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The ACC

European public sphere

The ultimate goal of the Association for Community Colleges is very ambitious. It is to develop a European (transnational) public sphere.

The main strategy and the core idea of the ACC is that a unique way of promoting this objective would be through the establishment of European Community Colleges at a common European level and all over Europe. To this end, the ACC combines policy work, lobbying, networking and research
together with the actual delivery of European Community College courses for European participants who discuss issues of common (European) interest.

Learning and living together

The uniqueness of the ACC method lies in combining the formal, non-formal and informal aspects of learning and placing the three of them into the framework of residential community colleges where everyone is a learner and a teacher at the same time. Apart from acquiring knowledge and skills that enable them to participate as active citizens at a local, national and transnational level, the participants create a sample European public sphere where they practice the art of co-citizenship – learning and living together while being enriched rather than hindered by diversity.

European Community Colleges

The ACC defines European Community Colleges as schools that:

1) take their starting point from an idea and an objective that is defined by a nongovernmental group of citizens running the school,

2) have as their ideal boarding-school courses that last for a longer period of time (preferably at least one month),

3) organize courses on topics of common (European) interest in accordance with the idea of the group running the school,

4) are “governed by culture” in the sense that life at the individual schools should be influenced by local traditions and culture,

5) have mixed groups of European adults as their target group; adults who are interested in learning and also in paying part of the courses themselves.

More information & Contact

Chairman Mr. John Petersen

ACC International Programme Office
Falstersgade 44, st., gaarden
DK-8000 Aarhus C