The development of adult competences 2016–2022

Project name	Professional Support in the Area of Basic Adult Competences Development 2016–2022 (shorter: Adult Competences Development 2016–2022)
Time period	April 2016–March 2022
Project value	The value of the entire project: EUR 833,375.00 Value of the sub-activity 4 (quality): EUR 441,089.65
Funding	European Social Fund (80%), Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (20%)
Contact persons	Project leader at the SIAE: Estera Možina, MSc Phone: +386 1 5842 591 E-mail: ester.mozina@acs.si	Project leader of the sub-activity Quality: Tanja Možina, PhD Phone: +386 1 5842 577 E-mail: tanja.mozina@acs.si
Custodian of the contract	Marko Šiška, MSc, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport

 

The main goal of the project is to develop professional support for the development of basic abilities of adults. More information about this part of the project can be found here: https://www.acs.si/en/projects/esf-projects/adult-competences-development-2016-2022.

Below we will describe in more detail the activities in the sub-activity 4. This sub-activity is focused on systematic inclusion and further development of self-evaluation in the field of adult education, and includes four tasks with related key objectives:

• Participation in the development of a national referential framework to assess and ensure quality in the educational field and offering professional support and counselling to education providers.
• Preparation of professional study material for people working in the field of quality within educational organisations. 
• Preparation of training programmes to support the development of internal quality systems in adult education organisations.
• Development of an online collection of recommendations, tools and good practices for self-evaluation called QUALITY MOSAIC. 

 

To achieve the key objectives, we defined four tasks with related content indicators:

Our key achievements in the 2016–2019 period were:

• We included adult education in the Collection of quality indicators in kindergartens and school, more specifically in Areas and standards of quality in kindergartens and schools, p- 6. 
• We developed study materials: Results and effects of adult education. 
• We developed study materials: What I do as a quality counsellor in adult education.
• We developed an online collection of recommendations, tools and good practices for self-evaluation in adult education organisations – QUALITY MOSAIC.

 

Our current activities are:

• Preparation of a comparative overview of indicators included in the collection Indicators of quality in kindergartens and schools and indicators included in the collection Indicators of quality in adult education.
• Development of theoretical background and methodology for the preparation of a national report on quality.
• Development of a programme to improve the quality of strategic and operational planning in educational organisations for adults.
• Improvement and regular updates of the content in our online collection of recommendations, tools and good practices for self-evaluation in adult education.