The 19th Adult Education Colloquium (AEC) - the most prominent professional event within LLW 2015 - took place on 16 June in Kranjska Gora on the theme 'I can, therefore I am'. Promoting adult skills. Constituent parts of the event were the national opening of EPALE (the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe), and the Implementation of the European Agenda for Adult Learning (EAAL) project, more specifically, the so called Promoting Adult Skills events.

Contents and presentations: 

Opening speech: Elvira Šušmelj, general directress of the Secondary, Higher Vocational and Adult Education Directorate, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport

Who teaches adult literacy? - Helen Casey, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, Institute of Education, University College London

EPALE - a tool for professionals of adult learning throughout Europe  - Géraldine Libreau, Géraldine Libreau, European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture

Implementation of the European Agenda for Adult Learning (EAAL) in Slovenia  - Zvonka Pangerc Pahernik, SIAE

Promoting Adult Skills (PAS) events  - discussion on topics and recommendations with PAS events' coordinator according to selected target groups (the unemployed, young adults, inhabitants of rural areas, migrants)

Life skills as a key theme in EPALE  - Ajda Turk, CMEPIUS

Development of competences through activation at the local level  - Petra Javrh, SIAE

Presentation of the Erasmus+ project GOAL: guidance work as a way to promote the development of key competences  - Tanja Vilič Klenovšek, ACS 

European Year for Development 2015 - Irma Šinkovec, Ministry of Foreign Affairs