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A positive assessment on the growth and impact of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) prevailed during the third Annual Conference of the network, which was hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Education in Madrid, from 23 – 25 May 2013. EBSN has gained increased visibility and entails a great potential to provide informed guidance on issues of literacy, numeracy and basic skills. EBSN was created in 2010, bringing together governmental and non-governmental adult education providers and research institutes from 26 countries in Europe, as well as four associated members from other regions. The overall aim of the network is to support the European Commission’s “Renewed Agenda for Adult Learning”.
Aside from planning a series of thematic policy briefs, the network has also made progress in preparing the “EBSN Academy”, which will offer courses to train trainers and decision-makers in non-formal basic adult education.
UIL has been a member of EBSN since its foundation and was represented in the Madrid Conference by Senior Programme Specialists Bettina Bochynek and Ulrike Hanemann, identifying potential resource persons for future UIL activities as well as “effective practices” for LitBase.
The next Annual Conference will be hosted by the Hungarian Association for Lifelong Learning (ALL) in May/June 2014 in Budapest.
For the presentations and further information on the Annual Conference and on EBSN:
http://www2.basicskills.eu/arrangementer/events-archive/ebsn-annual-conference-ga-2013/
