Mapping the impact, validation and evaluation of AE policies responds to the needs identified by partners (and confirmed by official EU policy reports and papers) concerning the lack of policy tools and resources to evaluate the impact of Adult Education (AE) interventions, policies and initiatives. The needs analysis of the partners relied on the results of the REGIONAL (LLP funded in 2013) and CREATE (Erasmus+ funded in 2017) projects that, respectively, mapped the policy making at local/regional level in the domain of AE and developed a Tool Kit for policy formulation targeted at local policy makers.

Those needs are corroborated at EU level by official EU Commission reports, such as “An in-depth analysis of adult learning policies and their effectiveness in EU”, 2015 and “Improving Policy and Provision for Adult Learning in Europe”, EU Commission, 2016 IO2 will hence map the policy landscape across EU and the countries represented in the project to take stock of dynamics and trends in the domain of policy evaluation, assessment, monitoring systems to ensure that the AE policy actions achieve intended impact.

The result will be the consolidation of findings stemming from the mapping at country and EU level performed by partners.