Projects

EAEA coordinates, partners and offers dissemination services to projects related to adult education.

EAEA is actively participating in European projects, both as coordinator and partner. Our aim is to achieve concrete outcomes in EAEA’s areas of interest and to influence adult education and lifelong learning policies through advocacy.

Dissemination expertise

EAEA is requested as a partner in European projects with increasing tendency. An important role that the association often takes over in these projects is the dissemination and the promotion of their results. Due to this specialization, EAEA offers specific dissemination services to organisations all over Europe.

Topics

The projects are focused on strategic facets of adult education. Browse the project by topic: Policy and advocacy, Professionalisation, Social inclusion, Validation of learning, and Intergenerational learning.

Policy and advocacy

Projects working with policy and advocacy aim at influencing policies related to adult education.

The Partnerships and stakeholder engagement for Upskilling Pathways (Partner UP) intends to improve the implementation of Upskilling Pathways (UP) by identifying and engaging new stakeholders, establish and improve cooperation mechanisms and implementation plans with them. It intends to have a systemic impact on the implementation of Upskilling Pathways (UP) by developing new cooperation mechanisms.

EAEA-LED PROJECT/ ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

 

The Bildung project (2020 – 2023) contributes to the innovation of the European adult education sector by adopting the holistic concept of ‘Bildung’ and exploring its political and practical potential for adult learning and education.

EAEA-LED PROJECT/ ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

Archive – Completed projects on policy and advocacy

Professionalisation

Projects working with professionalisation focus on the capacity building of adult education professionals.

Path2EU4AE will provide adult learning organisations with a concrete tool to navigate EU funding opportunities.

EAEA-LED PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

RegALE aims to increase the impact and sustainability of regional/local adult education (AE) organisations by setting up or reinforcing networks among them and with regional/local authorities.

EAEA-LED PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA3 / ONGOING

Archive – Completed projects on professionalisation

Social inclusion

Projects on social inclusion work with reaching out to and engaging disadvantaged learners, such as people with migrant background or the elderly.

The All IN project aims to foster inclusive adult education by analysing and transferring the model institutions – in the sense of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  The key factor of this successful model is the cooperation between people with disabilities, relevant institutions and networks, and the project partners.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

The aim of DIVERSITY is to accompany the EU adult education systems in the mentality shift from focusing on migrants as distinct target groups and preparing them for integration into the society around them, towards including migrants into the providers’ regular programs as an equal target group.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

The main purpose of desinfoEND project is to promote the social inclusion of adults in a vulnerable situation through the acquisition of critical thinking and digital and media literacy skills.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

The SAFE project strives for social inclusion and change by improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities for adults through the creation of a comprehensive guide for creating and maintaining safe spaces for learning.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

The MOTIV-ACTION project aims to create new career opportunities for unemployed adults by increasing and improving digital guidance services in Europe. 

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

The aim of FOCAL is to support adult education staff in improving their strategic thinking about outreach in adult learning, and in making adult learning provision more learner-centred.

EAEA-LED PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA1 / ONGOING

The project Smart Against Ageism (SAA) focuses in raising knowledge against ageism and will contribute to develop empathy, tolerance and civil society skills.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

 

The project Artificial Intelligence 4 Adult Learning (AI4AL) aims to facilitate a mindful adoption of AI technologies in the Adult Learning and Education (ALE) sector.

EAEA-LED PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

The COPE project aims to prevent and combat social isolation and loneliness through art and culture. The project will introduce cultural activities facilitated by non-formal learning and training offers for adults.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

Archive – Completed projects on social inclusion

Validation of learning

EAEA sees validation as a key tool to promote lifelong learning, to ensure more flexible learning pathways, to encourage learners and build their self-confidence as well as to create a more comprehensive understanding of competences. Projects on validation promote all these things.

The MASTER project facilitates the participation of low-skilled adults in formal education/training opportunities and in the labour market by developing or reinforcing their personal, social, and learning competence (PSL competence).

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

The main aim of the GLAS project is to develop methodology for assessment and validation of ICT, numeracy, and language skills for adult education and guidance services practitioners.

PARTNER PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / COMPLETED

Archive – completed projects on validation

Sustainability

Projects on sustainability aim at adult education to provide competences, information, debating spaces and creativity to develop new approaches necessary for sustainable development

The Sustainability Matrix for ALE institutions focuses on improving the sustainability of adult learning and education (ALE) providers and organisations all over Europe and increasing their capacity to contribute to forward-looking (and sustainable) societal development.

EAEA-LED PROJECTS / ERASMUS+ KA2 / ONGOING

Intergenerational learning

Projects working with intergenerational learning are based on reciprocity and mutuality involving people of different ages where the generations work together to gain skills, values and knowledge

Archive – completed projects on intergenerational learning