In my understanding, the future of adult Education in Europe will heavily depend on the availability of affordable and accessible educational and training services for adult learners so as to develop their skills, knowledge and, at the same time, collect and share through learning with other active members of their communities either in social or economic perspectives. In order to raise participation in adult learning, we have to work effectively with key stakeholders, to enlarge learning partnerships and learning communities, e.g. learning cities/neoghbourhoods and regions and thereby we may be able to step forward for more inclusion and active citizenship. Inclusion, for this reason, is a flagship issue for GEM Report 2020 and Active and Global Citizenship will be in the focus of UIL's GRALE5. Therefore, the future of adult learning begins with having to signal more attention to understanding, equity, tolerance, inclusion and critical thinking and discourse. The EAEA focus is, in my scope, very important to recognise trends and issues we may be able to relate to and futher discuss.  

Adult education cannot ignore, and does not ignore, the fact that we have an "aging" society. These adults, the elderly are still adults, have particularities that educational programs cannot ignore.

I agree with David. The future of adult learning is shaping the path of adult lifelong learning. By varying educational tools and resources, we create certain learning opportunities. Unfortunately, they are not always appreciated and used by adults. By multiplying the training offer, we are constantly pushing for one pedal - to learn, to learn. The bicycle with which a person travels his way of life has two pedals: 1) to learn; 2) to use knowledge in action  to  achieve they goals. We need this person's life perspective to create an attractive educational offer for him. I think that adult education will integrate in the future with other areas: employment, health, culture. These integrated contexts will be better able to respond to the needs of adults.

Adult learning plays a very important role in economic development. Everything in the world is changing rapidly.

Namely, my country is facing the Covid 19 pandemic now on a much larger scale than at the beginning. However, teachers who work in schools in my canton are strongly opposed to teaching through e-teaching. Due to the impossibility of eudication and the very wide range of computer illiteracy, we are facing the dawn of a new school year and a forced attempt to return to the benches. My opinion as a young colleague of theirs is that this is a very worrying situation. Politicians who live from politics have only one goal to get as many votes as possible because it is their salary and no one cares about an ordinary person now that we have 4 times more infected, various beaches, nightclubs are organized, and teachers do not even have to be educated. The problem of teacher education is especially pronounced in our canton. The question is how to motivate these people ????