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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
- The democratic-emancipatory model;
- The modernisation and state controlled model; and
- The human resources management model.
Lead: KERIGMA
Length: 1 hour
Start date: Tuesday 28th July 2015