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....
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EBSN Online Discussion – Health Literacy 6-7 November 2017
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...
Join the ‘European e-training for Adult Educators’
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...
Report form the second EBSN Academy course
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.
Massive interest for the first EBSN Academy experimental MOOC workshop
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...
The first EBSN Academy event is launched!
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/
Description of Teachers´ Competence
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...
Grundtvig Workshops 2013-2014
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...
Canadian Centre for Literacy – Fall Institute 2013
Registration has opened for the Canadian Centre for Literacy Fall Institute, to be held in Montreal on October 27-29, soon after the release of the PIAAC results. Invitees for the Fall Institute include British economist Francis Green, who has studied employability...
The EBSN Academy has officially been launched!
We are still waiting for the final confirmation for some of the workshops you can read about on the EBSN Academy page, but it is now clear that at least three of them have been approved. The first course will take place in Oslo, November...