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Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in more than 40 countries, including OECD members and G20 partners.
Featuring more than 100 charts, 200 tables, and over 100 000 figures, Education at a Glance provides key information on the ouput of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools.
The publication can be previewed and ordered on OECD website.

EAEA is delighted to invite you to the ARALE Conference that will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2013 in the conference center Science14 in Brussels.

• What? EAEA´s ARALE Conference
• When? 2nd of October at 9.30 am - till 3rd of October at 5pm
• Where? Science14, Rue de la Science, 14b, 1000 Brussels. Map to the Venue.

The ARALE Project

EAEA´s project ARALE for "Awareness Raising for Adult Learning and Education" aims to collect awareness raising and advocacy activities for adult education in Europe. Those activities might be directed at the general public, at specific target groups and at policy-makers. The project´s objective is to get better information and knowledge about awareness raising activities and better know-how on how to organise, structure and execute awareness raising activities from a civil society perspective.
The ARALE Conference
The ARALE Conference will present the results of the project and some best practise examples of awareness raising activities for adult education that were organised in Europe towards the general public, specific target groups and policy-makers. Workshops will allow the participants to discuss specific issues in smaller groups. The agenda is currently being drafted.
Registration to the conference
To take part in the ARALE Conference, please register by clicking the button below.

The registration will be open until Friday 13th of September, but please register as early as possible.
Travel and accommodation
Please arrange yourself your travels and hotel booking as soon as possible. EAEA will cover the costs of one night per participant. EAEA will not cover the travel costs and will not cover a second night. We have negotiated good prices in two centrally located hotels in Brussels. If you wish to stay in a hotel and book one of these, please contact us at tania.berman@eaea.org.

By Aura Vuorenrinne. The member states of the European Union, European Commission and European Parliament have finally reached the agreement on the new programme for education, youth and sport. For adult educators Erasmus+ does not seem that bad after all.
Erasmus+, previously known as Erasmus for All or YES Europe combines the Lifelong Learning Programme, international cooperation programmes (e.g. Erasmus Mundus) and Youth in Action. Additionally, Erasmus+ includes sports.
Adult educators can now let out a sigh of relief.
- There have been significant improvements to the original plan of the Commission and I think adult education community can be very happy about that, says Gina Ebner, the Secretary-General of the EAEA. Read more...

The European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning - EUCIS-LLL - has been advocating for validation as a key tool for lifelong learning for years and has now set up a task force to further tackle the issue. EAEA is a member of EUCIS-LLL.
The task force will look at the implementation of the 2012 Council Recommendation on the validation of non-formal and informal learning, as well as the current revision of Cedefop 2009 European Guidelines for validating non-formal and informal learning and 2010 European Inventory on validation.
EUCIS-LLL held the first meeting of the task force on 11 July 2013. Participants exchanged views with a European Commission representative that gave an update on the policy background. They debated on their vision of validation and recognition of learning outcomes, more particularly acquired in non-formal and informal settings. During their next meeting, platform experts and practitioners will discuss and adopt the task force action plan.
[via EUCIS-LLL newsletter]

The publication is released in the framework of the project "Promoting the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs: Strengthening individual learning pathways by developing skills assessment tools for workers".
"Recognition of non-formal and informal competences of workers´ representatives" briefs on arrangement that validates skills, competences and knowledge acquired through learning in non-formal and informal environments.
SOLIDAR has produced the publication together with its project partners DGB-Bildungswerk, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (ABF), Fagligt Internationalt Center (FIC) and European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
[via EUCIS-LLL newsletter]

EAEA GRUNDTVIG AWARD 2013. EAEA hands out the yearly EAEA Grundtvig Award to a successful European learning partnership. This year´s theme for the award was "Active citizenship and transnational solidarity - Adult Education as a tool against nationalism, chauvinism and xenophobia".
The article series spreads good practices by introducing the nominees of EAEA Grundtvig Award 2013.
The Radiocracy project aimed at developing radio content from and about local government in rural areas. It had the objective of engaging and training local youth on the creation and dissemination of radio content on their localities. Participants were involved in creating a series of radio programmes with a view to improving youth awareness of democratic systems.
The participants were made up of three teams: one from Cyprus, one from England and one from France. There were five young people aged between 18 and 25 years old in each team. Each team had a leader experienced in radio work. The English and French participants were mostly young people working as volunteers in radio stations, and the participants from Cyprus were all involved in media studies. The participant groups were all working as teams in their own countries, and they worked in partnership with the teams from the other countries. This allowed them to understand the democratic processes of their own countries better, and to compare it with those of other European countries. More...

The EU-funded GRUNDTVIG project "OED: Outreach - Empowerment - Diversity" brings together expertise in the field of research and development of adult education. The overall aim is to tackle the need for outreach to marginalised groups, especially migrants and ethnic minorities, for the development of more diversity in adult education, for the inclusion of learners' voices, and for the empowerment of its learners to become active European citizens.
This article introduces a series of good practices which are available on the OED website. They will also be presented on the OED Facebook page during the next few weeks.
The first outcome of the collective efforts of the network is a collection of good practices. It brings together 28 examples of good practice from 13 partners in the European Union. These good practices were analysed by the German Institute for Adult Education, Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) in order to find starting points for professional development leading towards inclusive adult education. For this reason, the OED project is relevant to all adult education providers as a means to make progress in shaping inclusive adult education based on empirical evidence. Read more...