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XLLL Extra Life Long Learning
Bucharest, OCTOBER 18-22th 2000
„eXtra LifeLong Learning“ was the seminar
organised by AEGEE-Bucuresti and AEGEE-
Europe in the frame of the „Socrates on the
Move“ project. 47 students from all over Europe
spent five days in Romania where they had the
chance to better understand the role of the lifelong
learning, and especially the importance of
the informal education. This was done through
training, simulations, movies, and lectures delivered
by experts from the Socrates National
Agency and other education institutions. During
the last two days, the participants put their project
management skills into practice in a simulation
game related to the topic.
Moreover, the participants also took part in a
city rally in Bucharest. „One of the teams even
managed to get an appointment with the mayor
himself,“ asserts Andrei Popescu, the main
organiser, with a smile on his face. The participants
also spent some time in the mountains,
where they paid a visit to Dracula’s castle in
Bran and to the Royal castle in Sinaia. One participant
gave the most positive feedback on the
seminar after asking: „Can we do this one more
time? I must confess: I never thought that having
fun and learning could be combined in such an
incredible way!“
Regional Seminars
Obstacles to mobility in education
Sopot, OCTOBER 26-29th 2000
Seminar “Obstacles to mobility in education”
has been attended by forty participants coming
from different regions of Europe – Spain, Italy,
Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Norway, Germany, Austria, Romania, Latvia,
and Poland. They were students, members of
three organisations – AEGEE, ESIB and ESN,
who deal with promotion of Socrates programme
in their home countries. The variety of
different nationalities allowed us to approach the
subject of the conference with different opinions
and experiences. Within the participants, seven
were Socrates promoters in Socrates on the
Move project. Piotr Podsiadlo, President of
AEGEE-Gdansk and organiser of the seminar
has commented on the seminar: “By organising
this seminar we wanted to involve students in a
discussion on obstacles to students’ mobility and
development of European Community programmes
in the field of education. We also
aimed at learning about the aims, results and
achievements of the Socrates programme.
Finally, we strongly believed that the number of
students interested in mobility issues would
increase and that we would contribute to the
involvement of students in creating the
European higher education area.” The seminar
has been important thematic contribution for
implementation of the Socrates on the move
projects and also work of the three associations.
Important contribution on „Bureaucracy, information
deficit, finances, culture and language as
obstacles to students’ mobility in education” has
been made by Mr. Witold Sienkiewicz, Director
of the National Socrates Agency and on „The
role of compatibility of study curricula, recognition
of studies abroad and diploma supplement,
in students’ and teaching staff mobility” by Ms
Beata Skibilska, National Socrates Agency. In
workshops solutions to obstacles to mobility
have been discussed with participants.
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