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After a fantastic two-year journey that engaged more than 200 European practitioners in adult education, the consortium of the DIMA 2.0 project is proud to launch not only policy recommendations and a toolkit with strategies for adult education providers but also a self-learning platform.

DIMA 2.0, a project that sought to improve and extend the supply of adult education strategies will be officially completed by the end of this month. The project developed a set of resources for adult education providers and adult educators that will guide them to design high-quality strategies, taking into consideration the needs and characteristics of low-skilled and low-qualified individuals. Over the course of the project, the partners actively engaged adult education providers, adult educators, education policymakers, academics, and specialists in their countries to identify and document the national and European needs and to ensure the relevance of the project’s results.

The DIMA 2.0 resources aim at the professional development of these professionals aligned with the needs of their countries. The main deliverables of the project include:

• A Toolkit for developing and monitoring strategies for adult education providers
• Training modules for adult education providers and educators: a comprehensive curriculum and training materials to support educators and teachers based on the resources of the Toolkit, which includes four Modules supporting adult educators to teach specific key competences to adults, wish a focus on the use of digital means. Additionally, the training modules have been developed as a self-paced online course, which is hosted on the project’s e-learning platform.
• An E-learning space and OERs that features a self-paced E-learning Course for adult education providers and educators, with online training modules that focus on strategies that will cover the needs of low-skilled adults. The E-learning space also hosts an e-Library with useful resources related to Adult Education needs and priorities.

These tools and resources have been developed based on the findings of an extensive survey that took place in the beginning of the project in countries of the organisations participating in the consortium and in Europe in general.

The project has also produced a policy recommendation summarising lessons-learned, providing guidance for adult education providers and decision-makers. This set of recommendations will be building a bridge between policymakers, organisations, and providers working in adult education and add to the dialogue on European ALE policy and its initiatives.

The project’s deliverables are expected to enhance the motivation, knowledge, and understanding of adult education providers in the field, and build their competences to design more effective programmes and improve existing ones, with a special focus on low-skilled or low-qualified adults.

The project kicked-off back in December 2019 by a consortium from Cyprus, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, and an associate partner from Switzerland. Building on the great groundwork done by DIMA 2.0, the project’s consortium is happy about the achievement and is thanking all ALE practitioners and stakeholders who have contributed to this great outcome.

DIMA 2.0 will be officially completed by the end of this month. Aiming to improve and extend the supply of adult education strategies, DIMA 2.0 developed a set of resources for adult education providers and adult educators that will guide them to design high-quality strategies, taking into consideration the needs and characteristics of low-skilled and low-qualified individuals. Over the course of the project, the partners actively engaged adult education providers, adult educators, education policymakers, academics, and specialists in their countries to identify and document the national and European needs and to ensure the relevance of the project’s results.

Check out the fourth and last newsletter of the DIMA 2.0 project below:

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The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth and CARDET, are organising the conference ‘Development of Adult Education Strategies: Trends and Priorities in Cyprus and Europe’. The conference aims to present, explore and analyse data, developments and opportunities in the field of adult education and lifelong learning in Cyprus and Europe.

For this purpose, representatives of leading European Organisations and Networks in the field will be taking part in the conference:

• Gina Ebner, European Association of the Education of Adults
• Charalambos Vrasidas, Executive Director, CARDET
• Representatives from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Youth
• Local experts

Through the works of the conference, the exchange of knowledge, views and experiences between experts, researchers and professionals from the field will be encouraged.

The conference will be followed by lunch and a networking opportunity for all participants.

Registrations: https://forms.gle/3aMoD83fn2kCXpQT6

Agenda: http://cardet23.innovedu.com/wp-content/uploads/https://www.cardet.org/resources/DIMA/DIMA_2.0_Conference_Agenda_EN-877.pdf

The conference is organised in the framework of the DIMA 2.0 project which is implemented in Cyprus by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Youth, CARDET, and Innovade LI Ltd with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The project aims to support adult education providers to improve and expand the provision of quality learning opportunities, tailored to the needs of low-skilled and low-qualified adults. As part of this effort, the conference will promote the exchange of knowledge, views, and experiences between experts, researchers, and professionals from the field.

On the October 13th and 15th, 2021, CARDET and Innovade LI, with the support of the MOECSY, hosted a two-part online training for adult education providers to develop adult education strategies targeting low-skilled and low-qualified adults

The training was offered free as part of the Erasmus+ project DIMA 2.0, with a number of professionals attending the sessions, gaining valuable insights, and providing valuable feedback on the project’s deliverables. Participants included educators and staff from some major adult education providing stakeholders in Cyprus, as well as adult trainers, and adult educators working with low-skilled/ low-qualified adult learners, and VET providers and trainers.

Participants had the opportunity to go through the DIMA 2.0 Training Modules and to navigate the DIMA 2.0 Online Learning Platform. The feedback provided by them showed their satisfaction with the quality of the content and easy navigation, while it gives the opportunity to the consortium to upgrade the platform where needed.

Active participation in the two sessions was highly encouraged and gave the opportunity to those who attended not only to learn from the facilitator, but also to share their tips and tools with the rest of the group.

You can access the resources of the DIMA 2.0 Curriculum and the full DIMA 2.0 self-paced Online Courses at the project’s website that follows. For more information, visit the project’s website at dima-project.eu.

Το ερευνητικό κέντρο CARDET, σε συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Πολιτισμού, Αθλητισμού και Νεολαίας, διοργανώνουν εκπαιδευτικά σεμινάρια για παρόχους εκπαίδευσης ενηλίκων και εκπαιδευτές ενηλίκων. Τα σεμινάρια θα πραγματοποιηθούν διαδικτυακά στις 13 και 15 Οκτωβρίου από τις 09:00 μέχρι τις 12:00.

Τα δύο σεμινάρια θα εστιάσουν στην ανάπτυξη των γνώσεων και δεξιοτήτων των παρόχων εκπαίδευσης ενηλίκων με, ώστε να ανταποκριθούν στις ανάγκες και τα χαρακτηριστικά των ενηλίκων χαμηλής ειδίκευσης και με χαμηλό επίπεδο προσόντων, εξυπηρετώντας παράλληλα τόσο τις τοπικές και άλλες ανάγκες των ιδρυμάτων τους, όσο και τις εθνικές προτεραιότητες της χώρας τους.

Τα σεμινάρια θα διεξαχθούν στο πλαίσιο του έργου «DIMA 2.0 – Developing Strategies for Adult Education Providers and Adult Educators» το οποίο υλοποιείται σε πέντε ευρωπαϊκές χώρες από επτά οργανισμούς με στόχο την υποστήριξη των παρόχων εκπαίδευσης ενηλίκων για τον σχεδιασμό, την εφαρμογή και την παρακολούθηση αποτελεσματικών στρατηγικών για την προσέγγιση ενηλίκων χαμηλής ειδίκευσης.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες και δηλώσεις συμμετοχής μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε με τον υπεύθυνο του έργου Μάριο Ζίττη μέσω e-mail στο marios.zittis@cardet.org ή τηλεφωνικώς στο 22002100.

In the summer, we were proud with the launch of the IO3. E-learning Platform & OERs, an e-learning space with a training course for adult educators and adult education providers. This new deliverable adds to the training material we had already developed; the e-learning space features a fully selfpaced e-learning course for adult education providers and educators, with online training modules that focus on strategies that will cover the needs of low-skilled adults.

Find out more about the project’s progress in the third newsletter of DIMA 2.0.

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The DIMA 2.0 consortium is extremely proud to announce the launch of the DIMA 2.0 e-learning platform. The e-learning space features a fully self-paced e-learning course for adult education providers and educators, with online training modules that focus on strategies that will cover the needs of low-skilled adults. The E-learning space also hosts an e-Library with useful resources related to Adult Education needs and priorities.

The DIMA 2.0 team worked very hard in the past year to draft the content of the modules and the Innovade LI e-learning-platforms experts developed it online. In the next months, the DIMA 2.0 partners in Cyprus, Spain, Ireland will pilot test the e-learning space and the online course with adult education providers and adult educators in order to collect their valuable comments to finalise this output.

The online training course consist of 11 interactive units, separated in the three following modules:

1. Outlining the strategy
2. Mapping strategy to target groups
3. Designing and Implementing Your Strategy
4. Digitalising your strategy

The e-learning platform and training course is currently under translation and will soon be available in English, Greek, and Spanish. The platform and training course can be accessed both on a PC or a mobile device, on the project’s platform at: elearning.dima-project.eu/

A learning, teaching, and training activity, partner meetings and many new exciting developments featured in the second newsletter of the DIMA 2.0 project.

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