ADELE

Digital technologies have profoundly changed our personal, professional and educational lives. The changes in the educational landscape due to digital progress are far reaching and the adult education sector is now exploring new roles, methods, and services in lifelong learning to better reach learners and make their services more user-friendly. But how can adult education organisations, especially those operating in the non-formal education sector, know if they’re using digital technologies to the fullest?

The Advancing Digital Empowerment of Libraries in Europe (ADELE) project aims to answer this question by offering a free customisable web-based tool that helps adult education organisations reflect on how they use and where they can further integrate digital technologies to improve their services. The ADELE tool builds on the existing SELFIE tool for schools developed by the European Commission with the aim of supporting adult education organisations offering non-formal education. In doing so, the tool will help non-formal education organisations be digitally ready and forward-looking.

PL2030 is one of the 5 partners of the ADELE project, together with the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) from Ireland, European Grants International Academy (EgINa) from Italy, the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU) from Italy, and Global Libraries – Bulgaria Foundation from Bulgaria.

As part of the project, the partners collected 100 case studies of digital innovation in public libraries from across Europe. These will be made available soon online. PL2030 has also organised a 4-part webinar series on digital skills development in public libraries in Europe, and hosted one of the four ADELE Learning Teaching Training Activities (LTTA) in Brussels.

This project has received funding from the European Union Erasmus+ Programme under grant agreement 2021-1-IE01-KA220-ADU-000029436. It will run from March 2022 to February 2024.