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EAEA NEWS

EAEA Secretary General honoured for impact on adult education in Europe

Gina Ebner, Secretary General of EAEA, was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in September 2019. “I dedicate my induction to all EAEA members that have guided EAEA’s work through their vision and commitment to adult education. This is our common achievement", says Ebner. Read the article on Hall of Fame
 

Interest group on Lifelong Learning: Skills for Life, Skills for the Future

On 25 September the European Parliament’s Lifelong Learning Interest Group met with MEP's Julie Ward and Sirpa Pietikäinen, representatives of the European Commission, Finnish Presidency of the Council and stakeholders from education and training sector. The meeting focused on how to better implement the concept of Life Skills, which enable people to fully participate in society as self-sufficient individuals. Read more about the Interest group discussion
 

Getting your story heard: empowering vulnerable adults through digital storytelling 

We all have stories, but not all of them get heard. Aleksandra Kozyra from EAEA talked to two educators who use audiovisual methods to encourage vulnerable groups to share their experiences and make their voices heard. Read the article and watch the related videos in EPALE: Getting your story heard 
 

Inclusion of vulnerable groups - tailor-made and holistic approaches are needed

Gina Ebner hosted an EPALE online discussion on how adult learning can be used for the social inclusion of vulnerable adults in September. Participants discussed how adult education can better include vulnerable people, such as migrants, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, prisoners etc. Summary of the online discussion in EPALE
 

POLICY NEWS

Council Recommendation on Validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) – EAEA’s response

EAEA sees validation as a key tool in order to promote lifelong learning, to ensure more flexible learning pathways, to encourage learners and build their self-confidence as well as to create a more comprehensive understanding of competences. EAEA’s response on VNFIL open consultation
 

ET2020: What will come after 2020? 

In a statement released in September 2019, EAEA demands setting more ambitious benchmarks for adult education and makes a number of recommendations for the follow-up framework of ET2020. EAEA’s statement on ET2020 

EAEA’s infonote on Erasmus+: Why should there be mobility for adult learners?

There are number of reasons why mobility for adult learners should be part of the future Erasmus+-programme: It offers much-needed learning provision and helps to put the right to lifelong learning into practice, it promotes European values and democracy, and it creates multipliers of adult learning. EAEA’s infonote on Erasmus+ learner mobility (pdf)
 

PROJECT NEWS

Registration for FuturelabAE workshop on adult education and digitalization in Helsinki 11 December is now open
How can we manage the challenges of digitalisation by using change oriented adult education? FuturelabAE-workshop will showcase change-oriented adult education practices and tools and give a chance to reflect how adult education can take a more proactive role in the digital transformation of our society. Discover the agenda and register to the workshop by 2 December
 

New project: SUPPORT

SUPPORT is the new ongoing EAEA partner project. By supporting the trainers in problem-solving situations, it aims to enforce in an antihierarchical way inclusion, retention and outreach in the adult learning environment in order to maximise the positive effect for the direct and indirect target group. Read more about SUPPORT-project

 

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