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Sunday, 24 June 2007

16:00 – 18:00

Registration

18.00 – 18.30

Welcome – Official opening

18.30 – 20.30

Lifelong learning and rural development – keynote speeches

21.00

Dinner – social event in Mesta

Monday, 25 June 2007

9.00 – 10.40

Understanding rural Europe and the related challenges for lifelong learning and local development

10.40 – 11.10

Coffee break

11.10 – 12.50

Rural school education and educators' training

12.50 – 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 – 15.45

Governance of rural communities

15.45 – 16.15

Coffee break

16.15 – 18.20

Higher education in rural Europe

18.20 – 18.50

Coffee break

18.50 – 20.30

Lifelong learning in rural Greece – the local voices workshop

21.00

Dinner – social event in Limenas

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

9.00 – 10.40

Approaches for learning and development in rural Europe

10.40 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 13.05

Bridging the digital gap

13.05 – 15.00

Lunch break

14.30 – 15.00

Rural Wings application demo workshop: Music education

15.00 – 16.15

Bringing and managing change – the community empowerment Rural Wings workshop (Part I)

16.15 – 17.00

Coffee break

16.30 – 17.00

Rural Wings application demo workshop: WebRadio and WebTV

17.00 – 17.50

Bringing and managing change – the community empowerment Rural Wings workshop (Part II)

19.00 – 21.00

Excursion

21.00

Dinner – social event in Karfas

Wednesday, 27 June 2007

9.00 – 11.00

Personal and professional empowerment in rural areas

11.00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 13.20

Empowering the farmer

13.20 – 14.00

Closing

14.30

Lunch in Limenas

Via videoconferencing (day and time to be fixed):

Michail Bletsas
The One Laptop per Child Project: Providing Children around the World with New Opportunities to Explore, Experiment and Express Themselves
MIT Media Lab & One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), USA

Franz Nahrada
Learning-enabled Rural Development: Ideas and Initiatives from Austria
GIVE – Globally Integrated Village Environment, Austria


European Commission - Socrates Programme

RuraLEARN is co-funded by the European Commission, as an Accompanying Measure
of the Socrates Programme