It’s the aim of the project “Learning Locally”, to represent the educational landscape of the Rems-Murr-Kreis in a transparent way, to clarify responsibilities, to gather offers and educational institutions, and to coordinate, to network and to facilitate access. IRIS e.V., it covers two areas of the educational landscape in the Rems-Murr-Kreis. These first one is the non-formal and informal education programs in the specific structure of the associational youth work and the second one covers the structures and deals of …

“Learning Locally”-Studies published Weiterlesen »

It’s the aim of the project „Learning Locally“, to represent the educational landscape of the Rems-Murr-Kreis in a transparent way, to clarify responsibilities, to gather offers and educational institutions, and to coordinate, to network and to facilitate access. IRIS e.V., it covers two areas of the educational landscape in the Rems-Murr-Kreis. These firstly are the non-formal and informal education programs in the specific structure of the associational youth work and on the other hand the structures and deals of continuing …

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Since January 2008, IRIS in cooperation with the Institute of Education of the University of Tuebingen is in charge of the evaluation of the pilot project „Friends create success“ in Stuttgart. The objective of the project is to supply young people in the final stages of secondary school with support by other young people who have experienced similar difficulties. The peer mentors are recruited among alumni of the same secondary schools. The evaluation focuses on the effects that this particular …

Scientific monitoring of peer mentoring Weiterlesen »

YOYO – Youth Policy and Participation „Youth Policies and Participation“ (YOYO) is an EGRIS (European Group for Integrated Social Research) project, coordinated by IRIS e.V. (Institut für regionale Innovation und Sozialforschung) Tübingen and funded the European Commision’s 5. Framework Programme for Research.

European conferences on the prerequisites, consequences and contradictions of lifelong learning 1996 (Dresden) and 1998 (Lissabon).   In 1996, the European Year of Lifelong Learning, IRIS together with other EGRIS partners initiated a series of two European conferences to clarify the meaning and the impli8cations of the conceopt of lifeling learning. The first conference 1996 in Dresden under the title „Options for the Integration of Living, Learning and Working“ dealt with the relationship between lifelong larning and changed life courses …

Lifelong Learning in Europe Weiterlesen »

Contrary to many training schemes, performing arts offer young women and men the opportunity to present themselves from a less „problem-oriented“ side: in fact not as an „early school-leaver“ or „under-achiever“, but as a musician, an actor/actress and so on. Before this background, this research project aimed at learning more about the special learning processes happening in performing arts projects for „disadvantaged“ young people which for working purposes we had „Secondary learning effects…“ Research questions and design: Which active role …

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