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A European learning partnership project. ODE – Open Doors for Europe Türöffner für Europa Supported by the EU Sokrates Grundtvig 2 programme September 2004 – August 2006. Project background. Experience shows: seniors often don‘t speak foreign languages
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A European learning partnership project ODE – Open Doors for Europe Türöffner für Europa Supported by the EU Sokrates Grundtvig 2 programme September 2004 – August 2006
Project background • Experience shows: seniors often don‘t speak foreign languages • But this knowledge would facilitate accessing other countries and cultures
Project idea • Learning partnership to find new instruments: „Door openers for Europe“
Door openers Knowledge about • key situations • themes • basic words • rituals • songs • day-to-day manners Base for communication
Learning partners • University of AlicantePermanent University Students & Alumni Association • Spanish National Association of University Programmes for Older Adults (AEPUM) • Istituto di Scienze Sociali “Nicolò Rezzara”, Vicenza • University of the Third Age, Łódź (ŁUTW) • Towarzystwo Wolney Wszechnica Polskiej, Lublin • Coordination: ILEU (in cooperation with ZAWiW and the association ViLE), Ulm • (University of the Third Age in Malta)
Action and methods I • Partner meetings in Lublin (Nov. 2004), Bad Urach near to Ulm (April 2005), Łódź (Dec. 2005) and Alicante (April 2006) Originally planned: partner meetings in Vicenza (Oct. 2006) and Łódź (May 2007)
Partner meetings • Getting to know the learning partners • Discussion of strategies and working plans • Working groups • Social and cultural events
Action and methods II Regular working groups • Development, testing and translation of materials about different themes • Preparation for the website • Public relations • Participation in pc and language courses
Action and methods III • Use of information and communication technologies: mailinglist website www.gemeinsamlernen.de/ode
Information and communication technologies • Use of the ICT can‘t be taken for granted • Usage as a part of the learning process • Support of the project and for informal contacts of the participants
ODE – Open Doors for Europe Coordinator: ILEU, c/o University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany www.ileu.net info@ileu.net Photos: taken from the project ODE and from photocase.com