Archivio della Memoria (AdM) is a cultural association founded in 2002 that carries out historical, anthropological and sociological research activity to bring to light, document and give value to local culture, traditions and knowledge. AdM operates both in urban areas and in small towns, in Italy and abroad, actively interacting with local communities, especially those characterized by marginalization and social disadvantage, developing best practices in the field of qualitative and quantitative research, in visual documentation and lifelong learning, organizing educational projects either for adults or children and young people in the subjects of its competence. From 2005 ADM is part of the Science Park University of Rome Tor Vergata, an umbrella organization that embraces 30 companies specialized in research, training and dissemination of scientific and cultural knowledge. ADM is actually working with local authorities like Lazio Region, Municipalities, public Universities in Rome, with several Natural Parks of Lazio Region, with the Ministry of Culture and with many schools in various fields like education, culture, tourism, found rising, marketing planning, ICT, new media and traditional communication, international cooperation. In order to promote education and training using new technologies ADM has recently created the Tor Vergata University of Rome Web TV, the Regenerative Surgery Web TV, the Italian Science Parks Web TV. ADM has a branch dedicated to the international cooperation project with the specific mission to realize social and sanitary research in developing countries.
Under the former name of Formación Sierra de Cádiz, European Learning Centre, ELC, covers the main areas of language learning and ICT. This institution works primarily with adults in the local community who are interested in furthering their education in a non-formal context. Public funding is received to subsidise accreditation and certification of the adult learning received, as well as to fund the specialization of workers and improve the employability of long-term unemployed learners. This organization coordinates several adult educational centres throughout the Mountains of Cadiz Region.
The Volkshochschule Lingen (VHS-Lingen) is set in a rural area and provides a wide variety of courses. Learners come from a wide variety of backgrounds with ages ranging from 15 to 94. Each semester more than 6000 learners enrol on vocational and non-vocational courses such as: Local History and Geography, Politics, Economy, Pedagogy, Literacy and Numeracy, Foreign Languages at various levels, German as a second language (especially for immigrants), preparatory classes for school exams (second-chance education), vocational education, training courses leading to qualification (in-house or external), Information Technology, various Arts courses, Health, and Culture. A great importance is attached to the close collaboration with other adult education centres and local, national and international institutions in order to increase know-how, exchange work experiences and build new contacts with other organisations interested in the same topics.
Essential aims of the Association are reviving and boosting the cultural life of the North-East Hungarian region, activating the cultural and scientific life of the country and country towns, building up partnership and cooperation with other cultural spaces in the spirit of Central-European life. Further aims of the Association are the followings: fighting against harmful prejudice, stereotype, discrimination, stigmatisation. The passages are essential conditions for surmounting distance between majority and minority society, upper and impoverished stratum (the unemployed, the poor and the homeless), city and the country (city, village and capital – country towns). These include fighting against discrimination (and prevention), protection of interest, helping of social integration and introducing the culture of people with socio-cultural handicap, groups, stratums and different social minorities (national, ethnic and religious, subcultures, immigrants and migrants etc.)
La Coupole is an umbrella organisation located in a disadvantaged area, along the mosa river in wallonia. The region has an industrial past in the steel industry, but is now characterized by a high rate of unemployment, and a low global level of education. This organization deal with 3 main issues in this area : employment, economy and training. The partners organisation of La Coupole are training center, public employment administration and organization of economic development. The activities of la Coupole are mainly: survey about employment issues, project coordination among partners organization, event organizations, and sharing services among partners. La Coupole aims to coordinate activities with the members to help unemployed to benefit from all services in Flémalle. 
Senior University of Evora is a private, non profit association that develops non formal educational activities for people over 50 years. We have about 320 senior students and about 35 volunteer teachers. This project is particularly interestig for us because as we are a realatively new institution our best way of spreading our activities and reality was "mouth to mouth". As our learners age is from 50+ that means that inside our population we have different generations which means people that have crossed many different moments in their lives.
Our association was founded with a view to protect, improve and disseminate the rights of women in Burdur and to protect the women's manual labour in accordance with the principles and innovations of Atatürk. It also aims to help women to gain their economic freedom, to maintain leading role for women, to do activities for women all around the world to have the same rights by following the developments and innovations of women in different platforms, to provide women to have the monetary grant in return for the employment and to do social and educational activities in order to bring up children who are secular and sophisticated and also have the democratic conscious. Our association organizes some courses such as marble work,relief work for the disadvantaged women through the public education center. Our association plays an important role in conducting seminars at schools about women rights,civil law and women health. Our association organises food and handiwork fairs in order to collect contribution for the needy people.
Meath Partnership is a county-wide partnership organization with responsibility for the design and implementation of all local, rural and community development programmes in Meath. It is a not-for-profit body with a Board of Directors comprising representatives of all key statutory service providers, community representatives and members of the local business community. Meath Partnership is responsible for the implementation of the LEADER – Rural Development Programme, Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP), Meath Volunteer Centre, TÚS and the Rural Social Scheme. It is directly funded by the Irish Government. It has extensive links both in Ireland and throughout Europe gained through the LEADER Programme, EQUAL and Interreg. It has a highly trained staff of 19 with specific and relevant skill sets. Through LCDP, we work with marginalized groups, jobseekers, migrants & early school leavers within the most disadvantaged communities in our region targeting those furthest from access to education, training and employment, particularly those at the highest risk of social exclusion. In our work with local organizations, we foster an integrated and coordinated approach by bringing together people, groups, agencies, voluntary and statutory organizations to make a positive difference to endemic or temporary social problems and issues affecting disadvantage. We engage with a wide variety of actors and have developed strong local, regional and national links with key stakeholders in the area of local development and lifelong learning. Through the LCDP programme, we have delivered a number of successful and innovative projects dealing with issues of mental health, self expression, communication and employability skills, career guidance and cultural awareness.
Sastamalan Opisto is a Finnish Liberal Adult Education organisation. The college curriculum (programme) has more than 500 courses each year, with 24000 teaching hours in the villages of Lavia, Kiikoinen and the rural town of Sastamala. Courses deal with everyday life skills, music, expressive arts, Arts and Crafts, Information Technology, languages and sports. Most of the courses last from mid September to end of November, and from mid January to mid April. Anyone can participate, and also suggest new courses. Course fees are very moderate, usually 20-45 euro per academic year. Open University Department fees are higher. It is possible to study languages 100% online on the Internet. There are courses for children, adults and seniors. College also has Basic Education of Art for children and young people. Language and life skills courses for immigrants are also offered. Over 50% of the 11000 students at the college are over 50 years of age. Courses usually meet once a week and at the same time but there are also many short intensive courses, for example on weekends. People living in Kiikoinen, Lavia and Sastamala who are registered in Employment Service Agency, can get a voucher for College Active Student's Card. The card is valid for participation in most courses.
