Hannover, Germany

EUCEN has taken up objectives for the creation of a European area of higher education in the field of university continuing education (UCE). The autumn conference 2007 at Hannover will focus the following two objectives of the Bologna process:

Stirling, Scotland

The University of Stirling will be hosting an informative seminar on the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra project.  It is a project that aims to use an innovative methodology called ‘El Sistema’ to teach classical music to children from very early ages. The project has been going on for more than 30 years in Venezuela This fantastic orchestra is indeed the flagship of an education system which gives 250,000 young people the chance to learn an instrument, getting them away from drugs, guns and crime in the shanty towns. The talented musicians of the National System of Venezuelan Youth and Children's Orchestras are a source of national pride, like football stars in other Latin American countries.