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The adult educator’s guide to communication
How can we make adult education more visible in the media? How can you prepare and plan your communication work about adult education? Which communication skills are essential for adult educators? LEK-AE produced a learning toolbox including a curriculum, a simulation game, model webinars and a webinar handbook, as well as a communication guide that equips adult educators with the skills necessary for successful communication and public relation work. This learning toolbox is now available as an open educational resource.
Bringing together local and global perspectives
EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2018. Worldwise Global Citizenship Programme aims at increasing awareness and understanding of local and global interdependency as well as to develop critical thinking and promote social inclusion. Carol Divitt and NickToner talk about the project.
Certification of adult educators successful through wide cooperation
EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2018. wba project promoted the professionalisation of adult educators in Austria. Karin Reisinger talks about the project.
EAEA statement: ESF+ – A chance for adult education?
EAEA welcomes the new proposal for the European Social Fund Plus by the European Commission but suggests improvements to make it truly inclusive.
Report of the ET2020 Working Group on Adult Learning published
The role of the Education and Training Working Group on Adult Learning 2016-2018 of the European Commission, on which EAEA also had a seat, was to identify policies that promote and support workplace learning of adults. The final report is now available.
Public authorities and NGOs cooperate to train professionals working with migrants
EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2018. The project aims at supporting the professionals working with newly-arrived migrants by bringing together the expertise from the theoretical and practical field of non-formal education and citizenship. Juan E. Marcos talks about the project.
Increasing wellbeing through theatre and cinema
EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2018. Targeting students of an adult education course in a technical school, the project promoted wellbeing at school to reduce the risk of early school leaving. Mariadaniela Sfarra talks about the project.
Partnerships and cooperations foster learner-centred policy in Ireland
One hundred adult learners from all over the country, brought together to discuss their learning experiences – with policymakers, civil society and researchers present in the room? It’s possible, and EAEA was there to see it happen. Raffaela Kihrer and Aleksandra Kozyra share their impressions on the diversity of cooperations in Ireland, and how learners themselves can become partners in adult education policymaking.
Second chance schools promote multiculturalism in Greece
EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2018. The Ethnic Food Festival was an intercultural initiative bringing together locals, migrants and refugees. Linos Vigklas talks about the project.
EAEA at the “Efficient & Effective Project Management for EU funded Projects” training organised by ShipCon.
EAEA staff members successfully participated in the five days training on European Project Management, organised by ShipCon. This training course took place in the city of Barcelona between the 30th of July and 3rd of August and included a diverse crowd of participants.