• Unemployment rate among young people below 30
• Inadequate skills of employees for increasingly higher workplace demands
• Changing social-economic situation of the population during the economic crisis
• Exclusion of vulnerable groups from adult education
• Changing age structure of the structure
• Inactive older population
• Improving the quality of life with education
• Effective informing and advising
• Promotion of the need for life-long learning and education
• Acquisition of funding on the national and European level for the delivery of programmes

Opportunities:

• Developing programmes that increase the number of employment opportunities for young people
• Developing programmes for the development of basic skills
• Developing programmes tailored to employers' needs
• Developing programmes that promote healthy life-style and prevention of illnesses of our time
• Including vulnerable user groups in different forms of education
• Finding ways to include inactive elderly people in programmes
• Promoting social, interesting and cooperative learning
• Encouraging the cooperation of adults in life-long learning with raising awareness and offering advice
• Encouraging intergenerational cooperation and exchange of knowledge
• Strenghtening existing partnerships and developing new ones (sectoral and intersectoral)
• Getting rid of discrimination and stereotypes through education
• Increasing international mobility of adult education stakeholders
• Developing a public network of adult education organizations