Adult Educational guidance and information service Erasmus Project

Project Title

Adult Educational guidance and information service

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

Participation in adult education represents an attitude of lifelong learning which serves different objectives for a variety of people. Irrespective of the age, origin, social or economic background, adult education must be accessible, transparent and visible. However, some adults are struggling to find their way through the adult education scenery. The aim of this project was to (1) raise participation in adult education, (2) decrease the inequality in participation (matheuseffect) and (3) improve the impartial adult education information and guidance service with the task of increasing awareness, offer information, orientation and guidance (in formal, non-formal and informal learning).

Thanks to a partnership between Belgium, Lithuania, Finland, the United Kingdom, Austria and Slovenia good practices and methods were exchanged through learning activities in which we visited each other’s organisation and important stakeholders in the guidance community. Each partner had an own context, vision, target groups, experiences, methods, instruments and tools in adult education information and guidance which guaranteed a broad spectre to create a strategic partnership. By sharing good practices, implementing and evaluating methods the project aimed at the creation or elaboration of a central service point (a one stop learning shop) in each organisation/country which is adapted to the local/regional/national context.

The process of the project has been disseminated at different ways: study visit reports, project management team reports, information on websites (nationaly and on www.adeigus.be), flyers for potential adult learners, blogs, and national study days at the end of the project to inform the local/regional/national guidance community and to strenghten the network. This network in the guidance community seemed crucial for outreach to more disadvantaged adult learners.

The dissimination activities offer the adult guidance community the opportunity to use the information and help to increase the impact of the project. Enable better quality of the one stop learning shop by improved skills and competences of counsellors and increased awareness about the existence including referrals by the guidance community both allowed (disadvantaged) adult learners to participate more in adult education. The final goal of this project was a structural anchoring of a one stop learning shop by influencing the adult guidance community, the public field and the policy level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126675 Eur

Project Coordinator

HUIS VAN HET LEREN WEST-VLAANDEREN VZW & Country: BE

Project Partners

• ASPIRE IGEN GROUP LIMITED
• SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH
• LJUDSKA UNIVERZA NOVA GORICA
• ESPOON SEUDUN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA OMNIA