4th Festival of Non-Formal Education

Dear friends and colleagues! We invite you to participate in the 4th Festival of Non-Formal Education that will be held on December 7-9, 2012.

The Festival in Belarus has already become the traditional event in the professional communication,  as well as a holiday for lots of teachers, andragogues, trainers and other people sharing the values of life-long learning and non-formal education. Underlining the role and possibilities of non-formal education in improving the quality of life and achieving the aims of regional development we seek to:

• present non-formal education as a system providing the life-long development of social, civic, professional competencies and creativity;
• present a variety of programmes and the specific character of non-formal education approaches for all generations in different regions;
• encourage the experience exchange and establish partner relations among the participants;
• organize the discussion of tendencies and prospective development of non-formal education for different generations.

The Festival arose as a national event for the Belarusian educators. Nevertheless, presentations and reflection of national experience should always be accompanied by comparison with modern international tendencies.

The issues dealing with intergeneration interaction and non-formal education accessibility for older people represent such tendencies for the Festival 2012. Joining the European year of active aging and dialogue between generations we render the topic of the 4^th Festival as “Non-formal education for all generations”.

The Festival 2012 will maintain its 3-day format and the interactive programme formation scheme.

During all the days of the Festival the exhibition of organizations and teaching programmes in the sphere of non-formal education will take place.

The competition for best publications, sites/blogs, photos, posters, stands, videos and master-classes will also be organized within the Festival of Non-Formal Education 2012. The final programme of the Festival will be formed on the basis of the submitted and chosen applications.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE FESTIVAL OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION 2012

Representatives of organizations involved in the sphere of non-formal and additional education in the Republic of Belarus, CIS and other European countries are invited to participate in the Festival

There are several forms of applying for participation in the Festival:

• as a master-class organizer;
• presentation of a book, study programme, site or project;
• presentation of the organization within the exhibition;
• participation in the competitions held within the Festival[1];
• publication in the special edition of the journal “Adukatar”
• flexible participation.

Information concerning the master-classes:

• The duration of a master-class should not exceed 80 minutes;
• The organizers of the Festival provide room, necessary equipment and translation for international participants of  master-classes;
• The Organizing Committee is free to choose candidates for conducting master-classes

Information concerning presentations:

• The duration of the presentation is up to 20 minutes:
• For the presentation one should choose an appropriate programme/book/site/project created during the last 2 years

Information about the publication in the journal “Adukatar”:

• Texts of the main reports, speeches and presentations that will take place during the plenary meetings, penal discussions, thematic sections and master-classes within the Festival are accepted for publication in the journal “Adukatar”;
  
• The size of the article cannot exceed 3000 words;
• The publication materials are to be sent by October 22, 2012 to the email: nfo.fest@gmail.com.

The competitions “Best exhibition stand” (exposition), “Best master-class”, “Best video” and “Best photo, poster” will be organized during the Festival.

The Organizing Committee is free to choose candidates and materials for participation in the competitions.

The registration fee for participation in the Festival is paid during registration of the participants and guests of the Festival on December 7, 2012 directly before its start.

The fee for participation in the Festival comprises (for one accredited organization):

• for the Belarusian participants - 100000 Belarusian Roubles.
• for international participants - 100 Euro

The registration fee allows full accreditation during the Festival. The full accreditation involves: information materials (including the special edition of the journal “Adukatar”), translation, place for the organization/project stand, place for conducting a master-class or presentational course, accommodation, coffee-break, dinner on December 7 and 8. The full accreditation can be achieved by no more than 2 representatives of the organization.

Please, notice that organizers do not cover transport expenses of the participants.

The Festival 2012 is financed by the Support Program for Belarus and the project TOLLAS - Towards a Life-Long Active Society (financed by the European Union and dvv international)

Please, fill in the electronic application form as soon as possible, but no later than October 22, 2012. The electronic application form is accessible here (http://bit.ly/N1LiUW)

All the information concerning the Festival is also accessible on the website: www.adukatar.net

1. Statute of competitions to be held within the Festival of Non-Formal Education 2012 and the application form are placed on the site www.adukatar.net.