European Association for the Education of Adults - EAEA

01/10/2026

📢 Join us for a webinar: Digital history education - House of European History

There are various ways of teaching history digitally. How do we make it interesting and relevant for an international audience, especially in a field where teaching and learning have a strong country focus?

Join us for this webinar to explore HistoriCall, the House of European History’s free digital learning platform for teaching history that combines history education, civic education, and digital technology, and is already available in all 24 EU languages.
📅 12 October 2026, 10:00–11:00 CET
📌 Register for the webinar: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/edeh_historicall

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The European Digital Education Hub (EDEH) is an initiative of the European Union, funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2021-2027) and operated by a consortium of organisations under a framework contract with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

30/09/2026

🌱 Inspiring practices: how adults across Europe are building Skills for work and life

Adult learners in Europe, from career changers to those far from the labour market, are gaining digital skills. This boost is often supported by public employment services and EU recovery funding.

Four practices from the new EU report "Advancing digital education for every learner" show what these services look like on the ground:

🤝Belgium: DigiYou helps young adults who aren't in education, work, or training. They become digital mentors in their communities, changing digital exclusion into local expertise.

🎓Bulgaria: RAABE provides free digital skills courses for both employed and unemployed adults. This is done through a training voucher scheme funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The accredited courses help boost digital competence.

💼Estonia: Cyborgs uses AI-powered workplace simulations to help adult learners, like managers and entrepreneurs, build soft skills. They practise leadership, conflict resolution, collaboration, and stakeholder management under pressure.

💻Sweden: Digitala jag, made with the Swedish Public Employment Service and Google, offers free micro-learning courses. You can learn about AI, how to evaluate online information, and tips for online job interviews. These courses help young people gain essential digital skills for work.

Read the full report for more innovative practices from across the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/efa878de-6ea9-11f1-ae88-01aa75ed71a1

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28/09/2026

What if the competences we develop in judo could help us to navigate life?

➡Judo is much more than a combat sport. It can be a powerful learning environment where personal, social, and learning-to-learn competences develop through practice, interaction and reflection. Using the European Commission’s LifeComp framework as a reference, the article explores how judo can contribute to developing these competences.

❔Interested in learning more?

🔗Read the full article: “Beyond the tatami: what can judo teach us about our own competences?” https://eaea.org/2026/09/23/beyond-the-tatami-what-can-judo-teach-us-about-our-own-competences/

28/09/2026

👉 SAVE THE DATE: November 3 at 15:30-17:00 CET, 9:30-11:00 EST

EAEA, the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations (COLLO) and the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) will host the second edition of the Lifelong Learning Across Borders series.

The webinar will focus on holistic approaches to adult learning and education in the US and the EU. Experts in the sector will walk you through adult learning practices that might make the two continents feel closer... or perhaps further apart! 👀

Get a first glimpse of our speakers with Maria Gonçalves Ribeiro from EAEA, Ginny Seltenright from Pima Community College and Alex Stevenson from Learning and Work Institute / Sefydliad Dysgu a Gwaith .

👉To learn more about the event and register follow the link: https://eaea.org/event/lifelong-learning-across-borders-second-appointment/

23/09/2026

🌍 Catch up: Digital gaps in tough conditions

Missed our webinar or want to revisit it to hear what digital education looks like inside a prison, or thirty kilometres from an active front line - and what these extreme conditions can teach the rest of us?

Highlights from the session:

Daiana Huber from the Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning shared insights on correctional education. She noted that a truly resilient tool can thrive even with limited infrastructure and strict information control. But digital tools can't replace sustained human contact - meaning-making happens between people, not platforms.

Tetiana Dalievska from Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science shared how Ukraine supports 3.5 million school-age children. Despite power cuts and displacement, over 600 higher education institutions continue learning. They use a national LMS, digital learning centres, and portable e-documents.

Svitlana Shytikova from the National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine explained how Erasmus+ has helped Ukrainian universities during the war. She highlighted Sumy State University's ongoing international cooperation, even though it is just thirty kilometres from the border.

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The European Digital Education Hub (EDEH) is an initiative of the European Union, funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2021-2027) and operated by a consortium of organisations under a framework contract with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

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21/09/2026

💡 Europe cannot build resilience without investing in people.

▶️ In response to Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address, EAEA presents five recommendations to ensure adult learning and education play a central role in building a resilient, inclusive and democratic Europe.

For those interested in a deeper reflection, we have also published a longer op-ed exploring what the 2026 State of the Union priorities mean for adult learning and education in Europe.

📖 Read our recommendations: https://eaea.org/2026/09/21/state-of-the-union-2026-why-europe-needs-to-invest-in-adult-learning/

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Photo: Philippe STIRNWEISS Copyright: European Union 2026 - Source : EP

17/09/2026

A new focus of the 2026 Gender Equality Strategy? Women's healthcare👩‍⚕️💪

On September 10, EARLALL - European Association of Regional & Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning and EAEA represented the Gender Equality Task Force for Lifelong Learning at the European Women's Lobby event at the European Committee of the Regions "Europe Is You: Young Feminist Leadership and the Institutions Within Reach".

As highlighted during the event, women's reproductive and sexual health, as well as access to knowledge about health-related rights, have gained increased visibility in recent years.

Healthcare is not a gender-neutral topic. The gendering of care starts well before people enter the labour market.

💡 According to recent EIGE data, men make up only 16% of graduates from Education, Health and Welfare (EHW) fields in vocational education and training (VET) in the EU.

✉️ Against this backdrop, the Gender Equality Task Force for Lifelong Learning is organising a workshop on “Rethinking Care Careers: Gender, Skills and Wellbeing for Stronger Regions” during the European Week of Regions and Cities. EfVET

📖 Read our article to discover more: https://eaea.org/2026/09/14/gender-equality-strategy-2026-a-renewed-focus-on-lifelong-learning-and-the-care-sector/

16/09/2026

🌐 Catch up: Well-being in digital education

Well-being in hashtag is a growing priority across Europe. Missed our webinar or want to revisit it to hear three experts make the case that well-being isn't a soft add-on to digital education - it's a precondition for it?
Highlights from the session:

➡Kadri Mettis from Tallinn University shared insights from the WINDEE project. She found that teachers' digital skills strongly predict the well-being of both teachers and their students. Device bans without alternatives don't work.

➡Justina Pluktaitė, the EDEH ambassador, introduced the Hub squad's "Think WiDE, Act WiDE" framework. It focuses on four key areas: institutional support, policy integration, social connectedness, and physical well-being.

➡Lea Hildermeier from Hochschulforum Digitalisierung shared insights on higher education. She highlighted the sharp decline in German student well-being. Also, she explained that technostress, loneliness, and digital violence are not just student issues; they are responsibilities of the institutions.

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The European Digital Education Hub (EDEH) is an initiative of the European Union, funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2021-2027) and operated by a consortium of organisations under a framework contract with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

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10/09/2026

The latest OECD PISA results show a worrying trend: PISA 2025 recorded the lowest OECD-average performance so far in science, reading and mathematics. Between 2022 and 2025 alone, average reading scores declined by 14 points and mathematics by 9 points. One in five 15-year-old students is now estimated to be a low performer across all three subjects - up from 16% in 2022. Furthermore, 49% of students reported that school has done little to prepare them for adult life.

The findings raise concerns about young people's preparedness for a rapidly changing world. In the age of AI, reading remains an important skill for evaluating information and making informed judgements.

The new OECD report “Future-Ready Students” also highlights various aspects that are important for learning throughout life, such as curiosity, adaptability, perseverance and agency. If nearly half of the students feel that school has not prepared them for adult life, lifelong learning and adult education have an increasingly important role to play.

As adult education builds on the foundations laid by earlier education, these findings suggest challenging times ahead. This is why an adequate budget for adult education is necessary! As EAEA's Cuts Cost More campaign argues, the cost of underinvesting in learning is far greater than the cost of supporting it.

Read more on results: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

Read more on EAEA's campaign: https://eaea.org/our-work/influencing-policy/campaigns/

03/09/2026

EAEA, the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) and the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations are happy to invite you to the second appointment of Lifelong Learning Across Borders: Approaches to Serving Adult Skills Learners in Europe and the United States.

Across Europe and the United States, the green and digital transitions, changing labor markets and growing concerns about democratic resilience are reshaping the skills adults need to thrive.

🛑 But foundational skills are about more than literacy, numeracy or digital competences. A holistic approach means supporting the whole learner: combining foundational and digital skills with critical thinking, soft skills, active citizenship and the support adults need to access education, employment and lifelong learning.

Our upcoming webinar brings together perspectives from Europe and the United States to explore:
👉 What holistic foundational skills education looks like in practice
👉 What enables successful approaches
👉 Which barriers still need to be overcome
👉 What we can learn from each other across the Atlantic

The speakers will be:
Maria Gonçalves Ribeiro (EAEA), Ginny Seltenright (Pima Community College). Alexander Stevenson (Learning and Work Institute / Sefydliad Dysgu a Gwaith), Judith Alamprese (Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations), Willaert Ludwig (Ligo Brusselleer) and Anja Kathrin Meierkord (OECD).

Read more and register now! https://eaea.org/event/lifelong-learning-across-borders-second-appointment/