INFONET LISBON MILESTONE CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 2015

CAIXA DE MITOS | [email protected] | INFONET LISBON 24-‐27 FEBRUARY 2015

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FEBRUARY – 24-27 | 2015

EUROPEAN INFONET ADULT EDUCATION www.infonet-ae.eu

www.lline,fi

ORGANIZATION

Michael Sommer – INFONET Editorial Board

Carlos Ribeiro – INFONET Editorial Board


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PARTICIPANTS

Andrea Hoffmeier Michael Sommer

Ricarda Motschilnig Michael Voss

Holger Bienzle Maurice de Greef

Carlos Ribeiro Mateja Pecar

Tomas Sokolovsky Esther Derendinger

Antra Carlsen Maria Gauci

Ruth Sarrazin Klaudius Šilhár Sarmite Pilate

Hilde S. Grønhovd Berni Brady Thomas Jung

Katarina Popovic Petra Herre

Teresa la Marca Wilfried Hackl Renfeng Wang Ferencz Lindeic

Helen Keogh Oliver Šimko Eunice Macedo Rui Seguro

Alexandra Carvalho Etelberto Costa Rui Cádima Susana Rosa

Miguel Marques Markus Palmen (Skype)


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European InfoNet Adult Education Conference Lisbon 2015

Tuesday, February 24: Arrival day 12:00 Editorial board meeting InfoNet

Restaurante Pereira da Laurentina (Avenida Conde Valbom, 71 A, close to hotel, www.restaurantelaurentina.pt)

16:00 Guided tour Lisbon. Meeting point: Lobby hotel 20:00 Come together. Populi – caffé & restaurant

(www.populi.pt, Ala Nascente Terreiro do Paço, city centre, Metro “Terreiro do Paço”)

Wednesday, February 25: 9:00 Meeting correspondents (Editorial board)

Welcome / news Subgroups meetings

Science group meeting Individual coffee break

12:30 Lunch 14:00 Conference opening

Welcome / opening (Andrea Hoffmeier, Carlos Ribeiro, Michael Sommer) Activities and results Steering committee, administration (Andrea Hoffmeier, Michael Sommer) Editorial work (Michael Voss) Science (Maurice de Greef) Marketing (Antra Carlsen) Social Media (Carlos Ribeiro) European networking / homepage (Ricarda Motschinling) Sustainability (Andrea Hoffmeier) Quality management (Holger Bienzle)


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16: 30 Presentation: Evaluation report II (Helen Keogh) 19:30 Buffet / cultural event

Come together with Portuguese guests, dinner, live music, “My InfoNet-‐Story” Casa do Alentejo Rua Portas de Santo Antão 58, www.casadoalentejo.pt (Metro “Restauradores”)

Thursday, February 26: 9:00 New developments (Michael Sommer)

10:00 The new publication

Presentation: Paper steering committee / task force (Michael Voss) Questions, discussions, amendments / decision (Antra Carlsen)

12:30 Lunch 14:00 Our future

Working groups 1. Erasmus+ applications InfoNet (Andrea Hoffmeier, Ricarda Motschilnig) 2. Promotion, market position, readership of the New Publication (Michael Sommer, Antra Carlsen) 3. Online magazine journalism today – approaches and experiences and consequences for the New publication (Thomas Jung, Wilfried Hackl) 4. What can Social Media contribute? (Carlos Ribeiro, Oliver Šimko) Presentation results working groups: proposals / recommendations (Moderation: Maurice de Greef)

16:00 InfoNet III, your experiences and comments (Holger Bienzle) 16:30 Next steps and milestones (Michael Sommer) 18:30 Come together MADRAGOA Neighborhood

Muppet Museum Convento das Bernardas ISEG – Lisboa School of Economics and Management

Fado restaurant Senhor Vinho www.srvinho.com, Rua do Meio à Lapa 18 (Madragoa), Bus 713, stop Rua Buenos Aires


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Friday, February 27: Departure day 9:00-‐13:00 Steering committee meeting Accommodation and meeting place: SANA Executive Hotel Av. Conde Valbom, 56, 1050-‐069 Lisboa Organisation: Michael Sommer (mobile: +491777699071), Carlos Ribeiro Evaluation: Online evaluation of conference some days after conference (Holger)

Writing for Europe

Advices and guidelines for writing articles about adult education to a European audience

By the Editorial Board of European InfoNet Adult Education (draft Michael V)

Chapter 1. Introduction

A. Why this publication?

Nowadays we experience increased cooperation across borders in Europe between adult educators, adult education institutions and adult education researchers. This is often supported by the European Union. There is no doubt that the Adult education individual actors and communities can learn a lot from each other – making possible an increased quality and a higher number of adult learners.


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Wanting to share with people from other countries and actually being able to do it is not the same, though. The barriers are many and sometimes high: language, cultural and knowledge differences, shortfalls in communication skills and methods, etc. To overcome these barriers and gradually create a European community of adult education, the Adult education actors must improve their competencies in communication with the actors of other countries, backgrounds and cultures. Therefore we also need the assistance of communication professionals.

For more than 10 years “The European InfoNet Adult Education” (read more in Chapter 9) has produced articles on adult education from most European countries and on European Adult Education developments of the sector. We have published them on a European platform and in (inter) national magazines and websites. From this experience we have realised that very few journalists specialise in adult education, and even fewer journalists regularly write about adult education for readers outside their own country. At the same time a high number of adult education actors want to communicate about their work, their particular experiences, their innovative methods and their projects with fellow Europeans. But – often for apparent reason -‐ they lack both basic journalist training and competencies in communication with people of other nationalities.

The aim of this publication is to help both journalists and journalistically not trained adult education actors to write articles for print or for online media – to be read by interested citizens of other European countries. This includes: -‐ the task of defining and understanding such target groups, especially target groups living in an another geographical, cultural, political and educational environment -‐ the task of writing articles that are relevant and even necessary for the target groups -‐ the task of writing articles that are understandable for the target groups

Even though our background is adult education, we think that much of this text may be relevant for authors in other fields and especially for writers who write for a European audience about other topics. This publication focus on the journalist type of article, but we do think that some advices could be useful when writing press releases, project reports, social media texts and maybe also scientific academic articles and papers, even though they must adhere to a special set of rules and traditions.

We have very much enjoyed participating in InfoNet. Doing that, we have enhanced our own understanding of writing for a European audience. We are very pleased to share these competencies, and we hope that it will be useful to other journalists and adult education actors in Europe. All of us will continue these efforts in other frameworks after the project phase. It is our intention to find ways to develop and improve this concept of Writing for Europe, hopefully resulting in a new and more comprehensive publication later. We invite all


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readers to help us in that by sending comments and inputs to [one or two names and e-‐mail addresses]

The Editorial Board of InfoNet [names and countries]

Tuesday, February 24: Guided tour Lisbon. Meeting point: Lobby hotel

Come together. Populi – caffé & restaurant Wednesday, February 25: Meeting correspondents (Editorial board)


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Conference opening

Activities and results


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Presentation: Evaluation report II (Helen Keogh)

Buffet / cultural event

Come together with Portuguese guests, dinner, live music, “My InfoNet-‐Story” Casa do Alentejo


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Thursday, February 26:

The new publication


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Our future Working groups 1. Erasmus+ applications InfoNet (Andrea Hoffmeier, Ricarda Motschilnig) 2. Promotion, market position, readership of the New Publication (Michael Sommer, Antra Carlsen) 3. Online magazine journalism today – approaches and experiences and consequences for the New publication (Thomas Jung, Wilfried Hackl) 4. What can Social Media contribute? (Carlos Ribeiro, Oliver Šimko) Presentation results working groups: proposals / recommendations (Moderation: Maurice de Greef)

16:00 InfoNet III, your experiences and comments (Holger Bienzle) 16:30 Next steps and milestones (Michael Sommer)


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Come together MADRAGOA Neighborhood

Muppet Museum Convento das Bernardas ISEG – Lisboa School of Economics and Management

Fado restaurant Senhor Vinho


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Friday, February 27: Departure day Steering committee meeting Accommodation and meeting place: SANA Executive Hotel Av. Conde Valbom, 56, 1050-‐069 Lisboa Organisation: Michael Sommer (mobile: +491777699071), Carlos Ribeiro Evaluation: Online evaluation of conference some days after conference (Holger)


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And the day after.....

Greetings from Lisboa....and best wishes

Carlos

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INFONET LISBON MILESTONE CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 2015