“InfoNet is a valuable source of information as well as an important network for European contacts,” says Karin Ekermann, Project Development Manager at the Swedish Study Promotion Association. “When working with European Grundtvig projects and workshops, I have made great use of  InfoNet during the last six years”.

Mid-September 2011. Karin Ekermann is in a great hurry preparing the last details of a Grundtvig workshop arranged by the Study Promotion Association and taking place in Stockholm. It is a week that will be buzzing with creative learning and networking when 25 participants from nearly 20 countries gather to discuss “Volunteering for sustainability” on the basis of the International Year of Forests 2011.

“This Grundtvig workshop is a recent example of how our work with European adult education has gained from InfoNet,” says Karin Ekermann. “We needed to get participants from as many European countries as possible and finally three more countries are attending thanks to our InfoNet partnership”.

“As our InfoNet partners are all very competent people, it just took a few mails to get excellent contacts in no time at all”.

Information and knowledge

Yet this is just one side of how Karin has been using InfoNet. She underlines that the InfoNet database and the Infoletter are outstanding ways to gather information about the world of adult education in Europe. Up-to-date information that is not as available in any other way.

“I am very impressed by the high quality of knowledge expressed in the InfoNet articles. I have found the topics of the Infoletters, such as migrants and human rights, especially useful for me to use in conferences and as documentation. We have also put links on our website to articles of special interest in our own field of non-formal adult education”.

“I do hope that InfoNet will find a way to continue its valuable work for adult education”.

Note: The Swedish “Study Promotion Association” has been a partner of the InfoNet network right from the start.