Mid-life Career Review
Adult education policies

A session to explore how mid-life career reviews could contribute to the (UK) Government’s extending working lives agenda. Are there similar agendas across Europe?

Lead: NIACE

Length: 1 hour

Start Date: Tuesday 1st September 2015

Global tendencies in Adult Education
Adult education policies

A session on global tendencies in adult education and the work of ICAE to ensure the right to education and lifelong learning remains on global agendas.

Lead: ICAE

Length: 2 hours

Start date: Tuesday 15th September 2015

What it is to be a National Coordinator for the European agenda for adult learning
Adult education policies

NIACE is the current UK national coordinator for the European Agenda for adult learning. This session will provide an update on some of the innovation projects and peer-learning activities from 2013 and 2014.

Lead: NIACE

Length: 1 hour

Start date: Tuesday 25th August 2015

Adult education and partnership working
Adult education policies

A session to explore how adult education organisations can effectively bring together key stakeholders to create strong partnerships in order to ensure that adult education is on local agendas across different sectors.

Lead: NIACE

Length: 1 hour

Start date: Tuesday 8th September 2015

Capacity building on a global level: its importance, the challenges, and key experiences with special attention to IALLA
Adult education policies

The session will focus on capacity building on a global level: its importance, the challenges, as well as key experiences of the IALLA (ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy) which will be shared with participants to provide examples of training around advocacy - an international training programme aimed at helping young leaders acquire advocacy skills through a participatory methodology and the promotion of global networking among civil society organisations as major international actors.

Lead: ICAE

Length: 2 hours

Start date: Tuesday 11th August 2015

Folkbildning: a publicly financed civil society structure in adult education
Adult education policies

A presentation on the structure and working methods of folkbildning as part of adult education in Sweden. This session also gives room for comparative reflections on adult education and democracy in other countries.

Lead: FOLAC

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Start date: Tuesday 18th August 2015

The impact of adult education in Portugal
Adult education policies

This session will analyse, from the variety of research conducted in local contexts, the impact of validation and certification of competences in Portugal in the promotion of active citizenship, increasing motivation to participate in other educational settings as well as employability.

Lead: KERIGMA

Length: 1 hour

Start date: Tuesday 4th August 2015

Democracy and adult education In Portugal
Adult education policies

This session aims to inform participants about the evolution of the Lifelong Learning and Education policies in Portugal. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to understand the Learning and Education Policies in Portugal which were influenced by educational policies of welfare and neo-liberal states. Thus, we will expose and analyse three main policy models around adult education:

  1. The democratic-emancipatory model;
  2. The modernisation and state controlled model; and
  3. The human resources management model.

Lead: KERIGMA

Length: 1 hour

Start date: Tuesday 28th July 2015