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The EBSN Annual Conference 2027 will take place in Hamburg, Germany, from 12 to 14 May 2027, in cooperation with the University of Hamburg. The annual conference will once again bring together policymakers, researchers, practitioners, adult learning organisations and...
The OECD will launch its new PIAAC thematic report, Navigating life with low literacy and numeracy, on 1 July 2026 at the event Low skills, high stakes: New insights from the Survey of Adult Skills, broadcast live from Latvia. The report draws on the 2023 Survey of...
In March 2026, EBSN and the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) published a joint policy package responding to recent evidence on adult skills and participation in adult learning. The policy package, entitled “Beyond the Low-Skills Trap”, builds on...
The EBSN Annual Conference and General Assembly 2026 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 17 to 19 June 2026, bringing together policymakers, researchers, practitioners and organisations working in the field of adult basic skills, lifelong learning and inclusion....
Across Europe, the challenge of low basic skills remains structural. According to the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), roughly one in four adults in Europe — around 54 million people — struggle with literacy or numeracy...
As an initial step in the EBSN’s Capacity Building Series, the objective of this unit of open educational resources is to facilitate the creation and implementation of consistent, efficient and sustainable policies for the provision of basic skills training in all...
As the continuation of the Capacity Building Series, the European Basic Skills Network presents its second open education resource unit in the theme of integrating migrant adults from a linguistic perspective. The OER contains case studies from various countries...
Digitalisation is a one of the most important developments in today’s society, a tide that will not go away and that cannot be ignored. It is a development that permeates every aspect of life and presents a challenge for society and individuals alike. As such it needs...
What do workplace basic skills mean? The current OER unit in the framework of the Capacity Building Series focuses on the promotion of workplace basic skills (WBS). WBS trainings give adults the opportunity to acquire the basic skills they need to keep up with the...
A warm welcome to this Family Literacy (FL) OER in the Capacity Building Series of the European Basic Skills Network. The goal of the OER is to provide really useful information about the benefits of responsive and sustainable FL policy and practice. As with previous...