Verein Niedersächsischer Bildungsinitiativen e.V. (VNB)

1. The VNB is: - an adult educational institution, serving more than 40 member organisations and 180 co-operation partners throughout Lower Saxony/Germany - providing more than 110.000 educational lessons p.a. - offering services through 3 regional an 1 general department, covering the whole state of Lower Saxony - mainly financed by the state of Lower Saxony as an official acknowledged adult educational institution 2. about 3 Mio. Euros p.a. 3. 2 Mio. from government of Lower Saxony for adult education, 1 Mio. from differnet donors: EU, government and privat donors 4. We organize networks for global education, seminars and congresses. We are partner for the weltwärts-programme of BMZ (www.weltwaerts.de) and have young adults (volunteers) in different countries. 5. Partners are about 100 NGOs in the field of global education and incultural learning in Lower Saxony and Bremen in different countries all over the world (www.globolog.net).