Are you interested in competence-based adult education and strategies to enhance lifelong learning? Do you wish to gain more insight in the competences and skills European adults need to participate in today’s society?

Center for Adult Education Antwerp and GO! onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap invite you to the BeE-conference in Brussels on Thursday 13th November 2014.

We start the day by highlighting the importance of the basic competences and skills an adult needs for learning, living and working in Europe: reading and writing (literacy skills), numeric skills, motivation, autonomy, lifelong learning and active citizenship. You will find out more about the results and outcomes of the project BeE and listen to interesting keynote speakers.

In the afternoon you will experience some of the learning strategies and activities developed within the BeE project through interactive workshops.

Background
 

BeE is a project funded by the European Commission. Partners from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Malta and Spain participate in the project. They developed a workshop for educational staff which helps them to support their learners. The workshop is designed to be used as an actual course for educational staff and learners, but it can also be used by self-learners. 

All the materials are downloadable from the BeE website. It consists of 7 interrelated modules. During the conference in Brussels, you can participate in two workshops. 
 

Programme

9:00-9:30: Registration

9:30-9:45: Welcome and introduction by coordinator Prof. Dr. Bernd Remmele (Germany)

9:45-10:30: Acknowledgement and certification of basic competencies - Prof. Dr. Wil Meeus, teacher educator University of Antwerp (Belgium)

10:30-11:15  Results International Adult Literacy Survey (PIAAC) - Inge De Meyer Project manager Flanders (Belgium)

11:15-11:30: Break

11.30-12.00: A European context for key competences in adult education -  Prof. Dr. Koen DePryck (Belgium)

12.00-12.30: Results and outcomes of the project “Becoming European” - Prof. Dr. Bernd Remmele (Germany)

12.30-13.15: Lunch

13.15-14.00: BeE: Public report and Grundtvig course 

14.00-16.00: Choice of workshops:
§  Workshop 1: Self-regulated learning – You get acquainted with a tool to make students aware of their learning method.
§  Workshop 2:  “World café” – active dialogue on becoming European.
§  Workshop 3: “Competence orientation in education” – How to make students reflect on their competences and how to support them in orientating themselves.
 

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Practical information

When    Thursday 13th November 2014
Where   Zaal Vleva
              Kortenberglaan 71
              1000 Brussel
              Belgium
Language:  morning: English
                   afternoon : English (Dutch support available)
Target group: teachers, directors and policy makers within the fields of secondary and adult education
Participation free (but registration is required)

for more information mail to [email protected] or check out www.becoming-european.eu