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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning
1st World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris
28-29 October, 2008
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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008
Key issues at stake Four topics at the forefront
of the preparatory work for the 2009 world
conference of Adult Education CONFINTEA VI. May,
2009 Brazil - Poverty - Migration and its
relationship with adult learning - Taking the
central position of adult learning and education
as Education for All (EFA) and in the
Millenium Development Goals (MDG) - The need
for new policy and legislation to ensure the
right to learn without any kind of discrimination
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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008

• Three key messages for debate at the Budapest
  preparatory conference
• UNESCO regional conference 3-5 December 2008
  Budapest, Hungary
• More www.confintea.hu
• Confintea website at UNESCO http//www.unesco.or
  g/uil/en/focus/confintea.htm
• For the sake of sound guidance, we should
  remember the things we have recognised as issues
  in the past, the things we wanted and the things
  we did in the right way
• European adult learning policy development is
  uniquely positive in the co-operation of a
  region and is to be further developed and
  extended in the form of open dialogues
• Solidarity has to be globalised, for which Europe
  has a special responsibility.

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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008
Key documents Communication of the Commission
Its never too late to learn 2006 Action Plan
on Adult learning, it is always a good time to
learn 2007 Adult learning It is never too
late to learn Action Plan on Adult learning It
is always a good time to learn
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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008
Key reports, studies, recommendations on adult
learning
Adult Education trends and issues 2006 Adult
Education trends and issues Reports and
Studies Study on adult education providers
http//ec.europa.eu/education/doc/reports/doc/adu
lteducation.pdf Non-vocational adult education
in Europe, 2007 http//www.eurydice.org/ressource
s/eurydice/pdf/0_integral/083EN.pdf Adult
Learning Profession in Europe (2008)
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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008
1st World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008 Five messages of the Communication
2006 1. Lifting the barriers to participation 2.
Ensuring the quality of adult learning 3.
Recognition and validation of learning
outcomes 4. Investing in the ageing population
and migrants 5. Creating indicators and
benchmarks of adult learning
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Examples Grundtvig Success stories Europe
creates opportunities
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• Examples
• Promoting Social Inclusion through Basic Skills
  learning See
• http//www.nepfoiskola.hu/pro-bsl/

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- Managing Quality of adult education in Europe
See http//www.managingquality.lv/12partners.htm
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- European Inventory, validation of non-formal
and informal learning See http//www.ecotec.com/
europeaninventory/
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• Good Practice Examples of Intercultural Learning
• See http//www.intercultural-learning.net/nile/

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A coherent framework of indicators and benchmarks
for monitoring Lisbon objectives See
http//europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/cha/c11099.htm
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Globalising Solidarity through adult learning 1st
World Forum of Lifelong Learning, Paris 28-29
October, 2008
What does the globalisation of solidarity
imply? - The rebuilding of adult educations
mission is necessary - The effort to make the
worlds global governance more transparent,
easier to monitor and govern - We have to fight
to regain the dominance of the UNESCOs
wholesome view of education - The role of adult
education and lifelong learning within UNESCO
has to be approved as especially important -
Adult learning and lifelong learning have to be
given more emphases in European Social Fund
programmes and integral parts of the European
Neighbourhood Policy
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Thank You for Your Attention!
Janos Sz. Tóth Phd toth_at_nepfoiskola.hu www.nepfoi
skola.hu www.eaeabudapest.hu www.eaea.org