Have Your Say - STEMS - Supporting Teachers and Staff in Motivating Adult Learners

In order to improve the current insufficient participation of adults in learning in partner countries and across Europe, we need to provide high-quality education opportunities and identify main barriers that hinder participation and persistence of adults in learning. The aim of the project is to address problems and difficulties and respond to the needs of adult education providers and adult learners.

The project's aim is to contribute to:

increasing adult participation in learning
adult learners' demands for quality education provision that offers necessary support and takes into account learner needs
adult education providers' needs for teachers and staff equipped with necessary competences, strategies, and tools for motivating and engaging adult learners as well as maintaining their persistence in learning.

The project plans to increase the target groups' quality of interaction with adult learners due to increased communication, and motivation competences, better cooperation, and communication through ICT tools. Thanks to the online platform, the target groups will also improve their access and use of online collections of digital training material and they will need less time to select motivation messages and instruments.

The project will also have positive results for the participating organisations since project partners will improve their in-person and digital training approaches, strengthen their cooperation with the relevant AE institutions in their regions and countries as well as relevant stakeholders in other countries, contributing to their internationalisation.

Project period: September 2019 - August 2021

Consortium

Nevelök Háza Egyesület, Péc, Hungary, (Educators’ Centre Association) – Hungarian coordinator – is one of the leading NGOs in Hungary, centre of community development activities, acts as an umbrella organisation for more than 90 communities, operates a community centre in the heart of the city, carries out numerous projects at national and international level, provides consultation and training services for NGOs, carries out research, and hosts projects and learning activities related to adult education.

The Adult Education Institution Dante (DANTE) – Croatian partner – is an institution with a long experience in the field of adult education. It can develop, implement, and evaluate new curricula and education programmes tailored to the specific needs of various target groups as well as new teaching methods regarding andragogy, psychology, key competences for LLL, learning and teaching strategies, communication, interculturality, entrepreneurship, management, and transferable skills.

The Bulgarian Development Agency (BDA) – Bulgarian partner – is a non-profit association undertaking elaboration, localization, and transfer of innovative training and education products, materials and methodologies; analysis, transfer and dissemination of best practices; establishment and promotion of centres of excellence, establishment and popularization of VET networks; digital skills and digital footprint for young and adults.

Centrul Pentru Promovarea Invatarii Permanente (CPIP) – Romanian partner – in an NGO that supports initiatives and runs programs and projects that aim at cooperating and innovating for good practices. It can design custom dissemination and sustainability strategies, tools, and reports; conducts internal quality assurance; tests and pilots packages for trainings and tools developed in projects; develops research packages on different education topics at the European level.

AKLUB Centre of education and counseling (AKLUB) – Czech partner – is an educational and non-profit organization that creates and runs educational courses for adults, teachers, and educators; prepares online learning platforms and educational portals; regularly participates in national and international projects focused on lifelong learning, educational methods, coaching, e-learning, distance education, special methods for counseling, integration programs.