CALL FOR PAPERS

• Call for Papers:
  Special Issue of the Journal of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
  Theme: “Adult learning and education for immigrant settlement and integration/inclusion: An evolving field of practice”
  Paper submission: Between October 2025 and April 2026
  For full details ►see attached call

INTERNATIONAL MASTER THESIS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ESREA STUDENTS – COOPERATION WITH DVV INTERNATIONAL

• DVV International is the leading professional organisation in the field of adult education and development cooperation worldwide. DVV offers students at ESREA institutions who wish to write an internationally oriented Master's thesis access to relevant actors in the field through its offices worldwide. Depending on the topic, Master's theses may also be carried out within the framework of DVV projects.
  Relevant topics include:

- The role of ALE in conflicts and crisis

- Digital Learning and AI: How does it transform ALE? What is the role of ALE? (in various, concrete settings)

- Sustainable funding of ALE centers

- Tracer-Studies about the (wider benefits) of various training opportunities, both for direct target groups and adult educators themselves

- The impact of CONFINTEA and other topics around CONFINTEA and GRALE

Interested students/supervisors ►please et in touch with the ESREA Secretariat (esrea_sec@die-bonn.de)

NEW PUBLICATIONS/READING SUGGESTIONS

• ELM magazine has published some interesting pieces:
  
  Key note address of Isabell Kempf, Director of the Unesco Institute for Lifelong Learning. at the recent EAEA conference on the role of adult learning:
  ►https://elmmagazine.eu/isabell-kempf-adult-education-empowers-agility-in-navigating-global-change/
  
  Article on developments in the field of microcredentials for adult learning:
  ►https://elmmagazine.eu/micro-credentials-for-megatrends-nordic-and-german-approaches/
  
  Column on robot literacy by Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen from the University of Lapland
  ►https://elmmagazine.eu/i-argue-we-need-robot-literacy/