Thank you for this conference❤️

Thank you for this conference and great success!

Well done! Wonderful work!

Fantastic team!

Great job everyone, you are amazing, very well done, so enjoyable!

Can't see them :(

...and finally.... let’s see the results of our poll!

In this word cloud we can see the answers to our question: “What is the power of adult learning in shaping a sustainable future for Europe?”

Hello! Thanks for the sharing!

If you are interested, here it is an EAEA interesting paper about adult learning in rural areas:

https://eaea.org/2020/11/17/new-paper-explores-access-to-adult-learning…

*Learning and Education (for) with the older people is a right and an investment!* 

With hope and friendship from Coimbra, Portugal!

EPALE wants to hear from you!

We have prepared a survey to know better what are your habits and experiences using EPALE and your suggestions to help us improve. The survey also includes a section with specific questions on the conference. 

It’s a short series of questions, which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete and it will be available until 2 November. 

The survey at the moment is available in English, but it will be soon translated into all EPALE languages.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EPALE_SURVEY_2021 

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

We have 6 national panels in national languages organised by National Support Services from Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia, Cyprus, Germany. 

Go to the conference page (you can find the banner on the home page) to have further information:

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/epale-community-conference-2021

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

The Conference doesn't end here!

Stay tuned for next week's Workshops:

• 18 October 10.00 -11.00 “Innovation’s role in the new normal of basic skills training: Ensuring learner-centred design and support”

• 18 October11.30 - 12.30 “Boosting outreach through partnership-building in order to promote the provision of adult basic skills”,

• 19 October 10.00 -11.00 “Green education in practice: how can we mainstream sustainability in the provision of adult learning”

• 19 October 11.30 -12.30  “Diversity and safe space in adult learning: checking our privilege”

• https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/epale-community-conference-2021-workshop-innovations-role-new-normal-basic-skills-training

• https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/epale-community-conference-2021-workshop-boosting-outreach-through-partnership-building-order

• https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/epale-community-conference-2021-workshop-green-education-practice-how-can-we-mainstream

• https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/epale-community-conference-2021-workshop-diversity-and-safe-space-adult-learning-checking-our

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

Great point about the care of women and caring women :)

Some useful readings on ageing and intergenerational learning...you are welcome to add more articles!

GREEN PAPER ON AGEING - Fostering solidarity and responsibility between generations

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/green-paper-ageing-fostering-solidarity-and-responsibility-between

Insights from the EPALE discussion on active ageing and life transitions

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/insights-latest-discussion-active-ageing-and-life-transitions

Lifelong learning in later life: Active aging through learning

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/lifelong-learning-later-life-active-aging-through-learning

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

Is learning later in life just as much to do with connecting with others as well as the learning taking place? If so, is the promotion on the uses of technology towards people of an older age being done in the right way.eg, to focus on the connecting aspect and less so the learning aspect?

Can someone talk about intergenerational learning and its chances to help both sides? 

Thanks for sharing your inspiring experiences and perspectives! I would like to know your comments and ideas about gender stereotypes and gender roles - how do they come into the picture?

Dina Soeiro's Community Story!

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/dina-soeiro-community-story-portugal

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

I would like to draw your attention to an EPALE article about the work of Dagmar Hirche's NGO 'Ways out of Loneliness': https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/active-participation-digital-world-not-question-age
They are doing a great job! Their Website (in German): https://www.wegeausdereinsamkeit.de/

Thank you for updating such an important theme as active ageing!

The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform (DSJP) provides a wide range of high-quality information, resources and opportunities related to the area of digital skills and jobs across all levels, from very basic to advanced. It has been created as one of the initiatives launched under the Connecting Europe Facility Programme.

It will contribute to the Digital Europe Programme – an ambitious EU programme that strives to make Europe more competitive in the global digital economy through digital capacity-building and ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the EU. Enforcing the digital skills pillar of the programme, the Platform aspires to boost the digital competencies of European society and workforce.  

Here is the link to the video just showcased:

ttps://digital-skills-jobs.europa.eu/

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

How can the education of democracy be implemented for adults?

Also starting from Divina’s keynote I’d like to raise attention again on critical digital skills: how can we critically evaluate information and sources in the online environment? Do you have any suggestions for fact-checking? And what role does technology plays in this?

Curious about the DIGIT-AL toolbox?

https://dttools.eu/

Democracy and rights-based education is empowering learners to exercise and defend their rights and responsibilities, and to co-create the society. Any successful democratic transformation requires citizens understanding the change and willing to involve in discourses and decisionmaking.

Have a look at the website to deepen Nils Zimmermann's intervention.

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

Following Nenja Welbers' introduction to the All Digital Manifesto,
please find below a few articles.

Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Transition in Adult Education

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/it/node/170897

The All Digital Manifesto

https://all-digital.org/manifesto/

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

Digital poverty first needs to be eradicated to ensure ALL citizens have the access as well as the skills.

Hello everyone,

we published two publications about this topic as well. Take a look in our publications Citizenship Education in Austria and Europe: Objectives, methods and future prospects and Digital Participation.

Nice greetings from Vienna

The use of digital technology must be improved in our prisons, low levels of digital literacy are very much prevalent within prison. 

Digital literacy has to be boosted to highlight the importance of education in any single aspect of our lives. Don't you think Education has to be the centre of digital literacy?

How do you plan to react at famous people officially declaring in public that nowadays education is no longer important as long as one can find everything on the internet 

Trolling is a serious problem in our current climate and it has repercussions for the entire society...

This is a very important issue for us who in Italy are experiencing moments of tension due to the necessary contagion control measures applied to the world of work. Thank you to Divina Frau-Meigs.

Thanks Divina for the insights! It seems that citizens’ participation is key for democratizing the media landscape. If citizens participate in the media also as creators, do you think that the very concept of citizenship might change?

Hi everyone,

I'm James, Programme Manager for Digital Inclusion at the London Borough of Camden, Adult Community Learning.

My primary interest is in basic, first steps digital skills education in community settings.

As mentioned by Tamsin... here are a bunch of not-to-be-missed links!

The EPALE survey

EPALE wants to hear from you! We have prepared a survey to know better what are your habits and experiences using EPALE and your suggestions to help us improve.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EPALE_SURVEY_2021

The new Eurydice report

The new Eurydice report (released in Sept ‘21) focuses on adult education and training in Europe. It investigates current approaches to promoting lifelong learning, with a particular emphasis on policies and measures supporting adults with low levels of skills and qualifications to access learning opportunities. It represents 42 education and training systems across 37 European countries.

https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/adult-education-and-training-europe-building-inclusive-pathways-skills-and-qualifications

Claudia (EPALE Moderator)

Good morning, all, I'm David Breakspear from England. My interest is very much around adult learning within a prison environment.