LIFELONG LEARNING IN PRISONS

The contact seminar brings together prison education professionals from different European countries, giving them the possibility to network with each other and learn from the ideas and practices of their European colleagues. The aim of the seminar is to produce project ideas and start the planning process of Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships. The participants can benefit from the contacts also when looking for suitable host organizations for Erasmus+ Mobility Projects.

Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships aim to support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchange of experience at European level. The projects can focus on various aspects of prison education, for instance:

• Adult basic education, basic skills (literacy, numeracy, digital skills), soft skills

• Guidance and counselling, validation of prior learning

• Digital learning, use of ICT, distance learning

• Arts and cultural creativity

• In-service teacher training for prison education

• Learning needs of foreign offenders, offenders with a migrant or ethnic minority background, female offenders, offenders with learning difficulties or mental health problems

• Resettlement, reintegration, employment of (ex-)offenders

The seminar is targeted at adult education professionals working in the field of prison education, e.g. teachers, trainers, advisers, counsellors and other practitioners, staff of NGOs or other organisations working with (ex-)offenders and representatives of authorities in charge of prison education. The participants should be interested in exchanging and developing good practices, methods, materials, tools, pedagogical approaches and/or ways of working in European cooperation and committed to plan Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships (KA2) on the theme of the seminar. The seminar is open to all Erasmus+ programme countries. The expected amount of participants is 45.

Working language of the seminar is English.