International cooperation and peer learning took place at [simple_tooltip content=’National Coordinator’]NC[/simple_tooltip] meetings in March and September 2018. Both meetings served for exchange on the latest policy developments at [simple_tooltip content=’European Union’]EU[/simple_tooltip] and national level. Peer learning activities have been designed and groups for organizing these events were established. Slovenia took active part in the preparation of the [simple_tooltip content=’Peer learning Activity’]PLA[/simple_tooltip] on awareness-raising and guidance in Bonn.
We presented the EAAL project to foreign visitors of SIAE (Lithuanians, Hungarians, and the Dutch), and took part in international events (3rd Regional EPALE Conference in March, [simple_tooltip content=’European Basic Skills Network’]EBSN[/simple_tooltip] Annual Conference in June, and the EPALE 2018 Conference in October). Two representatives of the Bosnia and Herzegovina EAAL NC/EPALE [simple_tooltip content=’National Support Services’]NSS[/simple_tooltip] took part in our annual EAAL conference. We have used our dissemination channels ([simple_tooltip content=’Slovenian Institute for Adult Education’]SIAE[/simple_tooltip] and [simple_tooltip content=’European Agenda for Adult Learning’]EAAL[/simple_tooltip]) to communicate our activities and outcomes to our foreign partners (via EPALE, the English version of the bulletin e-Novičke, the English part of the SIAE and EAAL website).
One of the actions recommended by [simple_tooltip content=’Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’]OECD[/simple_tooltip] in the ‘Strengthening Cooperation for Adult Learning in Slovenia’ document is related to this body, saying that the Government should establish an effective, accountable, inter-ministerial and cross-sectoral body to oversee policy making in Slovenia. Ongoing cooperation with the [simple_tooltip content=’Ministry od Education, Science and Sport’]MESS[/simple_tooltip] and to a certain extent with the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, adult education associations and other stakeholders at national level were used in order to achieve their broad commitment and cooperation in EAAL project activities.