TLCD – Brief
Sowing the seeds of Training and Learning
for Community Development
The Combined European Bureau for Community Development, CEBSD (www.cebsd.org) is the lead partner in a European project for dissemination of guidelines for training and learning. CEBSD leads a Consortium for Training and Learning for Community Development that consists of 16 partners who take active part in exchanges and networking. They seek to apply the results of past and current actions in Life Long Learning programmes to community-based training and learning. The partners are responsible for drawing the maximum benefit from the exchange of good practice and identifying the implications for European policy.
The Consortium seeks to exchange and share guidelines in order to:
- Link the core principles of Community Development to training and learning systems that promote civic skills and community participation.
- Set up an interactive network to promote community-based learning (with a focus on 25-64 year olds who have not had third level education) and link networking at the national level to the European level.
- Increase networking from good practice to policy specifically in relationship to the draft European guidelines for training and learning for community development developed in Budapest in 2006 under the European Union Grundtvig Programme.
Partners have completed a series of exchanges where learning was relayed from partner-to-partner and country-to-country. The relay visits led to a Laboratory in an old bus garage in Malmo restored to an experimental community centre designed by local people. Here partners from across Europe analysed the most significant elements from the exchanges so far. Partners are now working on creative methods for networking and dissemination of results. There will be a seminar in Sofia 18th to 21st May 2009 on this theme.
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Margo Gorman, co-ordinator@cebsd.org
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The details about the TLCD project important to all partners for new EU projects and partnerships:
Lifelong Learning Programme, DG Education and Culture (EACEA) Key Activity 4
2007-2009
Project Name: Training and Learning for Community Development 135744NL-KA4MP
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Note: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This summary reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
References: 135744-NL-KA4MP Life Long Learning Programme – Key Activity 4
