ANUP

ANUP - Associatia Nationala A Universitatilor Populare Din Romania

Address: Bucuresti, Bd. Nicolae Balcescu, nr. 18, sector 1

Tel:0040 21 314 66 37 - Fax: 0040 21 31400 63

E-mail: updalles@pcnet.ro

Contacts: Ileana Boeru, head of European projects


Profile: The professional non-governmental organisation ANUP is the largest network of adult education centres in Romania, providing training and retraining courses for adults in order to enable them to adapt to the changing needs of the Romanian economy. It has been founded in 1993 and contains now about 100 popular universities in urban and rural area. These institutions are of public interest which develop activities in vocational training for adults, young adults, in different domains of activities such as: foreign languages, computing, design, photography, public relations, marketing, etc, as well as courses dealing with personal development of the individual and cultural activities. One of its principal areas of activity is language training, and it has developed a network of trainers and multipliers for language learning/teaching over the past few years.ANUP is the only structured, national network dealing with adult education and maintains strong links to other networks and organizations, both governmental and non governmental, working in the field of permanent education, such as: professional organisations, enterprises, working agencies at national and local level, in order to facilitate the integration of the adults on the labour market. ANUP developed several European projects dealing with the training of the trainers for the personnel working in popular universities under PHARE, Leonardo and Socrates programmes, with accent on the methodology of adults.