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Challenges and issues for Adult Education in Europe. Cyprus, 29 March 2013. What is EAEA anyway?. It works with adult education and lifelong learning It concentrates on the non formal-sector - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Challenges and issues for Adult Education in Europe
Cyprus, 29 March 2013
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What is EAEA anyway?• It works with adult education and lifelong
learning
• It concentrates on the non formal-sector
• It is an association with 127 members, from 43 countries, representing 5000 associations, reaching 40-60 million adults annually
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Recent Activities • Lobbying for (and against) “Erasmus for all”• Focus on older learners and intergenerational learning• Policy paper on active aging • Policy debate at the EP• General Assembly and Conference on Older Learners
• Cooperation-Workshop for EAEA-non-EU members• EC Conference on Active Ageing• Advocacy workshop for adult education in development• Younger Staff Training
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Policy level – what is planned?
• European Year 2013 of Citizens (Policy paper, GA and Grundtvig Award)
• Grundtvig Award on: Active citizenship and transnational solidarity - Adult Education as a tool against nationalism, chauvinism and xenophobia
• Rethinking Education
• OECD PIAAC study results in October 2013
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What are the issues?• Money• Crisis• Our role as adult educators?• Participation • Awareness raising• Advocacy• Partnerships and synergy
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Money• Financing • Staff development • Who gets the money under what
circumstances?• Funding for umbrella organisations• Can people still afford adult education?• And this leads to ….
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The economic crisis• Different impacts on different countries • Is it just an economic crisis?• What about Europe?• What should be the role of adult education in
times of crisis? • And what about belly dancing?
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Our role as adult educators?• Are we the repair workshop of society? • Is there still a place for personal development
and active citizenship? • What can we do to support people in times of
crisis (and which crises do we really face)?
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Participation• We’re too far away from the 15%!• We’re too much focused on the middle class
(but isn’t that disappearing?)• How can we reach out? (and who’ll pay for it?)• How can we reach more diversity? • How can we create a learning society?
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Advocacy• We need political support that goes beyond
speeches• Grundtvig • European Agenda• Agendas on national and local levels• We need more knowledge and debate about
the wider benefits of learning
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The wider benefits of adult learning
• Productivity• Health• Good parenting• Better economic
situation• More open-
mindedness
• Active citizenship• Less crime• More self-confidence• Better social
relations• More happiness
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Awareness Raising• We need – Campaigns– New target groups– More and new participants – More positive attitudes towards learning
• What works? • And what definitely works is:
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Partnerships and synergies• Pooling resources is one of the best ways to use them
efficiently• Networking is necessary to tackle the challenges of
the future • Examples such as learning regions, learning cities• Results: ‘huge benefits to individual learners and
opportunities for wider communities. Also I would argue that it has changed our professionalism itself (UK)’
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More information needed?Don’t hesitate to contact us!Gina EbnerSecretary [email protected]
Ricarda MotschilnigPolicy [email protected]
Francesca OpertiProject Assistant [email protected]
EAEA Main OfficeRue d’Arlon 40
1000 Brussels
Tel. 0032 2 234 3763
Fax 0032 2 235 0539
Website: www.eaea.org
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