E-NEWSLETTER WINTER 2025
SIAE PROJECTS AND EVENTS
- Holliday greetings
- Annual Adult Education Conference 2025 – seen by participants as one of the best
- Lahko.si events for young people 2025: learning at your own pace and without stress
- Exploring new opportunities at the Days of Guidance for Learning 2025
- Knowledge, connection and inspiration at the Festival of the Third Age
- SIAE Reading Club: A journey through stories, cultures and emotions
- A call for 10 minutes of reading a day
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- Manifesto for Adult Learning – with a Slovenian touch
- New professional monograph: Foundations of Andragogy
- My strengths – a handbook for social and emotional learning in adult education programmes
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
- Study visit to Finland: innovation in adult education
- Meeting of national coordinators and lead partners of the second cycle of the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills in Hamburg
- This time, we explored examples of innovative learning environments in Slovakia
SLOVENIAN ADULT EDUCATION SCENE
- Knowledge is power, people are the future
- Education to weave social bonds could help people in poverty
EPALE
SPOTLIGHT
Data on adult education providers and programmes matter
This importance was already recognised by the founders and early visionaries of the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE), who identified the development and maintenance of an information system for adult education as one of the key responsibilities in the...
Knowledge is power, people are the future
At Koper AEC, we never run out of ideas. This year too, we offered participants and visitors a rich programme as part of the Days of Guidance for Learning. Together, we explored new technologies, sustainable practices, languages, creative tools and current...
Education to weave social bonds could help people in poverty
This reflection was prompted by a conference organised by the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana on transitions and life trajectories of older people living in poverty. On 25 September, andragogues, sociologists, psychologists, social workers and...
Manifesto for Adult Learning – with a Slovenian touch
The EAEA, the largest European non-governmental organisation and the voice of non-formal ALE in Europe, has 120 member organisations across 43 countries. It represents over 60 million adult learners. The association advocates accessible non-formal ways of acquiring...
New professional monograph: Foundations of Andragogy
At the end of October, the SIAE published the long-awaited professional monograph Temelji andragogike: teoretični in praktični vidiki izobraževanja odraslih (Foundations of Andragogy: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Adult Education). Established experts in adult...
Study visit to Finland: innovation in adult education
From 9 to 13 September, a team from the SIAE visited the ALE organisation Keravan Opisto in Finland and the Finnish vocational education and training provider Keuda. The programme included presentations, discussions and campus visits. We gained an excellent insight...
Meeting of national coordinators and lead partners of the second cycle of the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills in Hamburg
Representatives of the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE) and two external collaborators attended an international working meeting with high expectations. The meeting brought together delegates from eight countries participating in the second cycle of the...
Lahko.si events for young people 2025: learning at your own pace and without stress
In 2025, through the Awareness‑raising for Lifelong Learning project and the Lahko.si campaign, we are reaching not only all adults but also young people with lower levels of education (aged 15–29). We invited ten organisations to participate by organising a range of...