EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Open learning centre for adults, with nurseries

Open learning centre for adults, with nurseries - The Hague, the Netherlands

Introduction

The municipal council of The Hague has decided to move the existing neighbourhood library and extend it with a telematics centre. The project consists of rebuilding and furnishing the premises for the telematics centre, together with the setting up of an open learning centre for adult education and child care. To this end, funding is being applied for in the context of Objective 2.

Description

The aim of the project is to establish an open learning centre for adult education together with a telematics centre and a nursery under one roof. This bundling of functions means added value in various areas:

harmonisation of all the existing activities and the development of new activities aimed at ‘digitisation of the inhabitants’ with simultaneous use of both the telematics centre and the open learning centre;
linking library instruction/telematics education for participants in adult education programme;
harmonisation of activities aimed at adults and children;
homework facilities for secondary school pupils/participants in the adult education programme.

Approach

The district education group Regionaal Onderwijs Centrum de Mondriaan Onderwijsgroep, the after school care organisation Stichting Kinderopvang DAK and the public library service are responsible for carrying out this project. The Mondriaan education group will set up two lecture rooms and an open learning centre with 15 computers. The educational activities will consist in particular of facilitation schemes for adult education and various forms of neighbouhood education.

Training in computer competence for adults with a low level of education will also form part of the project. There will be a nursery for the children of those taking part in the courses.

Results

The result of this project will be an educational infrastructure with an open learning centre, a nursery and a telematics centre. On a daily basis around 800 to 1000 people will visit the library, of which around 200 will visit the telematics centre. The open learning centre, fitted with fifteen computers, will be visited every day by a maximum of 72 people taking part in courses.

Resources used

European subsidy: € 363.024
Total cost: € 1.125.411

EU involvement

This project has been partially funded with Objective 2 funds. Since 2000 nine cities have been eligible for the Objective 2 Urban Areas in the Netherlands programme, which forms part of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD) of the European Union. EFRD is one of the four Structural Funds of the European Commission. The programme helps cities to carry out projects that benefit disadvantaged areas.

In the Netherlands, total European Objective 2 subsidies concern 192 million euros. 4.25% of the Dutch population lives in the selected areas.

The European Commission prescribes that for every euro from the EFRD, a minimum of one euro must be contributed from the government. The cities must therefore add their own public or private funding to the European subsidy. The European programme is linked to the urban plans agreed within the context of the urban policy of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. For this, the cities can make use of funds that have been allocated to them in the context of the national urban policy.

Contact info

Den Haag Centrum Zuid - local programme management
Phone: +31 70 3534228

Project start date

01/01/2000

Links

Mondriaan College City of The Hague

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Quality of life

Keywords

Skills improvement