New publication from Wuerzburg winter school 2019

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10. November 2020

The volume “International and Comparative Studies in Adult and Continuing Education” (Kröner, Boffo & Egetenmeyer (2020)) presents results from the 2019 ERASMUS+ INTALL ‘Winter School’. It provides insights into comparative adult education in Southern Europe and Germany but also into partnerships with other international universities. It comprises three thematic foci: (1) Teaching internationalisation and comparative adult and continuing education, (2) Comparative papers on adult and continu-ing education, and (3) Projects and practices from adult and continuing education.

Find papers from HSU-Team ‘Professorship Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning’ here: Jean-Francois, E. / Schmidt-Lauff, S. ; Kleinschmidt, J. / Garner, C. / Schwarz, J.

 

Intall@home round table discussion

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2. October 2020

On Sep. 16th the professorship for continuing education and lifelong learning / Sabine Schmidt-Lauff held the INTALL@home online workshop with an 34 national and international participants. The recording of the round table discussion with reknown international experts can now be viewed here:

 

‘Beyond the use of digital as ‘new normal’ in Adult Learning and Education: challenges and limitations’

Intall@home online workshop Sep. 16th 2020

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28. August 2020

On Sep. 16th the professorship for continuing education and lifelong learning / Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff holds the international online workshop “INTALL@home – bringing research, practice and studying together“ from 09:00 – 13:30 (UTC/GMT +2).

The center of the workshop is in the open educational resources (OER) on international comparative research in adult and lifelong learning developed by HSU and partners in the ERASMUS+ strategic partnership INTALL (see “Research” on this page). For the program and free registration see: https://www.hsu-hh.de/wb/intall

Adult Education Academy 2021 in Würzburg

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28. August 2020

From 1.-12. February 2021 on Campus Würzburg in Germany the 8th International Adult Education Academy (formerly Winter School) for master and PhD students as well as practinioners from the field of adult education will take place. The professorship for continuing education and lifelong learning / Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff will again be present as teaching moderators in the second week.

As for all of us the situation in 2021 is not clear, all participants can decide for an on-site or virtual option.
If participants decide for the on-site option, they also can change this to a virtual mode, if the Covid-19-situation does not allow an on-site mode. The application deadline ends on 21. September 2020.
Further information are provided here: go.uniwue.de/lifelonglearning

Guest student from Aarhus University / Denmark

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28. October 2019

From Oktober 2019 until March 2020 Mathias Nørby Nielsen, a master student from the Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus is staying at the professorship to finish his master thesis “Geographies of HSU: Mapping the (inter)national engagement and inspirations among academic staff and students”. The project aims to explore how academic staff and students at HSU orient themselves nationally and internationally, and in which ways these relationalities affect daily practices as well as current and future life plans. The methodological framework will be centered around spatiality and mobilities, and will make use tools such as mapping patterns of mobility and perceptions of spaces and places to derive information about understandings, beliefs and opinions about (inter)national engagements and the meanings hereof.

 

Visit to UNESCO Institute for lifelong learning

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8. March 2019

During the stay of visiting Ass. Prof. Dr. Bolanle. C. Simeon-Fayomi at Helmut-Schmidt-University, the Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning / Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff and team organized a visit to the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg together with Prof. Silke Schreiber-Barsch of Hamburg University. The group was warmly welcomed by Werner Mauch, coordinator of the Adult Learning and Education Programme of UIL with a short presentation. In the follow-up discussion, important questions could be answered, especially for the guests from Ile-Ife University.

INTALL project started!

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28. November 2018

On September 1st the ERASMUS+ Strategig Partnership INTALL (International comparative studies in Adult and Lifelong Learning) started with HSU / Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning / Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff as a partner. The initial transnational kick-off meeting took place in Ljubljana (Slo) on November 20th and 21st.  INTALL continues the succesful innovations of the finished COMPALL project and brings together 10 old and new partners: Next to HSU and the project coordinators at Würzburg University, there are the universities of Padova and Florence (ITA), Lisbon (POR), Pécs (HUN), Dublin (IRE), Ljubljana (Slo) and the international institutions Deutscher Volkshochschulverband DVV international (GER) and the European Assiciation for the Education of Adults EAEA placed in Brussels.

During the next 36 months innovations in comparative adult education research will enhance the joint module developed in COMPALL for MA and PhD students and also bring practictioners into the programme. Find more info in the research section of this page or on the official project page with Würzburg University: INTALL-Homepage

Apply now: COMPALL Winter School Würzburg 2019

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22. August 2018

The international Würzburg Winter School „Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Learning“ will again take place from Feb 4th until Feb 15th 2019 for Master and PhD students. The Winter School was developed in the COMPALL project in cooperation with Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff / HSU.

Application is open until 15th of October 2018 under this link: https://www.paedagogik.uni-wuerzburg.de/lifelonglearning/application/

Further Information can be found on the website by Würzburg University: https://go.uniwue.de/lifelonglearning and on following materials:

 

Poster of the Compall Würzburg Winter School 2019
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Booklet of the Compall Wuerzburg Winter School
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COMPALL visit to UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning UIL

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27. June 2018

The Transnational Meeting of ERASMUS+ project ‘Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning’ that took place at the Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff) ended successfully with a visit to the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg on June 20th. 13 participants from four European partner countries (Italy, Portugal, Hungary and Germany) were welcomed by the new director Prof. David Atchoarena to dicuss planned projects and possible future cooperations.

 

COMPALL Transnational Meeting

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31. May 2018

From June 19th to June 20th the final project meeting of the international ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Learning will take place at Professorship for continuing and lifelong learning / HSU. Project Partners from the universities of Würzburg, Lisbon (POR), Padova (ITA), Florence (ITA) and Pécs (HUN) will meet. HSU will be presented with a campus tour and a joint dinner at the officers’ Casino. Furthermore, a field visit to the UNESCO Insitute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Hamburg will deepen the contacts of the partnership.