Advancing Digital Empowerment of Libraries in Europe (ADELE)

ADELE empowers libraries to better use digital technologies through a free self-evaluation tool and training. The project helps staff identify needs, improve services, and drive digital change. By building a network of 100 libraries across Europe, ADELE also promotes international collaboration and professional development in the library sector.

100

case studies of digital innovation in public libraries

self-assessment tool

competence areas

About the project

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:

Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), Ireland
European Grants International Academy (EgINa), Italy
Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU), Italy
Global Libraries – Bulgaria Foundation, Bulgaria.