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Dear Readers,


                                                                DVV International and DIE Bonn started planning and
                                                                implementing a complex regional project in 2019 which
                                                                aimed  to  analyse  the  state-of-the-art  of  adult  learning
                                                                and education (ALE), and the participation of adults in
             Maja Avramovska                                    education and training (formal, non-formal and informal
                                                                learning). The qualitative study was conducted in Armenia,
             Regional Director                                  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Kosovo, and the
             Caucasus and                                       adult  education  survey  was  implemented  in  Armenia,
             Southeast Europe                                   Georgia and Kosovo.
             DVV International
                                                                The purpose of the complex project was to conduct
                                                                a comprehensive analysis of the ALE sector, and to
                                                                provide data that would be used when creating policy
                                                                and  legislation  in  the  ALE,  vocational  education  and
                                                                training, employment, lifelong learning sectors, and in
                                                                other relevant areas.

                                                                The  qualitative  and  the  quantitative  studies,  as  well
                                                                as the seven country reports, were conducted and
                                                                prepared from the second half of 2019 until June 2021.
                                                                The  quantitative  study  was  commenced  first,  and  the
             Dr. Elisabeth                                      implementation  of  the  qualitative  studies  started  when
             Reichart                                           the initial results began to arrive.

             Research Associate                                 Monitoring progress on the basis of data-based surveys
             DIE Bonn
                                                                plays an important role in European strategy development
                                                                on lifelong learning. The studies and AE surveys
                                                                presented constitute a substantial stock-taking effort for
                                                                the countries represented here (Armenia, Bosnia and
                                                                Herzegovina, Georgia, and Kosovo), aiming to provide a
                                                                comprehensive picture of adult learning, as well as of its
                                                                prerequisites and challenges.

                                                                Closely following the Adult Education Survey (AES) –
                                                                which is a well-established international survey on adult
                                                                learning –, national specificities and information needs
                                                                were identified in the coordination of the cooperation
             Dr. Sarah Widany                                   partners and through the involvement of national experts.
                                                                The standard questionnaire was thus adapted to national
             Supported the project first as                     circumstances  and  supplemented  with  additional
             Head of the System and Policies                    questions on learning attitudes and motivation, as well as
             Department at DIE, and then as a                   on educational and support needs in the face of massive
             substitute professor at the University             changes on the labour market. Questions concerning
             of Potsdam
                                                                access to  education and (digital)  learning during the



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