THE EAEA AWARD FOR ADULT LEARNING
(Grundtvig Award) 2010

2010: Innovative Approaches in Adult Education and Learning - Key competences for social inclusion

Each year, the European Association for the Education of Adults celebrates innovation and excellence in adult education. The Grundtvig Award highlights project results that produce new ideas, new partnerships, new methodologies and a new understanding how we can work in adult learning. In 2010, EAEA is looking for projects that tackle Key competences for social inclusion.

The European Commission has identified eight key competences: communication in the mother tongue; communication in the foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; interpersonal, intercultural and social competences and civic competence; entrepreneurship; and cultural expression. All these competences can contribute to the better integration of socially excluded people. We think that there are additional (mainly interpersonal and social) competences, which can contribute to social inclusion (e.g. being able to deal with change, managing crises in one´s life, knowing and defending one´s rights, etc.).

We are looking for projects that demonstrate that the learning of key competences can contribute to social inclusion. You can either refer to the key competences as they are defined by the European Commission or explain how the competences in your project can be understood as key competences and how they contribute to social inclusion.

For excellent adult education and learning projects with the topic ‘Key competences for social inclusion´ in two categories:

1. European projects:

• EU + candidate countries need to be transnational (a minimum of 3 countries involved)
• All other European countries need to be either transnational or have a strong national partnership with a diverse range of stakeholders

2. Projects from outside of Europe

Projects can but need not be supported by the European Commission (and can but need not be Grundtvig projects)

Criteria:

• The project must clearly demonstrate how the teaching and/or learning and/or development and/or implementation of key competences have contributed to social inclusion.
• It must have evidence of outcomes, such as a report, DVD, or any form of verification
• It is desirable that the project is transferable and/or useful for others
• The project or the initiative should be up and running for at least 1 year and/or be close to completion.

What do we expect?

A description of your project:

• The main goals of the project
• Which key competence(s) did you focus on and how did you work with them?
• What you actually did and how you did it
• Your target group(s)
• What processes or partnerships were important
• How did you get people involved

Some explanation about the impact:

• How did the project contribute to social inclusion?
• The impact for the participating organisations and the target group(s)
• How you recognised and tracked success
• What you have learned - what would you do again or differently next time