Posts tagged with "outreach"

  • Challenges and recommendations in Liechtenstein

    The foundation’s main challenge is ensuring that activities are accessed by those who need it most. Adult learning opportunities offered by the Foundation are mostly used by well-educated adults. The foundation has set a goal to develop a subject-...

  • Recent developments in the Netherlands

    Even though the Netherlands has one of the highest percentages of adults involved in learning, increasing the participation of adults in education remains on the national and regional agenda. In 2019, the Dutch cabinet, in cooperation with social...

  • Challenges and recommendations in Portugal

    One of the main challenges that adult education organisations are facing nowadays in Portugal is lack of steady and solid funding. Irregular and insufficient funding can affect the capacity of adult education institutions, weakening their outreach...

  • Challenges: More holistic vision of continuous learning is needed

    According to EAEA’s members, Finland needs a more overarching vision of continuous learning. One of the challenges recognised in non-formal adult education is the accumulation of learning to the active citizens. Thus, one of the focus areas in adu...

  • Challenges: Promoting liberal education before vocationalism

    The main challenge adult education providers are facing are the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many seminars and conferences were postponed and had to be moved to a digital environment. The crisis had deteriorating financial consequences f...

  • Challenges: Popularisation of adult education as an ongoing challenge

    The main challenge for the upcoming year is enhancing the popularity of adult education in smaller towns and villages, as it continues to be seen as an extension of school education. The Polish society still has a rather narrow picture of adult ed...

  • Challenges: Divided impact by Covid

    Because of the pandemic, learning programmes were adapted to the new circumstances. They continued partly online and partly face-to-face. The terms for the Swedish non-formal adult education, both folk high schools and study associations, have bee...