About us

BOOKS 21 – Open Community Adult Learning for lifelong learning in intercultural societies aims to support development of intercultural society through equipping adults working in libraries, NGOs and cultural organisations from Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Greece and Spain by competences of using Intercultural Learning methods and Information and Communication Technologies  tools while implementing ICL projects for the target group of adults (especially 40+) in their local communities. Project was developed by partner organisations from 5 countries, both NGOs and private companies. They work with adult learners who are not any more within any formal education process, provide non-formal education for them, create open / accessible working environment and focus on involving local communities from different ethnical and social backgrounds. The main activities will be meetings organized by each partner including study visits, workshops, meetings with experts and living library projects in each country. The partners will use a common e-learning platform to support the communication process, and website as a dissemination tool.

study visits, good practices, living libraries

what for?
to share good practices
to build partnership
to discover fields for potential cooperation between ngos and libraries

how?
through living libraries, find more about the methodology at: https://humanlibrary.org/

who?
non governmental organizations and libraries from Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Greece and Spain
find out more at: partners section

when?
project started with the 1st meeting within the partnership in Wrocław, in February 2010
2nd meeting in Czech Republic – June 2010
3rd meeting in Germany – November 2010
4th meeting in Spain – March 2011
5th meeting in Greece – April 2011
Living libraries in local communities of all partners are planned for July 2010 – June 2011