An urban renewal program in preunification Berlin involved self-help projects and a community school. The program demonstrated a holistic approach to urban regeneration and showed that the success of participatory community processes depends on community education. (SK)

This volume, the second in a series of three, contains the reports of six European experiments that were part of a process of cooperative monitoring of a project on adult education and community development. The theme of these experiments is "responses to unemployment and to the consequences of economic restructuring." The six…

Rural development, the strengthening of market-oriented approaches to the economy, and the promotion of private industry in the countries of the Third World are among the stated priorities of West German development policy. A market-oriented approach to the economy contributes to a rise in the standard of living in the developing countries. In…

It is estimated that there are over 10,000 non-governmental groups and initiatives in West Germany devoted to improving the quality of life of people in the developing countries. Many of these projects consist of churches helping churches, such as Misereor, the charity organization of German Catholics, or Brot fur die Welt (Bread for the World),…

This bulletin contains assessments of visits by three comparative monitoring groups to European experiments in adult education, including programs in Portugal and Italy; Sweden, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany and France; and Turkey and Norway. The bulletin also examines a parallel program involving the co-production of multimedia…

The document presents abstracts of 40 research projects dealing with the relationship between school and community in Europe. These have been compiled by the European Documentation and Information System for the Education Project, (EUDISED). The aim of the EUDISED project is to create a computer-based network of national agencies dealing with…