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Keyword from Index: adult education institute

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Austria
The Austrian Archives for Adult Education manages the historical legacy of the Austrian adult education centres. It preserves the materials, documents and business records that have been handed down throughout the history of the Austrian Adult Education Centres, their forerunners and umbrella organisations. Therefore, it makes a contribution to the memory and self-reflective [...]

Denmark
FFD is the national organizing body of the 80 Danish Folk High Schools. Each an independent, non-governmental institution with 50-200 adult students. FFD develops and maintains political and professional relations with the Government and partners, both at the national and international levels. The purpose of FFD is to work for the idea of the folk high school and to create [...]

Finland
The finnish Folk High School Association supervises the educational policy, works on the networking of folk high school and on their development and improvement, ensures international cooperation and publishes the Kansanopisto magazine (available only in Finnish). There is a search function for short and long courses as well as for folk high schools in Finland. The link "Folk [...]

Denmark
The Danish Adult Education Association is an organisation which promotes nonformal adult education through collaboration, information and development. DAEA represents 32 member organisations. Adult education in Denmark consists of a broad variety of programmes and institutions, both in the formal and in informal sector. Most of them are partly financed by the state or the [...]

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 money to enroll at a university and needed [...]

China, People's Republic of
This list of links compiled by China Internet Information Center leads to full texts on the development of adult education in China and current developments in this educational sector. A new trend is an increasing demand for continuing education among workers. A growing market of continuing education institutions meets these requirements with tailor- made offers.

Finland
AKKL, founded in 1972, is the cooperation body of the 47 Finnish vocational adult education centres. The association aims are to improve the professional competence of the working-age population, increasing the possibilities for studies based on the adults' own choices, to promote vocational adult education in a more international Finland, and to struggle against [...]

Southeastern Europe; Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Romania; Serbia
This website includes state-of-the-art reports on the development of adult education in seven countries in Southeast Europe.- The EBiS Project ( EBiS: Erwachsenenbildung in Suedosteuropa) has been initiated and co-ordinated by IIZ/ DVV, Bonn with the support of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development ( BMZ) under the terms of the Stability Pact for [...]

Sweden
The Swedish National Council of Adult Education is a non-profit association with certain authoritative tasks delegated by the government and the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament). The Council distributes government grants to study associations and folk high schools, submits budgetary documentation and annual reports to the government and follows up and evaluates folkbildning [...]

Austria
The Association of Austrian Adult Education Centres (Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen, VÖV), together with its Educational Work and Research Unit (Pädagogische Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle, PAF), regards itself as a co-ordination centre for activities relevant to educational policy and pedagogics in Austrian adult education centres and also as a service centre for [...]

Sweden
The website informs about the folk high school system and the courses offered. The English website provides information about admission for foreign learners.