ESREA’s mission is to support the advancement of high quality research on the education and learning of adults in Europe by sustaining:

• co-operation among researchers, in the European context conceived in the broadest geographical terms;
• development of research and dissemination of results in all areas of adult and continuing education;
• training of early researchers and continuing professional development of researchers;
• relationships with other European organizations and the appropriate national organizations.

To find out more about ESREA please visit www.esrea.org

To apply for membership please visit www.esrea.org/about-us/membership

What, if anything, is the role of adult learning and education in fostering active democratic citizenship and the making of a democratic society? The ADCAL network is dedicated to exploring these central and longstanding questions through research, debate and discussion of active citizenship by studying and reflecting on these issues. We are currently particularly interested in adult learning in social movements; civic education for adults; the social and political construction of citizenship in relation to various discourses on adult learning and education and the historical and contemporary role of popular education. The ADCAL network welcomes a variety of approaches dealing with the nature, possibilities and limits of adult education in encouraging active citizenship and promoting democracy as well as relations between and changing roles of:

• adult education and active citizenship,
• adult education, democracy and democratization,
• popular education and social movement learning,
• adult learning and (active) citizenship, democracy and democratization,
• local, national and global citizenship.

To find out more about ADCAL please visit: https://esrea.org/networks/active-democratic-citizenship-and-adult-learning/

The CEAD's mission is to promote and carry out research activities in Adult Education and Community Intervention, in order to build and disseminate scientific knowledge of educational and social usefulness, as well as to support planning and decision-making processes covered by such themes. In view of the reduced volume of research in adult education in Portugal, and the lack of systematisation of available information, CEAD aims to be flexible centre, open to researchers from all over Portugal who are interested in cooperating to support of this mission.

To find out more about CEAD please visit: https://cead.ualg.pt/site/