How to improve the situation in prisons for guards and prisoners? How to reduce the stress levels? To answer these and further questions are the aims of the project LBB – Languages Behind Bars. One strategy is to reduce obstacles like communication and language problems by the creation of a tailor made language training for guards and prisoners. Read More »LBB – Transnational Meeting in Göttingen
On the 4th and 5th of December E-Maria partners met in the beautiful Lithuania to finalise the training modules and discuss about the final conference that will take place in Portugal in spring 2013.
Also, a Walk and Talk event was organised to present the E-Maria Manual that will soon be ready to download on E-Maria website.
The event was a success! Read More »E-Maria – 4th Transnational Meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania
During the last meeting of the VILMA project partners participated in a conference on Assessment of Mobility Achievements” in Vilnius on November 13, 2012. It was organised by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation, the Lithuanian National Agency for the lifelong learning programme.
The overall theme of the conference was evidencing and assessment of informal and non – formal learning and benefits of the competences acquired during mobility from personal, organisational and the labour market perspective.
The VILMA partners actively contributed to the success of the conference. Read More »Vilma goes Lithuania
21st of November 2012
Event during actions concerning 25th of November – international day against violence against women
For the german webpage of the event please follow the link http://www.frauenforum-goettingen.de/antigewalttag.html
In the period around the 25th of November various actions in Göttingen took place. Read More »International day against violence
At the end of October the first transnational meeting and the kick-off of the project “Languages Behind Bars” took place. Under the coordination of die Berater the partners met in Vienna to clarify the work-packages and the next steps for the project. Besides of the Austrian coordinator and BUPNET, partners from England, France, Bulgaria and the Netherlands take part. They have all background in working with inmates, inmates’ relatives or in umbrella-organisations.
Paul Talbot is the coordinator of LBB and has worked as a language trainer in correctional facilities. The rationale of this project is based on the high numbers of foreign national prisoners in European prisons.Read More »Languages Behind Bars –
1st transnational meeting and kick-off
The VITA team invites you to take part in an online survey aiming at investigating the awareness about existing methods as well as the demand… Read More »VITA online survey
In the past, project postcards turned out to be really good dissemination material. So we continue the series of BUPNET project postcards. For E-Maria we… Read More »E-Maria Postcard-Set
VITA – Set of postcards The VITA project has launched a set of postcards: Please find them here for download.