Who we are?
The Adult Education Association of Latvia is a non-governmental organization founded on December 14, 1993 with support from Latvia´s Ministry of Education and Science and Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association.
The aim of LAEA is to promote development of non- formal adult education systems and to participate in life-long learning policy making, thereby promoting development of a civic, democratic and open society in Latvia.
What we do?
Since its establishment LAEA has gained valuable experience in organising various activities on local and national levels. LAEA has created a co-operation network of adult education providers from all towns and districts of Latvia, prepared trainers, elaborated and approved training programmes, training and methodological materials.
The Latvian Adult Education Association:
- supports and cooperates with all interested adult education agencies and organizations in Latvia, regardless of location or legal status,
- implements projects with partners in Latvia and overseas,
- prepares projects on adult education.
Best practices
Grundtvig multilateral project “Creativity and Enterpleneurship Seeds for Social Inclusion“, 2009-2010,
Grundtvig multilateral project ” Improving Educator’s Resilience to Stress” 2010-2011,
Grundtvig learning partnership project “Robots for intergenerational gap” 2011- 2012,
EACEA project “Towards an Integrated system for validation of non formal and informal learning“, 2012-2013,
Erasmus + Project “Work on it! Take an active part for the future of young people in Europe” (2015-2018)
Erasmus + Project “WhomeN-Active Socio-occupational of Women at risk of social exclusion through the recognition of competences and learning soft skills in order to offer New professional opportunities at home society” (2017-2020)