Erasmus funding for adult education: a joint trip to the Finnish-Swedish twin city
'Use your mind and trust yourself' - what sounds simple isn't always. In Finland, it works. "Listening is part of the solution," says Hanna-Leena Ainonen. She is a cross-border cooperation manager in the twin city of Tornio-Haparanda and accompanied participants in the Erasmus exchange between Finland/Sweden and Germany/Poland through her city for a week.
Together, the education offices of the district-free cities of Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice, Cottbus/Chóśebuz and Potsdam traveled to the Tornion Valley in Lapland as part of the Erasmus funding for adult education. They met with administrative leaders, teachers, and museum educators to learn how lifelong learning succeeds and what role local government plays in the process. The participants visited a folk high school in Haparanda, Sweden, a vocational school in Tornio, Finland, met future cooperation partners and learned a lot about communication and digital learning in joint workshops.
One week in May, three cities and the Transfer Agency for Local Education Management Brandenburg: together they broke down the borders between ice and snow and bring inspiration and new insights back to Brandenburg.
The Transfer Agency Brandenburg will soon publish a dossier with further information on the topic.