On November 24 and 25, 2020, the consortium joined the Kick-Off Meeting of LEAP (Local Adult Education Policy), a Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, which brings together seven Partners from six countries (Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain).
The Kick-Off Meeting, hosted by Academia Istropolitana Nova (AINova), was originally planned in Svätý Jur (Slovakia) but has been rescheduled online due to COVID-19 restrictions. 

We opened a new Community of Practice on the EPALE platform to create a space for discussion and sharing experience on making adult education policies on local level. We invite decision makers, adult educators, NGOs, experts to join and help widen the range of learning opportunities to all people!
Register at EPALE and join the Community HERE.  

The project partners are in the middle of the research phase within the IO2 – and they are mapping the trends in local policies on AE. One of outputs are lists of sources and documents on the topic. Our discussion at a regular online project meeting confirms that this agenda is not much analysed on the local level and it is not a well established policy topic. We believe, however that our efforts will result into raising awareness among local authorities!

The LEAP partnership has identified another Erasmus+ project seeking similar aims - Regional capacity for Adult Learning and Education. Its aim is to increase impact and sustainability of regional/local adult education (AE) organisations by setting up or reinforcing networks among them and with regional/local authorities. The RegALE consortium has launched a survey to investigate the challenges and opportunities of the adult education sector at regional and local levels