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We are glad to announce that the registration platform for our upcoming annual event is now available!
Conference title: Aspects of Quality in Basic Skills Provision. Professional Development at All Levels of Implementation
Venue and dates: Pécs, Hungary, 14-16 June 2023.
Please find the link to registration here: Registration!
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3 new online courses will be started on 29 March and 10 April 2023 which aim to provide new opportunities for the professional development of basic skills teachers. The courses are 8-week long self-paced online courses supplemented with tutorial support and 3 live webinars and online forums for interactions, exchange and peer discussions. The courses have been developed ...
The EBSN's General Assembly and the Annual Conference 2023 will take place in wonderful city of Pécs in Hungary from 14 to 16 June and will be organised in presential format. Please make sure to mark these days in your calendar!
The Conference’s Program Committee is hereby issuing a Call for Proposals for all those interested in contributing to the conference. Please ...
3 online courses will be started on 13 February 2022 which aim to provide new opportunities for the professional development of basic skills teachers. The courses are 8-week long self-paced online courses supplemented with tutorial support and 3 live webinars and online forums for interactions, exchange and peer discussions. The courses have been developed within an ...
The 2023 yearly event of the EBSN will take place in Pécs, Hungary from 14 to 16 June and will be organised in cooperation with the University of Pécs. Please save the date!
The title of the conference is ’Aspects of Quality in Basic Skills Provision - Professional Development at All Levels of Implementation’
More info coming soon!
The next EBSN Café is organised on 10 November from 15:00 CET to 16:30 CET and it will be focusing on discussing two major themes besides the regular ritual of sharing news and updates among EBSN members.
CITO SkillsChecker
One of the topics many will be interested in is the further exploitation of the CITO SkillsChecker, the ...
Hurry up, registration is open until 30 May and you can attend both in presence and online!
This blogpost looks back to the key takeaways from the 2021 Conference!
From June till July four pilot MOOCs will be available for those professionals who get involved and are asked to give feedback on our work. As a result of the testing process, we will update our course materials (OERs and MOOCs) based on the feedback to provide the best fit learning materials for basic skills teachers and tutors to their work.
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Companies need to upgrade their employees’ skills to remain competitive!
The “Valuable creativity in companies” course introduces cases of how companies successfully have used creative methods to bring forward new solutions of products, new markets, and new ways of work. Increasing the acceptance of creative methods in companies is also increasing the impact of employee ...
The registration for the EBSN Annual Conference 2022 has been opened! This year’s event will be organised in Vienna, Austria, on 8-10 June and is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centres.
Register now on the conference page here
Creative people think a different way! How can we transfer their knowledge into a business advantage?
The “Valuable Creativity – Creativity at work” course is an introduction course on how to approach creativity at the workplace and how to find the proper methodology to create value in the form of pattern-breaking learning. The MOOC is providing an opportunity for adult ...
The EBSN Professional Development Series Project aims to strengthen EBSN, and especially its members – who are adult education providers – in several ways. Firstly, the project poses an innovative target, one that is often overlooked i.e., training basic skills teachers. The elaboration of the project can be considered a mutual learning process in this field which ...
According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Future of Jobs” it is predicted that by 2025, the world will see a loss of 85 million jobs within the traditional industries and service sector. But it also predicts the creation of 133 million jobs thanks to the digital revolution. It does not require much imagination to understand that this will need to be followed by a ...
On Thursday, March 17th, the EBSN Secretariat organized a virtual meeting exclusively for network members, the EBSN Café. 20 colleagues gathered for this rather informal communication event, which takes place approximately every two months. During the Café we exchanged information about the coming conference, some of our current projects, developments in represented ...
This year’s event will be organised in Vienna, on 8-9-10 June and is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centres.
The title of the conference is Learning from the past - preparing for the future Basic skills for adults in 2030.
More info coming soon on this website!
The Irish National Adult Literacy Agency has launched its new online platform for learning that is freely available to anyone. The platform offers a range of new opportunities including online courses and tutor training.
Watch the short introductory video below and visit the website to find out more!
A new platform informing about the Swiss program “Einfach besser! … am Arbeitsplatz” has been launched recently. The platform aims at drawing attention to the subject through the dissemination of personal narratives about experiences of companies. The stories are designed to convince companies that short-term workplace-oriented courses (i.e. the GO Model) are of great ...
We are glad to announce that the registration for the EBSN Annual Conference 2021 has been opened! This year’s event will be organised in Malta, on 28-29 October and is organized in cooperation with the Directorate for Research, Lifelong Learning and Employability (DRLLE) from the Ministry for Education, MFED in Malta.
Register now on the conference page here.
We are informing our members and partners about the latest updates regarding the organisation of the annual conference in 2021. At this stage, we would like to make a preliminary announcement, as some details of the event are still to be confirmed. The EBSN Secretariat, the network's Executive Committee, and our co-organiser, the Maltese Directorate for Research, Lifelong ...
As a consequence of COVID-19, health, financial literacy and resilience have all become significant themes in the discussion of how adult learning should reflect on our current challenges and prepare learners to become more resilient to disruptive change. Health literacy plays a significant role in equipping citizens with the necessary skills to make sense of ...
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, one of EBSN’s member organisation, has recently published its annual report for 2020. In general, the report presents a wide scope on how lifelong learning policy and practice contributed to the promotion of SDG goal 4 i.e. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
One of EBSN’s initiatives, a 3-year long Erasmus+ KA3 project was launched this year. The project aims to strengthen transnational networks of adult education providers by means of capacity building.
EBSN’s member organisation, the Directorate for Research, Lifelong Learning and Employability in Malta organised an interesting online event on the role of microcredentials and modular learning to demystify the notion of open badges, and digital credentials on 8 April.
We are glad to announce that our OER collections and MOOC on Outreach, Motivation and Persistence made in collaboration with EPALE are also available. The online course addresses the issues of outreach initiatives, and learner motivation & persistence in adult basic skills programs and it gives an opportunity to participants to get to know the materials presented ...
Although numeracy has always been an essential element in basic skills training programs, it is often not in the forefront for basic skills policies and practice. Therefore, one of our OER collections and MOOCs this year aim to provide an introduction to adult numeracy training.
The OER collection on Adult Numeracy presents a fundamental overview on:
the ...
EBSN is organising its first online conference with the title Achieving Upskilling Pathways as a response to the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemics.
The three-day event will consist of thematic workshops with presentations, followed by discussions and by interactivity on a number of platforms (Virtual Marketplace, Project Generation Facility), which will ...
We would like to announce that after considering the current situation with the Slovakian organizers regarding the coronavirus, our annual conference and general assembly are postponed. The new date is 25-27 November 2020.
Please find relevant details, updates and program-related information on the conference’s page by following this link:
EBSN general assembly and annual ...
In their joint Capacity Building Series framework EBSN and EPALE launched two additional online courses, one in the field of workplace basic skills, and another in family literacy. The courses were based on the respective open education resources that were published at the end of September (Workplace Basic Skills: Policy and Practice; Family Literacy Interventions: Policy ...
The EBSN EPALE Team is glad to announce its second and third online course for policy-makers, experts and other professionals who have a stake in basic skills policy and are currently engaged in the implementation of the Upskilling Pathways recommendation. The two current MOOCs are addressing the policy level of basic skills provision in the context of the Upskilling ...
We are glad announce that in the next phase of EBSN’s Capacity Building Series two thematic online discussions will be available on EPALE: workplace basic skills learning between 7-8 October and family literacy between 9-10 October.
The consecutive online events aim at generating discussion around two of the highlighted topics of the Capacity Building Series to explore ...
EBSN is glad to announce that the next online discussion in the framework of Capacity Building Series on Epale is scheduled at the end of August with the title: Critical digital and media literacy.
Digital skills and competences are today increasingly seen as a significant part of basic skills. There are a number of initiatives that aim at conceptualising and ...
EBSN was invited to nominate a representative for an expert meeting to input into the UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy (2020-2025). After producing a draft outline strategy for an earlier on-line forum consultation, UNESCO brought together participants over two days to discuss the draft and the vision for literacy for the 21st century. Experts from Uganda, ...
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