City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009

1. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • The traditional linearity of the industrial society is broken • Each citizen will experience a diversity of changes and turns and challenges • The knowledge society requires creative learning competences • Learning takes place everywhere, not just in schools • Life and learning is becomming more and more integrated Why do we talk about lifelong learning now?

2. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Traditional production will not take place in Europe • Europe will have to compete with other regions on competences and creativity • Europe must be a role-model for inclusion and learning for all citizens • Innovation, technology and participation will be the brands of Europe • Europe must demonstrate its global role and values in practice The effects of globalization on Europe

3. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Injecting millions of euro to innovate education and foster lifelong learning • Strong focus on the REAL challenges: the many people excluded from learning • Encouraging learning experiments in all kinds of non-formal contexts • Excellent opportunity for innovation and social progress for the EU cities and regions • Europe’s strong regions must contribute with their resources and values The European Programs for lifelong learning

4. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Education and learning is the most important key to social balance • Europe wish to be a social model for other regions in the world • The social model must demonstrate its capacity by giving ALL citizens access to learning and a meaningful life • The development of the social model requires a shift from traditional education to inclusive learning Education in Europe: the Social Model

5. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • ALL citizens, no matter age and social, educational and cultural background • Especially for disadvanatged people with weak educational background and poor life perspectives • Children to develop creative learning and technology competences • Elderly to re-activate their resources, offering them a challenging life and intergrate them in important community activities Who is lifelong learning for?

6. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Identify your needs, interests, visions and resources • Dialogue with European resources in your community – for advice and counselling • Find good EU partners through your network or with the help of community resources • Develop competences in project development and management through courses, workshops and other training activities How to cooperate in Europe?

7. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Why did we create the City Learning Net? • What are the challenges for this network? • What kind of partners, what kind of projects? • What kind of services and resources is the network offering? • City Learning Net in Catalonia… • The Xploit project… Example: the City Learning Net

8. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Cooperating with many organisations through Espiral in Girona • Involving many organisations and citizens in European projects • Offering support for project development and project competences • Offering a strong and resourceful European network of organisations, cities and regions • Latest activity: supporting empowerment projects for young people in Salt… City Learning Net in Catalonia

9. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • euroCALL – adult learning • mediaPLAYINGcommunities – media playing in kindergartens • Xploit: the new types of European projects • Links of interest… The City Learning Net activities: projects

10. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Teacher inspiration is the key to new learning initiatives • Inviting groups of teachers to participate in inspiration days or weeks in the local community – or in another country • Funding the activities through the European mobility programs • Inspiring the teachers to develop new learning processes, use technology, practice empowerment… • See TIC – case paper The City Learning Net activities: teacher inspiration

11. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • The City Learning Net offers courses or workshops about the European educational programs • The CLN offers courses on how to develop projects and applications • The CLN offers courses on project management of European projects • The CLN offers support for project developing within the priority fields of the network • - through the local CLN partner… The City Learning Net activities: training in European cooperation

12. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • Through the local partner the City Learning Net offers support and counselling on lifelong learning initiatives and activities within the priority fields of the network • The network will often propose to take succesfull and strong initiatives to a European level • The network is not involved in any • profit-producing activities The City Learning Net activities: support for development of lifelong learning projects or activities

13. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T • A new kind of European project, not developing new initiatives but exploiting strong and available project resources • The Xploit project will cooperate with local and regional authorities on the exploitation of strong European learning resources • The aim is to make it a ”natural” activity in the communities to identify, capture and use strong European educational resources The culmination of the City Learning Net first 5 years: the Xploit project

14. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T MATERIAL TO HAND OUT The real challenge CLN hand-out Xploit hand-out Links of interest

15. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T MATERIAL TO SHOW www.sosuaarhus-international.com/inspiration.htm Inspiration for Latin America TIC teacher inspiration

16. City Learning Net in Girona June/July 2009 The benefits of European Cooperation for the region – City Learning Net CITY LEARNING N E T Further dialogues CLN resources and offers AFTER THE DIALOGUES