ANUP International

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POPULAR UNIVERSITIES
Founded in 1993 and contains now about 100 popular universities in urban and rural area. One of the largest structured network of adult education centres in Romania. Provides training and retraining courses for adults in order to enable them to adapt to the changing needs of the Romanian economy.

WHAT IS A POPULAR UNIVERSITY?
Public interest institution that organizes professional training activities for adults, in various fields, such as: languages, computer science, design, marketing, as well as courses for the development of individual cultural activities.

TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR THE PERSONNEL
ANUP developed European projects dealing with the training of the trainers for the personnel working in popular universities under PHARE, Leonardo and Socrates, Lifelong Learning Programmes with accent on the methodology of adults.

SOCRATES PROJECTS 2000 - 2005
Grundtvig-G1 - Action citoyenne- une etape vers l’egalite durable
Grundtvig network - Lifelong Learning Week in Europe
SOCCER - certification methodology for citizenship

ÎNFIINȚAREA ANUP INTERNATIONAL – 2006
2006 as a result of the expertise and practice of more then 10 years in working with European projects.
Continue to manage European projects in the field of vocational training and adult education.
Key actor in the the system of adult education in Romania.
Initiator of the law of adult education in Romania.

EUROPEAN PROJECTS 2006 - 2008
Bila in Practice and Bila Learn - Bi-lingual courses and methodologies
Memory Line - Intergenerational communication ateliers allowing groups of elderly and young people to cooperate
Rear Window - Comparison of standards in mechanical sector in several European countries
NET - Blended learning for SME’s
Alpha Beta - New methods for services towards illiterates in adult education
Alpha to Omega - New pathways towards volunteering and LLL for European seniors
Creative industries - Trans-European Learning Exchange

EUROPEAN PROJECTS 2007 - 2009
ENTER - Adult Educational Development for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities
KIDS2TALK - Werkzeugkoffer Mehrsprachigkeit fur Kleinkinder
OBSERVAL - Validation of competencies in non formal and informal contexts

CRENDI PROJECTS 2009 - 2011

EUROPEAN PROJECTS 2011 - 2013
SuN.Com - a sustainable social communities that will share and support teachers and learners of Individual languages in an informal environment.
Kids2Write - Set of materials to support and empower writing to bilingual children and young people in Europe.
Sunia Geel - Prevent and combat violence against children, young people and women and to protect victims and groups at risk.
GOLIA - young people organise their work together with the entreprise based on the empowerment aproach.
BID - German language for home assistance staff wards illiterates in adult education.

EUROPEAN PROJECTS 2012 – 2018
SUNIA Geel 2, 2012 - 2014 Art therapy with children and women combating domestic violence
ILPO 55+, 2014 - 2017 Intergenerational Learning partnership over 55
Emprove, 2016-2018 e-Platform on the empowerment journey and the transformation from victim to a survivor

ANUP INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
ANUP International maintains strong links with other networks and organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, working in the field of lifelong learning such as: ministries, professional organizations, enterprises, employment agencies at national and local level, to facilitate the integration of adults into the labor market.