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Europe
This Homepage reflects the mission of EUCEN: The European Universities Continuing Education Network is an organisation for universities concerned with the development of Continuing Education in Europe. Many European universities see themselves as international institutions. To establish a network for continuing education has been one [...]

Denmark
The first Folk High School was founded in Rødding, Denmark, in 1844, on the initiative of Kristen Kold who was inspired by the educational thinking of N.F.S. Grundtvig. Grundtvig identified a growing democratic need in society of enlightening the often both uneducated and poor peasantry. This social group had neither the time nor the [...]

Belgium
This site offers a database for practical further training courses in Belgium. You can search for examples of training and vocational programmes, continuing education and language courses, as well as companies or educational institutions. Additionally, in the sector "bibliothèque", there are selected literary abstracts available.

Europe
European InfoNet Adult Education is a European network in the frame of the Lifelong Learning Programme / Grundtvig Network. It is an agency providing information about current developments in adult education from European countries and the EU level. InfoNet provides a comprehensive, constantly growing database, a thematic information [...]

Europe
The European Federation for Open and Distance Learning has been established in March 1998 at the transnational conference in Utrecht ( NL). Its has the objective to set up a pan-European network of national networks for ODL that will provide value added services to the benefit of the professional actors involved (e.g. companies, [...]

Europe
The European Association for the Education of Adults is an association of non-governmental organisations actively involved in the development of adult education throughout Europe. The association is made up of more than 100 organisations in 34 countries (as of September 2005) . Die EAEA closely co-operates with UNESCO and the European [...]

Europe
The website of this network provides a platform for the open, distance and learning community in Europe. The EDEN Membership in 2005 consists of 130 institutional members, including universities, national associations, professional bodies, international networks, research institutions and companies. The over 650 members in the Network [...]

Europe
Its aim is to foster developments in distance education through the provision of a platform for co-operation and collaboration between a wide range of institutions, networks and individuals concerned with distance education in Europe. This website offers information on the organizational structure of the network and its participants as [...]

EURES (the European Job Mobility Portal) is a network of employment administrators and agencies . The website offers a search engine for people interested in finding work in the associated countries, among them Germany. It is available in many European languages, including French, English, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish, and Hungarian.

Europe
The website of this network provides a platform for the open, distance and learning community in Europe. The EDEN Membership in 2005 consists of 130 institutional members, including universities, national associations, professional bodies, international networks, research institutions and companies. The over 650 members in the Network [...]

The glossary "offers essential key words in order to understand the diverse aspects of adult education in Europe" and "also endeavoured to include those terms to reflect the most advanced practice and contemporary ideas on adult education". It contains more than 150 keywords which belong to following categories: 1) Theories and general concepts, 2) Strategies and policies, 3) [...]