What are the partners adult educators work with currently? What new partnerships could be established? How to build new forms of cooperations during the digital era? These were some of the questions raised at the EAEA Annual Conference held in Tallinn, Estonia, on June 28th.

EAEA’s General Assembly has accepted seven new associate members to join the EAEA. The new members come from Serbia, Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Portugal.

MEDIA RELEASE. EAEA has awarded adult education projects in its annual EAEA Grundtvig Awards. This year’s award celebrated cooperations and partnerships in adult education.

Adult education is tackling many of Europe’s most pressing challenges, yet the funding allocated to adult education in the future EU budget and the name change of the EU’s education programme signal a failure to recognise its importance. EAEA calls for a higher budget share and a clear commitment to adult education to meet the EU objectives and to make an impact.

The latest meeting of the Interest Group on Lifelong Learning brought together Members of the European Parliament, representatives of the European Commission, civil society organisations and other stakeholders to discuss the concept of learning environments in formal, non-formal and informal learning settings.

While the European Commission’s latest plans to further the European Education Area underline the commitment to lifelong learning, the measures proposed are not embedded in a holistic lifelong learning approach. EAEA’s Reaction to the Second Package of the European Education Area calls for a stronger consideration of all age groups and stages of learning.

Three months after the launch of the definition of Life Skills, the LSE project consortium is pleased to publish an overarching framework for life skills learning. The framework aims to establish a common understanding of life skills by describing eight key types of capabilities necessary to be an active participant in life and work.

What is the role of peer review in the validaton of non-formal and informal adult education? How should the validation systems be further developed in Europe? These questions will be covered in the upcoming final conference of the Peer review VNFIL extended project organised by EAEA on 13 June.

BEST PRACTICES. Peer review is a form of external evaluation with the aim of supporting the reviewed organization in its quality assurance and quality development efforts. the findings of the project European Peer Review for VNFIL demonstrate the need for transnational peer reviews. Erik Kaemingk from the VNFIL network explains the project’s experiences.

The European Commission has published its first proposal for the future budget of the European Union.