Background/rationale The European and international developments are of great importance in adult education. The strategic adjustment of educational and pedagogical processes are in the focus of the European work of the Federal Association of Austrian Adult Education Centres. Aims The main content areas of this project are: Developments in adult education in European and other countries: Deepening of international contacts, exchange of experiences, transfer of concepts and examples of good practice and discussion and development of educational strategies. Disadvantaged target groups: Accessability, retention, competences. All persons and especially disadvantaged shall have the possibility to improve their labour market competences as well as to update und to improve the key competences for lifelong learning. Improvement of ICT competences of teachers and the promotion of the aquisition of languages: Development and tests of technology enhanced models of train-the-trainer courses and improvement of language courses in adult education centres and adult education in general. Improvement of courses and measures in second chance education through a focus on the competences and needs of individuals and especially of non-traditional students. Exchange of good practice in open access courses. Activities/mobilities The OED conference on outreach, empowerment and diversity takes place in Brussels from 16th to 17th June 2014. On the 18th the general assembly of the European Association for the Education of Adults is hold. The OED conference gives the possibility the share experiences on good practices of outreach work for disadvantaged people, people with migrant experiences and to discuss models of participants orientation. The Austrian association can bring in a lot good practices. From the 20th to 23 August 2014 will take place at the University of Groningen, the EUROCALL 2014 which mainly deals with the meaning and implementation of technology-based designs in the training of teachers in language teaching. For the development of technology-based formats of the training for language course teachers we expect from this conference essential inputs at the same time we can bring the experience of the Association of Austrian Adult Education and its member institutions with various forms of e-learning in language teaching. On 12th November 2014 the General Meeting of the Irish umbrella organization of adult education AONTAS will be held in Dublin . Together with stakeholders from adult education and community education a strategic plan 2015-2017 will be finalized there. The main points will be the status of adult education and training in Ireland, the role of learners (The Learners Voice) at local and national level and the future direction of the work of AONTAS . From participation in the General Meeting we expect an intensification of contact with AONTAS and concrete considerations and indications for the future strategic orientation of the Austrian association and Austrian adult education . In Dublin a preparatory meeting for the development of an European project is held, which is concerned with the interface between individuals and their skills and education systems in terms of the open access to higher education for non-traditional learners ( "second chance education"). Procedures for project implementation: • Mini workshops to raise awareness internally and informing the bodies of Austrian association and in the Austrian adult education • implementation of the mobilities • Mini-workshops to secure learning outcomes and to give internal information of the committees and working groups of the Austrian association • dissemination • Evaluation in groups and individually in staff talks. Expected effects and results : From the project's results , we expect effects for the entire adult education in Austria by enabling us to bring in examples of good practice from several European countries . This applies especially to people with a migration background, minorities and persons with disabilities. From the General Assembly of EAEA , we expect effects on educational policy and thus address a range of stakeholders in the public sector in the field of social partners and associations of adult education. The learning outcomes of the EURO 2014 CALL Conference effects for the entire language area in the Austrian adult education are to be expected. Effects we expect in terms of a higher IT competence in language teachers in adult education, a better developed training offer, which is addressed to all adult education teachers and is taken from this same claim . The preparatory meeting at AONTAS and the expected learning outcomes will affect the design of the European project on second-chance education. Number and profile of participants: 3 participants. All are experts in their fields and in working groups or working in bodies that can be expected to implement the learning outcomes.