With the release of a communication on improving and modernising education, the European Commission has presented an ambitious strategy to modernise and increase investment as well as accessibility in the field of education.

While adult education in Europe faces many challenges, there are also great success stories: in 2014, Portuguese adult education associations formed new structures at the national level.

An online meeting place for providers, experts and learners, a self-assessment tool and an accessibility award are some of the products of the three-year AEMA project that is now coming to an end.

This year’s EAEA Grundtvig award winners will receive miniature sculptures of Girona’s city symbols. The call for the award submissions is now open.

We are living in a changing society. People need new skills to respond to what’s happening around them and get on at work, in learning and in life.

In 2011, nearly 44 million Europeans declared that they have a disability that limits activities in their daily life.

The recently launched initiative by the European Commission sets objectives and requirements for EU member states to tackle the issue of low-skilled adults in Europe.

ADULT EDUCATION & REFUGEES. Thousands of refugees and migrants living in Europe are with disabilities, and their situation is often not very well known.

With the New Skills Guarantee (“Upskilling Pathways”), the European Commission has presented an ambitious strategy for improving skills of adults all around Europe.

ADULT EDUCATION & REFUGEES. One and a half years after the climax of the so-called “refugee crisis”, people are still fleeing Syria and the conflict zones in the Middle East in great numbers, searching a safer life in Europe.