Regional Agency for Economic Development Šumadije and Pomoravlje is a partner of the REGIONAL Project that will carry out a comparative analysis of how Adult Learning policies are developed and implemented in various regional contexts across Europe.

The consortium of 7 partners from 6 countries (Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Serbia and Slovakia) met in Rome for the first meeting of the project that benefit from funding of the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme.

During the meeting, the partners revised the final version of the questionnaire developed in the first phase of the project that will be used in the next step of primary research. The partners will hold interviews with local policy makers and Adult Learning practitioners in 16 regions to benchmark formulation, implementation and funding of AL policies, extrapolating key factors and transferring findings in a user-friendly toolkit, produced in 6 languages and disseminated throughout EU for uptake.

In addition, partners discussed and developed a common approach for the dissemination strategy to ensure visibility of project activities and deliverables. For more information about the REGIONAL project, contact Regional Agency for Economic Development Šumadije and Pomoravlje www.regionalproject.eu .