Delprosjekt 1: Cracking Codes – New Pathways to a better Prison Education Åsane Upper Secondary School has responsibility for the prison education in Hordaland County. Prison education has specific and complex challenges compared to general education, but we share many of the challenges across national borders. We want to investigate how other prison education providers make use of available resources and how they deal with challenges concerning structural limitations in the prison, and in the post-release period. The objectives of the project are to: - strengthen the cooperation between the school, prison and other stakeholders - improve the organisation of the prison education before, during and after imprisonment, particularly when it comes to young offenders - increase our expertise within profession and career counselling - gather new contributions to the mapping of prisoners - improve the organisation of higher education in prison. Develop and formalise partnership with institutions providing higher education - make more efficient use of available resources We have outlined five activities included in the project: 1. CDETB Educational Service to Prisons, Dublin, Ireland: Visit to prison and post-release centres (3 participants) 2. International Training Week – Education behind Belgian Bars, Mechelen, Belgium: Training course with prison visits, lectures, and discussion (3 participants) 3. The EPEA Conference 2019: European conference with prison visits, lectures, and discussion (5 participants) 4. Organisation of higher education in prison: Visits to prisons and post-release centers (2 participants) 5. Facilitating and following up young offenders during and after imprisonment: Visits to prisons and post-release centers (3 participants) The participants in the project are teachers, school counsellors and Head of Department. The participants are selected because they represent different areas and levels within the prison education. Thus they may implement the results and experiences from the project directly after the activities. In order to ensure an optimal outcome we have chosen the methodology of job shadowing and organised courses, which combined are designed to cover our selected objectives. The project will contribute to an overall reinforcement and improvement of the education provided to the inmates, as the participants enhance their understanding and competence within their field. The school as an organisation will be able to make more efficient use of its financial and human resources. The main objective of this project is to strengthen and expand the education we provide to our students. Delprosjekt 2: The Adult Education Center, (Åsane VO-Center), which is a secondary vocational education and training school, is in front of a major reorganization to be completed in 2020. The VO Center has about 500 students, devided between minority language students and ethnic Norwegian students in the order of 40/60. The large proportion of minority langauage students means that staff at the center especially need more skills to adapt the education to this target group. The objective of the VO center is to enable them to professional jobs in the labour marked. In this project we will visit Axxell Adult Education in Helsinki, Finland, and see how the school is organizing the training, and completing the teaching, and how Axxell is cooperating with the labour marked. An objective is also to experience innovative ways of developing new models for the training and organization of the new VO Center. Three of the project participants will attend the Lifelong Learning Platform's Conference in 2019. An umbrella organisation for more than 40 european org. http://lllplatform.eu/events/annual-conferences/ac17/. The goal of the project is two-fold: 1) Strengthen the development and organization of teaching at the school. Get good ideas to develop new models for the training and organization of the new VO Center by 2020. 2) Strengthen the teaching of foreign language students to enable them to carry on in the working life at an earlier stage. New knowledge will be used to improve teaching for ethnic Norwegian and minority language students. We expect the study trip to give us input and new ideas that can be used to further develop the models for teaching at the Adult Learning Center. We want to develop the education offer by increasing cooperation school-working life. We will further make arrangements for better cooperation between the VO Center and partners such as NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration), municipal actors and various vocational training communities. We wish to pass on our experience from the project at various conferences. The project results will also be published and disseminated through the EARLALL-European Association of Regional and Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning - where Hordaland County Municipality is a member: http://www.earlall.eu/.