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The project results provide support to practitioners and counsellors, as well as, other stakeholders and strengthen cross-sector cooperation between practitioners, policy-makers and other stakeholders in order to build coherent VNFIL systems.

This Policy brief highlights the importance of being able to follow up and quantify the validation activities conducted in the Nordic countries, as well as to enable research and impact studies that can provide a basis for political priorities.

Nordic Network for Adult Learning (NVL) presents five recommendations that support the development of adults’ digital competencies.

NVL’s Language Council has released new material offering insights into basic literacy education for adult second language learners across the Nordic countries.

NVL Digital Inclusion network has collaborated with Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (Diak) to find new ways to enhance digital inclusion of senior citizens. One form of collaboration has been funded by the Erasmus+ programme and it is called Blended Intensive Programme (BIP).

NVL’s Head Coordinator Antra Carlsen took part in the event Back to Basics on June 7 2023 in Brussels. The event was part of the initiative European Year of Skills 2023.

Do you want to be a part of developing resilient and inclusive vocational education and training systems in the Nordic countries?

Reykjavik, Iceland – The Education and Training Service Centre (ETSC) in Iceland and the Nordic Network for Adult Learning in collaboration with The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Ministry of Education and Children in Iceland are pleased to announce the upcoming Nordic conference on the voices of people with immigrant background.

Did you miss NVL’s webinar on Quality Developments in Career Guidance for Adults? Watch the recording here.

Do you want to learn from other Nordic organisations with experience in the field of education for sustainable development?

Prosperous Future is a new application programme for civil Society cooperation in the Nordic region.

How is the education platform SKnet used in the Danish Storstrøm prison?

The Nordic and Baltic countries started the data collection for the main study of PIAAC in the autumn of 2022. In the main survey, each country is required to collect at least 4 000 interviews in the period between August 2022 and April 2023.

A new pilot project develops an educational model for supporting the development towards the normalization of more sustainable lifestyles.

For workers to have the possibility to extend their working lives, access to lifelong learning opportunities is of key importance.

The 4th Validation of Prior Learning Biennale took place on May 19-20 2022 in Iceland with The Education and Training Service Centre (ETSC) as host.

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a survey measuring skills in literacy, numeracy and problem solving among the adult population. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Latvia form the Nordic-Baltic PIAAC network.

The Nordic and Baltic countries have successfully conducted the PIAAC Field Test (FT) between May and September 2021.