EBSN Professional Development Service Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union

EBSN Professional Development Series

NALA is a partner in the Erasmus+ European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) Professional Development Series project which spans from 2021 to 2024.

The primary objective of the project is to design, test and implement Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses for adult literacy practitioners across Europe.

Between February and June 2023, NALA hosted six pilot professional development courses on its online learning platform, Learn with NALA as part of the project.

  1. Basic Literacy
  2. Diversity and Interculturalism
  3. Empowering Adult Learners of Basic Skills
  4. Approaching Digital Teaching and Learning
  5. Facilitating the Learning Process
  6. Digital Competence

Each of the project partners played a leading role in developing one of these courses, and NALA collaborated with South East Technological University (SETU) to create the Empowering Adult Learners of Basic Skills course.

Graphic showing person progressing up steps. Step 1 Assessing Skills. Enable adults to identify their existing skills and any needs for upskilling. Step 2. Tailored learning offer. Provide adults with flexible and quality education and training to boost the skills they need most. Step 3. Validation and recognition. Offer adults the choice to have their new skills validated and recognised, to use them on the labour market or for further learning and even progress towards higher qualifications.

Source: Factsheet: Upskilling Pathways (2019)

The second aim of the project is to develop Open Educational Resources (OERs) which are resource documents designed to accompany the CPD courses. These resources are designed to complement the learning experience.
You can view the Open Educational Resources on our project website.

Our project partners:

  1. Hungary: Progress Consult
  2. Ireland: South East Technological University
  3. Hungary: University of Pécs
  4. Norway: Folkeuniversitetet
  5. Malta: Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation

If you want to learn more about the project, please visit the Basic Skills project website

 

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