Project Partners

The University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems (KPH) is a private institution, established by the Archdiocese of Vienna, which is responsible for funding it together with the Diocese of St. Pölten, the Protestant Churches (Lutheran and Reformed Churches), the Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Old-Catholic Church. It is a place of teaching, learning and research for the education sector. At the KPH teachers are trained for primary, secondary, polytechnic and special needs schools, as well as for Christian religious instruction. The KPH offers in-service training to teachers from all branches of education and in all subjects.

The KPH builds upon the tradition of eight former pedagogical and religious academies and in-service institutions which were in place from the end of the 1960s up until 2007. The University College was inaugurated on 1st October 2007. It comprises three campuses, two of which are located in Vienna, in Wien-Strebersdorf and Wien-Gersthof respectively. The third campus, Krems-Mitterau, is situated in Lower Austria. The rectorate has its main office in Singerstrasse in the City of Vienna.

The VHS Ottakring/Hernals is one of the adult education institutes of the "Die Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH".

The overall social task of the Vienna Volkshochschulen reach far beyond the traditional education concept. With their specialised institutes, they contribute since many years to the successful social and social development of the town. Part of their core tasks is to develop an area-wide easily accessible program for all people independently of age, gender, origin and prior education. One of the most successful innovations of the last years is the „University Meets Public" together with Vienna University

The European Management Centre was founded in 1998 in Sofia. It is private education organisation for vocational and adult education, whose task is to support companies, organisations and individual persons in their striving to assert themselves in a competitive environment, to develop the European idea of life long learning and to contribute to the development of civic society. 

The European Management Centre achieves ist goals in cooperation with various European and Bulgarian organisations - Cos International Austria, ImPlus Austria,  Vertretung des Instituts für Internationale Zusammenarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes in Sofia and others. The European Management Centre employs high qualified Bulgarian and foreign trainers and teachers.

The University of Rousse has long traditions in education and in carrying out projects on local, national and international levels, among them implemented projects within the CEEPUS and other programs as well as the participation in Erasmus thematic networks and intensive programs. The numbers of implemented programs and projects are: 95 in LLP (ERASMUS, ERSMUS MUNDUS, COMENIUS, MINERVА, LEONARDO da VINCI, GRUNDTVIG), 3 in CEEPUS and 12 in FP6 & FP7, 1 CIR-CE, 3 NATO, etc.

The Public Open University Zagreb (POUZ) is the largest, non-profit adult education institution in the Republic of Croatia. Its tradition goes far back to the year 1907, when Dr. Albert Bazala initiated the idea of establishing a public university, while the first lectures started in 1912. The POUZ has witnessed dramatic times of Croatian history, thus being under influence of changing political and economic circumstances. Nevertheless, its mission to meet the need for adult education has been continuing for over 100 years. The founders of the POUZ are the city of Zagreb.

The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice is a public university type of school. It specializes as research university of natural scientific, humanistic and social orientation. It offers a broad spectrum of 250 study disciplines to more than 13 000 students at eight faculties (Economics, Arts, Education, Natural History, Theology, Health and Social Care, Agriculture and Fishing and Protection of Water) and at University Institute of Physical Biology.   The strengths of the University include science and research, lifelong education and ability of orientation of the school on regional issues.

ZAWiW's task is in the development and testing of innovative methods in adult education, with focus on fostering self-organised learning of older adults with the support of the new media. The concept "learning through research" had been already tested in many of ZAWiW's working groups. The members of the working groups "European Contacts" and "Time witnesses" cooperate in the project Danbue-Networkers.

Cultural Nonprofit Ltd. of the 13^th District of Budapest offers through  its five instituts a lot of opportunities for the different cultural possibility and useful of leisure.The district has 130 000 inhabitants.

The Cultural Centre Angyalföldi Jozsef Attila is the oldest and biggest cultural centre of the district regarding to its size and to its possibilities with the following activity fields: potter courses for all ages, drawing and painting, sewing,  flower-bounding and textil courses, theatrical courses, dancing and gymnastic. This institute co-ordinates and helps the civic organizations (NGO-s) of the district.

GIE has as main goal to actively contribute to the integration process of the European Union and to promote the humanist values, the European values, by educational actions, cultural actions or other types of actions (training, socio-economical activities, etc. adequate to its aim). GIE's areas of specific expertise and competence are Life Long Learning applied research, field research, comparative studies, development & implementation of strategies and methodologies for Lifelong Learning.

The Teaching Staff Training Department (TSTD) is an academic unit of the University of Craiova, directly subordinated to the  University Senate; it functions according to its own regulations and it cooperates with all the faculties which require a special training of the students for the teaching process; it develops and  has a wide range of educational partnership with the School Inspectorates, Teaching Staff Centers etc. More than 7,500 students follow the courses of TSTD. The academic staff consists of 13 professors and 39 Associate Professors.

University of Belgrade is the biggest and the oldest higher education institution in the region, founded in 1905, which consists of 31 faculties, 11 research institutes, the University Library and the 6 centers, with about 90 000 (ninety thousand) students and almost 7 000 teachers, researchers and assistants. Study programs are compliant with the Bologna Declaration principles since 2005. The University is composed of the following faculties, classified according to scientific fields in the faculty group: group of Social Sciences and Humanities (where is the Faculty of Philosophy), group of Medical Sciences, group of Sciences and Mathematics and group of Engineering Sciences and Technology.

The University of the Third Age under the auspices of Comenius University was established in 1990 as the first institution of this kind in the Slovak republic. UTA is located at the Centre of continuing education at Comenius University in Bratislava. The UTA generally offers a three-year program in more than 30^th specialised branches. Study courses are prepared according to the cooperation with the faculties and departments of Comenius University. There are also some subjects realised together with the University of Economics and Slovak Agricultural University. The cooperation established on the contacts through the Slovak Association of UTAs.

Since 1984, when it was established through voluntary endeavours of a group of adult education experts and university teachers of andragogy, the Slovenian Third Age University has steadily grown to become a national network of 45 universities in 44 localities with  about 21 000 students, more than 1000 mentors and volunteers. Its practice has been extensively researched; as a result, today the  University folows  its own  generalisations and is based on its own model.

Since its opening in July 2000, the museum reflects the history of the Danube Swabians on a total of 1,500 square metres. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Habsburg monarchy settled German farmers and workmen in Hungary. In 26 sections, the permanent exhibition "Räume, Zeiten, Menschen" ("Space – Time – Man") presents the everyday life of the German minority in the Southeast European multinational region.

The Federal Association ”Virtual and face-to-face learning and competence network of older adults” (ViLE e.V.), Germany, was founded at the end of 2002. ViLE is an internet based “learning community” of older adults. Its aim is to bring together older people who are interested in education and who are ready to use face to face settings as well as the Internet for individual learning process, exchange of experiences, cooperation and social participation. ViLE was initiated by educators and seniors in the framework of the national model project ‘Learning together over the web’ (2000 2005), which was carried out by ZAWiW, University of Ulm. The Association currently has 150 members and 5 “regional groups” in all parts of Germany and ca. 500 network-members.