Adult Education Society participated in 20th Learning festival in Switzerland

Lucene, September 2015. SVEB – The Swiss national Umbrella Organisation for Adult Education organized 20^th Learning festival in Switzerland in the period 11^th-20^th of September. On the occasion of this significant anniversary, Adult Education Society, as organizer of one of the important European learning festival, have been called to participate in the central activities. During the central festival ceremony at 16^th September, history of the Learning Festival in Swiss was presented. Nikola Koruga, representative of Adult Education Society presented on that occasion development of the Adult Learning Festival in Serbia and innovative festival activities introduced in recent years. The ceremony was closed with Ruth Jermann’s (national coordinator of the Learning festival since the founding) emotional speech and introduction to the SVEB’s team that will take over the Festival coordination in the future. On the next day at Symposium on lifelong learning Nikola participated in panel discussion on future of festivals in Europe, while in the second part of the Symposium, during the World Café session, he hosted the table with topic “The criteria for the Festival evaluation”. The meeting finished in atmosphere of the new enthusiasm and energy for the future of learning festivals in Europe.