The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) is the voice of non-formal education in Europe.
At the end of last year they published a background paper on Partnerships and Cooperation in Adult Education. It addressed the following questions: why cooperate?; What encourages successful cooperation? What hinders cooperation? Recommendations for establishing successful cooperation; and Conclusions – the strength lies in cooperation.
Here are the opening paragraphs:
Adult education strategies, initiatives and projects do not happen in isolation. Partnerships and cooperations are frequently a basic prerequisite for success in shaping and implementing an effective and learner-centred adult education policy, for driving innovation in the design and delivery of adult education programmes and, in some cases, for building sustainable adult education structures.
As highlighted in the EAEA Manifesto (EAEA, 2015), adult education has a role to play in a number of challenges that Europe is now facing, such as digitalization or radicalization, and these can best be solved in cooperation.