The Tale project responds to the urgent need to transform into a more climate-friendly and sustainable society. Tale project explores solutions to this challenge by using transformative learning approaches.
In the Tale Erasmus+ project, adult education organizations engage with learners, communities, social movements, and grassroots initiatives to provide new insights on transformative learning. The partners will run innovation groups using transformative learning approaches in cooperation with grassroots initiatives or social movements. The goal is to examine how we can learn from each other to further green transition in organizations and communities. In addition, the project consortium utilizes peer learning, organizes events, and publishes recommendations on how adult education can contribute to green transition. As a result, the Tale project will help adult learning and education organizations to find new ways to work with learners and their surrounding communities. The project will produce knowledge, events, tools, experiences, methods, and recommendations on how to use transformative learning to further green transition and help upscale the innovative practices of the grassroots initiatives.
Objectives:
- Provide new insights in how to further sustainability and green transition in collaboration between ALE institutions and communities
- Establish cooperation between ALE institutions and grassroots initiatives working in the field of green transition /sustainability
- Upscale transformative learning methods for green transition, thus contributing to capacity building both in the ALE sector and among the grassroots initiatives
- Provide recommendations for successful transformative ALE and green transition
- Develop a strong partnership to further the green transition of the ALE sector
Main target groups:
- Staff of the participating organizations, including the leadership
- Citizens active at grassroots initiatives taking part in the innovation process
- Adult learners
- Adult education institutions in the partner countries
- Climate NGO’s
Secondary target groups:
- European adult learning and education sector
- Education and training organizations and institutions of other sectors
- Policymakers on national, European, and international levels
- Other stakeholders (NGOs from other sectors, regional networks etc.)
Partners
The project consortium consists of nine partners and one associate partner:
Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation (Finland, coordinator)
European Network for Community-Led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability, ECOLISE (Brussels)
European Association for the Education of Adults, EAEA (Brussels)
International Council for Adult Education ICAE
Educators Centre Association (Hungary)
DVV International (Germany)
Hellenic Open University (Greece)
VHS Wien (Austria)
SVEB (Switzerland)
AONTAS (Ireland, associate partner)
Project duration
12 months, 12/2022 – 11/2024
Contact
Project coordinator
Sari Pohjola / Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation, e-mail: sari.pohjola@kvs.fi
Contact persons (Hellenic Open University)
George Koulaouzides, e-mail: gkoulaouzidis@eap.gr
Zacharias Palios, e-mail: palios@eap.gr
Funding: Erasmus+ KA2
Project web-page: For more information regarding the project please visit the following link: https://kansanvalistusseura.fi/en/innovaatiot/tale/#project_info
Free Webinars:
For information and registrations please visit: https://kansanvalistusseura.fi/en/tapahtumat/green-transition-dialogues/
Project leaflets::
Please find attached information about the project, its aims and its terminology: https://btlearnlab.eap.gr/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TRANSFORMATIVE-LEARNING-FOR-GREΕN-TRANSITION.pdf
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