ANUP-INTERNATIONAL (= Association of Romanian Popular Universities-International ) is an NGO created in 2006 as an organisation specialised in European projects dealing with adult education. It derives from ANUP as a result of development and expertise in the field of European adult education.It works mainly with the largest structured network of adult education centres in Romania-ANUP-, both in urban and rural areas , which provide training and retraining courses for adults in order to enable them to adapt to the changing needs of the Romanian society.
Popular universities are institutions of public interest which develop activities in vocational training for adults, young adults, in different domains of activities such as: foreign languages, computing, design, photography, public relations, marketing, etc, as well as courses dealing with personal development of the individual and cultural activities.
ANUP-INTERNATIONAL maintains strong links to other networks and organizations, both governmental and non governmental, working in the field of permanent education, such as : professional organisations, enterprises, working agencies at national and local level, in order to facilitate the integration of the adults on the labour market.
From 1993 till now ANUP, as the grassroot of ANUP-INTERNATIONAL, developed many European projects dealing with methodology of adult education under PHARE, Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates programmes.
The projects ANUP developed and ANUP-International continued are in the following domains: vocational taining, personal development and active citizenship, foreign langauges promoting multilinguism, training of the trainers in adult education and vocational training, validation of non-formal and informal learning.
All the projects promoted have been of great interest for the learners as for the trainers with a significant impact at the university level, encouraging the teachers from higher education to penetrate the world of adult education and helping them to acceed in European partnerships and training.