With this year’s annual theme “United in Diversity”, Adult Education Centres (Volkshochschulen) all over Germany address a crucial challenge to our democracy: to strengthen the cohesion of society and address the diversity of individual identities at the same time.
The regional office of DVV International South America has produced ten audiovisuals providing evidence of the learning process and the impact of adult learning and education. The videos with the title CONTRA VIENTO y MAREA were used, among other things, in the form of radio programmes.
The EU funded project “Promoting Access to Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights to Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners in Tajikistan” aims to contribute to a peaceful and inclusive society through providing access to justice for one of the most disadvantaged groups of the population, and thus to contribute to the development and consolidation of democracy, the rule of law and respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms in Tajikistan.
In the framework of the Inclusive Cashier project, DVV International offered a training course with elements of dual vocational education and piloted a training course for a group of 12 people with disabilities. The training ended with a practical exam in the shop and a theoretical exam at the college. Six participants passed both examinations.
In 2020, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in Uganda, with support from DVV International, embarked on the process of revitalizing and broadening ALE data management in order to develop a more compliant and robust ALE management information system.
Because most Moldovian educators have emigrated to other countries, community learning centres are experiencing a huge demand for new specialists. DVV International Moldova therefore reconfigurated the existing curriculum globALE Train of Trainers programme into a concentric structure, based on levels of proficiency.