for International Cooperation of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. (DVV), the German Adult Education Association. As the leading professional organisation in the field of adult education and development cooperation, DVV International has committed itself to supporting lifelong learning for 50 years. DVV International provides worldwide support for the establishment and development of sustainable structures for Youth and Adult Education.

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