The Partners are drawn from five countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom. You can read biographies of partner and associate partner organisations below. To visit partner websites click on the logos at the bottom of the page.
The Thüringer Volkshochschulverband e.V. (TVV) is the umbrella organisation of the 23 adult education centres in the federal state of Thuringia/Germany and is the project co-ordinator for Pathways.
Contact: Margit Kreikenbom
Email: margit.kreikenbom@vhs-th.de
Contact: Wolfgang Volker
Email: wolfgang.volkmer@vhs-th.de
The Research Society Burgenland (Burgenländische Forschungsgesellschaft / BFG) was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organisation in Eisenstadt, the capital of the Austrian federal province of Burgenland. The BFG is an interface between research and its translation into (regional) education activities. Since Austria joined the EU in 1996, the BFG has taken part in various EU programmes. In the course of its work, the BFG participates as coordinator or partner in a range of regional and transnational projects, organises conferences, lectures and workshops, and publishes brochures and other publications.
Contact: Alfred Lang
Email: alfred.lang@forschungsgesellschaft.at
Oppland County Library is a centre of competence and an initiator of library development in the Norwegian county of Oppland. Oppland County Library coordinates and provides services for 26 public and 15 high school libraries.
Contact: Håvard Lund
Email: havard.lund@oppland.org
Variety Town is a small educational company based in Cumbria, close to the border between England and Scotland. Variety Town are a provider of support, knowledge and tools to enable shared learning, focussing particularly on partnership and intercultural dialogue.
Contact: Mark Costello
Email: vta@live.co.uk
VNB-Göttingen The VNB is an officially acknowledged state-wide adult educational institution in Lower Saxony, and as well an umbrella organisation (the Akademie Waldschlösschen is one of its members) with a network of more than 200 adult educational member organisations and co-operation partners. VNB gives also assists with financial, organisational and professional support to local associations working at these issues.
Contact: Dr. Volker Weiß
Email: volker.weiss@vnb.de
Vereniging voor Ontwikkeling en Emancipatie van Moslims - VOEM – vzw / Association for Development & Emancipation of Muslims strives to close the gap between inhabitants with a muslim background and the other inhabitants, organisations and authorities. VOEM aims to weave a network of dialogue between all world views and strives for freedom, responsibility, emancipation, political awareness and sociolgical change.
Contact: Nadia
Email: nadia@voem-vzw.be
The Academy “Walschlösschen”, founded in 1981, and a legally responsible and non-profit making foundation since 01.01.2004, stands for over 25 years of competence in adult education and training and is acknowledged by the country of Lower-Saxony as an adult education centre entitled for financial help. Our educational program appeals to interested people from all parts of society. Its special profile is rooted in the specially marked seminars for gays and lesbian, offers for HIV-positive people and those affected by AIDS and their life partners, advanced training courses on AIDS, social and sexual pedagogical topics, language courses as well as further training parallel to a job. “We are a meeting place, which feels itself responsible for the humanisation of society.” This is the ideal of the academy “Waldschlösschen” and points out the direction of the understanding of its educational work. It is carried by the belief that all humans have equal rights, the solidarity with disadvantaged, the acceptance of different ways of living and sexuality, the curiosity on the “unknown as enrichment”.
Contact: Ulli Klaum
Email: ulli.klaum@waldschloesschen.org
Contact: Margit Kreikenbom
Email: margit.kreikenbom@vhs-th.de
Contact: Wolfgang Volker
Email: wolfgang.volkmer@vhs-th.de
The Research Society Burgenland (Burgenländische Forschungsgesellschaft / BFG) was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organisation in Eisenstadt, the capital of the Austrian federal province of Burgenland. The BFG is an interface between research and its translation into (regional) education activities. Since Austria joined the EU in 1996, the BFG has taken part in various EU programmes. In the course of its work, the BFG participates as coordinator or partner in a range of regional and transnational projects, organises conferences, lectures and workshops, and publishes brochures and other publications.
Contact: Alfred Lang
Email: alfred.lang@forschungsgesellschaft.at
Oppland County Library is a centre of competence and an initiator of library development in the Norwegian county of Oppland. Oppland County Library coordinates and provides services for 26 public and 15 high school libraries.
Contact: Håvard Lund
Email: havard.lund@oppland.org
Variety Town is a small educational company based in Cumbria, close to the border between England and Scotland. Variety Town are a provider of support, knowledge and tools to enable shared learning, focussing particularly on partnership and intercultural dialogue.
Contact: Mark Costello
Email: vta@live.co.uk
VNB-Göttingen The VNB is an officially acknowledged state-wide adult educational institution in Lower Saxony, and as well an umbrella organisation (the Akademie Waldschlösschen is one of its members) with a network of more than 200 adult educational member organisations and co-operation partners. VNB gives also assists with financial, organisational and professional support to local associations working at these issues.
Contact: Dr. Volker Weiß
Email: volker.weiss@vnb.de
Vereniging voor Ontwikkeling en Emancipatie van Moslims - VOEM – vzw / Association for Development & Emancipation of Muslims strives to close the gap between inhabitants with a muslim background and the other inhabitants, organisations and authorities. VOEM aims to weave a network of dialogue between all world views and strives for freedom, responsibility, emancipation, political awareness and sociolgical change.
Contact: Nadia
Email: nadia@voem-vzw.be
The Academy “Walschlösschen”, founded in 1981, and a legally responsible and non-profit making foundation since 01.01.2004, stands for over 25 years of competence in adult education and training and is acknowledged by the country of Lower-Saxony as an adult education centre entitled for financial help. Our educational program appeals to interested people from all parts of society. Its special profile is rooted in the specially marked seminars for gays and lesbian, offers for HIV-positive people and those affected by AIDS and their life partners, advanced training courses on AIDS, social and sexual pedagogical topics, language courses as well as further training parallel to a job. “We are a meeting place, which feels itself responsible for the humanisation of society.” This is the ideal of the academy “Waldschlösschen” and points out the direction of the understanding of its educational work. It is carried by the belief that all humans have equal rights, the solidarity with disadvantaged, the acceptance of different ways of living and sexuality, the curiosity on the “unknown as enrichment”.
Contact: Ulli Klaum
Email: ulli.klaum@waldschloesschen.org
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