Welcome
This website presents an overview of the activities and progress under the GOAL Project. GOAL stands for Guidance and Orientation for Adult Learners. It's one of the projects under the Erasmus+ programme Key Action 3, prospective initiatives, European Policy Experimentation. The project sought to develop or expand educational guidance services for low-educated adults in 6 countries across Europe: Belgium (Flanders), Czech Republic, Iceland, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Slovenia. The project was coordinated by the Flemish Government’s Department of Education and Training. The evaluation was carried out by the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) in partnership with local evaluation teams in each country.Project GOAL was a 3-year project which came to an end in January 2018. The evaluation results can be consulted on the evaluation website www.adultguidance.eu
News and updates
Check out the project GOAL evaluation results on www.adultguidance.eu!
The GOAL team developed a new website to present the project evalation results, both on cross-country and on national level. Take a look on our brand new website! www.adultguidance.eu.
The website also contains testimonials from clients, counsellors and partners, as well as descriptions of the counsellor's working day and client cases.
Successfull end-of-project with GOAL closing conference
The GOAL closing Conference 'Guidance and Counselling for low educated adults: from practice to policy' took place in the Egmont Palace, Brussels on 17 and 18 January 2018.
Pictures of the event can be viewed in our photo album.
Read the narrative report of the conference, including summaries and slides of the guest presentations, key findings from the GOAL evaluation and reports from the parallel sessions.
The GOAL project team welcomed about 90 participants from all over Europe for its 2-day closing Conference. This conference presented the cross-country findings of the GOAL project. Policy makers and practitioners across Europe discovered the lessons learnt from the GOAL project and discussed the policy recommendations that emerged from the experimentation.
More information on the conference, including a video message from European Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, is available on the events page. Read more
Project GOAL National Conferences
In December 2017 and January 2018, the different partner countries of project GOAL organised national conferences to present the project findings for their country to national policy makers, stakeholders and practitioners.
Short reports and pictures from the national events can be found on the pages below:
- Iceland, 14 December 2017
- Flanders, 19 January 2018 (Click here for the Dutch version)
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