FAEA's main areas of responsibilities are the following:
1. Securing the working conditions of Adult Education
FAEA tries through negotiations, initiatives and reports to further the cause of non formal Adult Education in Finland by securing economical means for its member organisations, informing the public and initiate debate. FAEA is actively engaged in discussion with the Ministry of Education on the future development of the field.
2. International Contacts
FAEA is a member of the European Association
for the Education of Adults (EAEA). FAEA has been operating as the Information
and Documentation Office of EAEA since 1993. FAEA is developing information
structures to better serve the EAEA membership. The Socrates funded ALICE
Database Web Service is also updated and maintained by FAEA.
In the Nordic context FAEA works together with its sister organisations
in Denmark, Norway and Sweden to promote the use of the Nordic Folk Academy,
to engage in projects initiated by the Nordic Council and lately to expand
cooperation with the Baltic states.
3. Continuing Education for Adult Educators
Professional adult educators get their basic training in the Universities. Further education for adult educators forms a growing segment of FAEA's activities. The FAEA arranges study trips abroad in order to offer adult educators a chance to gain new ideas and insights.
FAEA has also been one of the initiators and forces behind a five-year national campaign called Knowledge and Competence in Popular Adult Education. The work has just begun and thus far includes:
- Organisation of introductory studies for the field of popular adult education
- Organisation of studies aimed to improve occupational qualifications in the field of popular adult education
- Organisation of research in the field of popular adult education
Who is represented by the FAEA?
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Popular organisations working in the field of liberal adult education (the first of these in Finland established in 1919)
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Folk High Schools (the first of these in Finland was founded in 1889)
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Adult Education Centres (the first of these in Finland was founded in 1899)
Finnish Adult Education Association
Uudenmaankatu 17 B 28
00120 Helsinki
FINLAND
Tel. +358-9-646502
Fax. +358-9-646504
e-mail vsy@vsy.fi
www.vsy.fi/faea/
