Author: Zoltan Szabo

The Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE) aims to become the main reference point for adult learning professionals in Europe. The European Commission has repeatedly expressed its appreciation of the fact that EBSN is one of the partners in the EPALE team, committed to making the portal into a key source of information as well as the main online meeting point for professionals fr...

Strategy To Raise Awareness and Improve, Generalize and Help Tackling European Needs for Basic Skills – Straighten Basic Skills Improving the accessibility of learning opportunities for adults, especially for low qualified employees and long term unemployed, with a view to training needs of workplace basic skills is one of the core areas of the European education policy. In the past a lot of proj...

http://youtu.be/jA6P2wXBFFk How do we sum up these two days? There was lots of interesting discussion on  PIAAC, social inclusion, numeracy, family learning, among many other relevant subjects. PIAAC was high on everyone’s agenda and we do need to engage with PIAAC – that is the message we were getting. Despite some legitimate misgivings, it is a rich evidence base that we can use to further our ...

The digital forum where we can meet and promote basic skills a call for your active participation and contribution About the features of the recently launched EPALE People working in adult education will be able to access news and events, and network with colleagues across Europe, as the second version of the adult learning community platform EPALE has gone live in English recently, with s...

The Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) received the International Prize of the US Library of Congress for its significant work in literacy in Turkey. The International Prize is one of three prizes presented by the 2014 Library of Congress Literacy Awards to honors organizations that have made a significant and measurable contribution to increasing literacy levels. AÇEV is one of the leading ...

Updated program (in French) Press release  

    NIACE (the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) is calling for examples of  adult basic skills provision aimed at social inclusion. Follow this link for more information and to complete the sruvey.

As the latest development in an ongoing commitment to improving the quality of adult learning in Europe, the  European Commission will soon unveil a new multilingual open community. The aim of EPALE is to create a hub for adult education professionals with the goal to support the quality and development of adult learning in Europe. The platform will be accompanied with tools supporting networki...

  EBSN member NIACE has recently launched an app intended to help adults solve everyday maths problems and improve their skills. You can download it for free and test your skills – and consider whether something  like this should be produced in your country.   We will be back with news on how the EBSN can follow-up this interesting initiative!

The second EBSN Academy course took place in Luxembourg, in the town of Esch-sur Alzette, in March. The workshop's language was French and so is the languge of this report. A resumé in English will be available soon.