In 2010, Grundtvig, EUs programme for adult learning, is celebrating its ten year anniversary.
On the 6th of December 2010, Education Exchange Support Foundation held quality competition awards for year 2010. During the event Soros International House was awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation from the minister of Education and Science Gintaras Steponavičius and director of Education Exchange Support Foundation Daiva Šutinytė for active participation in Grundtvig programme projects.
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2010 May 29 Soros International House participated in “Grundtvig Town” event, which took place during Ukmerge city festival. “Grundtvig town” initiators - Education Exchange Support Foundation.
During the event Soros International House presented one of its most successful Grundtvig projects “The Importance of Active Citizenship for Young Adults in Education and Training – AcCyEd” and was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation for creative implementation and dissemination of this project.
In Autumn of the year 2009 Soros International House as Leonardo da Vinci project "Office InterActors - Developing Basic and Professional Skills for Business and Administration through Internet-based Problem-solving Role-play" local project coordinator in Lithuania together with the ISM (University of Management and Economics) first and second year students participated in the first round of "Office InterActors“ course. N. Pacesa, ISM Rector sent an official letter of thanks for a nice cooperation in the project
January 26-28, 2010 European Commission launched Grundtvig program Decade conference in Brussels and SIH coordinated Socrates / Grundtvig 2 project "The Impostance of Active Citizenship for Young Learners in Education and Training" was presented as good practice example and included into the conference publication
Daiva Malinauskienė, SIH director, took part in the conference " Challenges to Face the Hard Times in Teacher Development and Adult Education" to open the adult education week. It was organised by the Ministry of Education of Lithuania. At the conference the director was thanked by the president of the Assocation of Adult Education for the active participation of the institution in the events during the Adult Education weeks run in 2000-2009.
The NORDPLUS / Horizontal project "LANGUAGE ON THE MOVE" coordinated by Soros International House was selected as one of the best NORDPLUS HORIZONTAL projects to be represented in the "BALTIC EXPRO 2009" fair.
