ACE Gruntvig Partnership

O Projecto ACE Aging Challenges Education é um projecto Grundtig na vertente Parcerias de Aprendizagem que é desenvolvido em parceria por entidades com forte intervenção da Educação de Adultos oriundas de países como a Bélgica, a Austria, a Holanda, a Alemanha, a Espanha, da República da Irlanda e de Portugal.
A ANOP é a entidade portuguesa que interage com este conjunto de parceiros a nível europeu.
O Objectivo de projecto consiste em desenvolver acções formativas e de cooperação no sentido de dinamizar uma abordagem colectiva à formação de públicos com idade avançada, genericamente os seniores. Trata-se de incentivar modalidade formativas que incentivem os mais idosos a manterem-se activos no plano profissional e social.A primeira sessão de trabalho do projecto teve lugar em Antuérpia no passado mês de Novembro 2009.
A entidade acolhedora a CVO é uma estrutura de formação e de educação de adultos com várias centenas de alunos e formandos e vários centros de formação na Bélgica.

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The overall objectives of the proposed project correspond with the specific and operational objectives of the Grundtvig Sectoral programmes:

- To respond to the educational challenge of an ageing population in Europe
- To help provide adults with pathways to improving their knowledge and competences
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning
- To improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult education organisations
- To facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and their transfer, including from a participating country to others
- To assist people from vulnerable social groups and in marginal social contexts, in particular older people and those who have left education without basic qualifications, in order to give them alternative opportunities to access adult education

Other key objectives of the ACE-project are

- To improve the quality and accessibility of mobility throughout Europe of people involved in adult education and to increase its volume, so as to support the mobility of at least 7,000 of such individuals per year by 2013
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of co-operation between organisations involved in adult education throughout Europe
- To raise awareness of the challenges aging poses to adult education throughout Europe
- To work with teachers, trainers, institutions, organisations and corporations…on how to keep older learners socially, intellectually and professionally active as long as possible