Plungės suaugusiųjų švietimo centras (Plunge Adult Education Centre) is a public not for profit institution established by Plunge region municipality in 1948.We seek to provide high quality formal and non-formal education for adults. The centre started to provide non-formal training for adults in September 2006.We organize workshops, lectures, courses, teacher consulting, exibitions, conferences and participate in local, national and European projects.

The National projects in which we participated as prtners are:

2006 – 2008 “Development of Adult Educational Institutions by Providing and Enhancing Modern Competences in the Regions"

2008-2010 “Development of Adult Education in Municipalities to Reduce Social Exclusion and Regional Disparities in Lithuania

2012-2014 „Adult educationdevelopment by providing learners in core competencies(2nd stage)

EU funded projects are:

2008-2010 as partners in Grundtvig partnership “Towards a European Teacher Portfolio. In search of the non-academic key competences that any European teacher should get during his/her life „

2009-2011 as coordinator of Grundtvig partnership „Language Unites Europe“

2009-2011 as partners in Grundtvig multilateral „Extending Working Life -Pedagogy Assisting Workforce Transition- PAWT“.

The contact person Ms Rita Smilingiene is the Deputy Head of Education at Plungės suaugusiųjų švietimo centras. She has experience in working on a range of LLP concepts in the field of adult continuing education and development of the possibilities for adult learning in the local municipality in the forms of seminars, conferences and meetings with local institutions. She has practical experience in working and implementing various types of projects financed by LLP’s Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig as Rita previously worked a project manager at vocational school and working at Plunges suaugusiųjų švietimo centras she initiated, implemented and coordinated all above mentioned EU projects and participated in the working groups implementing above mentioned national projects.

 

 

           

                  

 

 

 

 

 

Plungė district municipality is located in the north-west of Lithuania, in Telšiai county. The territory is dominated by hilly terrain. Picturesque valleys are crossed by the Minija River with tributaries. Fifteen kilometres to the north from Plungė, there starts the Žemaitija National Park, which is well-known in Lithuania.

There is one town – Plungė, which is also an administrative centre, and four townships – Alsėdžiai, Kuliai, Plateliai and Žemaičių Kalvarija. Plungė is located at a convenient crossing of roads and a railway, astride the Babrungas River.

From the 14th to the second half of the 16th century, Plungė had been an ordinary settlement; in 1567, it had been already mentioned as a township, while in 1792 it obtained Magdeburg city rights.

A considerable impact on the development of the town was made by the Counts Zubov and Dukes Ogiński who governed it. There are a manor and a park of the Ogiński, which are one of the most beautiful in Lithuania.

About 1875, the Duke Ogiński had established one of the first music schools in Lithuania, where M. K.Čiurlionis studied.

The splendid landscapes and lakes are of the greatest value in Plungė district.