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Léargas Annual Report 2019 forward
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EPALE
Ireland
The Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe EPALE is a multilingual open membership community for professionals in the adult learning sector across Europe, including teachers, trainers, guidance practitioners, researchers and policy makers. It connects those working and volunteering in Adult Education. EPALE aims to strengthen the adult learning community across Europe, through the sharing of ideas, resources and more. EPALE is co-funded by the European Commission and SOLAS, and is free for users.
EPALE Highlights of 2019 We collaborated with An Cosán VCC to organise their annual Partnership Conference in Dublin in May 2019. We welcomed Bairbre Nic Aongusa, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Rural and Community Development, as keynote speaker. The event brought together over 100 representatives from community education, public policy, local development, stage agencies and corporate sectors to explore how technology is impacting the future of education, jobs, digital literacy, social enterprise and social inclusion at grassroots level across Ireland. In October 2019 we joined with the Rehab Group to organise the Education and Technology Conference in Trinity College Dublin. The Rehab Group champion the value of inclusion for people with disabilities, so the conference was an opportunity to explore the importance of technology for inclusion in education and employability. The Conference delegates attended workshops on Educational Technologies in the Classroom, Eportfolios in Education and heard from Stephen Howell, Academic Evangelist and Accessibility Lead at Microsoft Ireland, on how accessibility can be improved using software which instantly turns speech into text. This technology enables deaf or hearing-impaired learners to follow live lessons through subtitles.
