The Municipality of Kavala participates as one of six partners in the educational partnership Grundtvig European-funded program for Lifelong Learning, entitled «SCULTBORD - Spreading CULTure on BORDer Regions».
The development of educational and cultural programmes for adults in border regions focused on the culture of the neighbour countries is the aspect of this project. Institutions are exchanging experiences, methods and ways of acting with other similar organizations abroad.
Further purposes are the promotion of the involvement of cultural training programmes for adults in border areas and the creation of an European platform for experts concerned with the dissemination of culture in border regions.
The theme of this workshop meeting was Best practices and experience of the agen-cies of the Municipality of Kavala in adult cultural education.
Mr. Anastasios Smirloglou, Deputy Mayor of Program & Development of the Municipality of Kavala, welcomed the participants of the cultural cross-border workshop in the Mosque of Halil Bey (Old Conservatoire) followed by Mrs. Efrossyni Boskou, Gallery & Museum curator, responsible for the organisation and management of this SCULT-BORD project meeting.
1st September 2011
The speakers of the workshop
Mrs. Eleni Touliopoulou - Head master of Environmental Centre of Philippi
Mrs. Touliopoulou presented one project regarding lifelong learning. These last years, she has been working as a teacher in Secondary schools where her intensive interest about the environmental education is stamped in her actions in the bounds of extracurricular activities. The aim of this project is learning by doing. Teachers are organizing themselves projects to teach adult pupils. Adult pupils are meeting to learn from each other and exchange their skills.
They do not feel any more excluded from this progressive world and have some hope to add their new skills. More projects could be found on www.kpe-philippi.gr. Another interesting updated project: Educative games produced through a Grundtvig programme. http://www.teachermanual.blogspot.com
Mr. Nikos Papas - Manager of many Lifelong Learning projects
Mr. Papas has a master degree in „Open&distance learning“ and „Adult Education“, Open University in Greece. With a big experience of almost 17 years, he was presenting the project „Church Guide Training“, in which first the language, customs, traditions and relig-ion are highlighted. Greek-Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelic religions are the highlighted religions in this project organised by an agency of culture in Germany and by a catholic educational institute in Austria.
2nd September 2011
Before the following meeting of the Scultbord project, which took place during the morning of the second day, all participants of the workshop visited the Municipal Tobacco Museum of Kavala. The Municipal Tobacco Museum of Kavala is a thematic museum. The cultivation and production of tobacco, its agricultural and commercial process are shown by objects and records. Even the presentation of the aspect of the social history of Kavala but also of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace makes this museam to a special one. For more information on this museum visit the homepage:
