What keeps Portugal’s elderly offline?
News story. In Portugal only slightly over one third of senior citizens use the internet. In order to fight this digital exclusion, more must be done, researcher Celiana Azevedo argues.
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News story. In Portugal only slightly over one third of senior citizens use the internet. In order to fight this digital exclusion, more must be done, researcher Celiana Azevedo argues.
Feature. A recent study found that particularly older internet users were responsible for sharing fake news online. But there’s much more to the seniors’ media literacy skills than that, as resear...
Editorial. The global coronavirus outbreak has exposed how vulnerable the older generation can be in the ever-digitalising world. During self-isolation, learning digital skills is also the gateway to ...
Reportage. Kalab is a community centre in Bratislava run by volunteers who saw a cure for intolerance in bringing people together.
Feature. Beirut’s first municipal library was opened at the beginning of the millennium. In the libraries of Lebanon’s capital city there is a desire to promote not only lifelong learning but also...
Spot on. The creation of new learning opportunities in the cities should include also the idea that the negative effects of urbanisation could be solved, writes Lauri Tuomi.
Feature. What if the whole city was a lifelong learning space in itself? The Finnish capital Helsinki is aiming to lead the way in this.
Editorial. As more and more people become packed into cities, all aspects of our lives, including learning, will be urbanised. But does the environment have any effect on learning at all?
Reportage. Life in a city is shaped by common history. How can these roots be best discovered? By telling stories! At "narrative cafés", people sit comfortably together and talk about their experienc...
Reportage. What do human beings hope from their urban environments? One answer is non-commercial spaces allowing them to engage in meaningful social interactions and new experiences. But building educ...
World of Research. Solving wicked problems such as the climate crisis requires changes to lifestyle, technology and political decision-making. In addition we need to develop our fundamental ways of th...
Speaker’s Corner. The adult education sector should try to unite around a common brand and agree on some key messages describing what we are doing, writes Uwe Gartenschlaeger, President of EAEA.
News story. Annual Conference of the European Association of Adult Education EAEA was held in Copenhagen in June. Holistic approach on lifelong learning that takes into account all human skills was st...
Toolkit. While teaching primary school children requires a qualification, in many countries virtually anyone can declare themselves to be an adult educator. The GRETA project in Germany is trying to f...
Editorial. How do you prove that you have a certain skill? This is the question on everyone’s lips in the field of non-formal or liberal adult education. My question was, do I really have to?
Interview. Qualifica centres are state-supported validation and qualification centres for adults. The results are promising, as the example of Azambuja's Qualifica centre shows.
Feature. The modern world of open borders, workforce mobility and ever more digital and non-formal learning opportunities pose a validation challenge: a need to establish up-to-date methods for recogn...
Three quick-ones. Skills-based badges not only recognise a learner’s achievements but also boost their self-esteem and motivation.
Interview. French learning technology expert challenges the monopoly of institutional validation and shares his view on how learning should be recognised.
Speakers’ Corner. At the beginning of last year in Finland, a necessary reform entered into force in which the role of liberal adult education institutes in the training of basic skills to immigrant...
Feature. Art should belong to everyone in the same way as health services. Nonetheless, adults inspired by music, for example, are easily excluded from art education.
Feature. Grandma Came to Work is a project with a wide scope: the participants are elderly women who create design objects, break stereotypes and have fun - and gain health benefits as a side product.
Editorial. Education seems to have many benefits for health – and being able to make better decisions about whom to resort to in times of sickness might be one of them.
Interview. Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
News story. Instead of looking for company and discussing their issues, men tend to isolate themselves. This leads to many kinds of health issues, which the Men's Sheds movement is targeting.
Spot on. The media is full of conversation and articles about health with various opinions and methods. Some of them are true and some only groundless nonsense or even harmful advice. Voluntary medici...
Feature. There is a two-way relationship between education and health. Lifelong learning opportunities are key to better health and social equality.
Feature. New skills and training can help boost health inside and outside prison. A multi-disciplinary approach with education, health awareness training and disease prevention plays a key role in wel...
Toolkit. Mature age students often experience trepidation when taking on adult learning courses. Here are a few reasons why one should face their fears and do it anyway.
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...