EAEA has awarded adult education projects in its 20th annual Grundtvig Awards. This year’s award celebrated Adult Learning and the Green Transition.

Throughout 2023 and until mid-2024, the European Union will review the state of implementation of the European Education Area, including policy initiatives and strategies in adult learning and education. National reports will play a central role in the review process: this is where you can have a say! Let the European Union know which impact the European Education Area has had in your country!

The MOVE-UP project intends to develop a flexible and quality upskilling pathway for unemployed women who are dedicating most of their time and efforts to the role of mother and who are in need to (re) join education activities and the job market.

The European Year of Skills will start officially on 9 May 2023 and will run until 8 May 2024. The thematic year aims to promote the visibility and uptake of further education and training in adult life and provides a unique opportunity for stakeholders to engage in discussions, learn from each other, and promote work in the field of skills development across Europe.

EAEA’s new statement says that more needs to be done at the EU and national levels to give adult learners access to learning mobility. Learning mobility is essential for the development of new skills, the promotion of health and well-being, the strengthening of European solidarity, cohesion, and democracy, and the motivation to learn.

The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) calls for more inclusive and effective paid training leave schemes that can be exercised transnationally across the EU to increase participation in adult learning.

EAEA stands in solidarity with all the people affected by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, calling on the international community to deliver consistent relief and recovery aid for these communities. Adult education is a fundamental brick of our society and will give an invaluable contribution to rebuild the affected communities.

The ongoing European Year of Skills has put skills and the surrounding discussion into the spotlight. The new paper “Basic skills and Bildung” proposes that we should adopt a more holistic understanding of basic skills and rethink the teaching and learning approaches.

In February we had a workshop with members of the European civil society in Brussels in order to start with the co-creation stage of the SAFE Board Game. The participants agreed that a safe learning space is not just a place but is essentially how we create relationships that are self-reflective and inclusive.

According to the new publication by the Bildung project, “Sustainability and Bildung”, education should sensitize learners to act on their responsibility and to question critically in the sense of transformative education.