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The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Abuja, has published a guidebook on how action research can enhance youth and adult literacy education and learning. This guidebook can be used as a resource for training adult educators and implementing participatory and collaborative ...
Graciela Sbertoli presented the vision how EBSN would like to utilise the platform to create fora for basic skills policy makers and policy providers and nurture a growing 'community of practice' as well as to generate a new facility for continuous professional development and learning under EBSN Academy by creating webinars, MOOCs and other new possibilities for ...
The European Adult Education (Young) Professionals Learning Platform (AE-PRO) has announced the launch of ‘European e-training for Adult Educators’, that includes sessions on European developments in the adult education sector, Adult education methodologies in European countries and Policy and advocacy, etc. The free training begins in April via the online Adult Education ...
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 ...
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. ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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.
The French National and European Conference on Illiteracy was held in Lyon in November 2013. Organised by ANLCI, an EBSN member, in partnership with the 67 supporters of the Grande Cause Nationale 2013 and the Europe-Education-Formation France (2e2f) Agency, this event brought together nearly 900 participants.
The numerous debates dealt with the different measures to be ...
Reading for Pleasure and Reading Circles
for Adult Emergent Readers
Insights in Adult Learning
Sam Duncan
February 2014
RRP £7.95 (print and e-book)
80 pages
Details at: http://bitly.com/1bcSYKa
About this publication
Adult literacy provision has become more functional and assessment driven over the last decade, largely due to funding requirements and the ...
The objective of EPALE -Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe - is to establish an interactive web-based multilingual information platform on adult education in Europe. The EPALE shall prepare and provide information, e.g. about new materials, best practice examples and projects from individual member states based on information from National Support Services ...
The EU Agenda for Adult Learning defines the focus for European cooperation in adult education policies for 2012-2020. In the framework of the Agenda, the Commission coordinates a network of national coordinators (NC). The role of the NCs is to contribute to implementation of the EU Agenda on national level and to ensure liaison with the relevant ministries, stakeholders ...
The first workshop of the EBSN Academy took place in Oslo November 25th to 29th 2013. The Grundtvig Literacy Workshop was organized by Vox under the title “Evidence-based delivery of literacy training in the digital era”.
The interest in participating in the workshop was massive. The organizers received more than 100 applications but the course had a limited number of ...
President Per Paludan Hansen introduced EAEA´s proposal of a European Flagship
Initiative on adult learning at the Conference Equipping adults for the 21st
century - Joining Forces for Action on Skills and Competences in Vilnius.
The European Commission has published the Call for Proposals for Erasmus+, the new EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport.
Vistit the Commission's Erasmus+ website for more information.
The Council of the European Union has formally adopted the new Erasmus+ programme for education, training, youth and sport from 2014–2020.
This is the final stage in the approval process at European level and means that the Erasmus+ programme can enter into legislative force, with the green light to start from 1 January 2014.
Read more on the European Commission's ...
Vox - Norwegian Agency for Lifelong Learning - has welcomed 20 delegates from EBSN members around Europe in Oslo this week!
Follow the workshop and the discussions on http://europeanbasicskillsnetwork.wordpress.com/
More than 4 million to get EU grants for skills and employability
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1110_en.htm
... find out about your country and play around with the figures and tables. They are interactive! http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/
Mark your calendar! On October 8, 2013, OECD will be releasing the first results from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
While we are waiting for the results we reccommend you all to read NIACE's interesting briefing note on the background of the survey.
Click here for NIACE's latest blog on PIAAC
On March 1st this year, a group of 66 French stakeholders in our field, led by our French EBSN member, the ANLCI, obtained from the French Prime minister the Label Grande Cause Nationale. The label “grande cause nationale” is given each year to a different cause (autism and suicide are past examples). Once an issue has been given the label, all governmental ...
The Education, Training and Youth Forum 2013 will take place in Brussels on 17-18 October.
The Forum promotes the idea of “Working together for Reforms” and emphasises the need for policy makers and key stakeholders to work in partnership, in order to foster the successful implementation of reforms at national and regional level, in particular through the opportunities ...
What is required of a professional teacher of initial and functional literacies to adults whose mother tongue is not a Nordic language?
The Nordic Adult Literacy Network, Alfarådet, has drawn up a description of the competencies required for this complex task.
Go to the Nordic network for adult learning's (NVL) website to download the brochure.
Workshops enable adult learners to participate in learning events and seminars taking place in a European country other than their own. They bring together professionals working within the field of adult literacy, from several countries, in order to improve their practical teaching, coaching, counselling, management skills, etc.
Under the 2013 Call, the Workshop ...
ALFIE, Alphabetisation of Immigrants to Europe, was a Learning Partnership within the Grundtvig / LLP programme, and it gathered policy makers, researchers, teacher training institutions and training providers in the field of “alphabetization” (initial literacy) for adult immigrants.
The partnership aimed primarily at establishing a meeting place for the exchange of ...
The IVQ survey focuses (at national or regional level) on representative samples of the general French population, and among other goals tries to identify the proportion of people with low literacy levels among the overall population.
In the paper “IVQ: more than a national survey”, Jean-Pierre Jeantheau (Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l’Illettrisme (ANLCI), ...
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