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Bildungsnetzwerk Steiermark
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Our Team

• 1 Manager
• 2 education advisors / regional managers
• 1 pedagogical staff member
• 1 office personal

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Our Main Tasks

• Independent educational information and guidance
  for adults in styrian regions
• networking with institutions which are occupied
  with continuing education education in Styria
• Marketing for adult education
• Educational projects

Tzecheslovakia
Germany
A U S T R I A
Hungary
Styria
Italy
Slovenia
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We are financed by

• ESF (European Social Fund)
• bmbwk Federal Ministry for Education, Science
  and Culture
• Administration of the province of Styria
• Budget 360.000 / for 2 years (2002-2004)

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Our aims

• Providing adult education and lifelong learning
  in rural regions
• Helping adults in finding the fitting education
• Giving more transparency to and raising the
  demand for educational offers
• Providing current information on the internet

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Our target groupsfor educational information

• Most of our clients are individuals, who are in a
  period of vocational reorientation
• Adults, who want to change their jobs and get a
  higher education (employed unemployed)
• Women, who want to start working again after a
  period of child education
• Young adults which are long-term unemployed
• Immigrants
• All Persons in the perspective of lifelong
  learning

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Our offers

• Individual guidances and information about 1
  hour Free of charge, Independently, individual
• Information points
• provide informations conc. adult education
  offers in coperation with public institutions
• Internet database (www.eb-stmk.at)
• NEW
• Educational telephone service (reducted fee)
• Email information service

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Our results after 2 years

• 968 consultations for educational guidance
• 36800 offers in the database /
• 500 visitors a day
• Construction of a good regional network of advice
  centres and educational institutions

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Fields of interest

• Share experiences and Know How concerning adult
  education in rural regions
• methods, to reach adults which are distant from
  learning and education
• Innovative forms of vocational guidance and
  counselling
• gtgt Learning Regions ltlt

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• "Start by doing whats necessary,
• then whats possible,
• and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
• St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

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Regional projects- Experiences -

• Closer contact to regional institutions
• more transparency about international activities
• good personal exchange about experiences with
  int. projects

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Regional projectsExperiences

• needs confidence and a sort of professionality in
  the partner institution (language,
  timemanagement)
• needs a international project culture in the
  institution

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Project 1 IDA - Integration durch Arbeit
(Integration through work)

• EQUAL project (2002-2004)
• Goal employment and qualification of people who
  are distant from the labour market including
  social network
• ? easy access to employment with reduced hours,
  parallel qualification,
• ? different approaches of employment in different
  rural areas
• special problems high administration efforts
• Org Caritas der Diözeses Graz-Seckau,
  Knittelfeld
• www.ida.equal.at

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Project 2 IKÖF - Interkulturelle Öffnung der
Region (upper styrian initiatives towards an
intercultural opening of the region)

• EQUAL project (2003-2005)
• Goal integration of imigrants and refugees,
  oppose xenophobia and racism at the labour market
  (intercultural opening of the region)
• Module 1 - research about the labour market
  situation of migrants
• Module 2 - develop measures for requalification
  of imigrants
• Module 3 - intercultural counseling for companies
  of the region

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Project 2 IKÖF - Interkulturelle Öffnung der
Region (upper styrian initiatives towards an
intercultural opening of the region)

• European equality driving licence
• qualification for managers to promote and
  improve equality in their org.
• interactive exhibition in the Internet to raise
  awareness for people from Africa,
• guidebook for companies an counselors
• Org Schulungszentrum Fohnsdorf, SZF (adult
  education training center) with partners in the
  region of Upper Styria, , GB, S
• www.szf.at

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Project 3 Energy Skill -

• LEONARDO Da Vinci (2001-2004)
• Goals
• rational use of energy
• improve the position of the target group at the
  labour market
• Activities
• Development of a Vocational Training tool for
  Energy management (Software)
• train different regional target groups to improve
  their energy skill and ICT knowledge
• develop a guide for trainers

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Project 3 Energy Skill -

• Main Target groups of the project
• house-owners, builders, energymanagers in
  companies, caretakers, responsibles for energy
  consumption, farmers
• benefit of international cooperation
• learning from best-practice examples
• process of innovation can be faster by various
  experts
• Org Energy agency of the region of Upper Styria
  (partner), with I, GB, S (coordinator)
• www.energieagentur.ainet.at

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Project TEACH

• SAVE II Project
• Training Pupils for Education in School buildings
• Org Energy agency of the region of Upper Styria
  (partner), with I, GB, S (coordinator)
• www.energieagentur.ainet.at
• Raise the awareness of pupils for energy
  efficiency in school buildings
• Develop Tests and checklists for energy
  consumption - computer, lightening, coffee
  machines etc
• Pupils identify the their consumption by
  themselfes
• Cooperation with teachers (physics, mathematics),
  advice by energy agency
• Partners energy agency of Peruggia, technical
  museum of Milano (Italy), CODEMA (Irland), energy
  agency of Judenburg (Austria),

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Project Holzweltbotschafter regional guides of
wood

• LEADER plus Project
• Steirische Holzstrasse, Murau
• www.steirischeholzstrasse.at
• Qualification project
• Target group inhabitants, which are interested
  in the region and have a special knowledge about
  wood
• Participants become regional guides and
  multiplicators for wood
• Trainers are regional experts of wood and
  pedagogues
• Teaching different kinds of aspects of wood
  timber, industrial wood, wood architecture, wood
  arts, wood and ecology etc
• Partners regional institutions concerning wood
  and timber

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Project 4 field of activity of nurses

• LEONARDO Da Vinci mobilitiy project (2003)
• Goal to learn about the different states of
  training and educational systems in health and
  nursing care of the countries
• Activities professional excursions to the
  partner countries
• benefits with int. exchange professional and
  personal development
• special problems high administration efforts,
  strict rules in accounts
• Org Schule für Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege,
  Murau (school for health and nursing care) with
  partners from D, I, GB