See also ALW
THE JOY OF LEARNING - THE SECOND ADULT LEARNERīS WEEK IN FINLAND 18. - 24.9.1999
The Adult Learner's Week is a nation-wide campaign promoting adult learning and lifelong learning. The Adult Learner's Week is arranged in accordance with the Hamburg Declaration, the outcome of UNESCO World Conference on Adult Education in Hamburg in 1997. In 1998, Finland was the first country to arrange the Adult Learner's Week. The organiser of the Adult Learner's Week this year is The Finnish Association of Adult Education Centres, (KTOL), an umbrella organisation for the adult education centres in Finland.
The first Adult Learner's Week in Finland was arranged in 1998; the campaign of 1999 is realised using wider back-up forces than the year before. The nation-wide campaign supports and helps to gain publicity for various programmes, the goals of which have been set independently within the institutions, libraries, municipalities and provinces.
The campaign's purpose is to gain more visibility for lifelong learning. The campaign gives information and guidance about modern ways of studying. The aim is to reach new people and underline the importance of studying as a way to maintain working ability. Arranging the Adult Learner's Week promotes the appreciation of adult learning and the adult education institutions. In 1999, the Adult Learner's Week focuses on providing information of various ways and possibilities for learning, and on the fact that every individual has a personal, unique way of learning.
Participants of the Lifelong Learning, Liberal Adult Education and Civil Society conference are invited to join the events of the Adult Learner's Week in Turku area alongside the programme of the actual conference.
The Adult Learner's Week campaign starts on Saturday, 18 September 1999 at 3.00 p.m. in Turku. "The Kick-off and National Learning Festival" takes place at the VPK House (address Eskelinkatu 5). The adult education institutions in South-Western Finland present themselves by means of exhibitions and non-stop performances. Multilingual exhibition guides are provided.
There will also be University lectures on issues such as the expansion of EU, entrepreneurship, the Nordic Dimension and the introduction of the euro. In addition to the actual programme, the organisers provide various leisure activities, e.g. dance courses. The national adult learning awards will also be presented at the festival.
Adult Learner's Week - National events
The possibilities of the brain, Monday, 20 September 1999 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Cultural Centre of Espoo.
The lectures examine the subjects "The sane brain and to care for the brain" and "The brain and the ageing". Lectures can be followed either on-site or on Internet. The lecturers will answer questions from the audience in a TV programme on Channel 1.
From EU to EURO, from aerobics to brainbics, Wednesday, 23 - Thursday, 24 September 1999 at Conference Hotel Siikaranta, Espoo
The seminar, which includes a large share of learning and the joy of physical exercise, is aimed for people working in adult education institutions.
Adult Learner's Week - Provincial, regional and local events
Activities nation-wide, Saturday, 18 September 1999
The slogan for Saturday, 18 September, is "learning is fun". This nation-wide event spreads the joy of adult learning around the country, in the adult education institutions, in the libraries, at market places, supermarkets, museums and everywhere that people meet.
Additional information can be obtained at:
CAMPAIGN OFFICE
Annankatu 25 A
00100 Helsinki
Project Manager Johanna Korhonen
Tel. +358 9 6122 4336, +358 40 5339 341
Fax + 358 9 6122 4351
e-mail johanna.korhonen@ktol.fi
www.ktol.fi/aov
