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The European Basic Skills Network is glad to announce that the first open education resource unit of its Capacity Building Series has been published on EPALE. The current thematic unit titled Integrated Policy Approach in Basic Skills Provision focuses on the policy level of basic skills provision with a special attention to good practices to actual policy initiatives. It ...
Join us on 13th and 14th November to discuss about experiences on the use of digital tools in the provision of initial literacy and numeracy training, and of language provision for immigrants. The event will take place on EPALE and will be moderated by EBSN Secretary General, Graciela Sbertoli.
For more information please see the landing page of the event:
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To celebrate the International Literacy Day, the EBSN EPALE team welcomes you to join us on EPALE in our Speakers’ Corner on Literacy!
The multilingual event will take place on Friday, September 7th, from 10.00 (CET) to 17:00 (CET) and it will be moderated by the EBSN’s Secretary General, Graciela Sbertoli.
For more information please see the landing page of the event by ...
The EBSN General Assembly & Annual Conference 2018 took place in Berlin, 6-8 June. Plenary and worhshop presentations and the Conference Declaration are now available on the EBSN website.
The EBSN EPALE Team invites you to join the new online discussion from Thursday, 14 June at 12:00 (CET) to 17:00 (CET) on Friday, 15 June on how to engage relevant target groups in basic skills learning. We will discuss success factors for national policies that aim to make a real impact on all target groups in need, and also successful programs for basic skills ...
Registration for the EBSN General Assembly and Annual Conference 2018 has been extended until 27 May 2018! This year’s event takes place in Berlin, 6-8 June and is organized in cooperation with the German Ministry of Education and Research, the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training as coordination point for the ‘National Decade of Literacy’ and ...
Registration for the EBSN General Assembly and Annual Conference 2018 has been opened! This year’s event takes place in Berlin, 6-8 June and is organized in cooperation with the German Ministry of Education and Research, the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training as coordination point for the ‘National Decade of Literacy’ and the German Institute ...
As part of EPALE's February focus on Social Media, the EBSN will hold a two-day online discussion focusing on the use of Social Media in our field of work on 26-27 February 2018. We are going to talk about the use of Social Media both as an arena for the creation of successful communities of practice among adult learning stakeholders and as a learning tool ...
In December 2017, EBSN launched its first pilot OER in the topic of Basic Skills in VET on EPALE. The unit contains videos, blogs and a thematic collection of relevant resources available on EPALE in the theme of Basic Skills in VET.
Direct access to the unit here.
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Dana-Carmen Bachmann, Head of the Vocational Training and Adult Education Unit of the European Commission participated on the EBSN conference in Ljubljana. We took the opportunity to discuss with her shortly about the Commission's view on the work of EBSN and also about the latest relevant actions at EU level.
The Commission has adopted a new and comprehensive Skills Agenda for Europe. The aim is to ensure that the right training, the right skills and the right support is available to people in the European Union so that they are equipped for good-quality jobs and can fulfil their potential as confident, active citizens. It will ultimately boost employability, competitiveness ...
The European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) Annual Conference in 2016 took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 2-3 June. The conference focused on the experiences of countries in the South-East of Europe in improving levels of adult basic skills. Slovenia, on the eve of the announcement of their PIAAC results and with recent and on-going policy developments in the area provided ...
The Italian region of Reggio Emilia hosted a national conference on "Illiteracy and citizenship: Stories, statistics and rights in Italy and Europe", on May 13th and 14th. Graciela Sbertoli, chair of the EBSN, had been invited as a speaker but could not attend. A pre-recorded video was sent instead, and the organizers report that it served as a very useful background for ...
We are glad to announce that European Basic Skills Network has a new LinkedIn page. Our aim with this page is to approach a larger professional audience interested in basic skills development as well as to keep EBSN members up-to-date on the activities of the network. We hope to attract the attention of different industries, employers and other actors who can make benefit ...
The three-day, text-based discussion in the framework of the EPALE Migrant Education Week focused on three different topics on three consecutive days between April 26 and 28, 2016. The topics were the following:
Experiences of what works for different migrant communities in adult education
Challenges and obstacles for migrants to access and complete adult ...
Offenders in prisons are a small but significant part of the target group of basic skills policies. Europe’s prison population is around 640,000 and it’s estimated that only 3-5{45dd1fd917f9c5256ddd62f2bb60264c9fd035a788f5039a41e25e9de2257d18} are at a level of skills that would allow them to progress into further life long learning. Low education levels affect prisoners’ ...
Adult learning can improve lives and economies.
Adult learning benefits individuals, companies and society. Adults that continue to learn earn more, are more employable, enjoy better health and are more active citizens. Adult learning improves companies’ innovation performance, productivity, profitability and workforce motivation. It helps to improve a country’s economic ...
On September 2015 a challenging and thought-provoking conference was organised by NIACE as the UK National Coordinator for the European Agenda for Adult Learning. The conference "Realising Impact: Making a difference through adult learning" focused especially on exploring the profound impact of all kinds of learning have on people's lives.
As for kick-off keynote speaker ...
On the 10th of September, 2015 an international meeting will be organised in France marking the end of the Literacy@Work project. The meeting entitled “How can key competences be developed at work?” will focus on presenting and discussing workplace literacy training solutions that have proved to be successful in France, Germany and Austria. EBSN will be represented by ...
NALA from Ireland elaborated guidelines for good adult literacy work defining the 5 most important principles of quality work in adult literacy.
1. Adult literacy work is based on a philosophy of adult education which is concerned with personal development and social action.
Because literacy in modern society is a complex issue, adult literacy work must enable students to ...
Interview was made on the Annual Collaborative Workshop of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) on the 3rd - 5th of June, 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Title of the workshop: “Strategies that work: governance, financing and implementation in the provision of basic skills for adults”
Many participants of the EBSN annual workshop gave positive feedback considering the event very inspiring and useful. Thank you! The presentations and photos from The Hague are available here...
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