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Dr Kazimierz Musiał University of Gda ń sk

Dr Kazimierz Musiał University of Gda ń sk. Nordplus programme as a tool for creating common values in e ducation in the N ordic -B altic region. C o n f e r e n c e Life-long Learning Experience and Common Values Vilnius , 23 February 2011. Structure of the presenation.

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Dr Kazimierz Musiał University of Gda ń sk

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  1. Dr Kazimierz Musiał University of Gdańsk Nordplus programme as a tool for creating common values in educationin the Nordic-Baltic region C o n f e r e n c e Life-long Learning Experience and Common Values Vilnius, 23 February 2011

  2. Structure of thepresenation • Historical dimension of the educational cooperation with the Baltic states – geopolitical space of experience • Nordplus programme priorities and goals • Balticintegration in the Nordplus programme – perspective of thestakeholders • Desired scenarios to pursue a more intensive cooperation and educational exchange

  3. Historicaldimension of theeducationalcooperationbetweenNordic and Balticstates – geopoliticalspace of experience • The Nordic countries’ assistance in all fields after 1991 • Political redefinition of the Nordic horizon of expectations – new Northern Europe • Education is a tool to modernise society – Nordic experience • Formal education has been adequate but civic education sovietised or ailing – Baltic experience. • Eurofaculty – the first pattern of assistance in education • Bilateral exchange programmes between Nordic and Baltic schools and teachers – mutual learning is a tool to create a feeling of partnership • EU framework programmes – a difficult alternative

  4. Changing Nordplus Programmepriorities and goals • Before 2008 - Nordplus consisted of three sectoral programs: Junior, Adult and Higher Education, apart from autonomous Nordplus Language and Nordplus Neighbour • Nordplus Neighbour aimed at developing networks between the Nordic region and Adjacent Areas (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Northwest Russia) • In 2008-2011 the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) participate on equal footing in a common Nordplus Framework Programme (though without formal influence on the general steering of the programme). Nordplus Nordic Language and Culture continues as an autonomous programme without Baltic participation.

  5. Current Nordplus Framework Programmepriorities and goals • The Nordplus FP offers financial support to a variety of educational cooperation between partners in the area of LLL from the eight participating countries in the Baltic and Nordic regions. • The main aims of the programme are: • To promote Nordic languages and culture and mutual Nordic-Baltic linguistic and cultural understanding; • To contribute to the development of quality and innovation in the educational systems for LLL in the participating countries by means of educational cooperation, development projects, exchanges and networking; • To support, develop, draw benefit from and spread innovative products and processes in education through systematic exchange of experienceand best practice; • To strengthen and develop Nordic educational cooperation and contribute to the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic educational area.

  6. Nordplus Framework Programmeamongothers …

  7. Balticintegration in the Nordplus programme – stakeholderperspective • Generally a successful project for the Baltic stakeholders because it: • supports cooperation in the desired domains, • fosters internationalisation – Norden and EU, • introduces less formal modes of cooperation and focuses on problem solutions, less on procedures, • enhances mutual trust and fosters administrative closeness in the form of mutual interests and loyalties.

  8. Stakeholders’ perspective – policyachievements and challenges • Mobility – success but national specialities • Lithuanians – good coordinators in Adult • Estonians and Latvians – good coordinators in Horisontal • Relative financial gain of the Baltic partners – more benefits (14,5%) than contributions (5%) • Baltic partners willing to contribute to the contents of cooperation – e.g. domain of culture • Language policy of the Nordic Council versus pragmatic choices of theshop-floor cooperation

  9. Desiredscenarios to pursue a moreintensiveeducationalcooperation • Could the issues targeted by the priorities of the Nordplus Framework Programme be realised better without it? • Nordic Swans and Baltic Cygnets – fairy tale of the 1990’s – now all should be equal (also when sharing burdens and meeting challenges) • Birds of a feather fly together – pragmatic choice for the future towards more advanced integration patterns

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