Volkshochschule Olching e.V.
Hauptstrasse 82
D- 82140 Olching

Email: intercultural@sajons.com
Website: www.vhs-olching.de, www.europe-intercultural.eu

Responsible: Hélène Sajons-Gilman

With over 60 year experience in providing education for adult learners the Volkshochschule Olching (Adult Education Centre) has achieved a high level of acceptance and recognition in the city and the region. The Center differs substantially from other educational institutions by its unusual engagement for the spreading of European values and its contribution to migrants´ integration as well as its efforts to fight to social inequalities.
Thanks to its long experience in teaching and in dealing with different generations, people from different countries and with different needs and expectation, the association offers the adequate response to the challenges issued from changes in population structures and from job market situation. This long experience is a guarantee for the success of this project. 
Quality and reliability, personal involvement and high qualified tutors are the characteristics of our institution. The diversity of our courses assures an appropriated respond to the expectations and needs of course participants and is continuously adapted to the work market.
Our institution offers a large range of different courses and workshops e.g. in art, philosophy, literature, health, IT, languages, social and political skills, courses for professional purposes, courses for house management and cooking and more.
This term over 70 language courses in about 13 languages will be conducted by high-qualified tutors. Furthermore a number of teachers have been trained for the qualification of examiner for different languages from A1 to  B1 EU -  levels during the last years.
The social impact of our association is extremely important as it reaches more than 40% of the local population (about 10,500 from 25,000 inhabitants in our city).
The conductor of this project is Chairwoman of the Board of the school since 1998, Master of Intercultural Competence, speaks four languages and is responsible for tutors´ training in intercultural competence skills and languages.
The VHS initiated the project and will insure the coordination as well as the internal evaluation and take part to all activities and mobilities.