Ljudska Univerza Ajdovščina (Ajdovščina Adult Education Centre) is the local information and counselling centre for adult education based in the town of Ajdovščina (Vipava Valley), Slovenia. It has 8 employees, and numerous external staff members. In addition, we collaborate with development agencies, the Employment service, social work centres, libraries, municipalities, chambers, tourist information centres, local communities, economic entities, etc. In fact, we work with all those willing to participate by offering programmes for raising the quality of life of local inhabitants.

Our organization offers programmes for different vulnerable target groups, such as unemployed, elderly people, young people without finished primary or secondary school, and immigrants. Our programmes are oriented towards raising the level of literacy in general, as well as the levels of ICT literacy and digital literacy. Furthermore, they focus on lifelong learning, and intergenerational cooperation and learning. We try to create a collaborative learning environment where all the learners (elderly and young) can acquire and improve their skills, and seek the innovations and best practices by the means of lifelong learning, intergenerational learning, and e-learning.

Our missions and visions are based on professionalism, individual approach, knowledge, good relations and orientation towards the future.

We have considerable experience with intergenerational learning, social inclusion, projects for rural population, integration of immigrants, etc. We have gained this experience by collaborating on national projects, which were co-financed by the European Social Fund, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, and the Ministry of the Interior. Moreover, through the Lifelong Learning programme, we participated in numerous international projects, such as Social Inclusion in Action, »Tandems go!« – Twinning the elderly and young people as a possibility of e-learning, Development of new VET programmes to improve competitiveness in the labour market, and Green Education – Back to nature.