Author: Zoltan Szabo

As preparation for the European Vocational Skills Week EBSN will hold a two-day online discussion focusing on basic skills within VET on 16-17 November 2017.  We would like to hear about your opinion on how best to address poor basic skills within VET. Please join us to discuss your experience of managing, teaching or designing VET with a focus on basic skills; how basic skills are addr...

Join us on EPALE to discuss the situation of health literacy in your country; how to ensure that health systems are more accessible to citizens; and the role of adult education in this field. The event will be moderated by Helen Casey (UK) and the EBSN EPALE team. You can access the discussion’s landing page here. We are looking forward to meeting you on EPALE!

As part of EPALE's October focus on intergenerational learning EBSN will hold a two-day online discussion on 23-24 October 2017. The discussion will be moderated by EBSN Secretary General Graciela Sbertoli and colleagues from the EBSN Executive Committee.  We would like to hear your experience of such initiatives and your views on ways in which intergenerational learning can lead to positi...

  The EBSN Annual Conference took place in Luxembourg on 1-2 June 2017. The event focused on the crucial role basic skills development has in integration which has become a key issue in Europe due to the refugee crisis. For more listen to David Mallows summing up the conference message.  

We are looking forward to meeting our old and new members as well as all the other registered participants from other organisations to the EBSN General Assembly and Annual Conference from 31 May to 2 June 2017! This year’s event will be organized in cooperation with the Department of Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg as part of the national program fo...

  DEMAL - Designing, monitoring and evaluating adult learning classes is an Erasmus+ K2 Strategic Partnership Project. The partnership is led by EBSN member DIE - German Institute for Adult Learning Leibniz - Centre for Lifelong Learning, Germany. Partner organisation from the network is Progress Consult Kft., Hungary (representing the EBSN Secretariat) and the Swiss Federation for Adu...

Registration deadline for this year's EBSN General Assembly and Annual Conference organised in Luxembourg from 31 May to 2 June, 2017 has been extended! Do not forget to register until 20 May 2017! You can access the conference page and register here.

From December 9th  we will further discuss the most important topics and messages in terms of basic skills development of the conference organized by the European Commission as part of the European Vocational Skills Week. Join us on EPALE for the discussion.

On Thursday 9th and Friday 10th November the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) will be hosting an online discussion about Family Learning on EPALE. We will discuss purposes, models and good practice and would like to hear from anyone who has been involved in family learning related to basic skills or is interested in developing expertise in this area.&nbs...

The EBSN Conference in June offered an excellent opportunity for a „carousel” presentation of the already existing SIGs, where the members were welcome to share ideas, suggestions and ask questions from the group leaders. At the end of the conference we spoke to the leaders of each SIG about their impressions of the carousel discussions. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/embed?layout=gallery&l...