Met-AE aimed to create a clear and direct upskilling pathway for vulnerable and low-skilled adult learners, to improve their accessibility to uncommon, yet very important skills and ultimately to support the increase in take-up of adult education through the ability of adults with a low level of skills, knowledge, and competences to successfully complete adult education courses and qualifications. The project also aimed to improve mentoring and guidance skills of adult training organizations and adult educators to ensure that their adult learners are equipped with relevant learning capacity throughout life with their metacognitive skills. Met-AE project results provide resources, training and support to provide effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies to adult learners.
Met-AE project addresses the European digital transformation which was accelerated by Covid-19 pandemic. European adult education organisations were directly affected by the crisis, since most of them were relying on traditional methods and practices. Most of these adult educations were unprepared and struggled to provide digital education and to retain learners and ensure educational continuity. Consequently, all project partner organisations revisited their organisational digital provision and digital learning strategies during the pandemic to critically analyze the gaps in ICT provision, employee and learner training and support and peer-learning opportunities to ensure a stronger overall contingency plan is in place in the event of a second wave or a similar crisis in the future. Met-AE supports digital transformation strategy of adult-education institutions by increasing capacity and readiness not only of the institutions, but also of their learners, by providing learners, teachers and adult education centre managers with the metacognitive skills and knowledge to manage an effective shift towards digital education and autonomous lifelong learning.