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The European Commission has constituted two working groups in 2012 to support its work on adult learning and education, one on quality and another one financing. These working groups comprise of experts from EU Member States. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is represented in the expert group on the financing of adult learning by its Deputy Director, Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo. For their second meeting, the group convened on 25-26 September 2012 in Brussels where discussion focused on the development of policy guidelines. Examples of the financing of adult learning and education in Slovenia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were also presented. The specific issues of re-skilling and up-skilling as well as social inclusion and active citizenship were addressed in thematic sub-groups.
The meeting concluded with the planning for the next meeting (scheduled for November 2012), where the first results of a study on financing adult education, which has been commissioned by the European Commission in 2012, will be shared. Planning is also underway for a “European Conference on the Financing of Adult Learning”, which will be jointly organised by CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) and the European Commission on 12–13 December 2012 in Brussels.
