Education through life
Commission on Education had an Annual Meeting
on 27 January 2006 in Tallinn in School Kullo. 28 participants
from Latvia, Finland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Estonia
were present at the meeting.
The Director of Tallinn School of Extracurricular Activities
"Kullo", Mr Urmas Uska, welcomed the Commission
on Education. Mr Kurt Pettersson, Chairman of the Commission
opened the meeting and welcomed everyone.
 In
year 2006 there are a lot of opportunities for the Commission.
Meetings, the teachers' workshop and research school in
Norrtälje, the conference in Tallinn, a photo competition
and a practical training for students have been planned
for this year.
The 65th anniversary of Extracurricular
Activities in Estonia was also discussed during the meeting.
It was celebrated in April with an international conference
and gala concert in Tallinn. The name of conference was
"Non-Formal Education - Asset for Youth and Society".
Registration in the photo competition "My
Friend in my City" is still open. The photo competition
will take place per internet and the target group is 13-16
years old youth.
"How to inspire the members to co-operate"
was also the important theme of the meeting in Tallinn.
The Commission is focusing on mutual understanding between
young people from different cultures around the Baltic Sea,
on dissemination new information and on strengthening development
of democracy in Europe by fostering the idea of the life
long learning. The participants gave some good ideas to
improve the commission work to make presentation about co-operation
in other commissions and networks, to disseminate information
trough contact persons, to have a database in the UBC website
where member cities could log in and have information about
commission's work, to intensify co-operation between schools
and take part in different projects.
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