ENTITLE is a multilateral project under LifeLearning Programme Key Action 4 - Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, designed to support and extend the progress made to date by Europe’s public libraries in supporting learning for all age groups and sections of society. It focuses on the contribution to be made through informal learning settings in libraries to lifelong learning, combating digital illiteracy and social exclusion, paying special attention to gains achieved through the applications of ICT.
The main objectives of this project are:
- to identify, describe and disseminate good practices, tools and approaches used for learning in public library settings, in order to foster the multiplication of these activities and to enable a fuller understanding of their contribution to Europe’s learning agendas;
- to provide an evidence-based framework for further and wider comparison and exploitation of these results within and between countries, especially where this relates to impact on learners.
- the production of guidelines and recommendations; the establishment of a web-based dissemination environment for guidelines, recommendations and case studies;
- consultation and promotion of innovation via a series of national workshops; the establishment of an impact assessment framework which will contribute to the comprehension of the whole learning sector of the specific contributions which are being and can be made by libraries;
- provision of a basis for future comparison, experience sharing and assessment of progress.
These results will be valorised and endorsed by means of a final conference for policy makers to be held in Hungary in October 2009 and targeted at up to 150 policy makers and representatives of national and European associations in the learning sector, with a special focus on those countries which have not been directly represented in ENTITLE consortium.
European Schoolnet is one of the 15 partners federated into the ENTILE consortium, which gathers three networks, two national agencies, five major municipal public library services, three national professional library associations and two NGOs. Twelve are the European countries involved, namely Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and the UK.
