All Inclusive – Adult Education and Inclusion: new cooperative approaches Erasmus Project

Project Title

All Inclusive – Adult Education and Inclusion: new cooperative approaches

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has clearly stated that inclusion should also apply in adult education: people with a disability should be able to participate in adult education in the same way as all other people. The project “All inclusive – adult education and inclusion: new cooperative approaches ALL IN” creates innovative products that are intended to support adult educators, to implement adult education in a practical and needs-based manner. To achieve this, five of the nine partners are implementing model inclusion with the help of an inclusion advisory board on site. These advisory boards are made up of people with disabilities and experts in the field of disability aid. Course offers are developed, implemented and evaluated together. After the start-up phase of ALL IN, courses are implemented in the model locations until the end of the three-year project period. This is summarized as a result in the brochure “Transfer Model Inclusion”. In addition, these results are transferred and further developed by other institutions applying the recommendations. The brochure is intended to stimulate and motivate people to realize inclusion themselves and provides specific instructions, help and tips for their own further education and learning. In addition, it goes into the special features of the target group “People with Disabilities” as well as the special management and organizational aspects in adult education (in particular financing, marketing, networking and cooperation, didactics, mobility, offer development etc.).
In order for inclusion to succeed, it must first be determined where the special needs of the target group lie, which special local structures, providers and offers already exist in this sector. To this end, the project is developing a special analysis tool to collect the relevant data. Another – central – result of the project are learning materials for the non-formal education of adult educators, in which the results of the model implementation in the project are presented. In addition, there is a guideline for management for adult education institutions and a policy paper, since inclusion is in many ways not only an organizational but also a political topic, for example with regard to the legal framework or financial support.

Inclusion is implemented in some adult education institutions (e.g. in the German adult education centers in Bamberg, Stuttgart or, to some extent, in Cologne). There are also guidelines and concepts for making educational facilities for adult education accessible. The main goal of ALL IN is to realize inclusion together over a longer period of time, cooperatively with people with disabilities and experts from the field of disability aid on the spot, to create further education material for adult educators and to disseminate the knowledge from it in a European context. Crossing sectoral borders and networking between disability aid and adult education is an innovative step in many regions.
The project initially targets the group of people with disabilities, i.e. H. all those who are prevented from attending courses at adult education centers, training institutions, academies etc. due to physical or mental, intellectual impairments. This means that e.g. courses can be attended by visually, hearing or mobility impaired (e.g. by using appropriate aids or interpreters), or that courses are designed in such a way that they can be used equally by everyone (e.g. in the area of creativity), or that courses are developed especially aimed at people with disabilities (e.g. in basic education). Target group-specific educational work and program development is a necessary common working method in adult education, even if inclusion is specified.
Adult education is a public task and should therefore be accessible to all groups. In this sense, the project serves the overarching goal of social participation and basically includes all people who have difficulties in attending courses due to different barriers. This also affects people on the margins of society, the poor, single parents, migrants and refugees with no language skills, etc. This initiative also takes this into account. The project – and hence the acronym ALL IN – is intended to contribute to bringing this ideal of non-discriminatory adult education closer: everyone should be included.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 334980 Eur

Project Coordinator

Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Deutschland – Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft e.V.
• ASOCIACION DE PERSONAS PARTICIPANTES AGORA
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS
• KatHaz Kozhasznu Nonprofit Kft.
• SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON
• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• Izobrazevalni center Geoss d.o.o.