Hi,
I'm from a small not for profit foundation in Australia called the Dusseldorp Skills Forum
and have been watching the interaction on the Service Learning network and feel that the following Conference may be of interest to you.....
The 4th International Partnership Conference - New alliances in Learning for the Next Millenium, will be held at Trondheim, Norway from June 27 to July 1, 1998.
Conference Themes
New Roles for Business in the learning community
€enhancing company performance and business potential through partnerships
€Improving learning and human resource development in the workplace
€Developing key competences for employment through work experience and continuing collaboration with education
New roles for the world of education
€Improving schools, colleges and universities through designing and building partnerships
€Equipping young people and adults for a changing world of work and enterprise opportunities
€Developing teaching competence through new alliances with business and the wider community
The International Partnership Network is committed to the exchanmge of best practice in education, business and community partnerships. The Network enables its members to receive and spread information, deepen understanding and share experience of the benefits of working together. The IPN has members in 23 countries in all parts of the world.
The 4th International partnership Conference will focus on the vital and rapidly evolving agenda of policy and practice within the field of business-education and community-education partnerships. It is designed to bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and experience to explore the agenda for lifelong learning, faced with the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The emphasis will be placed on drawing out the best of practice in an international context.
Who should attend? The Trondheim conference will be an excellent forum for learning about successful leading-edge projects within the field of collaboration between business, education and the wider community.
The program will draw from partnership practitioners in a wide range of countries, including educators, company decision makers, policy makers, community leaders and planners, members of professional organistions partnership program leaders, parents and students.
A 4th International Partnership Conference registration form can be obtained from:
Conference Organisers... trygve.glad@pr.uninett.no
or Ragnhild Aamot... Ragnhild.aamot@nif.no